Osama bin Laden

[aden_nak]

No information here, really. It's just been a supiciously long time since anyone even mentioned his friggin' name. Weren't we going to capture him or something?

[Dangerman]

1. Not if Bush has something to say about it.

He was too busy taking care of "Sinister" Saddam than concentrate on capturing Mr. bin Laden.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

2. Who are you talking about?

I have no idea what you are talking about man...can't you see Social Security has the bomb and is about to attack?


Oh wait! i remember now-- hes hiding IN social security...thats why bush has to dismantle it!

[txaslftist]

3. Osama who?

Isn't he the freshman senator from Illinois, or something?

[ET Awful]

6. I was gonna say that.

You stole my line!

[Roland99]

4. bin Forgotten?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. Well he popped up just in time to help Bush get re-elected

and Kerry himself said it helped Bush.

[HughBeaumont]

7. Come on, if he were captured . . .

. . . who would there be to chase?

. . . who would be an easily-defeatable opponent just frightening enough to keep them red state 'murkins skeered?

. . . who would there be as an excuse to keep donating to the "War on Terror", which, when you think about it, has yet to even START?

The Greedy Oil Politburo needs him more than he needs us. Why search for him? It's SO much more profitable and advantageous for the neo-pigs to keep him at greater than arms length.

[stillcool]

8. He moved to Iran.

[sarcasmo]

9. Chimpy has moved on. The time for Iran is now, Bin Laden is their.

[txaslftist]

10. Bin Ladin is our boy...

From an interview with John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"
...
JOHN PERKINS: Yeah, it was a tongue-in-cheek term that we called ourselves. Officially, I was a chief economist. We called ourselves e.h.m.'s. It was tongue-in-cheek. It was like, nobody will believe us if we say this, you know? And, so, we went to Saudi Arabia in the early seventies. We knew Saudi Arabia was the key to dropping our dependency, or to controlling the situation. And we worked out this deal whereby the Royal House of Saud agreed to send most of their petro-dollars back to the United States and invest them in U.S. government securities.

The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia–new cities, new infrastructure–which we’ve done. And the House of Saud would agree to maintain the price of oil within acceptable limits to us, which they’ve done all of these years, and we would agree to keep the House of Saud in power as long as they did this, which we’ve done, which is one of the reasons we went to war with Iraq in the first place.

And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals. Jackals are C.I.A.-sanctioned people that come in and try to foment a coup or revolution. If that doesn't work, they perform assassinations. or try to. In the case of Iraq, they weren't able to get through to Saddam Hussein. He had -- His bodyguards were too good. He had doubles. They couldn’t get through to him. So the third line of defense, if the economic hit men and the jackals fail, the next line of defense is our young men and women, who are sent in to die and kill, which is what we’ve obviously done in Iraq.

[aden_nak]

11. Just to be clear. . .

I know why Bush hasn't gone after bin Laden in any serious way. I know that 9/11 was, at best, used as a cover story for further the PNAC agenda and, at worst, actually an operation carried out by certain facets of our own government in order to drive the nation into the new Century of Terror.

I only asked because I like stirring up the shit from time to time. And it doesn't hurt, I don't think, to remind ourselves that while the Chimpster needs to go , the fact that he's all but erased bin Laden's name from the public discourse isn't something we should just let happen.

[Laceration5]

12. Actually John Kerry talked about Osama on IMUS

Monday morning!! Anybody else listen To Kerry on there?

[ComerPerro]

13. who?

[aden_nak]

14. Some guy that helped Saddam Hussein carry out the 9/11 attacks.

[ComerPerro]

15. oh, ok.Thanks n/t

[earth mom]

16. Isn't he a Saudi? * doesn't go after Saudis. eom

[Generator]

17. He's in the can until the 2006 elections

[oasis]

18. The Bush plan: "just keep killing towelheads until we get to Osama". So

long as it sells in the red states, who cares?

[solinvictus]

19. ...is our Emmanuel Goldstein..

a catch-all bogeyman who was allowed to escape in order to serve El Presidente's ratings purposes.