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and slaughter many thousands of innocent people, including many young innocent soldiers who had just had guns stuck in their hands and thought they were defending their country from invasion (which they have been doing since the time of Alexander the Great), and torture people, and "render" people, and permit detainees to die and be shot in rough transport, and grab people at random--some in exchange for payments to war lords--and shackle and blindfold them, and chain them to their chairs, and let them pee in their pants, as you fly them half way round the world to Guantanamo Bay and secret prisons in middle Europe, and hold them without charge for years, and torture them, and drive them to madness or suicide, and install a corporate-friendly and heroin-friendly government, and create chaos in the countryside with the resurgence of war lords and drug lords, in order NOT to catch Osama bin Laden?
None of these acts are any more justifiable than the invasion of Iraq. And who is OBL anyway, a character with close ties to the Bush Cartel, who helped him set up shop in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets? No case against him on 9/11 has ever been laid out. There is no evidence. We got to see a few easily doctored tapes, which have about as much credibility as that in-tact hijacker passport they "found" in the flaming ashes and melted rubble of the WTC. (You think he tossed it out the airplane door before they hit the tower? Or maybe he opened the door of the melting airplane, and ran over to the window of the tower, tied it to a lead weight and threw it out, before he fried into a cinder?) OBL is a phantom, a boogeyman, an essential part of a delusionary narrative, by which to pick your pocket, and your children's pockets, and their children's pockets, to the 7th generation, to enrich war profiteers and oil men, and destroy our government as regulator of corporate predators. It is just utter and complete bullshit from start to finish.
You got somebody, or some radical group, going around the world blowing things up, you find him, you charge him, you try to him and you put him in jail. You don't send armies to blow up a thousand times more buildings, and kill a thousand times more people THAT HAVE NOTHING WHATEVER TO DO WITH SOME LOOSE GANGSTER ON THE RUN.
We had the entire world's cooperation in that police hunt. The Taliban government--IF it was culpable--could have been shut down in a week, completely peacefully, with the intense, universal cooperation that was offered. But that wasn't the point. The point was looting on a scale the world has never seen before--looting of us, looting of others--and the murder of innocents who are in the way of oil profits.
Well, I hope all this suffering and naked greed and crime leads to something good--our ridding our society of this monster, the "military-industrial complex." It's time.
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