Osama Who?
 

At a Veterans Day ceremony George Bush made a speech that included the statement, "Young Americans have died in liberating Iraq and Afghanistan." Excuse me, Mr. Bush. Did you say our troops died liberating Afghanistan? Was anyone else under the impression that we went into Afghanistan to liberate the Afghanis? We know his speeches are carefully crafted by a team of speechwriters so this wasn't a slip of the tongue.

This is yet another proof of Bush's bait and switch policy. Although Osama binLaden denied any connection to 9-11, blame was placed on him and Americans were whipped into a frenzy of hate and support for the US military to go into Afghanistan and drag him out dead or alive. As soon as the Taliban was toppled and US puppet, and ex-Unocal employee, Hamid Karzai was installed to approve the gas and oil pipeline Unocal had been trying to negotiate through Afghanistan, Osama was morphed into Saddam and the new threat was now Iraq. From being our #1 priority in his speech on Sept. 13, 2001, Bush said on March 13, 2002, when asked about finding binLaden, "I don't know where Osama is. I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." Apparently not. Used to his college role as a cheerleader, however, he rah-rah-ed us into thinking it was our priority. How silly of us!

Now that the Afghanistan pipeline agreement has been accomplished, not only has Osama binLaden been dismissed as the reason for that invasion, but through him, so has the attacks on 9-11. We didn't go in to get Osama, or to avenge those who died in the WTC and Pentagon. We went in to liberate the Afghanis. Apparently, "liberate" has become this administration's euphemism for "invasion to facilitate a pipeline and grabbing the oil". Our "liberation" of Iraqis will result in a re-opening of the pipeline closed 50 years ago that will bring oil from Iraq's northern oilfields to the Israeli port of Haifa. The excuse for that invasion was also tied to the now forgotten events of 9-11. For that, instead of anger, we were manipulated by fear. We were told Saddam had huge stockpiles of WMD that could be delivered in 45 minutes. We were told that those weapons would be passed on to the group that produced the worst attack on American soil on 9-11 and the head of Homeland Security advised us to seal our homes in plastic and duct tape against an attack from Saddam's biological weapons.

That one sentence in Bush's speech, overlooked by the media, is very telling. It says that every reason we have been given for invasion in both countries was a lie. It says this administration used a tragedy and our national grief to manipulate us into accepting their agenda. It says there is no low this administration will not stoop to in order to achieve their ends. It shows that any caring, or outrage at the deaths of Americans is a sham, an act put on to deliberately dupe us. It tells us that to the Bush cabal and their corporate cronies, the American people are expendable if a profit can be made from their blood.

Has there been one word of honesty uttered in the last 3 years that has come out of this White House? George W. Bush wears a large flag lapel pin. An oil well would be a more appropriate symbol. At least it would be one thing that would be honest.

11-24-03