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Tuesday, September 12, 2006
9/11 Speeches and Threats The majority of the American people, those polling numbers suggest, are not terribly optimistic about our ever winning this war and that should be no surprise. Most Americans don't know what to think and, when they are being barraged from both sides with rhetoric, they tend to block out the 'noise' and take their 'cues' from their favorite, trusted media outlet, print, broadcast or Internet; and they go no farther. If, for example, they know and have blindly trusted CBS or Fox News as a source for information for years, they will think the way CBS's or Fox's coverage of news events and their commentators suggest they think and, ultimately vote the way the CBS or Fox 'logic' suggests they would be wise to vote. The same scenario, of course, applies to long-time fans of other media outlets and other media personalities on all ends of the opinion spectrum; and its a fact that the majority of the media outlets and many media personalities take that pessimistic approach to the Presidents "War on Terror" and especially to events in the Iraqi theater of that war. Whether or not last night's "9/11" speech will have any long lasting effect on the President's popularity is a matter for some days or weeks from now; but there was another speech yesterday that should have convinced all but the most die-hard opponents of the War on Terror that the enemy is out there, he is real and he is unstable enough to be a real threat to America. That speech was recorded sometime in the recent past specifically for broadcast on the fifth anniversary of 9/11; the speaker: Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda's second in command. If President Bush, last night, had opted for a moment of silence, instead of a speech and then had al Zawahiri's speech broadcast, coast-to-coast and world wide, it would have been one of the President's most eloquent public moments. Al Zawahiri delivers Bush's message in a straight forward way; an example: "We have repeatedly," he said, "warned you and offered a truce with you. Now we have all the legal and rational justification to continue to fight you until your power is destroyed or you give in and surrender. The days are pregnant and giving birth to new events."Al Qaeda may or may not have the strength to pull off another event as disastrous to the American psyche as 9/11 was, it's a question that is open for debate and one that is being actively debated. That al Zawahiri feels, however, that he has the "legal and rational justification" to destroy the United States is not debatable and we all know that the old axiom "where there is a will, there is a way" is often proven to be true. Al Zawahiri's speech is not easy to find in the media or even on the Internet but it's out there and I urge you to find what you can and bathe yourself in his powerful hatred and his delusions of the nobility of his words. Then, the next time you listen to President Bush, you may start believing that, in spite of the Texas accent, the swagger and that annoying grin, he really knows what he's talking about. News Links: President Tries to Win Over a War-Weary Nation Al-Qaida threatens attacks in Persian Gulf, Israel Fifth anniversary of 9/11, Al-Qaeda threatens new attacks Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by Whymrhymer at 9:22 AM |
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