Comments on: Before It Slips Away

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:29:30 +0000

The tapes are as regular as A Charlie Brown Christmas, half as often, but at least as predictable in content. All they need is music by the late great Vince Guaraldi. Maybe one of their martyrs could take time out from his virgins to try to hire Vince…

I’ve said it many times: Bush and Osama need each other. Without a ready-made enemy, neither one is nearly as powerful in his own society. Are these tapes really such a surprise?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:38:28 +0000

Geez, next you’ll bring up that the textbooks used in the fundamentalist madrassas in Pakistan were printed by the University of Nebraska at Omaha and paid for by US tax dollars. Or possibly that we knew the coordinates of the terrorist training locations in Afghanistan because we built them.

Everyone’s a critic.

By: Anya

Anya — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:19:09 +0000

I had noticed this phenomenon a while back. However, the al Qaeda tapes always seem to pop up whenever the preznit sticks his foot in his mouth, or one of his flunkies gets into hot water.

Remind me again who it was that got Osama bin Laden into the terrorist business in the first place. Wasn’t it some American trying to harrass the Soviets in Afghanistan?

Just sayin’…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:04:28 +0000

The worst of all possible administrations: a guy trying to show up his Dad tied to a crew trying to out-Nixon Nixon.

When you give power to “true believers”, this is the result.

By: PSoTD

PSoTD — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:54:37 +0000

I think it’s pretty obvious that any enemy of the United States would prefer to have George W. Bush unfettered in leadership versus almost any other possible leadership scenario.

By: Jack K.

Jack K. — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:45:50 +0000

…must. not. blogwhore….

…but, sadly, I wasn’t as circumspect as you about any connection, although I agreed completely with the remarkable coincidence of timing. I mean, he could have just as easily called Gee Dub a loser back in January…

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:57:32 +0000

Well…if you were Al Qaeda – wouldn’t you want to help maintain the group in power that regularly falls into your pre-determined traps over The *clash of civilizations* and is your BEST recruitment tool EVER? Of course it’s no mistake – and they know who it benefits – THEM – by keeping idiots and religious war mongering (but incompetent) jerks in power!