UNGRATEFUL OSAMA BIN LADEN

Osama Bin Laden should be grateful that he cut his teeth on the family fortune and prospered through capitalism brought on by the related riches of selling Saudi Arabian oil to America, but he's not.

Osama Bin Laden should be grateful that the United States assisted him in fighting off the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but he's not.

Osama Bin Laden should be grateful that the United States threw Saddam Hussein's military out of Kuwait and stopped the madman from invading his homeland of Saudi Arabia and neighboring nations, but he's not.

Osama Bin Laden should be grateful that American forces stopped the slaughter of Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo, and that those forces remain to this day, protecting them, but he's not.

Instead, Osama Bin Laden, his blood-lusting maniacs and millions of innocent children being brainwashed in his hateful ways are bent on waging genocide against Americans.

Osama Bin Laden should be grateful that he's not burning in hell along side those grossly misguided suicide terrorists who were wrongly convinced that their deaths would buy them exalted afterlives in paradise. Indeed, if he truly believed it, he would have been the lead pilot.

Hopefully, that cowardly injustice will be rectified soon. But rather than taking Osama Bin Laden alive and showcasing him on the stage of American justice, he should be taken quietly from the dead side of the wanted poster. Otherwise, he would certainly use the martyrdom stage of lengthy trials and appeals to launch many more terrorists against us.

To those who would argue that President Bush also cut his teeth on the family fortune and oil-based capitalism, there's a world of difference between the two. George W. Bush was elected as the temporary leader of the free world. Osama Bin Laden crowned himself as the monarch of murder intent on killing everyone in the world who doesn't think like him.

Meanwhile, America should grateful to have President Bush and company at work on making America safe from horrendous treachery, instead of former president Bill Clinton and gang, whom are largely responsible for making America more vulnerable. Or, for that matter, instead of former vice-president Al Gore who is so deeply conflicted that he wouldn't know what to do.

Daniel B. Jeffs, founder
The Direct Democracy Center