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Title: Washington Protects Its Lies With More Lies
Source:
Lew Rockwell
URL Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/05 ... /washington-protects-its-lies/
Published: May 27, 2015
Author: Paul Craig Roberts
Post Date: 2015-05-27 05:43:03 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 857
Comments: 3
My distrust has deepened of Seymour Hersh’s retelling of the Obama regime’s extra-judicial murder of Osama bin Laden by operating illegally inside a sovereign country. That Hersh’s story, which is of very little inherent interest, received such a large amount of attention, is almost proof of orchestration in order to substantiate the Obama regime’s claim to have killed a person who had been dead for a decade. Americans are gullible, and thought does not come easily to them, but if they try hard enough they must wonder why it would be necessary for the government to concoct a totally false account of the deed if Washington kills an alleged terrorist. Why not just give the true story? Why does the true story have to come out years later from anonymous sources leaked to Hersh? I can tell you for a fact that if SEALs had encountered bin Laden in Abbottabad, they would have used stun grenades and tear gas to take him alive. Bin Laden would have been paraded before the media, and a jubilant White House would have had a much photographed celebration pinning medals on the SEALs who captured him. Instead, we have a murder without a body, which under law classifies as no murder, and a story that was changed several times by the White House itself within 48 hours of the alleged raid and has now been rewritten again by disinformation planted on Hersh. Perhaps the release of book titles allegedly found in bin Laden’s alleged residence in Abbottabad is part of the explanation. Who can imagine the “terror mastermind” sitting around reading what the presstitute London Telegraph calls bin Laden’s library of conspiracy theories about 9/11 and Washington’s foreign and economic policies? Keep in mind that the government’s claim that these books were in bin Laden’s Abbottabad library comes from the same government that told you Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, that Assad used chemical weapons, that Iran has a nuclear weapons program, and that Russia invaded Ukraine. There is no evidence whatsoever that bin Laden had these books, just as there is no evidence for any claim made by Washington. In the absence of evidence, Washington’s position amounts to this: “It is true if we say so.” I would wager that the Hersh story was planted in order to gin up renewed interest in the bin Laden saga, which could then be used to discredit Washington’s critics. Notice that the authors in bin Laden’s alleged library are those careful and knowledgeable people who have severely whipped Washington with the truth. The whip wielders are Noam Chomsky, David Ray Griffin, Michel Chossudovsky, Greg Palast, Michael Scheuer, William Blum. You get the picture. You mustn’t believe these truth-tellers, because bin Laden approved of them and had their books in his library. By extension, will these truth-tellers be accused of aiding and abetting terrorism? Obama claims to have settled the score in mafia godfather fashion with bin Laden for 9/11. But there is no body and not even a consistent story about what happened to the body. The sailors aboard the ship from which the White House reported bin Laden was given a burial at sea report no such burial took place. The SEAL unit that allegedly supplied the team that killed an unarmed and undefended bin Laden was mysteriously wiped out in a helicopter crash. It turns out that the SEALs were flown into combat against the Taliban in an antique, half-century-old 1960s vintage helicopter. Parents of the dead SEALs are demanding to have unanswered questions answered, a story that the presstitute media has conveniently dropped for Washington’s convenience. Other than 9/11 itself, never has such a major event as bin Laden’s killing had such an enormous number of contradictory official and quasi-official explanations, unanswered questions and evasions. And the vast number of evasions and contradictions arouse no interest from the Western media or from the somnolent and insouciant American public. Now it turns out that Washington has “lost” the bin Laden “death files,” thus protecting in perpetuity the fabricated story of bin Laden’s killing. Here is Tom Hartman’s interview with David Ray Griffin: Is bin Laden dead or alive. Here is Philip Kraske’s OpEdNews article on Steve Kroft’s orchestrated “60 Minutes” interview with Obama on the killing of Osama bin Laden.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
"He who sheds blood, by man his blood shall be shed." - God, to Noah after the Flood. Killing Bin Laden was not wrong. He was a known, open and notorious killer. There was no doubt whatsoever. He was responsible for killing thousands, and he deserved to die under the law of God. The "extra-judiciality" of the process of killing him is of no consequence to justice: it was just to kill him. I seriously doubt that the raid into Pakistan really DID kill him. That looks like a staged show to me. But there is nothing wrong in theory with mounting an armed raid to go in and slaughter the man responsible for so much slaughter. That is justice, and precisely along the lines that God laid out. "Live by the sword, die by the sword." It is entirely appropriate that Osama died by the sword. I suspect he died by the sword much earlier, in Afghanistan back in 2002, but Obama took his photo-op, and who is in a position to naysay it? We just sound like crazy conspiracy kooks because we have no real proof, just logical suspicion. It doesn't really matter anyway. If Bin Laden is dead, that is justice. Whatever political mileage Obama was going to get out of it, he got, and who cares? He can't be re- elected, and "getting Osama" didn't give him much of a political boost. I don't think it was designed to, either. I think that Obama and his team realized that if the specter of Osama was still out there, we could never end the war we needed to end. So the tale of taking him out in Pakistan…without a body…was ginned up specifically to make it politically possible for us to end the war. The real corpse of Osama is probably rotting in a cave, and we're pretty sure of that because he never surfaced again. (This assumes he really existed at all. He probably did.) But without that corpse, America could not have closure. And we needed the closure to let the President end the war without appearing weak. That's probably the kabuki theater that went on. I'd prefer things be more aboveboard, because we're grown ups and can live with uncertainty, but then, I'm not elected to high office am I, and with my mindset and approach to people, maybe I could not be. Maybe you have to lie to the people and razzle-dazzle 'em a bit to be elected and rule. Whatever the case, the extra-judicial killing of a mass killer like Osama Bin Laden is not morally problematic, to my eyes.
Yes, the public school system has done a great job, as the union comes closer and closer to dissolving, the public school system will be remembered as the force behind it's demise. For it is where students learned that we are a democracy, not a Republic, it is where the police were educated, the politicians were educated, the military leaders, courts, press, etc were educated. On Feb of 1962 the US Supreme Court ruled to rid God from the schools and public square, God did not simply turn the other cheek, He has been dealing with this nation ever since, we are now on the verge of seeing the death of a grand experiment that went bad.
Ridiculous. Assuming there was a living OBL to take captive, TPTB did not want a walking, talking OBL. They wanted an officially dead OBL.
#2. To: Deckard (#0)
Americans are gullible, and thought does not come easily to them,
#3. To: Deckard (#0)
[Roberts] I can tell you for a fact that if SEALs had encountered bin Laden in Abbottabad, they would have used stun grenades and tear gas to take him alive. Bin Laden would have been paraded before the media, and a jubilant White House would have had a much photographed celebration pinning medals on the SEALs who captured him.
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