Be like Osama bin Laden - Fight Climate Change

[Trausti]

Osama bin Laden wrote a letter calling on the American people to help President Barack Obama fight "catastrophic" climate change and "save humanity", in the latest evidence of his worries about environmental issues, newly released documents show

The letter was among materials that were seized in the May 2, 2011, U.S. raid on bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan that killed the al Qaeda chief and which were released on Tuesday by the Obama administration.

The undated, unsigned letter "to the American people," which U.S. intelligence officials attributed to bin Laden, appeared to have been written shortly after Obama began his first term in 2009, based on the letter's references to events.

http://www.newsweek.com/osama-bin-laden-climate-change-humanity-432216

Reminds me of an old Conan O'Brien sketch where the tobacco companies try to prevent young people from smoking by reminding them that Hitler was a non-smoker. "Be like Hitler, don't smoke." Shows that whatever the viewpoint, there's likely some nasty character who supports it and we should try to avoid guilt by association in our political discourse.

 

[untermensche]

In the rambling letter made public Tuesday, bin Laden blamed the 2007-8 U.S. financial crisis on corporate control of capital and corporate lobbyists, and the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Doesn't sound like rambling to me.

 

[Deepak]

Why would tobacco companies want to prevent young people from smoking?

 

[Derec]

Kind of like vegetarian Hitler.

 

[jonatha]

Why would tobacco companies want to prevent young people from smoking?

They wouldn't.

The sketch shows them using reverse psychology to ensure they do...

 

[James Brown]

Reminds me of the anti-pot ads.

"You know who else smoked pot? Your Mom."

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Why would tobacco companies want to prevent young people from smoking?

They wouldn't.

The sketch shows them using reverse psychology to ensure they do...

Funny how when smoking was outlawed for kids it became cool.

 

[James Brown]

I talked to a guy, 10 years younger than me who is a heavy smoker, about why he ever picked up the habit. He said that when he was in High School, all the messages were against doing drugs, and he never heard much against smoking cigs.

He's never smoked pot or experimented with narcotics, but he's hooked on tobacco.

 

[Tigers!]

All that dust that Bin Laden put into the air on 11/9 didn't do much for climate change.

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Kind of like vegetarian Hitler.

Another reason to keep eating meat.