He’s On It Now

Damn you, Chuck. You read my mind and knew I was too lazy ass to write my post on this. Just for that I'm stealing every damn word of your post. Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah.

My curiosity makes me wonder if the idiot will catch bin Laden and if he could have much earlier if he hadn't needed a bogeyman. Can't leave a bogeyman out there for the next guy in the White House. Especially if you're pretty certain the next guy won't be McSame.

Of course bogeymen are a dime a dozen and can be created out of whole cloth at the drop of a speech.

Dead or alive, wasn’t that the threat?

Well, time’s running out, and having spent little or no effort on finding bin Laden, Bush has apparently decided it would be good PR to catch his nemesis/partner before leaving office. He’s in Britain now, begging assistance from the beleagured Gordon Brown; that’s how bad it is. Apparently Brown has agreed to provide folks from the British military units the Special Boat Service and the Special Reconnaissance Regiment.

Now that time is running out for Bush, he’s actually asking for help! Wonder if it would have made any difference if he did this six years ago? But whatever, he finally got around to it.

Intelligence on the whereabouts of Bin Laden is sketchy, but some analysts believe he is in the Bajaur tribal zone in northwest Pakistan. He has evaded capture for nearly seven years. “Bush is swinging for the fences in the hope of scoring a home run,” said an intelligence source, using a baseball metaphor.

One source said the hunt was “completely sanctioned” by the Pakistani government; another, a senior Pakistani government source, said President Musharraf had given tacit support to Predator attacks. Given Musharraf’s precarious hold on power, indeed freedom and possibly life itself, this doesn’t seem like an overwhelming vote of confidance. But when you’re down 3-1 with two games on the road yet to play, you’re desperate, and you’ll try anything.

PS: Good catch, Mr Dupree.

Note: Headline links to source.

Put on your tinfoil hat

Updated link.

There's a post over at The Komisar Scoop with the following headline.

The Evidence Is There: It's Time for Congress to Investigate the Ties Between the Bush Family and Osama bin Laden

What I can read is this.

How the Bush family's private connection to a dirty offshore bank is the o­nly link between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. By Lucy Komisar IPS News Apr 5, 2007 The following chapter, "The BCCI Game: Banking o­n America, Banking o­n Jihad," appears in investigative journalist Lucy Komisar's new book "A Game as Old as Empire," just published by Berrett-Koehler (San Francisco).

Now the tinfoil hat part comes here. You can't link to the post.

Lucy added a comment to my original post correcting the link so we can read what she wrote. It is highly recommended.

Thank you Lucy. I'm indebted to you.

Put on your tinfoil hat

There's a post over at IntellctualThought.com with the following headline.

The Evidence Is There: It's Time for Congress to Investigate the Ties Between the Bush Family and Osama bin Laden

What I can read is this.

How the Bush family's private connection to a dirty offshore bank is the o­nly link between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.By Lucy Komisar |IPS News Apr 5, 2007The following chapter, "The BCCI Game: Banking o­n America, Banking o­n Jihad," appears in investigative journalist Lucy Komisar's new book "A Game as Old as Empire," just published by Berrett-Koehler (San Francisco).

Now the tinfoil hat part comes here. You can't link to the post. Fluke? Mistake? Conspiracy? Who knows.

We post, you make up your own mind.

We are not at war with Iraq. Got it?

I've stated this before, but I'll beat this horse until its pulp.

If you read the posts last week you now realize that we were never legally at war with Iraq. There is no war in Iraq aside from the civil war between Iraqis. What we have done is illegally invade and occupy a nation. Al Qeada was not known to be in Iraq while Saddam was in charge desspite the lies told by the Bush Crime Family prior to the invasion. He and bin Laden were enemies because Saddam was a secular ruler. The insurgency- which I like to refer to as the Iraqi resistence movement, began fighting back against what they soon saw were foreign troops invading their country.

Somewhere along the propaganda line the resistence fighters were equated with the 9/11 type terrorsists- who we abandoned our search for when we invaded Iraq, and suddenly it became the "war in Iraq".

Congress has never declared war on the nation of Iraq.

A careful read through of the 2002 resolution to use force clearly shows that it was specifically passed to combat Saddam Hussein and his army- not the Iraqi resistence or to peacekeep in the middle of a civil war. Our troops are sitting ducks and they are being used contrary to what the Constitution demands and without legal congressional approval. Yet we still hear people say "war in Iraq"; most alarmingly progressive radio talk hosts. This gives credence to Bush's claim that we are fighting some sort of war in Iraq- some noble cause straight out of a 1940's America war hero movie.

We are not doing any such thing. In fact the build up of troops and the naval increase in the Persian Gulf may be the thing that is convincing more and more Middle Eastern people and Iranians to join with either the Sunnis or the Shiites aginst us- the occupiers and invaders.

So I beg all of you to encourage everyone you know to stop calling this the war in Iraq- call it what it is- the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.

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