Al Qaeda Letter Says Prolonging The Iraq War ‘Is In Our Interest’
Al Qaeda Letter Says Prolonging The Iraq War ‘Is In Our Interest’
A newly translated letter from al-Qaeda’s leadership to their Iraq organization shows the Bush administration’s “stay the course” Iraq strategy is exactly what al Qaeda wants:
The most important thing is that you continue in your jihad in Iraq, and that you be patient and forbearing, even in weakness, and even with fewer operations; even if each day had half of the number of current daily operations, that is not a problem, or even less than that. So, do not be hasty. The most important thing is that the jihad continues with steadfastness and firm rooting, and that it grows in terms of supporters, strength, clarity of justification, and visible proof each day. Indeed, prolonging the war is in our interest, with God’s permission.
This summer, Bush administration officials repeatedly justified their Iraq policy by pointing to al Qaeda propaganda. One example of many:
DAN BARTLETT: So, it doesn’t matter what we say. We should be taking the – the words of the enemy seriously. They think [Iraq is] the fight of the war on terror, so, we must as well. [8/31/06]
Will the White House change its tune now that al Qaeda has endorsed “stay the course”?
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the neo cons will intrepret this as “we’re winning!!”, while those with some sanity remaining will say… “holy shit we should have never invaded that hellhole”
October 4th, 2006 at 6:06 pmThe day before election: “Bush says: ‘We just won the war in Iraq”,along with banner on a ship….
October 4th, 2006 at 6:09 pmThe new US Embassy in Iraq is pretty sweet. We have made our mark among the ages of palaces, fortresses, pyramids. burp.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:09 pmBush was against the terrorists, before he was for them.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:12 pmdan would have us take the word of the enemy seriously
he would have us take the words of the president seriously
they are the same words
funny how we can’t take any of them seriously. but seriously……..
October 4th, 2006 at 6:12 pmBut I thought that al Qaeda only supported Dem policies. I mean, that’s what we’ve been told ad nauseum.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:14 pmAmerica’s Least Wanted
Of course Al Qaeda wants America to stay the course. You can’t have a jihad if no one’s there.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:15 pmIf Osama did not exist Bush would have to invent him. If Bush did not exist Osama would have to invent him.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:15 pmTwo sides of the coin of evil.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:16 pmIndeed, prolonging the war is in our interest, with God’s permission. – - Bush: “In that case, MY God agrees with your God.”
October 4th, 2006 at 6:17 pmA letter? Thats it a letter?
October 4th, 2006 at 6:21 pmTony’s Noballs Coffee Clatche Tomorrow:
“They are terrists! The Presnit says so! They are saying that we should stay the course when they really want us to throw the Tar Baby into the briar patch. So we have to stay the course because they say they want us to stay the course when they really don’t want us to stay the course. But then again they may figure we are on to them so when they say they want us to stay the course they really want us to believe we will believe that they don’t really believe that we believe that they… Oh to hell with it, let’s go chase a Page.”
Reminds me of that old song: “I was looking back to see if you were looking back to see if I was looking back to see of you were looking back at me.” But come November the whole rotten bunch will be looking back to see just what the hell hit them. And it won’t be a terrist!
October 4th, 2006 at 6:26 pmOctober 4th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
why does Bush want to coddle the terrorists???
October 4th, 2006 at 6:29 pmJust saw a report on local TV that rural areas in Ohio are now shifting to Blue! There’s hope.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:31 pm“Stay the course” is obviously giving comfort to our enemies.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:37 pmBush and Bin Laden: dull, pig-headed, egotistical minds think alike!
