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War, War, War See other War, War, War Articles Title: Obama Needs Osama Do-Over as Critics Mount There is no rest for the wary. Or depending on which side you’re on, nor is their rest for the wicked. President Barack Obama’s May 1 raid and assassination of America’s Most Wanted, Osama bin Laden, wasn’t supposed to turn out like this. Obama’s ordered kill and subsequent dumping of Osama’s body into the Indian Ocean has become George W. Bush’s Mission Accomplished: so full of holes and controversy that the conspiracy theorists are having a field day with it. To some, their version of Osama’s death is making sense. To the rest of us, we’re already growing tired of hearing about it and just want to know if Boston Rob will finally win Survivor at this point. Beyond a doubt, when it comes to that historic shoot-out in Abbottabad, Obama needs a do-over. For starters, the Jessica Lynching of the Osama raid has already been proven another Washington screenplay. There was no gun slinging fight inside the property. Bin Laden, we are told, went from being armed with his signature Ak-47 and firing back rounds, to being unarmed. Although the bin Laden gun fight story didn’t last long enough to become a country music song, the fact that the facts keep changing fuels conspiracy theories. Why are official stories always full of holes? Maybe because that is the nature of complex historical events. If you look at them through a microscope, there are inevitable gaps and unexplained coincidences. That’s why scientists, not politicians, do actual experiments instead of taking videotapes of the world or soliciting opinion from their favorite pundit. The conspiracy theories are an interesting feature of American culture, and contribute to our extraordinary irrationality. At one point, nearly half the population believed that Obama was born in Kenya, for example. Or that George Bush and his friends in the Carlyle Group were going to create a police state to grab unlimited power, maybe even cancel the 2008 elections. All false. The "Jessica Lynching" of the Osama bin Laden raid and subsequent assassination on May 1 is causing Americans to question the White House's narrative on major foreign developments once again. When will we ever get the Sept 11 and subsequent War on Terrorism narrative right? Power systems probably don’t mind conspiracy theories, either, one well known pundit told me recently. He wanted to remain anonymous in Forbes, out of concern for getting more hate mail from people who stumble upon his name on line. The government might even be fostering conspiracy theories, he says, citing an internal government report that surfaced years ago from a study on declassification. The study showed that government released information periodically on the John F. Kennedy assassination, so as to stimulate conspiracy theories and keep critics from inquiring into matters that the government really wanted to keep secret. Fomenting alternative narratives within the public are discussed in the major scholarly work on British intelligence written by University of Warwick professor Richard Aldrich (The Hidden Hand: Britian, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence). On May 6, writing in a small, New York-based arts and politics magazine called Guernica, well-known critic of the establishment and of US foreign policy, Noam Chomsky, chimed in with his thoughts on the death of bin Laden: It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no opposition—except, they claim, from his wife, who lunged towards them. In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial.” On May 7, Sept. 11 truther Michael Ruppert came out of the wilderness to ad his thoughts on Obama’s Osama assassination. Ruppert writes on Quebec based Global Research website: “First, bin Laden was shooting. Then he wasn’t. Now, no pictures are going to be released. Ridiculous arguments on CNN, by House members stating that releasing photos would inflame and invite retaliation, flatly contradict what I suspect every grunt who ever earned a Combat Infantry Badge would say: Release the damn pictures. Give us some to hand out to the ‘indigs’. We got our man and that’s a message to anyone who would mess with us…Hoo Ah!” It is the inconsistencies that matter here. Obama needs a “do-over” because the legend of bin Laden’s death is being quickly taken over by fiction authors like Steve Pieczenik, who claims he knows CIA officials who told him that bin Laden died in 2001. We’re not going to get a reset on this one. We’re just not going to know all the facts, or why they were spun the way they were, or what it all means to the war on terrorism or our military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan until it is time for us to know. Nothing’s changed. What’s occurring now in all of this is the Roswellian conspiracy surrounding Osama’s death is becoming realer than the reality; Sept 11 is making a comeback and can easily bring us back to a time stood still, when American needs to be moving forward. With that it mind, it was actually surprising and a relief to read the full ABC News transcript with former Vice President Dick Cheney. He was asked by reporter Jonathan Karl the day after the bin Laden raid in Pakistan, “Are we safer now?” “I think so,” he said…only to add that there will be further attacks attempted on the United States.
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Just as Obama will never willingly release his real birth certificate and college records, the US government will never release the photos of the shot Osama.
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