President Obama says bin-Laden is nothing but a poseur

Pres. Obama says bin Laden tape shows weakness

Tue Jan 26, 2010

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on Tuesday that al Qaeda has been weakened by U.S. actions, and as evidence pointed to a taped message purported to be by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden about a failed Christmas Day airplane bomb plot.

"Al Qaeda itself is greatly weakened from where it was back in 2000. Bin Laden sending out a tape trying to take credit for a Nigerian student who engaged in a failed bombing attempt is an indication of how weakened he is because this is not something necessarily directed by him," Obama told ABC's Good Morning America.

___ On Monday, the U.S. State Department's coordinator for counterterrorism dismissed the message a grab for "reflected glory" and not a sign that bin Laden was behind the plot.

read: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60P2QN20100126?type=politicsNews


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I approve.

:shrug:

put the thug in his place. It's a signal that this administration isn't going to elevate the fugitive terror suspects to the level (of a nation state) that Bush did when he conflated everything into a justification of his 'war on terror'.

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disappeared.

ALL I know is that both Bush and Obama seem increasingly eager to declare Bin Laden irrelevant and not worth going after.

I have yet to see Obama following suit. let's hope he doesn't.

. . . now one from the president himself. It's a very welcome change to see the president refrain from reciting each and every word from the propagandist specter like Bush and Cheney would at every opportunity on the campaign trail..

Speaking about terrorists like a rational adult instead of pimping out fear and hysteria? I'm impressed. :thumbsup:

"Ooooops, excuuuuuse me. I forgot that, other than in the realm of republicon occultism, I am totally irrelevant. Smirk."

- xCommander AWOL (R)

"It worked for us republicon chickenhawks, and the O Man is welcome to join our wiCkEd RIGHTeous Cluckfest to help keep WarProfits mAxiMiZed. Sneer."

xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R)