Bin Laden Dead?
Has anyone checked the font on the death certificate, or are we expected to believe a CIA or White House pronouncement? If the sources are Pakistani, that’s even less reliable.
He has probably been dead for years, given his medical history, but it was too useful to too many people to have him around to scare the Republicants and other children.
He could have died in his sleep, surrounded by his family and you still have to take your shoes off at the airport and carry a ziplock bag for liquids.
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Yeah! Really! 😆
It’s all over the news here of course (there’s a feed from CNN (I think) on right now). I love the new spin (who didn’t expect that?) They are of course saying that Prez Bush wasn’t focused on getting Bin Laden, he was focused on protecting America. LMAO I looooove US politics and media! No, really… I do!! I wouldn’t get so many laughs a day otherwise! 😆
I can wait to hear the right wingnut spinners start weaving like crazy over this! All too funny! 😈
He has probably been dead for years, given his medical history, but it was too useful to too many people to have him around to scare the Republicants and other children.
Sadly (but not at all surprisingly), I’ve thought so also. So, who will be the next Rethug bogeyman (not counting Obama)? 😉
I think I’ll go for a good walk and get a nice burger. 🙂 That’s a lot more useful and pleasurable, and important. 😀
BTW… The USA (and others) *NEVER* wanted Bin Laden alive. He knew way too much. Dead, he can’t talk. I hope he kept memoirs somewhere… 😉
I would love to see who was on the speed-dial of his telephone 😈
There will be records somewhere, but no more reliable than anything else in this mess.
Forgive me for quoting from my own post on the YSS:
I suppose that assessment makes me a Bad American…
According to latest news updates, he was shot in a firefight within the last 24 hours.
Won’t be any speed dial. Apparently the mansion he was in didn’t have a telephone, he did everything by courier, which is what aroused the suspicion of the person who eventually narc’ed to the CIA. And it was about three blocks from a government hospital, about three blocks from a police station, and about a quarter mile from a military base. And if you believe that the ISI wasn’t hiding him there, I got a bridge in Brooklyn, only one owner, low mileage, cheap….
I had predicted, multiple times, that Osama bin Ladin was in Islamabad being protected by the ISI. Seems I was pretty much right, this wasn’t Islamabad but close. The U.S. team did gather up all the hard drives and such, which should be far more revealing than speed dial. My guess is that the Pakistani government is going to be *very* quiet about the fact that a U.S. kill team operated without permission on their territory, because they know what those hard drives are going to show. There may be some protests by the usual suspects, but not a word from the Pakistani government.
This would be a perfect excuse for the U.S. to withdraw from Afghanistan. Which is why it isn’t going to happen until at least November 5, 2012. The Big Zero needs to get electorated, after all, and being a “war president” allows making excuses that a peacetime president can’t make.
Some things are going to change in Afghanistan – if we stay, we will be alone, because no one is going to convince any of the allies to hang around now that bin Laden is “pining for the fjords”.
Americans are going to be told that the security theater is absolutely essential to our continued existence, because the threat continues without bin Laden, which begs the question of why it was essential to get bin Laden.
Of course, bin Laden needed to be neutralized, but it would have been better to have hauled him back and tried him. I think we can all agree that that would never happen because of what he might have said in court.
Few people remember that al Qaeda was a creation of Bill Casey’s CIA under Reagan to oppose the Soviets in Afghanistan, as were the Taliban, and that’s why the ISI was tied to them.
The man should have died in Tora Bora when we had him cornered, but the Shrubbery wanted to bomb Iraq, so the resources weren’t there to prevent his escape.
I don’t see the detainees released, as POW should be at the end of the conflict, nor any real plan to get us to hell out of Afghanistan ASAP.
Canada will probably announce they are leaving, as soon as the new government is formed, and the others will certainly follow.
We’ll have to wait and see if we will get any “dividend” from this, but I definitely don’t expect any real change. “We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.”
I was almost speechless.
Almost. (See my blog essay.)
But it was such a fantastic (in every sense of the word) story to move the previous day’s story of the murder of the grandchildren (all under 12) off the front pages internationally that it was perfect.
Who says they can’t think straight?
Thanks for yours!
S
I’m going to wait for the movie, Suzan.
As for the dead children, that is standard “Colonel however-you-spell-his-name” propaganda. He buried an empty coffin when Reagan bombed him, so he’ll probably put children in them this time because he got caught.
The world is better if there is one less sociopathic rich guy around.