A few more thoughts on the latest bin Laden video ...
If there's one thing that is guaranteed, it's that a mass-murderer is almost certain to be a liar as well.
In this, bin Laden does not disappoint:
"Any state that does not mess with our security, has naturally guaranteed its own security."
As I've said before, not messing with al-Queda's security in the '90's guaranteed us the opposite of security—it emboldened the terrorists and led to 9/11.
I could recount other parts of the Bin Laden tape, like where he uses the dying agonies of thousands as a taunt, or where he parrots Michael Moore's pathetic laugh line about "My Pet Goat." But then we already knew what a sick, twisted b*****d Bin Laden was; if the hellish acts of 9/11 didn't convince us of that, him laughing about it wouldn't.
Now a word (or many) about that utterly repulsive dirtbag Michael Moore …
If I had ever produced something—by accident or design—that ended up as a taunt on the lips of bin Laden, I would be made physically ill with remorse and self-censure; it would doubtless subject me to depression. I expect the same might be said for my readers, or indeed for everyone possessing sanity or a conscience. Generating fodder that becomes a bin Laden talking point would be anathema to any man or woman with a soul and a conscience; they would have a hard time living it down, even in the relentless 'court' of the mind.
From all I know of that wretch Michael Moore, he holds it as a triumph rather than a tragedy to be publicly cited by the world's worst terrorist. Almost as good as an Oscar, eh Moore? He probably even chuckles about it as he reaches for another box of Krispy Kreme.
If Michael Moore ever chanced to meet bin Laden or Zarqawi, he would probably embrace those "Minutemen" as comrades in a common cause; they share—after all—his supreme hatred for President Bush. Of course if these same terrorists failed to recognize Moore, they would cut off his head for the camera—quite an ironic end for the world's leading agitprop filmmaker.
Do you really think that Michael Moore would embrace Osama bin Laden as comrades? If so, I think you are straying into equally loony territory as the filmmaker-provacoteur.
Whatsoever his reasons, Michael Moore has all the right in the world to disagree with this administration and express that disagreement in the public forum. It is your right to tune him out; why he gets under the skin of conservatives is beyond me. Do you think I waste my time worrying what comes lurching out of Ann Coulter's handbag of horrors? Of course not.
The point is that Osama bin Laden is a mass murderer. Period.
Democrats get it. Republicans get it.
The disagreement in this election is how best to capture OBL and ensure that another mass murderer doesn't succeed in attacking us successfully. I think honest minds may disagree on whether Iraq helped us in either case.
Finally, whether or not Osama bin Laden referenced Presiden t Bush's decision to continue reading "My Pet Goat" while America was under attack has nothing whatsoever to do with whether it was the sort of thing that a commander-in-chief should do in such a situation.
I personally believe that it was idiotic. Did it change much? Probably not. But it hardly reflected the character of a man of great courage or conviction.
Posted by: A Poor Mensch at October 31, 2004 05:49 PM (Permalink)Pointedly ignoring the previous commenter....
I wonder if Americans will vote in their swing states to cave under this threat. It's a varaiation on the "tax the man behind the tree" thing. Some may think Americans are made of sterner stuff, but I wonder. Consider Kitty Genovese.
Posted by: Kevin Murphy at October 31, 2004 10:03 PM (Permalink)Yes, you are absolutely right. Questioning our government is unpatriotic! I'd go so far as to say its un-American! Screw Thomas Jefferson and the rest of our founding fathers anyhow......
Posted by: BT at November 1, 2004 03:45 PM (Permalink)Screw Thomas Jefferson and the rest of our founding fathers anyhow ...
Oh yes, Michael Moore is the 2nd coming of Thomas Jefferson. How incredibly asinine! :-D