For weeks now the US Government and Britain have tried and failed to successfully frame Osama Bin Laden for the attacks on the World Trade Towers sufficiently to allow Americans to feel totally comfortable about the bombing of innocent women and children in Afghanistan. Each new video and translation thereof has become an embarrassment as the foreign press points out that claims made in the American media, from Osama having nukes, to claims that he has confessed to the attacks on 9/11, do not withstand close scrutiny.
Bush and the rest of the energy barons, not happy with access to the $5 trillion in oil under the Caspian Sea that the conquest of Afghanistan, are now setting their sites on Somalia, which happens to sit atop one of the world's largest unexploited deposits of uranium (Apparently the USA does not bother making war on terrorists who live in worthless swamps).
But as the US military warms up another round of cluster bombs mixed with food packages that look just like the cluster bombs, more and more Americans are beginning to wonder if the bombs and guns are pointed the right way. After all, none of the accused hijackers on 9/11 were actually from afghanistan. Most were from Saudi Arabia. Coupled with some 60 members of an Israeli spy network who have been arrested since 9/11, the attempt by the Mossad to blow up the Mexican congress, and most recently the arrest of the chairman of the Jewish Defense League in a plot to bomb a US Congressman's office, people are starting to wonder if 9/11 was a repeat of previous instances where the US was tricked into launching attacks against targets who had not actually done anything wrong.
Bush keeps saying, "our cause is just", while posing conspicuously with the flag of Israel. But fewer and fewer people are listening.
Then, all of a sudden, an American Taliban fighter is captured. How convenient. He speaks English and thereby avoids the problems of habitually inaccurate translations. And even better, he is announcing to the world that designated bad guy al Qaeda is about to uncork another terrorist attack just when the Bush administration and the media most need one to shore up flagging public support for the bombing of innocent non-combatants whose only crime is that they live along proposed oil pipeline routes.
John Walker Lindh is, to put it bluntly, just too damn convenient to be true. The American war-party cannot transform Osama into the villain they need to justify a continued war into 50 other nations, and right on cue, John Walker Lindh shows, full of stories of death and destruction ready for the prime time network news.
Setting aside the fact that Osama himself is still denying any involvement in 9/11, one has to wonder just where Mr. Lindh gets his privileged information. Supposedly al Qaeda's lines of communication have been severed. Terrorist organizations are by nature compartmentalized to prevent leaks of information when individuals get captured, such is the case with Mr. Lindh. Unless he were a direct part of the planned terror attack, there would be no need for him to know about it.
Finally, as an American, Mr. Lindh would be viewed as a potential CIA infiltrator, yet another reason for him not to be included in critical inside information by the al Qaeda leadership, which knows better than most how treacherous the CIA can be, even to its purported friends and allies (like the Taliban).
In my opinion, John Walker Lindh is a complete phony, manufactured by the US Government out of purest USDA choice bovine-excrement as a propaganda tool to try to convince the American people that a war of conquest into 50 other nations for mineral resources is somehow justified.
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