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Byline: Bryan Bender
Nov. 2--WASHINGTON -- Osama bin Laden, threatening a "war of attrition" that will lead America to "bankruptcy," continued to stir the political pot on the eve of the US election, with the full translation of his most recent message depicting the leader of Al Qaeda as an astute observer of American politics.
In attacking US policies, bin Laden cited everything from controversial antiterrorism legislation to the ballooning federal budget deficit and charged that the Iraq war was launched to steal Middle East oil and enrich President Bush's supporters, according to the transcript of the full 18-minute tape released by the Arabic television network Al Jazeera.…