April 27, 2008
The chart below justifies our need to end the war. When Bin Laden chose to
strike the Twin Towers which represents the financial market, he said he
would win the war by hitting us in our wallet. Prices were highest during
both wars in Iraq and went down afterwards. Current gas prices in Iran are
40 cents a gallon, in Saudi 45 cents a gallon, Venezuela is 12 cents a
gallon and the U.S is more than $3.50 a gallon. What's that tell you?
We're financing the enemy. If we pull out of Iraq, the enemy loses.
A November 2004 Video detailed how Al Qaeda would Bankrupt America. Osama
Bin Laden accused President Bush of going to war for Iraq's oil, and said
the American people would be the losers. Now here we are four years later
and look what’s happened to our oil prices and our economy since then.
Bin Laden, whose al Qaeda network carried out the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks,
detailed al Qaeda's strategy of bleeding America bankrupt, even as
Americans weighed their presidential votes largely on the issues of terror
and the economy. That was four years ago but look whose strategy is
winning. Could that be because they’re the only ones with a strategy?
According to Bin Laden's math, each $1 al Qaeda has spent on strikes has
cost the United States $1 million in economic fallout and military
spending, including emergency funding for Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bin Laden credited the holy warriors he fought with against the Soviets in
Afghanistan two decades ago with having "bled Russia for 10 years, until
it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat."
"So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of
bankruptcy," Bin Laden said in the tape that appeared near the end of a
U.S. 2004 presidential campaign that has focused on the war on terror as
well as the foundering U.S. economy. We have the same issues in 2008 and
John McCain is running on the same failed agenda. Maybe he should bow out
of the race and let Clinton and Obama fight it out for the presidency.
Bin Laden claimed al Qaeda was winning its war with the United States, and
that U.S. defense contractors linked to President Bush "like Halliburton
and its kind" were also benefiting, while the losers were "the American
people and their economy." It looks like everyone sees this except the
Bush administration and John McCain.
The Al Qaeda leader accused Mr. Bush of ignoring advice from various
quarters against invading Iraq, "but the darkness of the black gold
blurred his vision and insight, and he gave priority to private interests
over the public interests of America." Seems like only Barrack Obama saw
what was going on and stood his ground against the war.
CBS News Consultant Fouad Ajami said at the time, "From the very beginning
of his terror campaign, Bin Laden's fight was with the Saudi rulers of the
Arabian Peninsula," Ajami wrote in The Wall Street Journal. "America was
to pay for its protection of the House of Saud. The causes bin Laden
picked up along the way — the cause of Iraq, the call of Palestine — were
always incidental to him, weapons of convenience."
Al Qaeda has long made a point of hitting economic targets. The World
Trade Center was likely targeted on Sept. 11 both because attacking it
would kill thousands and because the twin towers were symbols of America's
economic power. In a video that surfaced in December 2001, bin Laden said
the Sept. 11 attackers struck the American economy "in the heart." They
choose economic targets because they want to shake the foundations of the
societies they see as the enemy.
The Bush administration brags that we are winning the war because be
haven’t been attacked since 911. Look at the gas prices. We are being
attacked almost daily with increasing oil prices. The car bombings are a
mere distraction to keep us spending money in Iraq while our economy is in
disarray. The Bush administration fell right into Bin Laden’s trap. Only a
Democrat will get us out and only Obama is willing to talk to the enemy
and has the best chance of having a peaceful resolution because his always
being against the war gives him some common ground with which to base
negotiations.
We as a Christian nation need to wake and get out of the trap of false
promises we’ve been given and make the right choice when we go to the
polls and pick our president. The thought of staying the course until we
win is ludicrous. There are no winners in a war. Our military has done a
fine job and it’s time for the Iraqi’s to put into force what they’ve
learned and fend for themselves. We’ve given them good training but they
aren’t going to give their all as long as long as we are there to do their
dirty work. Running a campaign of fear is a tool of the devil and that
seems to be the Republican platform. Don’t be fooled again.
TRUMPET