October 4th, 2006 at 6:44 pmBoy! Don’t you just hate it when a plan goes awry! The bushco must be pulling out their collective hair about now. Everything that DUHbya has done all his life has turned to shit but Daddy was there to pull his fat out of the Friar. Now it is Turdblossom’s turn to save his bacon and things aren’t going so well. There is not enough spin in a dozen cotton candy machines to cover up all the screw-ups that are coming to light and out of the closet. Keep it up Rethugs! We will all have a good laugh.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:45 pmI’m going to Iraq at the end of this month, and I can tell you that I can’t wait to go over there and dust some of those bastards off. The war in Iraq is a genius move by the Prez. He has fomented a long-overdue culture clash: Western Christianity against Radical Islam. It is going to get uglier and uglier, and more hatred is going to build as the years go buy. The Muslims have screwed with the wrong bull this time. We will put them and their backward, oppressive culture in their place by their own chosen method: the sword.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:45 pmThis could be argued both ways….
- Someone may say this letter is an attempt at reverse psychology, so because they say they want us to continue, we actually SHOULD continue, because they are bluffing.
- Someone else may say we SHOULD leave then so we don’t find ourselves obeying the terrorists.
… so I don’t know what to think.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:46 pmI would not believe Bartlett or any of those clowns at the White House if they told me the sun was out. They are all pathologial liars–starting with Chimpy McFlightsuit. They see Bush’s poll numbers starting to fall, Woodward’s book, the american casualties in Iraq, Condi “having a come to Jesus moment” and finally, admitting that SHE was told about the coming attack on the US by Al Queda, not to mention the Foley mess. This reminds me of Watergate all over again. The difference was Nixon was COMPETENT–a major-league crook, but competent.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
I would not believe Bartlett or any of those clowns at the White House if they told me the sun was out. They are all pathologial liars–starting with Chimpy McFlightsuit. They see Bush’s poll numbers starting to fall, Woodward’s book, the american casualties in Iraq, Condi “having a come to Jesus moment” and finally, admitting that SHE was told about the coming attack on the US by Al Queda, not to mention the Foley mess. This reminds me of Watergate all over again. The difference was Nixon was COMPETENT–a major-league crook, but competent.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
I would not believe Bartlett or any of those clowns at the White House if they told me the sun was out. They are all pathologial liars–starting with Chimpy McFlightsuit. They see Bush’s poll numbers starting to fall, Woodward’s book, the american casualties in Iraq, Condi “having a come to Jesus moment” and finally, admitting that SHE was told about the coming attack on the US by Al Queda, not to mention the Foley mess. This reminds me of Watergate all over again. The difference was Nixon was COMPETENT–a major-league crook, but competent.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
I would not believe Bartlett or any of those clowns at the White House if they told me the sun was out. They are all pathologial liars–starting with Chimpy McFlightsuit. They see Bush’s poll numbers starting to fall, Woodward’s book, the american casualties in Iraq, Condi “having a come to Jesus moment” and finally, admitting that SHE was told about the coming attack on the US by Al Queda, not to mention the Foley mess. This reminds me of Watergate all over again. The difference was Nixon was COMPETENT–a major-league crook, but competent.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
#24 – Chimpy McFlightsuit
Brilliant! Simply brilliant!!!
October 4th, 2006 at 6:49 pmI am so sorry for the mulltiple posts. I just got a new computer. Sorry. My bad.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:52 pmI’ve never understood why anyone would quote madmen (al Qaeda) and try to draw rational conclusions. It’s nonsense when Bush does it. So too, frankly, is it nonsense when TP does it.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:53 pmOH! The triple reverse psychology involved. OH!
October 4th, 2006 at 6:56 pmHA! We remain one step ahead of you silly rabbits from al-Qaeda…..we’re now “adapting†to “stay the courseâ€â€¦..what say you now silly rabbits? Now where did I put that blender….and where’s that salt…..
October 4th, 2006 at 6:58 pm#19 – ARealAmerican – well I guess we can expect another Haditha on the news in a month or so, eh? The children are the smaller ones, BTW. I think the word you are looking for is ‘Crusade’.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:58 pmIf staying the course is working, and 100 Iraqi civilians are dying per day, does 200 Iraqi civilians dying per day mean that it’s working even better?
October 4th, 2006 at 7:02 pmsconset,
I mentioned this once before on TP, but your post(s)
prompted me to say it again.
