Booman just posted a piece about bin Laden’s (supposed) death. As if we can trust our government, our military and our media to give us the real scoop on anything.
He wrote:
I am very happy that we finally got Usama bin-Laden.
It’s tempting to gloat that it was a Democrat who finally got it done…
This is a good moment for all Americans.
I’m extremely gratified that a degree of justice has been meted out.
Tonight’s a night to just celebrate.
Celebrate now.
Before the real results are in.
The media will be force-feeding this as another “Mission Accomplished” foofaraw. Only it will be bigger than was the original because it is beginning to look like Obama might be the chosen one again in 2012 and they want to hero him up just in case any ‘a them nutball Tea Party folk might actually begin to think that they have a real chance of unseating him.
Read on.
Bin Laden.
“Terrorist?”
Lemme ask you something.
Whose hands had more blood on them?
Osama or the Bush/Cheney creature?
Osama and his political/military forebears or The Nixon/Reagan/Kissinger/Bush I/Bush II/Cheney zombie?
The Islamic resistance movement that was galvanized into being by the Palestinian question or the Post-WW II Truman/Eisenhower/Kennedy/Johnson/Nixon/Ford/Carter/Reagan/Bush I/Cinton/Bush II/Obama presidential Frankenstein sew-up.
Really, folks.
Get real.
Celebrate?
Celebrate “getting even” for 9/11?
We don’t even know if Osama was real, nor do we know if other forces…U.S., Israeli…were involved in the 9/11 horror. Whether the whole thing was some kind of a setup.
As the Guru of Defense Sri Rumsfeld once pronounced after he had been visited by the Military Angel in his cave-like bunker:
As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know.
We really do not know about any of this.
But most of us here appear not to know that we don’t know.
Here’s what we do know, kiddies.. (And if you want to celebrate, the following is reason enough.):
On Sept. 11, 2001 those planes flew into the World Trade Center instead of traveling 20 miles further north and dropping on the Indian Point nuclear facility. 20 miles at jet aircraft speed. What’s that? A few minutes? Count your blessings that it was an act of political theater instead of an act of mass murder. As in millons dead, a nation totally broken and quite conceivably a massive nuclear response from the many missile subs that this nation has lying in wait at the bottom of several seas ready to rain destruction on anyone foolish enough to oppose us with real force.
Yes, political theater.
People died. I am sorry that they did. If it had all gone down in the afternoon a couple of weeks earlier I would likely have died too, because I was playing a concert on one of the outdoor balconies of the World Trade Center. So it goes as a resident of this gobbling, international kleptocratic superstate.
Gonna bogart the joint, expect some resistance.
Of course, in a perfected world none of this shit would happen.
There would be no 9/11. No Truman/Eisenhower/Kennedy/Johnson/Nixon/Ford/Carter/Reagan/Bush I/Cinton/Bush II monster.
No economic imperialism.
None ‘a that.
But it’s not a perfected world, and the villiains is us.
Please remember that.
Every politically aware member of the third world and every politically aware member of a minority in the U.S. is aware of that.
And yet here y’all are, dancing around the death of yet another “enemy.”
Tell you what.
He was just elevated to martyrdom in the eyes of Muslims all over the globe.
Good, bad or indifferent, this is who he has now become.
THE MARTYR
Watch.
Shit gonna hit the fan even harder now.
Get your dancing over and prepare to pay.
At the pump if nowhere else.
Among other things, I think that we just lost the Middle East.
Go buy a moped.
You gonna need one.
AG
