Are Democrats lining up to become Muslims to end war in Iraq?

AP/San Diego Union-Tribune:

Osama bin Laden appeared for the first time in three years in a videotape Friday released ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, telling Americans they should convert to Islam if they want the war in Iraq to end.

ABC News obtained a transcript of the videotape, which it said was 30 minutes long and appeared to have been recently made, since bin Laden refers to the Democratic congressional victory and to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was elected in May.

In a short excerpt broadcast by Al-Jazeera television, bin Laden sits as he talks, wearing a white robe and turban and beige cloak. His trimmed beard is shorter than in his last video, in 2004, and is fully black - apparently dyed, since in past videos it was mostly gray.

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"There are two solutions to stopping it. One is from our side, and it is to escalate the fighting and killing against you. This is our duty, and our brothers are carrying it out," bin Laden said.

"The second solution is from your side," he said. "I invite you to embrace Islam."

"It will also achieve your desire to stop the war as a consequence, because as soon as the warmongering owners of the major corporations realize that you have lost confidence in your democratic system and have begun to look for an alternative, and this alternative is Islam, they will run after you to please you and achieve what you want to steer you away from Islam," he said.

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So where to the Democrats sign up for this end the war measure. All those who said they could stop the war have now been told by the leader of the enemy that they have to become religious bigots like him in order to stop it. Or they can take heart from the fact that bin Laden is out of touch with his fighters who are fleeing or dying in droves in Iraq and Afghanistan instead of escalating the fighting.

Osama also needs to fire his make up person. He looks awful and the dyed beard does not help his pallor and baggy eyes. As usual he is very cowardly in having someone do a video of his statement, rather than have an open press briefing. What is he afraid of? If he is winning got to Iraq and announce where your press briefing is going to be.

Islam could use a few feminist.