So, Osama Walks into This Bar, See? and Bush says, "Whad'l'ya have, pardner?" and Osama says...
But wait a minute. I'd better shut my mouth. The sign here in the airport says, "Security is no joking matter." But if security's no joking matter, why does this guy dressed in a high-school marching band outfit tell me to dump my Frappuccino and take off my shoes? All I can say is, Thank the Lord the "shoe bomber" didn't carry Semtex in his underpants.
Today's a RED and ORANGE ALERT day. How odd. They just caught the British guys with the chemistry sets. But when these guys were about to blow up airliners, the USA was on YELLOW alert. That's a "lowered" threat notice.
According to the press office from the Department of Homeland Security, lowered-threat Yellow means that there were no special inspections of passengers or cargo. Isn't it nice of Mr. Bush to alert Osama when half our security forces are given the day off? Hmm. I asked an Israeli security expert why his nation doesn't use these pretty color codes.
He asked me if, when I woke up, I checked the day's terror color.
"I can't say I ever have. I mean, who would?"
He smiled. "The terrorists."
America is the only nation on the planet that kindly informs bombers, hijackers and berserkers the days on which they won't be monitored. You've got to get up pretty early in the morning to get a jump on George Bush's team.
There are three possible explanations for the Administration's publishing a good-day-for-bombing color guidebook.
1. God is on Osama's side.
2. George is on Osama's side.
3. Fear sells better than sex.
A gold star if you picked #3.
The Fear Factory I'm going to tell you something which is straight-up heresy: America is not under attack by terrorists. There is no WAR on terror because, except for one day five years ago, al Qaeda has pretty much left us alone.
That's because Osama got what he wanted. There's no mystery about what Al Qaeda was after. Like everyone from the Girl Scouts to Bono, Osama put his wish on his web site. He had a single demand: "Crusaders out of the land of the two Holy Places." To translate: get US troops out of Saudi Arabia.
And George Bush gave it to him. On April 29, 2003, two days before landing on the aircraft carrier Lincoln, our self-described "War President" quietly put out a notice that he was withdrawing our troops from Saudi soil. In other words, our cowering cowboy gave in whimpering to Osama's demand.
Greg Palast, winner of the George Orwell Courage-In-Journalism Prize, is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and "ARMED MADHOUSE: (more...)
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The War on Terror, War in Iraq, War in Afghanistan and War in Lebanon are all happening as a distraction. While Israel attacks and America attacks, the US gov't erodes rights at home by forcing demonstrators into cages, stealing private lands, pressuring Amazon to drop the book "America Deceived", illegal wire-taps, and multiple wars based on lies. Soon, another false-flag operation will occur on US soil (like 9/11 with nukes) and the masses will beg for the 'safety' of One World Gov't led by neo-cons.
Final link (before Google Books caves to the gestapo):
America Deceived - Book
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Lorring II (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 87 comments) on Monday, Aug 14, 2006 at 5:10:03 PM
Buy Greg's books. Read them. Give them to friends. Donate them to libraries.
This is ONE man who truly deserves the title "journalist."
If anything EVER happens to him, we should march in the streets by the tens of millions the next day.
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Charlie L (2 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 747 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:44:49 AM
Yes, al-qaeda is such a ghost operation, all fomented by the neo-cons.
All this to subordinate the world, and it will not work. Goodness wins in the end. And the lay people on both sides in the Middle East will at last live in the peace they wanted for so long. And everyone else, elswhere..
As so often said , if only the ones who decided to go to war could be the ones to only send their own children... :)
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florence chapgier (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 3 comments) on Tuesday, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:03:37 AM
RELAX! All is good! This Greg guy makes it sound like
America is in Self-Destruct mode, DefCon4.
The sun will come up tomorrow, and the next day. You still
will be protected by the world's mightest armed forces,
and the world will turn one more rotation.
Don't get so worked up Greg...Chill. Nobody's listening!!!
Oh I know you have won blah blah blah, and you've won blah,
blah, blah, and you've won..see what I mean. Nobody Cares.
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sbaker (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 147 comments) on Tuesday, Aug 15, 2006 at 9:23:11 PM
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