{"id":2644,"date":"2008-09-26T19:03:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T01:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/in-2004-videotape-bin-laden-explained-his-strategy-against-us-bleed-until-bankruptcy\/"},"modified":"2008-09-27T17:11:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T23:11:09","slug":"in-2004-videotape-bin-laden-explained-his-strategy-against-us-bleed-until-bankruptcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/in-2004-videotape-bin-laden-explained-his-strategy-against-us-bleed-until-bankruptcy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Accomplished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Think Progress:  <\/p>\n<p>Over on the Wonk Room, Matt Duss recalls <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wonkroom\/2008\/09\/25\/bleed-until-bankruptcy\/\">this line from Osama bin Laden\u2019s surprise<\/a> late-October 2004 videotaped address:  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And even more dangerous and bitter for America is that the Mujahedin recently forced Bush to resort to emergency funds to continue the fight in Afghanistan and Iraq which is <strong>evidence of the success of the bleed-until-bankruptcy plan with Allah\u2019s permission\u2026 And it all shows that the real loser is\u2026 you. It\u2019s the American people and their economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The CIA judged that Bin Laden\u2019s videotaped message was an effort by al Qaeda to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consortiumnews.com\/2006\/070306.html\">deliver four more years for President Bush<\/a>, thus helping them recruit a new generation of terrorists.  <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/09\/25\/bin-laden-bleed\/\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/09\/25\/bin-laden-bleed\/\">http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/09\/25\/bin-laden-bleed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Think Progress: Over on the Wonk Room, Matt Duss recalls this line from Osama bin Laden\u2019s surprise late-October 2004 videotaped address: And even more dangerous and bitter for America is that the Mujahedin recently forced Bush to resort to emergency funds to continue the fight in Afghanistan and Iraq which is evidence of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/in-2004-videotape-bin-laden-explained-his-strategy-against-us-bleed-until-bankruptcy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mission Accomplished<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}