Usama bin Laden is NOT Dead

But he might as well be. Unfortunately for old Usama, his timing has been poor and his message uninspiring of late. His last video all but nailed the coffin shut on John Kerry, and now he picked the day that Victor Yushenko was freely elected in Ukraine to come out against elections in Iraq. Oops. In addition to that he picked the middle of the Tsunami news cycle to release his communiqué ensuring that it will languish into instant obscurity. He can thank the Pavlovian media for that, since the disaster dinner bell has left them salivating for horrific video.

He must be living the narcissist’s dream believing that he is the leader of a cult infused with the power to declare that voting in an election is tantamount to accepting an invitation to spend eternity in damnation. I suppose he still has his dupes, after all a Saudi official felt secure making the claim that US troops were harvesting the organs of insurgents dying on the battlefield in Fallujah. But at some point, muslims are going to have to realize that they are acting as pawns in a global chess game being played by a handful of despotic psychopaths who are all too willing to sacrifice them in what will clearly be a losing effort. I hope for their sakes and ours that the events in Ukraine and Afghanistan inspire the unwashed to walk away from the game room and get on with improving their lives.

As a write this, Ceci Connelly on FNC Special Report is propagating the new meme that Sunnis ought to stay home on Election Day in Iraq out of fear for their lives (and their souls too, Ceci?). I suspect that these people are going to see that 10,000 insurgents on the run from US forces won’t have the time or the inclination to go door to door looking for women with “I voted” stickers on their burkhas. I never cottoned to the “I’m taking my ball and going home” victory strategy and I would be surprised if the Sunnis do either. Even Democrats showed up to this year’s election, and they’ll be back in ’06 if only to make it close.

Usama is emerging as the Algore of islamofascist terrorists, in that every time he advocates something, the opposite immediately ensues. Just as Algore endorsed Howard Dean and spoke on global warming on the coldest day on record in New York a while back, Usama has endorsed Abu Musab al Zarkawi as the “Emir of Iraq”. If I was Zarkawi, I would take this opportunity to finish up that will he’s been putting off, because he’s not looking long for this world.