Remember Me?

Al-Jazeera has broadcast a new tape by a person claiming to be Osama bin Laden. Its authenticity has not yet been proven.

You remember Osama, don't you? The guy that George Bush once said he "Wanted: Dead or Alive" and then pretended didn't exist when he couldn't get his hands on him?

This is part of what the tape says:

"Your president is misinterpreting public opinion polls which show that the vast majority of you support the withdrawal of your forces from Iraq. He (Bush) disagreed with this desire and said the withdrawal of troops will give the wrong message to the enemy and that it is better to fight them on their ground than on our ground. Reality shows that the war against the U.S. and its allies is not just restricted to Iraq as he claims, but Iraq has become a gravitational point and a recruiting ground for qualified (mujahideen)."

The trouble with this part of the message at least is that just about all of this is true.

The majority of Americans do want out of Iraq, and Bush is steadfastly denying the reality of the fiasco staring him in the face. The reality is that Bush's phony "coalition" is disintegrating (one of the big untold stories of the past year is how Tony Blair has been quietly bugging his troops out of Iraq without the American media reporting it) and the war in Iraq has become a quagmire that we can't win. A conflict that was supposed to obliterate terrorism has instead caused it to metastisize -- and as a result, more than 2,200 American servicemen and women are dead.

It's a hell of a thing when a scumbag terrorist, whose head should by rights be adorning a spike in the middle of Ground Zero so that the families of the victims could use it as a piñata, tells the truth about what's going on while the President of the United States continues to lie through his teeth about it.

But at least he's reminded Bush that he still exists. Maybe now Bush will do something to ensure that this murdering piece of filth is finally brought to justice -- in a bodybag.

And if you believe that, perhaps you should check out the bridge spanning Manhattan and Brooklyn that I'm currently auctioning off on eBay...

Tom Moran