Some really good stuff here
thanks for the post
ith unambiguous assistance from President Obama, Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda are well on the way to accomplishing their long-stated goal of bringing down the United States by "bleeding" our nation into bankruptcy.
In an 18-minute tape in late 2004, Osama bin Laden reiterated his strategy to bring down the U.S. , "We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy," observing "We, alongside the mujahideen, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat," referring to Afghanistan.
Bin Laden, who studied economics at a Saudi Arabian university, accurately boasted that for every al Qaeda dollar spent provoking the U.S., the United States spends about $1 million "in economic fallout and military spending."
Bin Laden continued with, in hindsight, chilling astuteness:
"... the policy of the White House that demands the opening of war fronts to keep busy their various corporations - whether they be working in the field of arms or oil or reconstruction - has helped al-Qaida to achieve these enormous results."
On November 1, 2004, CNN reported more of Osama bin Laden's tape:
" 'It is true that this shows that al Qaeda has gained, but on the other hand it shows that the Bush administration has also gained, something that anyone who looks at the size of the contracts acquired by the shady Bush administration-linked mega-corporations, like Halliburton and its kind, will be convinced.
" 'And it all shows that the real loser is you,' he said. 'It is the American people and their economy.'
"As for President Bush's Iraq policy, Bin Laden said, 'the darkness of black gold blurred his vision and insight, and he gave priority to private interests over the public interests of America.'"
An evil genius, that bin Laden. But he was completely on target about the bankrupting cost of the Bush/Cheney War on Terror, which President Obama is continuing unabated.
Bin Laden was also completely on target about American private interests... meaning corporations... becoming enriched by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, while the American people suffer.
http://usliberals.about.com/b/2010/07/05/with-obama-help-bin-laden-on-course-to-bankrupt-u-s.htm