Bin Laden: Misunderstood Marxist?

That's kind of the feeling you get reading about newest tape. It's truly odd to read some of the comments from the tape. Consider,

"One should pause, think and reflect," the speaker says, according to the transcript. "Why have the Democrats failed to stop this war, despite them being the majority?"

The answer to that question, he later says, is "the same reasons which led to the failure of former President Kennedy to stop the Vietnam War. Those with with real power and influence are those with the most capital. And since the democratic system permits major corporations to back candidates, be they presidential or congressional, there shouldn't be any cause for astonishment -- and there isn't any -- in the Democrats' failure to stop the war."

This doesn't strike me as the words of a radical terrorists as much as a college student wannabe Marxist. No war threats, no promises of new attacks, nothing like what has become the standard expected type of words from Bin Laden. And then, we get Bin Gore coming out...

The transcript also shows bin Laden blaming global warming on large corporations.

"The life of all mankind is in danger because of the global warming resulting to a large degree from the emissions of the factories the major corporations," it says.

"And despite this brazen attack on the people [referring to global warming], the leaders of the West -- especially Bush, Blair, Sarkozy and Brown -- still talk about freedom and human rights with a flagrant disregard for the intellects of humans?"

Bin Laden truly sounds like a liberal more than anything else here. I guess he has decided that the American left is a good home for him. Perhaps he'll try and make a run for the nomimation in 2012 or 2016.