I have a button I wear all the time these days.
It says:
“I never thought I’d miss Nixon.”
October 4th, 2006 at 7:02 pmI thought RealAmerican’s enthusiasm for ‘dusting’ might be contrasted with this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/12/nsas12.xml
October 4th, 2006 at 7:07 pmIt appears that a couple of cave dwellers have policy (stay the course). Ah, could it be that w has policy, too? Spare our grandchildren, please. But, they got the debt. No out of this one. Your savings, social security, the savety net.
October 4th, 2006 at 7:12 pmDon’t you just love the MSM?
Your fleased.
Good evening all, have you forgotten this evil empire, the bull shit bush regime is loosing it so they are going to throw some carrot’s to their rabbit base…First carrot was the signing of the fence bill today in Arizona, next mysteriously a letter from ( who else) dead man writing benladen…How appropiate, now he can soothe the masses before the election and get all their miserable republican’s re nominated and save their ass till he ready to put all us in camps….
Want some more, chicken shit chertoff is doing a cute thing with the port security and cat killer frit’s is working on stuff over there so we don’t have to do it here….GET REAL,………HOW F——g stupid do they think we are…..We know they will do anything, (anything) to stay in power. Just watch they may finelly end this miserable war if they think they are loosing…I hope they do, end the war and loose their elections…..Blessings
October 4th, 2006 at 7:28 pmWait, I’m confused — I thought “cut and run” would play into the terr’ists hands, not “stay the course”. Which will it be now, Mr. Prez? Or are the terr’ists just drinking too much of your Koolaid just like your base has been?
October 4th, 2006 at 7:30 pmThe only thing I find amazing is that Think Progress actually thought it had a talking point with this….well, run it up the flag pole. I guess that is the only hope that the opposition sees it has.
Sheesh! the inhumanity of it all!
October 4th, 2006 at 7:38 pm#19 – ARealAmerican – We know you’re kidding. Nobody who supports this war actually fights in it.
Silly pants.
October 4th, 2006 at 7:49 pmWell…all I can say is that those who voted their conscience in 2004, their decision is coming back to haunt them.
October 4th, 2006 at 7:57 pmLet’s run the bastards out:
World Can’t Wait – Protest Rallies Scheduled for October 5
Check it out, it’s huge!!! I’ll bet there is a rally within a few minutes from where you live and work.
October 4th, 2006 at 8:14 pmLet’s run the bastards out:
World Can’t Wait – Protest Rallies Scheduled for October 5
Check it out, it’s huge!!! I’ll bet there is a rally within a few minutes from where you live and work.
October 4th, 2006 at 8:15 pm#19 – hope you enjoy your prosthetic limb(s), i’m sure you’ll be greeted as a liberator.
October 4th, 2006 at 8:28 pm#41
ROTFLMAO
October 4th, 2006 at 8:40 pm#19 Comment by A+Real+American — October 4, 2006 @ 6:45 pm
Gotta give you credit for backin’ up your stance on the war.
October 4th, 2006 at 8:47 pmFull Blue Moon Arising on November 5th and it will last past Blue Moon Election Day November 7th. America will turn bright blue on November 7th and it will be the beginning of the end for this sorry Bush/GOP debacle…
October 4th, 2006 at 8:52 pmCheers.
#19 – I hope you live to regret your words.
October 4th, 2006 at 8:58 pmjust tuned in… went to abuaardvark and found this in the comments
( i did a “test drive” of the posting also, with this):
…I usually only see references to these documents on right-wing blogs, for some reason,… -d
this reminds me of a report months ago, something about turning over all the papers and such found in raids to any right-wing volunteers, for the purpose of “translation”… i can’t remember the specifics, just remember thinking that idea sounded absurb and illogical… and scary…
anyone else remember that story?
October 4th, 2006 at 9:07 pm.
Dear Real Fascist,
Have you not been listening to your President?
He has stated that this is NOT a war on Islam! and that Islam is a peaceful religion.
