WHY DIDN'T THE VICE PRESIDENT'S ASSASINATION RING KILL BIN LADEN?

[elehhhhna]

That's a worthwhile question, eh?

[MADem]

1. Maybe he was on the payroll? nt

[crickets]

5. Got it in one. -nt

[kjackson227]

15. BINGO! My thoughts exactly.

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Because that would deprive the junta of its bogey man

They needed Osama as badly as they needed . . . Cheney.

In fact, America needed Cheney like they needed Osama.

[SpiralHawk]

3. "None of your damn business. Sneer." - xVP Dickie 'Five-Military Deferments' Cheney

"We Republicon Homelanders keep our intentions and our 'activites' in the realm of the occult. Sneer. So you Americans can just shut up and sit down. Sneer."

- xVP Dickie 'Five-Military Deferments' Cheney

[damntexdem]

4. Because they didn't want to eliminate those whose actions helped them.

Goose laying the golden eggs and all that.

[lovuian]

6. Bin Laden was their AGENT he did Movie contracts for them

Anytime Cheney needed a film the CIA film crew would whip one up

Panetta your pathetic if you think people Believe this

[LynneSin]

7. Perhaps Bin Laden didn't want to go hunting with Dick Cheney

Can you blame the guy?

[notadmblnd]

8. Bin Laden wasn't the target.

Saddam Hussein and Iraq's oil was. Also, the US had to get their temporary bases out of Saudi Arabia, the US needed someplace to put them in the Middle East.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Because he put the CIA in charge of it.

[ContinentalOp]

9. Somebody else did first?

:shrug:

[TahitiNut]

11. They're crazy and corrupt ... but not enough to kill the Golden Goose.

:shrug:

[Subdivisions]

12. What's wrong with this picture?

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm">

[leftstreet]

13. There was no way Crashcart could collect the $25 million reward n/t

[Fire1]

14. Why would anyone kill their friends? n/t

[Rex]

16. Because it would have look bad, I mean fly the family out of America

on Sept 11th and then go and kill their son. Friends don't kill eachothers sons.

[backscatter712]

17. The Bushies needed a boogieman.

Bin Laden was more valuable to the Bushes alive and on the loose than captured or dead. Makes it so they can shout "Bin Laden will get you!" and demand more curtailing of civil liberties, more police power, more warrantless surveillance, etc.

[Touchdown]

18. Every Batman needs a Joker.

You can't be a hero without a villain still alive. Without bin Laden, Cheney's just another blow hard billionaire fascist.

[slampoet]

19. Read the CIA and the Cult of Intellegence. It shows that the USA has NEVER had a successful agent

undercover in the field at that point in the early 1970's. I am relatively positive that is still the case.

Fact is our CIA usually only gathers electronic surveillance, gives Americans living abroad covers like the Peace Core and import/export companies and bribes people to be on our side.

Contrary to popular notion of spying, the CIA has never had a documented case of someone successfully infiltrating a foreign entity.

This is due to the requirements to join the CIA. Essentially, if you have lived outside the USA long enough to blend into the culture of some other country the CIA considers you a security risk instead of an asset.

[elehhhhna]

21. what about plame?

[slampoet]

23. Plame had an import/export company cover.

She didn't blend in a native. She was obviously seen as some kind of American overseas even if her link to the CIA was not know until Cheney outed her.

(did you read my post?)

[sandnsea]

28. Electronic surveillance and the Soviet Union

John Kerry mentions that fairly regularly in speeches and hearings. Most of what the soviet union had didn't even work, but we didn't know that because we had no real human intelligence, it was all electronic and very inaccurate.

[PurityOfEssence]

20. Professional courtesy

Murderous ideologues need each other.

[cascadiance]

22. Perhaps for the same reason they might have been part of Benazair Bhutto's assasination...

That perhaps, like she seemed to indicate before she was killed, that they all knew that he was already dead, and they couldn't afford someone "getting out the truth" to take away their "bogeyman"...

[gmoney]

24. McCain wouldn't tell them where to find OBL?

He said he knew, right?

[librechik]

25. some folks seem to think American "terrorists" were the targets

that's why all the secrecy--assassination of Taliban and Al Qaeda would not need secret programs, those are already on the books as go for it baby. But if people found out Cheney was trying to kill loudmouthed American "terrorists"--hmm, any guesses as to who?--That would be bad.

[warren pease]

26. The Bushies needed Osama like Laurel needed Hardy...

First, the most important single event of the past 50 years was the nominal end of the so-called Cold War. Not because Saint Raygun pulled us back from the brink of noo-ku-lur uh-nih-ul-aa-shun, but because our war profiteers took a serious hit right where it hurts most: the bottom line.

The drug war was bringing in a relative pittance and with Wall St. stealing the treasury blind, where to find the federal money to keep them ol' wheeeeeelz o' progress turning in the right direction? And so, the gawd of xtian-based mammon stepped up big time.

He invented an entire giant Arab male with more money than Himself and the respect of all the short guys in the room. And even when the Cold War was declared finito, he had certain uses.

I'm a little tired to argue the various 9/11 contradictory theories, but suffice to say that he was mahvelous in the role of demonized America hating rat bastard and chief perp of "the events of 9/11"(tm), the very day on which the Bushies tell us "everything changed"(tm).

After plastering his face all over the TEE WHEEEEE screens of Americana for a few days, he was tried in absentia, convicted of mass murder and sentenced to stand in his corner of the great caves of the Hindu Kush until his kidneys fell out -- or something like that.

But the key outcome of "the events of 9/11"(tm) is a war profiteer's wet dream -- The War on Terror itself. It's the Cold War, only a hundred times better. And the greatest thing of all: It can literally never end. I mean, how could you tell?

No uniforms, no lands to conquer, no heads of state to assassinate, no generals to negotiate with. Not even an organization to force a peace treaty down the throats of their most militant warriors. Yup... War profiteering as far as the eye can see.

A hundred years down the road and some loon blows up a hot dog kiosk. Turns out he's a pissed off vegan, but so what... He's still a terrorist by definition and, therefore, the War on Terror is still going strong.

Crank out a few more subs and aircraft carriers, Major. There's work to be done.

People chosen for the truly pivotal roles in the greatest war profiteering scheme in history have been richly rewarded. As is the case with Osama.

Most recently, he's been seen kicking back at the estate of some Unocal EVP outside Houston, eating barbecued pork, guzzling a few Lone Star talls and trying to not to puke while the former Commander Guy pokes him in the ribs and tells another in an endless series of tasteless, lame-ass jokes that only a consummate nitwit would repeat, much less consider funny.

But still, he's relishing his role as permanent bogey man and hoping George and Dick and the rest all go to jail real soon so he can get involved in some intelligent conversation for once.

He's not alone in this.


sf

[johnaries]

27. Considering the last 8 years, the answer should be obvious. n/t