I think over the years Bin Laden has gotten a seriously bad rap, and I personally don't believe that, that should be the case.
Why is it that when someone does something so horribly terrible, that we forget about all the great things they accomplished?
The most obvious other example of this would be Hitler, most don't know that he pulled Germany out of a dire depression. Erased unemployment,
industrialized the nation and founded arguably the most fantastic automobile manufacturing company of all time, Volks Wagen, makers of the even more
fantastic Beetle.
Bin Laden, or as he was referred to at the time "Tim Osman" was trained by the CIA to fight the Russians during the Afghan War. I would like to note
the defeat of the Russians and their removal from Afghanistan as Bin Ladens first accomplishment for the Western World. So for that, I give him a big
SUCCESS.
I feel I could honestly be here for weeks writing if I truly had to list every accomplishments of such a fine, distinguished man, thus I will
continue by only listing his accomplishments of one day in history.
The date is September 11th, 2001, and today will be the day of all days of accomplishment. Now here's likely where some will argue "Well just
pulling off 911 was a super accomplishment, I wanna take my hat off now for the guy"
I ask only that you please learn of all his accomplishments before tipping your hat good sirs and maddams.
- Prior to 911, the nice guy that Osama Bin Laden was, decided that he should have one section of the Pentagon structurally upgraded, in case of the
practically impossible scenario that someone may attack it.
So on 911, knowing that the upgrades were complete, Bin Laden rang up Khalid Almihdhar on his new black berry pearl. Khalid was at the moment heading
directly for the Pentagon. Since the WTC hits went so well, Osama decided he would be nice and tell Khalid to hit the ONLY part of the pentagon that
was upgraded to withstand such a strike. Khalid, never one to fail his master, executed (depending on who you believe) a 190-270 degree turn to avoid
hitting the pentagon in a spot which would maim or kill top pentagon brass. For this I give him both SUCCESS and COMPASSION.
- In september of 2000, Bin Laden was a co-author of
Rebuilding Americas
Defenses In which the authors felt the need for a "new pearl harbor" to bring about "cataclysmic changes" and in true fashion, he delivered,
a year almost to the day later, by delivering the new pearl harbor. For that, SUPER SUCCESS.
- As the (plane?) headed towards the pentagon, fearing that supersonic jets stationed 10 minutes away may thwart his success, he decided to ring up
old friend and associate Dick Cheney and say "Hey good friend, allah asks that you please don't give the shoot down order".. voila.. SUCCESS.
- Prior to that, he had already rang up Norad and told them to forget about scrambling jets and instead just beat the bush a little bit, just long
enough that his planes would hit their targets, and voila... SUCCESS.
- After 911, Bin Laden went so far as to have all tapes that would have shown his plane hitting the pentagon, seized by the FBI. They then sent them
to him, so he could sit at home and masturbate to the images. Although it would have been nice to show the American Public video of a plane attacking
the most heavily defended building on earth, he was greedy. Kind of weird, I know, but still a SUCCESS
- Worried that his plan of destroying american lives may be short lived by the immediate burn off of Jet fuel, and concerned that the strike alone may
not be enough to bring down the WTC's, he had 200 men running around the complex that day planting Military Grade Nano-Thermite. And an hour later,
poof into it's pad. 3 times. SUCCESS.
- Bin Laden, seeing the obvious errors that the makers of "Microsoft's Flight Simulator" had incorporated into their game. Personally trained each
pilot how to fly 757's as nimble as a Harrier, for this I am going to have to assign a SUPER SUCCESS.
- After realizing that he forgot that there was actually 3 big buildings in the World Trade Center complex, and realizing that he had only decided to
highjack 2 planes for the complex. He wondered how he would bring down WTC 7. So he turned to his Quran and prayed to Allah, DEATH TO THE INFIDELS,
ALLAH MY LORD BRING DOWN WTC 7 AT ALMOST FREEFALL SPEED, BUT DO IT NICELY TO MINIMIZE DAMAGE TO SURROUNDING BUILDINGS.... and believe it or not...
SUCCESS again.
- Always one to make a little side-bonus from his plots, Bin Laden wasted no time making money that day. In fact, he started before he even attacked
the buildings, sadly though, the gold that he was removing under the WTC that day was poorly timed as Khalid accidently fell asleep at the wheel. The
gold never made it all the way out of the complex, so for this, unfortunately im going to assign my first FAILURE.
But, don't fret! Prior to 911, in July, he called up ol' pal Larry Silverstein and said "Hey, you know that World Trade Center complex, yes, yah,
the one with the two big towers, ok yes so you buy it, and put huge terrorism insurance policy on it... Then allah forbid, something terrible happen,
we make a big money"... For this I assign a SUCCESS.
- Also worth noting, is that on that day he did a lot of praying to Allah for him to suspend the laws of physics. This came in extremely handy when he
made steel structured buildings fall at
nearly free fall speed. For this, yes, you got it, another SUCCESS.
- Additionally, he accomplished what no man, beast or even mother nature herself could accomplish by making fire completely implode 3 steel structured
buildings. TRIPPPPLE SUCCESS.
- Furthermore, through praying of course, he made it so that Alluminum Airliner hulls mere milimeters thick, able to slice through steel as if it were
butter. For that, SUCCESS.
- After so much success, he HATED seeing a failure that day, so when Flight 93 crashed, Bin Laden dispatched the best cleanup crew known to man, and
they removed almost all evidence that a plane had even crashed.. almost anyways. For that, A SUCCESS.
- Bin Laden, always worrying about vanity, even went so far as to almost completely change his facial features in videos that would be touted as his
"CONFESSION", this really had no effect, other than the fact that he thought he looked damn good, and the new atkins diet was definitely kickin ass
and takin names. For this, VANITY SUCCESS.
- Another practically unknown fact is that a lot of people recall the video of the president reading to a class of school children and an aide walks
in and says (reportedly) "Mr. President the country is under attack". That is not the truth, the actual fact is that the aide had just got off the
phone with Bin Laden and Bin Laden had told him, to tell the president "Mr. President, the school your at isn't a target". So for literally saving
the presidents life, I give mr. Bin Laden a PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESS.
- Bin laden even went so far as to plant people like the Harley Man, who would be first on the scene to talk to the major news outlets so that he
could inform them that "Fire damaged the buildings structurally and they failed". This would removal all suspicion that may have arisen following
the attacks, to the legitimacy of a fire 80 floors of the ground destroying structural steel in the basement. SUCCESS
- Furthermore, to even better erase the evidence of his crimes, following 911 Bin Laden ordered all steel to be shipped off to as far as china to be
melted down and recycled. For this RECYCLING STAR AND SUCCESS.
- Bin Laden even went so far as to have a specialized team in place, to plant molten metal in the basements of each WTC building. This wasn't only
just for his fun, it was for the fun of infrared operators that weeks later would get to see the screens of their cameras glow beautiful colors
signifying temperatures of nearly 2000 degrees. RAINBOW SUCCESS, and NORMAL SUCCESS.
And that concludes today's lessons on success. For further reading consult, "911 was an inside job", or "The neo-cons did it", or "Follow the
failures, find the perpetrator". And people, next time someone tries to tell you that Bin Laden was just an evil man, take a minute to pause, and
just think of all the success he had, and then try and think of someone just as successful. It's tough, he was a very successful man.
[edit on 27-5-2009 by king9072]
