Wider Angle: Bin Laden Thankful Bush Interested In Goat, Children

I'm posting this bit here, even though the story is everywhere, because I couldn't find this specific bit of info on Google News when I searched for it, so here it is from CNN (via my roommate Lena who works for CNN):

Bin Laden sharply criticized President Bush for his behavior on the morning of September 11, 2001, when the president was reading "My Pet Goat" to a group of schoolchildren in Florida at the time he was informed of the attacks.

"It never occurred that the highest leader of the military armed forces would leave 50,000 people to face the horror that they faced all by themselves when they needed him most," bin Laden said.

"He was more interested in listening to the child's story about the goat rather than worry about what was happening to the towers. So, that gave us double the time for us to execute our attacks."

And more from Reuters UK... why isn't this being aired on major networks?! According to Lena, CNN ran with it yesterday on Anderson Cooper and Paula Zahn, but everyone else seems like they didn't even notice. WTF.

"I am surprised by you. Despite entering the fourth year after September 11, Bush is still deceiving you and hiding the truth from you and therefore the reasons are still there to repeat what happened.

[...]

"He (Bush) adopted despotism and the crushing of freedoms from Arab rulers and called it the Patriot Act under the guise of combating terrorism.....
"We had agreed with the (the September 11) overall commander Mohammed Atta, may God rest his soul, to carry out all operations in 20 minutes before Bush and his administration take notice.
"It never occurred to us that the commander in chief of the American forces (Bush) would leave 50,000 citizens in the two towers to face those horrors alone at a time when they most needed him because he thought listening to a child discussing her goat and its ramming was more important than the planes and their ramming of the skyscrapers. This had given us three times the time needed to carry out the operations, thanks be to God...
"Your security is not in the hands of (Democratic presidential candidate John) Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands and each state which does not harm our security will remain safe.

And the immediate response from both Bush and Kerry was that they'll continue to fight people there and kill for this war:

Kerry told reporters in West Palm Beach, Florida: "Let me make it clear -- crystal clear: as Americans, we are absolutely united in our determination to hunt down and destroy Osama bin Laden and the terrorists."

He added: "They are barbarians. And I will stop at absolutely nothing to hunt down, capture or kill the terrorists wherever they are, whatever it takes. Period."

Is he retarded? YOU CAN'T KILL ALL THE TERRORISTS. You can kill some of the terrorists some of the time, but you can't kill all the terrorists all of the time. We have to deal with the problem like the smart, civilized individuals we profess to be, and stop murdering and destroying tens of thousands of innocent people and their homes.

Say it with me, "diplomacy." Maybe I'm naive (and probably am, having lived only in America and being relatively young), but if many Americans are telling the government to stop the war, the Arabs are telling them the same thing, and now the terrorists themselves are saying the only way things are going to get better is if we stop fighting and try to come to some kind of agreement.

After talking with Lena some more, I understand why Kerry can't suddenly change his position on terrorism saying we need to deal with the terrorists instead of kill them because he loses ground to Bush (somehow) on the question of terrorism control, commonly known as the War on Terra. And Kerry missed the boat on alerting the Americans who are still listening that the reason Osama has a tape out in the first place is because he wasn't captured by Bush, and is now able to roam around the mountains of Afghanistan with the other goats and livestock.

But still, to me, it seems like this is a pretty clear message telling us to change course or else be prepared for another attack that "will make you forget all about September 11th."