- This morning's headline has the odor of a staged event.
The smell reeks from the triumphalist news reports loaded with exaggerations,
from celebrants waving flags and chanting "USA USA." Could something
else be going on?
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- If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss
as an April fool's joke this morning's headline that Osama bin Laden was
killed in a firefight in Pakistan and quickly buried at sea. As it is,
we must take it as more evidence that the US government has unlimited belief
in the gullibility of Americans.
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- Think about it. What are the chances that a person allegedly
suffering from kidney disease and requiring dialysis and, in addition,
afflicted with diabetes and low blood pressure, survived in mountain hideaways
for a decade? If bin Laden was able to acquire dialysis equipment and medical
care that his condition required, would not the shipment of dialysis equipment
point to his location? Why did it take ten years to find him?
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- Consider also the claims, repeated by a triumphalist
US media celebrating bin Laden's death, that "bin Laden used his millions
to bankroll terrorist training camps in Sudan, the Philippines, and Afghanistan,
sending 'holy warriors' to foment revolution and fight with fundamentalist
Muslim forces across North Africa, in Chechnya, Tajikistan and Bosnia."
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- That's a lot of activity for mere millions to bankroll
(perhaps the US should have put him in charge of the Pentagon), but the
main question is: how was bin Laden able to move his money about? What
banking system was helping him? The US government succeeds in seizing the
assets of people and of entire countries, Libya being the most recent.
Why not bin Laden's? Was he carrying around with him $100 million dollars
in gold coins and sending emissaries to distribute payments to his far-flung
operations?
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- This morning's headline has the odor of a staged event.
The smell reeks from the triumphalist news reports loaded with exaggerations,
from celebrants waving flags and chanting "USA USA." Could something
else be going on?
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- No doubt President Obama is in desperate need of a victory.
He committed the fool's error of restarting the war in Afghanistan, and
now after a decade of fighting the US faces stalemate, if not defeat. The
wars of the Bush/Obama regimes have bankrupted the US, leaving huge deficits
and a declining dollar in their wake. And re-election time is approaching.
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- The various lies and deceptions, such as "weapons
of mass destruction," of the last several administrations had terrible
consequences for the US and the world. But not all deceptions are the same.
Remember, the entire reason for invading Afghanistan in the first place
was to get bin Laden. Now that President Obama has declared bin Laden to
have been shot in the head by US special forces operating in an independent
country and buried at sea, there is no reason for continuing the war.
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- Perhaps the precipitous decline in the US dollar in foreign
exchange markets has forced some real budget reductions, which can only
come from stopping the open-ended wars. Until the decline of the dollar
reached the breaking point, Osama bin Laden, who many experts believe to
have been dead for years, was a useful bogyman to use to feed the profits
of the US military/security complex.
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- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28009.htm
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