No, that’s not a misprint and I’m not smoking anything illegal. In many ways the President and Osama are and have been quite dependent on each other and both of them have there own reasons for sending each other a special thank you card.
Let’s take a look from the President’s point of view.
When the President first came to office, he was not very well liked as the latest White House resident. He had only been confirmed as the President due to a decision in the election by the Supreme Court. (In fact, since that Supreme Court decision, the vote count after-the-fact has shown that Al Gore may in fact have actually won the election.) Unfortunately, after Gore had officially conceded the election, there was no going back.
In addition, after the election, Bush was so anti-Clinton, he ordered any projects that were started by the Clinton administration to either be cancelled or to be given the lowest priority. One of Clinton’s top projects at the time was the continued pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. However, Condoleezza Rice, Bush’s then National Security Advisor was told to not continue with that pursuit. If not for the 9/11 disaster in 2001, it’s hard to imagine exactly what kind of presidency George W would have had. In fact, most political historians seem to agree that without the terrorist attacks on the twin towers and the Pentagon, the eventual “War President”, George W Bush would most likely have been a one-term president, as was his father.
After 9/11, President Bush’s popularity went to the highest level of his two terms. At that time, he and Rudy Giuliani were probably the most popular and recognized individuals in America and most of the free world. As horrible as 9/11 was, one would have to admit that both George W and Rudy owe their initial popularity and current notoriety to Osama bin Laden’s actions.
One project that was a focus of George W, even before he became president, was the removal of the Iraq regime of Saddam Hussein. There have been a number of articles about how George W wanted to finish the job where his father left off by getting rid of Saddam. In one such interview, George W. is quoted as saying that if he ever had the “political capital” and popularity as his father had during the previous Gulf War, he would not waste it as George H.W. had done. George W. said he would spend it by going straight into Baghdad and rid the world of Saddam. Unfortunately, for a short time, Osama’s strike on American soil gave George W. that “political capital”. After the attack and a successful series of strikes on al Qaeda in Afghanistan (where he should have stayed.) George W. spent his remaining “capital” in selling the country, the congress and other countries on an illegal war in Iraq. To sum it up, Osama made George W. popular for just enough time that he could fulfill his goal of going after Saddam. There aren’t many single individuals in the world who could cause the world’s most powerful country to go to war, so I guess one could say Osama’s been a pretty good supporter of George W. Bush.
Now from Osama’s point of view, George W. Bush has been a gift from Allah. Osama can thank George W. for two major decisions that have allowed Osama to stay alive and to become one of the most famous and effective Muslim marketing and recruiting individuals in history.
First, by initially only sending a small strike force into Afghanistan, this allowed Osama to escape to the Tora Bora mountain region and to then slip away from the American troops trying to corner him in Afghanistan. George W. then decided to change his focus from finding Osama to going after Saddam. He subsequently also diverted the American military to concentrating on Iraq instead of where al Qaeda and Osama were headquartered in Afghanistan. This fulfilled two of Osama’s most critical requirements. It immediately took the focus off of the US military for finding Osama, which allowed him to stay alive and escape into the mountain regions of bordering Pakistan. It also gave Osama the greatest recruitment tool a radical Muslim could wish for at just the right time.
Osama had previously warned the Muslim world that the US would eventually use its military power to attack and occupy a Muslim country and that the US would then station military troops on sacred Muslim territory. (Remember, one of the reasons that Osama attacked America at home was because the US Military had stationed troops on sacred Muslim grounds in Saudi Arabia during the original Gulf War.) By attacking and occupying Iraq, President Bush confirmed Osama’s predictions which raised the aura of Osama even higher in the view of devout Muslims around the world. Since 2001, the US military has done a good job of dealing heavy blows to Osama’s radical al Qaeda military organization. But George W. has personally done more to promote Osama’s global radical Muslim marketing and recruiting efforts than any program or person in the world.
Actually, when you look at it from either the President or Osama’s point of view, they have been more than best friends. Their combined personal goals could only been achieved by the direct actions of both individuals.
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