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It is beyond maddening to hear people, otherwise intelligent, go on and on about how we have made ourselves so unpopular with other countries by our policies, how we should work harder to understand their positions, how we need to know "where they're coming from" and blah, blah, blah. Mr. Bailey enunciates quite clearly where they are coming from--submit, convert or die.
So maybe now the battlelines are a little more delineated. If we wish to remain free people, we must fight those who would have it otherwise--as simple,and as eternal, as that.

Thanks for posting OBL's invitation exposing his real goals. He tries to convince US citizens to forgo our freedoms. To see the error of our democracy. He's telling us how to "improve" our country.

I hope whoever our candidate is, he uses OBL tapes and words "straight from the horse's mouth" in ads to HAMMER the Democrats. EXPOSE their weakness and lack of understanding of the enemy we are facing.

AQ continue to plan and would love to strike again. Only Repubs have kept that from happening for six years. I hope for a strong campaign that gets people back to reality.

This is where OBL tapes really help us and make Dems look downright silly, IMO.

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Is it clear yet what Bin Laden and his minon's objectives are here? Do we have any doubt as to the intentions? If so, don't believe him, look only at Britain, Germany, Italy and other European countries and see the internal deterioration as Islam takes a foothold inside their cultures. You don't think this can happen here? Research what's happening in some of the Islamic strongholds in Minniapolis and other cities. Keep listenig to the sympathizers and the ACLU; they will stangle us with our own liberties, and we're helping them.

Unfortunately, it is not going to help with the defeatists (far left) in this country. It also seems that too many of the left seem to be joining this group.

Just look at those that continue to support Nifong and the Duke academic standards... They to would rejoice and support Osama's cause. I am beginning to fear for the safety and the future for this nation...

I will be gone before this happens but I fear for my son's future...

Formally known as Deagle... "Golf is a way of life..."

They do hate us for what we are, but that doesn't mean that we have to convert to Islam for Al Qaeda to stop attacking us. It is a requirement under fundamentalist Islam to offer your enemies a chance to convert to Islam. We could meet Al Qaeda's demands without converting by ending our involvement in the Middle East and Islamic countries. The problem is that this would involve total withdrawal from Iraq, ending any kind of support for Middle Eastern regimes, ending our support of Isreal, withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending our support for the Phillipino government, and ending our involvement in any other areas of the world that Al Qaeda might deem "unacceptable". I don't believe Al Qaeda really wants to "take away our freedom" in a literal sense (other than by killing us), but they have extremely low standards for what constitutes an act of war against Islam. These are Jihadists who look for reasons to go to war.

He has zero chance of making us change our way of life unless we do it ourselves. Sure OBL, AQ and islamofacists are dangerous and serious enemies, but let's not give him or them too much credit. The president is correct that while we must be vigilant and use our military, intelligence services and law enforcement agencies to root out and kill this relatively small group of murderers, we can't allow them to actually terrorize us.

But except for the low tax part, it sounds pretty much like a standard democrat stump speech.
Maybe George Soros is giving ObL some talking points these days, along with a little financial assist.

that is why such ideology is referred to as "extremist". SInce when do we alter our country's compass in reaction to such an element? Our spine is much stronger than that.There is nothing to fear, but....

We have all seen the propensity, in bin Laden's culture, to switch sides like a weathervane in response to changes in the perception of who's ahead. We see this constantly in Afghanistan, where local warlords are on our side one week and are fighting alongside the Taliban the next. One suspects that the recent conversion of Iraqi Sunnis, who are suddenly on our side and are "fighting al-Qa'eda" has a lot more to do with 'the surge' knocking al-Qa'eda back on its heels than with any sudden conversion to democratic ideals.

It is reasonable to assume that bin Laden expects us to behave the same way. A couple of good punches in the nose, and we'll run to embrace Islam. He's probably surprised that we didn't all convert on 9/12/01.

This is a serious miscalculation on his part, but we probably can't expect anything else from him or from anyone who might take his place. That means he'll keep coming, and his successors will keep coming, always under the illusion that one more suicide bombing will drive us all to submit. None of them "get" The Western Way Of War, which is to avoid it as long as possible, but to do things like Dresden and Hiroshima once we start.

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like a comedian in front of a hostile audience... Has he become a host of laughter or just a tool of the left? He is absolutely funny in this last video which seems to position him with the far leftists! Go Demotcrats, spout Obama's prophsies...fools all...

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It seems the Democrats have a friend in Osama. I'm not too sure that is a plus with the upcoming election to have one such as he rooting for your team. It gives one pause doesn't it?

Is it Osama rooting for the Democrats or the Democrats following the ideology of Osama and him cheering them on? At this juncture it's hard to tell.

In another part of his letter to America, he itemizes the sins of our nation, in particular the production of intoxicating alcohol and the consumption thereof. He might do well to clean up his own house first. Ever watched Muslims as they depart Saudi Arabia in their thobes and abayas only to shed them once the plane departs Saudi airspace and then head for the nearest bar once they touchdown at Heathrow? It's a sight to behold. They're as big a hypocrite as bubba, who lives in a dry county, who gets picked up for drunk driving. Go figure!

After bin Laden releases a tape and makes all sorts of outlandish threats against the U.S., I'm always surprised that there are many Americans who seem to take bin Laden's obviously self-aggrandizing statements as if he actually was capable of achieving his goals. You think Osama bin Laden thinks he can cause the downfall of democracy in America? Our own CIA says bin Laden is basically irrelevant in terms of al Qaeda's operations. In America the main effect of these tapes is to serve as fodder for people who think ranting against Islam makes them patriotic. They don't hate us because we are "free". It is a combination of factors - religious intolerance, the American role in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, American military intervention in numerous Middle Eastern countries and the invasion of American consumerism and pop culture into their societies.

Yes,too many people in the Middle East are caught under the grip of oppressive governments - but they won't trust the United States to help until the U.S. changes it's policy toward the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The U.S. sells billions of dollars of advanced weaponry to the Israelis and expects the Palestinians to trust the U.S. as an impartial mediator. Also, the U.S. is selling over $20 billion in advanced weaponry to the Saudi Arabian government. Don't tell me the U.S. is fostering democracy in the Middle East when it's doing things like this. The U.S. sold weapons to Saddam Hussein and the Taliban in the 1980's. Too much short term thinking. No wonder Iraqis don't trust an Iraqi government that is being propped up by the U.S. military.