Anyway. Yes. It's not only theater. It's really bad theater.
I mean, why couldn't they have hired a couple of swarthy actors. Put them on a show trial, allow them to strut their well-rehearsed Islamo-fascist barbarity all over prime time...and then....let them escape...and then, spend another 100 billion chasing them around and almost catching them. See, you gotta have a new Bin Laden every six months or so...
Yeah, waiting for the barbarians...
Joanna
Chuck Grimes wrote:
>So it seems to me that this unwillingness to share info publicly
>suggests "evidence" that's fly-attractingly foul.
>
>No, no, he protested...they (our intrepid protectors)
>know things we don't. .d.
>
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>
>(For those outside the US, all week we have been swamped with a mass
>media blitz on 9/11, War on Terror, Tribunals, and announcements of a
>revisionist bullshit docu-drama which will appear as a tv special some
>time next week I guess. See Charles Brown, more GOP cleverness thread.)
>
>All day, I've been thinking about the basic idea that there is no war
>on terrorism, because there are no terrorists and no terrorism. Yes,
>it's true, Islamic nutcases captured four flights and managed to fly
>three of them into WTC and the Pentagon five years ago. And it's also
>true that there are probably millions of people who would love to do
>the same for their own reasons.
>
>It might also be true that the US has captured a few of the people who
>were involved in some way with that event. But if that is true, why not
>make a show trial out of them? Explain all the horrific, evil,
>plotting and thinking that went into the great horror and drag it out
>for months on end?
>
>The cagey excuse that to proceed with an open prosecution would reveal
>too many state secrets is just too cute. Yeah, the only secret
>they are afraid of is their complete lack of evidence.
>
>This is from Juan Cole today:
>
>``Ron Suskind's One Percent Solution discusses Abu Zubayda. His sources
>in the intelligence community revealed to him that Abu Zubayda turned
>out not to have been a high level planner, as Rumsfeld had
>announced. He was more like a low level travel agent for the families
>of al-Qaeda operatives....
>
>The other problem is that there are active cases hanging on the
>validity of Abu Zubayda's testimony.
>
>Apparently the bizarre allegations surrounding Jose Pedilla, derived
>from Abu Zubayda's fevered mind. I would not be surprised to see that
>case collapse...''
>
>I haven't follow the UK news since their big announcement of sweeps
>through Muslim neighborhoods capturing `terrorists' with no passports,
>no plane tickets, no cash, no travel plans, no bombs, but evidently
>an infinite desire to blow things up with hair gel and tooth
>paste.
>
>This is all taking shape as a complete fraud. Sure there are
>terrorists, thousand of people who might have the skill and
>commitment to blow things up in the evil Empire, but they haven't
>been very lucky here since 9/11 have they?
>
>We're assured, oh, that's because we've stopped them. Okay where
>are all these people you've stopped? Show us. We can't. It's secret.
>So the circle closes and re-traces back to arguments about evidence
>and procedure. Show us the bodies.
>
>I know that this sounds naive, of course the war on terrorism is a
>fraud. But I am trying to consider the idea that it is not just any
>old fraud like the long list of frauds we've become used to (2000
>election, Enron to Iraq), but a titanic farce, a vast system of utter
>and complete bullshit, total smoke and mirrors.
>
>Consider the possibility that the US has absolutely nobody in any of
>its super secret gulag archipelagos who could be tried and convicted
>in open court. Nobody. Consider that there is probably nobody who
>could be put on trial in a US military tribunal that followed the
>UCMJ. Consider what the US has are people who were rounded up or
>turned in with nothing but a scribbled field report and a few
>interrogation summaries. Consider they are being held in secret not
>because they are still spilling their guts on all the evil they've
>done, but simply because they can't be charged with anything that will
>stick.
>
>The more this propaganda campaign is re-heated for the umpteenth time,
>the more I think the administration is getting desperate. They are not
>desperate because they think their methods are unpopular, but
>because they have absolutely nothing to show for all this secrete
>security bullshit.
>
>As far as I remember, the US has not brought a single terrorist to
>court, let alone justice. Oh, the Mill Valley kid who went to train in
>Afghanistan, confessed to having bad thoughts and shooting at US
>troops, and then went off to jail, I guess. I forgot. Other than that
>who?
>
>No one. Nada, zip, zero. It's been five years. Where the fuck are all
>these terrorists? Where are all the plots, the bombs, the weapons of
>mass destruction, the networks, the conspiracies, the money, the
>operations, the plans, the horror of horrors, the evil of all
>evils unmasked? Where exactly?
>
>We've got executive branch memos that strip the constitution and spent
>billions on billions. We've got fifteen levels of super secret
>agencies within agencies, we've invaded two countries, we've got the
>Army, the Air Force, the Marines, the Navy, the National Guard, the
>Coast Guard, the AFT, Treasury, Justice, the Pentagon, forty-seven
>thousand local police forces, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the Dept of
>Homeland Security, we've satellites, we've got drones, we've got
>telecommunications surveillance that blankets the earth, we've knives,
>we've got sharp sticks---and all this fantastic, architectonic police
>state apparatus that makes Blade Runner and Dark City look like toy
>models, has produced exactly what?
>
>Where the fuck are all the terrorists these vast minions of great
>dedicated, 24/7, night and day patriots committed to the very last
>drop of blood, suppose to catch. Surely somebody somewhere in this
>enormous and utterly fantastic castle of national security running on
>a war time basis must have found somebody, something, somewhere.
>
>Okay, the Boston Globe announces:
>
>``President Bush has acknowledged for the first time the CIA has been
>operating a secret network of overseas prisons. Bush made the
>admission as he ordered 14 prisoners previously held by the CIA to be
>transferred ... prisoners includes Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, alleged
>mastermind of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001; Abu Zubaydah [see Cole
>quote above], a key link between Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda
>operatives; and Ramzi Binalshibh, a would-be Sept. 11 hijacker.''
>
>Fourteen? You mean after scouring the entire earth for five years with
>every police, national security, military, legal, illegal and
>electronic means available, including some completely imaginary tricks
>we invented especially for this purpose, we have exactly fourteen bad
>guys? Fourteen guys so bad, we can't tell you all their names or what
>they did.
>
>Well, I stand corrected.
>
>CG
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