By they way, there is no WAR is Iraq. It is an insurgency and a police action that you are going to…..not an active war.
Too bad for you. You won’t get to get all those brown skinned “bastards” that you are bloodthirsty to do.
Before you go, just check yourself into the nearest mental home, before you are shooting up schools. Idiot.
Thanks for playing!
You lose again. Next time listen up when the Emperor speaks- What a maroooooon!!!
October 4th, 2006 at 9:13 pmI wish the Democrats would have a constructive policy about Iraq, so that this floundering around by America would end.
The Terrorists and the current foolish US administration have set the agenda since 911. Warfare from either side will not produce the happiness people essentially want. We need to include everyone in our vision and end the us vs them mentality. Neither violence or avoidance is the answer.
See: http://www.worldwidehappiness.org
October 4th, 2006 at 9:27 pmThat’s right brothers, they’re over here so let’s fight them so we don’t have to fight them all the way over there.
October 4th, 2006 at 9:50 pmDidn’t one of Iraq’s police forces get disbanded today? Wasn’t 2006 supposed to be the year of Iraq’s police force?
October 4th, 2006 at 9:57 pmMy cousin’s over there, and he’s a career marine. He says we are getting our asses kicked because we don’t know how to fight in this manner. He said each time he goes back, it’s worse than the previous time, and this is his third time over there.
October 4th, 2006 at 10:01 pmIt’s been fairly obvious from the beginning that Osama bin Laden and various others who hate us want the U.S in Iraq. Only Bush and other stupid Republicans would not have known this. Duh!
October 4th, 2006 at 10:03 pm#19 Nobody is fooled you pathetic little chickenhawk. I think I hear your mommy calling.
October 4th, 2006 at 10:17 pm#Shag I think that they think are getting their asses kicked because there is no definition of success. Really, what the hell are they fighting for?
October 4th, 2006 at 10:20 pmThis one just made me laugh out loud.
October 4th, 2006 at 11:19 pmOBL’s mail might be a little slow reaching him in the mountains.
Stay the course has been changed– to adapt to win, or something like that. Just ask Ken Mehlman.
How will they accuse those who want to redeploy as playing into the hands of the enemy? They will probably have a brainstorm session this weekend and a new slogan will emerge. That should take care of it.
“That being said, those who say that al-Qaeda has won against the administration in the White House or that the administration has lost in this war have not been precise, because when one scrutinizes the results, one cannot say that al-Qaeda is the sole factor in achieving those spectacular gains.
“Rather, the policy of the White House that demands the opening of war fronts to keep busy their various corporations – whether they be working in the field of arms or oil or reconstruction – has helped al-Qaeda to achieve these enormous results.
“And so it has appeared to some analysts and diplomats that the White House and us are playing as one team toward the economic goals of the United States, even if the intentions differ.”
- Osama Bin Laden
October 4th, 2006 at 11:23 pmTo those who doubt the authenticity of the ideas in the letter…you can find the collected speeches of Bin laden on this subject at iraqqar.org. Here’s an excerpt:
Bin Laden’s speeches..”are worth reading because so much of the reporting about them is incomplete or distorted. It is ironical that we are told that few believed Hitler’s speeches, wherein he laid out all his plans. Yet with Bin Laden, Washington makes every effort to prevent them being heard in their entirety. In particular this is because Bin Laden repeatedly states that it is American policies which he opposes, while the Bush Administration repeatedly claims that his actions are because America is “free” and “good,” and because he wants to re-establish the 12th Century Muslim Empire.”
Everyone should read them who really wants to stop him.
October 4th, 2006 at 11:33 pmAmerican Neo Nazis have gotten what they wanted, a long war to funnel taxes into their friends bank accounts and control oil prices for more friends,simple just start an illegal war,and another, and another. Oh, and opt out of International agreements and international courts and Constitutional laws ,and the BILL OF RIGHTS and GENEVA CONVENTIONS so they can’t be found responsible for all the crimes already committed or are planning to commit.
