With both campaigns set to hawk it up on issues of overseas military adventures, the extent to which foreign policy is going to enter into the November election is likely to be small. Still, the Obama Administration is looking to make one “success” a central election issue: the assassination of Osama bin Laden.
A new campaign video for the president cheers his “leadership” in ordering Osama bin Laden assassinated, and insists that Mitt Romney would not, citing past reports from Romney saying that it wasn’t worth “moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”
In the 2007 interview, Romney went on to say that bin Laden’s death would be welcomed but that he would be quickly replaced, while insisting that America was at war with “millions of people” in a global effort and that required a comprehensive strategy.
While Romney’s statements were meant to position himself as even more hawkish than those calling simply for bin Laden’s death, the Obama Administration seems keen to portray it as a sign of insufficient hawkishness.
Still, Romney’s prediction was right in one regard, as analysts are saying that one year later his death actually has done very little to al-Qaeda as an organization.
Bin Laden succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. His plan was to draw us into a war on Muslim turf, exhaust us financially and turn the Muslim world against us. For a $500,000 investment, he got 2 wars with a price tag well over $3 trillion, over a million deaths, and worldwide revulsion at the US. He set a trap for us, one into which we'd already seen the Soviets come to grief, and exceeded any reasonable expectation. Even in death he's helping the re-election prospects of someone who will prolong the successes of his original plan.
I like the photo of Yosemite Sam. No. 1.
I don't believe the government's story about OBL.
Nor do I believe the official version of 9/11.
What a world in which we find ourselves. Today, we celebrate assassination, maintain more than 700 military bases worldwide, answer humanitarian terrorism and disasters abroad by military intervention, intervention which takes the lives of countless innocent civilians thereby resorting to state-sponsored terrorism ourselves.
Al-Quida is the computer list of the hundred thousand Mujahadeen fighters the CIA recruited from throughout the middle-east to overthrow the Taraki government of Afghanistan and later to fight the Soviets. The fighters have turned up in the Balkans, Libya and now Syria.
This, "I Killed Bin Laden Hoax" is right out of 1984. Eric Blair forsaw the rise of the MIC and the corruption of governments but I don't think he could have forseen the industrial scale slaughter.
Some questions: How long does a man on dialysis last? How old would Bin Laden have been had he been the decrepit old man watching tv shown in the one picture? Where are all the witnesses to the raid, the "special forces" who carried out the hit? Where is the body of Bin Laden?
I find the news from AlWafd that Bin Laden died of pulmonary complications bought on by kidney failure in December of 2001 to be more credible.
no body, no dna, no photos, no video….
This could be a landmark low point in America's decline. Now a staged incident, the "assassination of bin Laden," becomes a reason to choose one guy for President. The US political scene has decayed into complete fantasy. Real issues don't count at all. Bin Laden had been dead for years.
Once again OBL's long dead corpse has been resurrected to save our heroic president from the fates. Stay tuned for further fantasies.
LOL! OBL is the gift that keeps on giving. Just watch somebody bring him back so that the next corporate shill can claim some glory out of the dude. Poor slob's like the Boogie Man, he never dies.
Yes. At least Freddy Kreuger kept himself to our dreams. Bush and Obama have made OBL our eternal Day Walking nightmare.
Yes! And the Oven Mitt would have had him killed. It's front page news all over the corporate media today. See, even dead, he's still scoring points for cardboard cut outs, empty suits, etc.
George W Bush got eight years out of OBL and Barack Obama wants to get the same.
The 'death' of OBL was Obama's premature ejaculation.
Before the issue becomes “central” or even “marginal” for me, the voter, they would have to prove two things to me:
1.Was he really guilty?
2.Was he really dead now, as they claim?
A small accomplishment that someone else set up. It's the only thing this mlooser has to run on.
We know that both Romney and Obama are bloodthirsty leaders who will keep the wars going, expand them,and kill and maim lots of people.
What's surprising and just plain awful is a site like antiwar.com framing the election as if they were the only two choices for voters. I understand when pro-war, Wall Street media arm outlets like Faux and CNN do that. But to have a site like antiwar.com propagating the myth that voters only get to choose between these two flavors of war presidents is just plain awful.
How very unexpected. I wonder when he realized that he had "killed" Osama bin Laden a tad too early for the campaign. That must have been quite the oops moment.
Ironically, bin Laden may have actually hurt the islamist agenda of domination with the 9/11 attacks… the horrendous act, and the subsequent celebration in the muslim world over the "kneeling of America", led many to start studying jihadist ideology, and the core texts of islam, the quran, hadith and sunnah. We've learned now that rather than "just another religion", islam is a political, societal and military ideology with designs on world domination. Without the 9/11 attacks, many Westerners would still believe the fantasy of a benign islam, and allow them to co-opt democracy to attain their goals, as they are now doing in the "Arab Spring", or as I refer to it, the "islamic drain".
Islamist Agenda Domination. ROFL! I think you confuse that with the Zionist Agenda of Domination. They're not one and the same, you know?