The War on Terror; Lost

Osama bin Laden has scored the biggest victory possible in the phony Boosh "War on Terror," and the funny thing is he didn't have to lift a finger to achieve victory. Well, he did bait the trap, but beyond that he merely sat in his cave or mansion or whatever the hell he's in these days and watched the Moron in Chief implode our Republic. bin Laden couldn't have possibly achieved this with his own resources, no matter the number of young fanatics he could find willing to blow themselves up for Allah.

bin Laden has maintained throughout his "career in terror" that the United States would be the master of her own undoing, and I'll be darned, he has been proven correct. The moment we moved into Afghanistan, our troops were doomed to be slaughtered. Boosh learned nothing from the Soviet attempt to control Afghanistan. In case you have forgotten, after a decade or so of fierce fighting, the Soviet's turned tail and ran. They were unable to defeat the Afghan warlords and druglords and steal their drugs and money, despite the overwhelming force they presented. Battling them on their turf was not a good idea, and is still not a good idea in the 21st century. That is where the trap was set, with bin Laden correctly assuming that Boosh would attack Afghanistan immediately after 9/11/2001. And, attack he did. We moved the Taliban out of power faster than anyone could have imagined, but the Taliban have proven patient and resourceful if nothing else. Now, some 4+ years later, they are nearly back to where they were prior to our invasion. How did that happen? Well, we inexplicably took our eye off the ball and gave bin Laden the gift that keeps on giving. We moved most of our military might and power into Iraq.

Iraq? Why? The Boosh administration has finally, after many years of confusing the American people by delivering different messages through different sources, admitted that Saddam Hussein had nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with 9/11. For years, they used different administration officials to say different things, I assume, to maintain some form of plausible deniability for Boosh or somebody. And for many years it worked. Readers of this blog have known that there was no 9/11 + Iraq connection since the inception of the Real Deal, but the typical mainstream media watching American did not. Astonishingly, some still believe that Saddam was involved. I'm sorry to say that there is simply no hope for those folks. They will believe it until the day they die. Though George Boosh himself, during a press conference last week, said unequivocally that there was no connection, some still won't believe it. Forget them, they aren't reading this anyway. But Iraq?

Osama bin Laden, who has managed to keep from being "brought to justice" by this administration for over 5 years, must feel as if he has hit the lottery 10 times over. Why? We are essentially doing or have done his work for him, in two ways.

First, by our waterboarding of innocent detainees among other discretions at Abu Ghraib, by our finally admitting (what we all already knew) that we have been running private CIA prisons in countries that permit torture, by failing to assemble a true coalition of willing countries and giving the middle finger to world opinion and the UN, we have destroyed our credibility across the globe. We have exactly one ally, and the leader of that nation has already agreed to step down within a year due to the fallout of joining us in this venture. Yet Boosh continues playing cowboy, despite an extremely conservative Supreme Court telling him that his detainee policies are unconstitutional. Though Boosh says we do not torture people, his actions the past couple of days beg questions. He has been on Capitol Hill, a rare occurence for any President (urgh), twisting the arms of his Republican buddies to okay his unconstitutional practices, retroactively. Fortunately, he has so far failed with John McCain (a former POW), Lindsay Graham (a military lawyer turned Senator) and others. Even Colin Powell, (albeit several years too late to regain my respect) has turned on him, along with several key Republican Senators. Boosh is so mad that he is threatening to stop interrogating suspects entirely should Congress not give him what he wants. Like a child, he will take his ball and go home if he doesn't get his way. Boosh said than Colin Powell's argument used "flawed logic," for heaven's sake. The world is upside down when a man with the IQ of Boosh has the guts to question someone with Colin Powell's intellect on matters concerning logic. That is how far we've fallen, and there is no end in sight to this madness. With each Boosh utterance, he further damages our credibility and moral standing around the world. His bizarre performance in the Rose Garden today makes me think that Boosh is fighting this issue so hard in order to avoid the possibility of facing war crime accusations or trials. I am dead serious about that. Boosh is already facing potential legal trouble with his illegal wiretapping. That is an American issue. Permitting the torture of non-American citizens is a WORLD issue.

But, that's not the cherry on top of the sundae for Osama bin Laden. The second thing, the real cherry, came when we removed Saddam Hussein from power. Not only did Saddam Hussein have nothing to do with 9/11, he and Osama in Laden are sworn enemies. Either would have killed the other if given the chance. Osama is fighting a holy war, Saddam is an atheist in the eyes of bin Laden. They live in and seek (at least until Saddam was removed) different worlds, have different ideas about most things. The only thing they have in common is a hatred for the United States, a less than novel concept these days. In fact, years ago bin Laden went to Saddam Hussein to try to foster some type of relationship, and Saddam essentially snubbed him. bin Laden has not forgotten that, has in fact used it to build his network with other Muslim Saddam haters. What a deal. It must be quite a party for him as he watches his hated enemy number one, the United States, take down hated enemy number two, Saddam Hussein. All the while, he remains loose and his network grows, along with his mystique. bin Laden will never again have a recruiting problem. Hell, he may soon even have some real, caucasian Americans to choose from. I notice a certain restlessness about the American people these days, and wouldn't be surprised to see the next Timothy McVeigh turn up with a name like Muhammed.

Osama bin Laden has won this war, and has paid only the price of convincing 19 "more than willing" hijackers to give their lives by flying planes into a few buildings. Not even he could have imagined the magical results of that simple act. Even if Boosh convinces the Republicans to retroactively legalize his torture policies, we have become exactly what Osama said so long ago that we were/would become, a rogue nation. I have often said that we were nothing but a Banana Republic disguised as a Superpower, and that is proving to be true. Meanwhile, Boosh is like a pitcher who throws a no-hitter and loses the game by walking in the winning run. Osama wins the game without a hit. Whoulda thunk it?

Cyclone


"And so, in my State of the--my State of the Union--or state--my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation--I asked Americans to give 4,000 years--4,000 hours over the next--the rest of your life--of service to America. That's what I asked--4,000 hours."

George W. Boosh; Bridgeport, Connecticut; April 9, 2002 (tell me he's not drinking)