Vicious Rants of an Angry Yellow Man

A new tape of bin Laden came out yesterday. For a man who doesn't like the U.S. he appears to have gone Hollywood. What is with the dark beard? I am no expert but I don't think once you have almost totally grey hair that you can miracously turn back to dark hair. He must have seen the Walt Frazier and Keith Hernandez commercials. I wonder what he thinks of corporations that sell hair dyes.

One thing that is interesting to me about the speech is that he mentioned that Americans should read the book by Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA's bin Laden unit. I have not read the book myself but I have heard that Scheuer denounces the U.S. leaders being untruthful in the war on terrorism. It is not hard to figure out what is probably said in the book. The U.S. leaders, not just Bush but most of the Congress as well, consistently framed the war as terrorists against democracy, freedom, and our way of living. This may arouse nationalism but does not help us to fight terrorism in the long run. If people like bin Laden were to ask for jihad against democracy and freedom, do you think that they would get many people to sign up? Who is going to blow himself up because other people's women are wearing bikinis? Evil people are able to recruit others to do their dirty work only if our policies are truly or perceived to be evil.

So how does Bush respond to the video? He says that proves Iraq is part of the war against al qaeda! Nevermind that al Qaeda was not in Iraq before the war! It is always just rhetoric and no real understanding of the world. Bin Laden is not sincere when he says the policies of the U.S. is main the reason behind the attacks. He is just using rhetoric. But so is our president not being truthful when he links Iraq with bin Laden. Bush does not understand that while there are evil people who are against us, he makes it easier for these people to fill their ranks by the poor policies that he has initiated.