Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
May 3, 2011
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.
Making it official. The first post Osama press conference builds the foundation for the official fairy tale.
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?
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.” 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?
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?
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.
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.
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 bogeyman to use to feed the profits of the US military/security complex.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is the father of Reaganomics and the former head of policy at the Department of Treasury. He is a columnist and was previously an editor for the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, “How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds,” details why America is disintegrating
Infowars.com
May 3, 2011
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.
Making it official. The first post Osama press conference builds the foundation for the official fairy tale.
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?
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.” 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?
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?
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.
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.
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 bogeyman to use to feed the profits of the US military/security complex.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is the father of Reaganomics and the former head of policy at the Department of Treasury. He is a columnist and was previously an editor for the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, “How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds,” details why America is disintegrating
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:25 am I just can’t believe people are buying into this fairy tale. Their making a link between Pakistan and this “fictional event.” Also justifying torture by claiming that the original info on a location came from a waterboarded POW. Then we just dumped the body in the ocean….
We are in serious trouble people… the screws are about to tighten. This is what happens when you have to much bread and circuses.
May 3rd, 2011 at 5:12 am Alex informed others that he had a feeling something “Big” was in the works of the Globalist’s Agenda on “May Day!” We now know that the code name for this Psy Op to thaw out a Boogey Man and “Bring him to Justice” was “OPERATION GERONIMO”
Was Obama or whomever the spook is who came up with this name “THROWING A BONE” 2 Da Skull and Bone Bush Doctors? Remember Grand Poppie Prescott Bush according to legend, as well as revealed in documnents was the ringleader on the raid of the legendary Apache Warrior Geronimo’s Grave. Inside sources have revealed that the actual skull, and bones of Geronimo were returned to “The Tomb” at Yale.
The modern descendants of Geronimo have even filed a lawsuit after their petition to Dubya to have their celebrated ancestors remains returned were repeatedly ignored. Now we are being told that Osama Bin Laden; another legendary figures remains were also denied a proper burial in accordance with the customs of the deseased!
May 3rd, 2011 at 5:48 am Did they in fact find any dialysis equipment at the compound? An inspection of the body would reveal the ports on the body needed for the needles to use the equipment, but looks like that will not be possible. Are we to believe that Osama went to town for his treatments?? The person they killed at this complex was a stand in just like the Elvis impersonators in Vegas. Pakistan had to keep the Osama threat alive to keep getting the money from the US. Musharriff is pissed because we caught him in the act of a major fraud. Obama is complicit in all of this and goes right along with his MO of lying his way through his political career. We need to send navy seals to the white house!!
May 3rd, 2011 at 7:03 am As I said before, Bin Laden is Goldstein. Now they’re looking for the new Goldstein because a fascist state like the US can’t survive without a hate figure.
May 3rd, 2011 at 7:39 am Obama dumped Osama into the sea, lest anyone should want to check the fact.
All we can do is accept the word of our totally trustworthy government which has never misled
in the past, not about election results in 2000 or 2004, not about 9/11, not about WMD; Oh my !
At least now we know where the bodies are buried.:-)
Now, can we get back to the royal wedding and what they were wearing?
May 3rd, 2011 at 9:42 am And don’t forget, the FBI never put OBL on their 10 most wanted list because they did not have sufficient evidence that he was involved. Of course, that never kept head demon and war criminal GWBush from illegally attacking a sovereign country that had nothing to do with 911 (Iraq), using a set of phony reasons like “Niger yellow cake”, provided by clowns like Colin Powell. Now that over 1 Million had been killed there and the country is devastated, some Americans are finally questioning our presence there. How is it that the new crowd of leftist war mongers is getting away with more of the same? This will all end when our country is finally destroyed.
May 3rd, 2011 at 9:51 am The PTB are intent on starting a new BIG war, and Pakistan has the nukes to carry that off. That is why the US gave them the nuclear secrets in the first place. They might be trying to scare us with WWIII for global government, or will start it first to wipe out 80%, and later set up the government with what is left. Regardless, they will be underground in bunkers, we have to deal with it up here. But like other crazy people, they can’t count on their plans working well. And their bunkers could easy turn into tombs if they miscalculate.
May 3rd, 2011 at 9:55 am IT JUST HASN’T GOT AN ODOR….
IT STINKS AND I CAN SMELL IT HALF WAY ACROSS THE WORLD…
LOGIC TELLS YOU….
logic tells you…
logic tells you…
logic tells you NO NO, MR BIN LADEN… there is something strange here…
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE…..?????????????????????????????????????
I WILL TELL YOU…. OSAMA NEEDS DIYALSIS, for proper KIDNEY FUNCTION…… where is his machine… NOT IN THE COMPOUND….
2nd= MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION OF ALL….
very important… the most imporatant question ever asked in the history of this modern century….
WHY….oh why did they not ARREST BIN LADEN…. why, oh why….????? they should of arrested him and taken him to the USA, where he would be sentenced in court and be put to death….
of course, you would do this to prove to the whole world that he is alive and you got him, you don’t just shoot him. the troops went into the compond, guns blazing, to kill bin laden and then quickly bury him at SEA…..
the MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION IS,,, why did they not arrest him and prove it to the world that he is alive and that you got him…. a DEAD BODY AT SEA proves NOTHING….
THE INTELLIGENCE IS THE MOST STUPID…. USA might have good military… but there intelligence is in decline and people are able to see through the glass, which is smudged with LIES….
SHOW ME HIM ARRESTED… show me the MONEY….
YOU CAN TELL ANYONE ANYTHING….. I GOT CHEWY GUM STUCK ON THE BOTTOM OF MY SHOE… take my word for it, there is chewy gum there, but you can not see it, you just have to believe me