Osama
Bin Dead
By Rand Clifford
10 September, 2007
Countercurrents.org
The
new "Osama bin Laden tape" is an astonishing example of what
the corporate media feeds gullible Americans, as well as what gullible
Americans are still swallowing after so many lies. Bin Laden has been
front-page news for a week, spurring serious buzz over how much the
man has changed. Beard trimmed and neatly dyed, he’s looking older
in this videotape, but does not appear to be obviously ill. Dark circles
beneath his eyes are more pronounced. Experts agree that his face is
"visibly wizened." The tape has been rushed into technical
evaluation by U.S. intelligence analysts. Initial reviews lean toward
verifying its authenticity. Bush took time out between gaffes in Australia
to mutter "The tape is a reminder about the dangerous world in
which we live. And it is a reminder that we must work together to protect...against
these extremists who murder the innocent in order to achieve their political
objectives." Sunday, 9/9/07, front pages across the country declared:
AL-QAIDA ALIVE, WELL...Osama bin Laden’s video demonstrates the
resilience of his organization.
One major problem in all
this is the fact that Osama bin Laden has been dead for almost six years.
Regardless of what "intelligence analysts" say about authenticity
of this taping of the same impersonator as in the last tape, it’s
just as phony. And now Bush is reminding us that we must work together
to battle extremists who try to imitate our murder of the innocent in
order to achieve political objectives. Perhaps the most dangerous problem
of all is that the American herd continues to swallow outrageous and
incredible bullshit as though it were truth.
The "experts" know
bin Laden is dead, so do the intelligence analysts, and everyone with
any genuine knowledge of the situation—even Bush knows...! Fox
"News" ran, Wednesday, December 26, 2001, Report: Bin Laden
Already Dead [1]. On Thursday, 18 July, 2002, the BBC: Bin Laden "probably"
dead [2]. CNN.com followed their own story of Monday, October 7, 2002
about bin Laden’s death [3] with the Saturday, October 26, 2002:
Magazine runs what it calls bin Laden’s will [4]. An excellent
overview plus many more links can be found at the WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
website [5].
Those who profit from pretending
that Osama bin Laden is still alive, there’s the key. The mindless
War On Terror gushes tax dollars to war profiteers in fantastic ways
that Dick Cheney and the other neocons dreamt of when they released
their plans for world domination, the Project for the New American Century
[6]. This might be the most important read since the Constitution for
citizens concerned with what is being done to America in this new century.
Vast ill-spent energies have
created the Osama boogeyman. BushCo must shoulder responsibility for
not having "gotten" bin Laden, but that’s nothing compared
to the potential profits in keeping the boogeyman alive in the minds
of Americans.
One might think that after
such a tsunami of lies—9-11, plus three phony elections, our war
crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan...one might think that Americans would
smarten up. And there has been some smartening, but now, Iran. The propaganda,
the public conditioning, the nuclear attack on Iran—then what
will we do? When will Americans be unable to swallow any more bullshit?
For right now, hype and propaganda swirling around The New bin Laden
Tape! insists there is still ample room for bullshit; that it is not
possible to overestimate the gullibility of the American herd. In this
dangerous world in which we live, perhaps our own gullibility is the
greatest peril we face.
[1] http://www.foxnews.com/story
/0,2933,41576,00.html
[2]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
world/south_asia/2135473.stm
[3] http://edition.cnn.com/2002/
WORLD/asiapcf/central/10/06/karzai.binladen/
[4] http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/
europe/10/26/binladen.will/
[5] http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
osama_dead.html
[6] http://www.newamericancentury.org/
Rand Clifford is
a novelist and essayist living in Spokane, Washington, with his wife
Mary Ann, and their Chesapeake Bay retriever, Mink. His novels CASTLING
and TIMING are published by StarChief Press:
http://www.starchiefpress.com
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