October 5th, 2006 at 12:37 amHow f*cking ridiculous to think a super war criminal and his gang would have any chance of being taken seriously by the REAL world that is going to drag them all to the REAL HAGUE just like the first original NAZIS were hunted down around the world and dragged to the defendants dock and F*CKING EXECUTED for crimes against HUMANITY….Just because america’s congress is corrupt does not mean the rest of the actual real world has changed any INTERNATIONAL laws that are still standing and will be upheld.
ALL of the Insane King George’s inner court will be eventually hunted down and brought to WORLD JUSTICE….F*CK what corrupt congress says,they should be prosecuted also for the nightmare they approved. KARMA always wins, fools.
[...] See also here. Further evidence that bin Laden would have prefered a Bush victory in 2004 has come very recently and explosively in this story. [...]
October 5th, 2006 at 3:42 am“Oh, PLEASE don’t throw me in that briar patch, Br’er Fox!”
October 5th, 2006 at 4:49 amWhy do the Neocons support terrorists?
October 5th, 2006 at 10:31 am#19 – Good luck staying alive and well, but watch out for all the flying flowers and candy~
October 5th, 2006 at 10:36 am[...] Think Progress is reporting that a newly translated letter by Al Qaeda leadership is saying that a prolonged conflict in Iraq will be good for them. [...]
October 5th, 2006 at 12:42 pmthe pope was right.. .. they brainwash people telling them god told us to kill everyone.
October 5th, 2006 at 12:48 pmUmm it really sounds like a message from ladin to his minions saying basically to keep fighting in iraq…let me translate it into dumb english for you all that cannot understand:
October 5th, 2006 at 2:08 pm“Keep fighting, even though there is less stuff and people to blow up. Not to mention we have less people and stuff to make things blow up. Who cares…just keep up the good work and make sure our name is on CNN everyday. IN doobid a bly! This war looks like its gonna go on forever, but don’t you worry yer pretty little heads about it guys, it’s a GOOD thing :D
love—osama”
*end*
#19 – well well well, wishing to risk your life everyday while at the same time being oblivious to the actual situation as run by the rules of the world. Hello, Osama wants you to go to Iraq now, so you can die. They dont care if they die, hell, theyre sweet with God apparently. But you value your life more.
October 5th, 2006 at 3:47 pmBut you are willing to throw it away for ignorance? Why did you come onto this planet in the first place? Just to consume oxygen and food, then die under moronic (sorry, moranic) purposes?
Thats right, stick to your beliefs no matter what logic does not apply to them. Off you go then.
Just remember, your beliefs will also allow you to COMPLETELY avoid post-traumatic stress disorder too. Coz you just believe. Done. Solved.
Now, if you could just go over to North Korea, the regime will just crumble, coz you are going to ‘kick their asses’. Yippee, instant solutions!
Woohoo
[...] Think Progress [...]
October 5th, 2006 at 7:03 pmhmm… if you take the jihad away in iraq… do you think they’ll stop there, or move on to another territory?
welcome to the age of instant gratification. al queda is willing to wait 100 years for their ideologies to be main stream. perhaps this current administration’s execution of a noble ideal is sadly excuted, but no one else seems to have a better idea.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:31 pmThere will be sanity in the world when there is accountability.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:54 pmSo to all the people who actually read the entire letter: you all think that the message is about how much American troops in Iraq benefits the mujahidin? Also, you don’t think that maybe that last passage at the end – which is shown on this site – might have been misinterpreted?
I would be very curious to read your explanations of how you came to that conclusion. Really, I would. Please remember to use quotes from the letter to back up your case.
October 12th, 2006 at 10:35 pm[...] Al Qaeda Letter Says Prolonging The Iraq War Is In Our Interest …Think Progress, DC - Oct 4, 2006This summer, Bush administration officials repeatedly justified their Iraq policy by pointing to al Qaeda propaganda. One example of many: … [...]
November 3rd, 2006 at 7:58 pm