Osama in his own words

For those who are still kicking the dirt and believing the Gosh Darn Al-Queda just hates all of our freedom, Osama’s new tape should be an eye opener. No complete transcript is available, but here's the most complete transcript available. Sure he’s an evil shit- but that doesn’t mean he didn’t have legitimate reasons for his anger. Reasons, by the way, he has no reason to lie about. This IS NOT to say that 9-11 was justified. His anger is justified, how he acted on it, IS NOT. The sad fact of the matter is the poor deluded bastard probably thinks he’s Saudi Arabia’s George Washington. He wants the US to stop supporting Israel and to get our military out of the middle east entirely- particularly from Saudi Arabia. In other words he wants us to get the occupying military to go home- it's the same justification being used by the insurgents in Iraq.
Is that really such an insane request? Would we want someone’s military in OUR country. No, I don’t think we would. And it's an easy one to agree to. We just pack up our shit, come home, and focus our attention on eliminating our slavish need for foriegn oil.
The hawks will say that Osama wants us to go home so can he can be free to train terrorists to come over here and kill us. That’s just stupid. We have this infatuation in this country with cartoonish bad guys. The truth of the matter is, people can be sane, and still be very very evil. A crazy guy couldn’t hide out from us all this time.
Osama said the attack was carried out because "we are a free people ... and we want to regain the freedom of our nation."
Why does that have to be a lie? WE may not agree with anything the man thinks, but FROM HIS POINT OF VIEW what he's saying is true.
People do evil (ie violent) things because they are convinced of the truth of their convictions to the point they think they are justified in the violence they are perpetrating.
Nearly all violence has this same conviction- from a crime of passion to a well thought out act of terrorism, to an entire nation organized around a war. It is the root of the wheel of death the human race has been spinning around on since Cain killed his brother.
From this point of view both the US and the Al Queda are the same. It’s all senseless killing. When John Kerry pulls our people out of the Middle East (which I think most Democrats are hoping he will do if elected) I hope he doesn’t stop at just Iraq. I hope we bring everyone in the region home. And while we’re at it lets stop being the number one arms dealer in the world.