Is it just me, or does it seem like Bin Laden’s latest tape sounds exactly like something Howard Dean would have written?  Seriously, it sounds exactly like what I’ve heard the anti-war protestors on the left say for years now.  Which amazingly is exactly the same thing that the New York Times, et. al, is reporting too.

For instance, Bin Laden is poll driven (and if you still think the media isn’t hurting the US’s war effort, consider that for a minute):

To go back to where I started, I say that the results of the poll satisfy sane people and that Bush’s objection to them is false.

Sounds exactly like the Democrat Times–er, I mean NYT.  But we’re not done yet:

 

In fact, Iraq has become a point of attraction and recruitment of qualified resources.

I’m sure that if it were true that Iraq was going so well for Bin Laden that the first thing he would do is say that it was going so well for him.  I mean, if it was going so well for him why does he start his tirade with “My message to you is about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the way to end it.”

But in any case, this too is something that the Big Media has been saying too.  Iraq is causing terrorists to come about.  Consider this NYT headline from July 19, 2005–”British Intelligence Cites Iraq War as Cause of Terrorism.” This merely echos what the Washington Post said in February 17, 2005: “War Helps Recruit Terrorists, Hill Told.”  So pervasive was this belief that the Iraq war caused terrorism that the Washington Times had to have this headline: “Armitage: Iraq war did not cause terrorism.”  (Why did Armitage have to point that out in the first place?)

Yeah, the media sounds exactly like Bin Laden.  That’s comforting.

Bin Laden concludes:

 

We do not object to a long-term truce with you on the basis of fair conditions that we respect.

We are a nation to which God has disallowed treachery and lying.

In this truce, both parties will enjoy security and stability and we will build Iraq and Afghanistan which were destroyed by the war.There is no defect in this solution other than preventing the flow of hundreds of billions to the influential people and war merchants in America, who supported Bush’s election campaign with billions of dollars.

Boy is that comforting.  But consider something.  When did the Iraq war start?  That’s right, March of 2003. When did 9/11 happen?  Oh yeah…2001.  That’s a year and a half before the war in Iraq.  So, I ask, how pray-tell is it possible that the war in Iraq is causing terrorism?  And how, pray-tell, are we to believe that stopping the war in Iraq is going to stop Bin Laden?  His terrorism came before the war in Iraq, and it will continue until he is dead no matter what his empty claims of a truce state.But don’t look to the media grasping this concept.  They’re already parroting everything Bin Laden said before.  Watch the media fall for his truce dupe too.