One might think this was a satirical piece, or a joke, but it's. Al-Qaida has come out backing John McCain, though on a private website, not publicly.
SITE Intelligence Group, based in Bethesda, Md., monitors the password-protected al-Hesbah Web site and translated the message.
The message was posted Monday. It said:
"If al-Qaida carries out a big operation against American interests, this act will be support of McCain because it will push the Americans deliberately to vote for McCain so that he takes revenge for them against al-Qaida. Al-Qaida then will succeed in exhausting America till its last year in it."
"This requires presence of an impetuous American leader such as McCain, who pledged to continue the war till the last American soldier. Then, al-Qaida will have to support McCain in the coming elections so that he continues the failing march of his predecessor, Bush."
No comment from the McCain camp on this one. However, Site Intelligence went further and said that Al-Qaida is (not surprisingly) jubilent over the current financial crisis.
The problem is, even if people read this, and realize that it's all a ploy, if something big happens, it'll scare them. And that's because Americans are, quite honestly, gullible. It's not like the Dems would wave to Al-Qaida and say, "Come on in."
As FDR said:
So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Let's not let fear decide who wins.
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