Osama Bin Laden:The Greatest Myth Ever Told

by Eco.Soul.Intellectual

Osama Bin Laden has represented a host of ideas from various angles. But one thing he remains in the US mind is a myth, a fictitious being that has operated with God-like qualities in a cave, just like Jesus.

Nobody actually saw him, but people hated, feared and/or revered what he epitomized.

And then there are all of these questions surrounding his death. The un-Muslim sea burial with his body chained to a plank like in the movie Van Helsing. The supposedly unreleased photos of a man who remains elusive for over a decade, and the lack of explanation as to why a former CIA operative becomes a US enemy who initially declared he did not blow up the World Trade towers when he was blamed. And certainly, he did not blow up buildings 7 and 8, that mysteriously fell well after the planes crashed.


This mythic creature, Bin Laden, must now be placed in the arena of Santa, Tooth Fairy, Chupacabra, Sasquatch, Elvis and Tupac. His representation will live on in some way, shape or form.

Let me shift this discussion on the continual Fulture of Fear in US. Obama once emphasized that fear was so permeated in normal, everyday American life needed to be free from that type of living. Ironically, the Culture of Fear is becoming more pervasive, post-Bin Laden death.

We thought we were watching our backs then, well now, we will be watching even more! Big Brother is alive and well, and truthfully, he possesses our psyches like a Santeria Orisa mounting a devotee during ceremony.

Big Brother has been framed as a omnipotent technological presence in the form of satellite, eye scans, and computer surveillance, but that is not the most significant and effective weapon of Big Brother. WE ARE!

We are our own Big Brother. We monitor each other and judge our movements.Then we regulate ourselves from a template that is supposed to be "Patriotic" under Administrations that provide schizophrenic intelligence about various operations.

As blogger Rippa pointed out , the Bush Administration stopped looking for Bin Laden before the search every began, yet US culture, by way of the media, was haunted by a hunt that never really existed.

Nevertheless, war coffers were filled, and we are broker than a muthafuckah.

And since when did questioning your government excuse you from citizenship?

Furthermore, when did using rights as a citizen to question a US Administration that has habitually lied since its inception, become unAmerican.

To me, to be unAmerican is to allow a power structure that undermines its citizens dictate to me the order of the day; especially in a culture where black folks were legally slaves, indigenous people were kicked off of their land and slaughtered, Japanese were forced into internment camps, political activist were black listed in the "Red Scare" and Donald Trump is considering running for president.

Interestingly, the understanding of Patriotism has mutated into a different monster since 1776. Once upon a time, US citizens exercised protest, agitation, intellectual battle, fistocuffs, and even Civil War based on their citizenship rights.Interestingly, the Tea Party can throw vile, racist rants, but the Black Panther Party's fight for a shift in a racist and classist structure was neutralized.

Today, if you critique government, you are cast in an iron pot full of fuddy-duddies. Right now I'm dangling on funny rope with racist tea baggers and self-deprecating black folks. And I don't want to have anything in common with them, and am about to Geronimo jump off this bitch to NeverLand with Peter Pan and Michael.

Though my mama hates it when I rip into the current administration, I have to remind her that I have always scrutinized governments. It is the American way. And as long as their are third and fourth world conditions in one of the richest countries in the world, as well as people who are interested in impeaching the Head-of-State because he is black, I will have a lot to say.

But I digressed, so let me get back to the Culture of Fear.


With the talks of imminent terrorist attacks to come, the US is now "preparing" American citizens for repercussions. With that will come a host of methods that will tear down the right to privacy, a fundamental American right that was placed in the Bill of Rights due to England's intrusive colonial tactics.

Some of the things you will expect to see are things that have been long in the making, but will be forced to stay.

Eye, hand, DNA databases for travel and money transactions; Dismantling of social security and social programs; Privatization of public institutions such as education, roads media, and major ports; Complete privatization of the prison industrial complex.

This new American "lifestyle" are one of many issues, but the biggest strife will be the widening division amongst the citizens. As some people become more "Patriotic" others are distancing themselves from a hegemonic, boxed existence.

Blog on, Eco.Soul

Bush Administration Did Not Pursue Osama Bin Laden Post 9/11

I really hate to go the partisan route given the discussion of Osama bin Laden's tragic yet joyous demise. However, I came across the following article and subsequent interview with historian and investigative journalist, Gareth Porter that I found rather interesting. Here's a tidbit from the article, and I urge you to read it in its entirety. Most importantly, if don't do anything else, be sure to watch the video that follows the piece:

The absence of any military planning to catch Bin Laden was a function of Bush's national security team, led by vice president Dick Cheney and secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, which had firmly opposed any military operation in Afghanistan that would have had any possibility of catching Bin Laden and his lieutenants.

Rumsfeld and the second-ranking official at the Pentagon, Paul Wolfowitz, had dismissed CIA warnings of an al-Qaeda terrorist attack against the United States in the summer of 2001, and even after 9/11 had continued to question the CIA's conclusion that Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were behind the attacks.

Cheney and Rumsfeld were determined not to allow a focus on Bin Laden to interfere with their plan for a US invasion of Iraq to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime.

Even after Bush decided in favor of an Afghan campaign, Tommy Franks, commander of the US Central Command and responsible for the war in Afghanistan, was not directed to have a plan for Bin Laden's capture or to block his escape to Pakistan.  (read more)

So as you can see, clearly the intent was never to kill or capture bin Laden. Instead, it was the Bush administration following through by dancing to the tune of their neo-con  handlers who were bent on investing billions trillions in the military industrial complex. When you think about it, kinda explains how many of them were in support of Obama tripling troop levels in Afghanistan when he did. But now I think it's funny how they're bent on giving Bush any credit for bin Laden's death, and are now calling for an end to the war.

Check this out:


BIO: Gareth Porter is a historian and investigative journalist on US foreign and military policy analyst. He writes regularly for Inter Press Service on US policy towards Iraq and Iran. Author of four books, the latest of which is Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam

Hate To Tell You, But Osama Bin Laden Won [VIDEO]

Right Wing Authoritarians [Torture is Good for You]

[Editors Note: I am not the staunchest Obama supporter, in fact I believe there are legitimate critiques of his policies -- especially his (mostly wrong-headed conservative) economic policy decisions. However, much of the right-wing criticism of Obama is fueled by hatred and, yes, racism. I quantify that last assertion here, but today I find myself SMDH at the revolting scumbags on the right. I mean, they have no sense of fuckin decency, no fuckin shame at all. I believe these cretins would fuck their own mothers over without a second thought...]

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Hate Multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. p 53, The Strength to Love, 1963

First things first. It seems there’s a mini storm over the above quote by MLK. The quote, with the leading line, I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy... went viral immediately after the news of the murder of Osama Bin Laden was released. A rather irresponsible article penned by Megan McArdle at The Atlantic, noted that after having Googled said quote, she couldn’t find verification. Therefore, the reporter surmised, the quote isn’t accurate, and MLK never said it.

Actually, as I have correctly cited, the quote is a genuine MLK quote. What isn’t part of the quote, is the first line and here’s what happened. The sentiment was first posted as a Facebook status, and it read (verbatim):

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy, “Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” -- mlk [emphasis added]

Note the placement of the quotation marks. As the status was repeated, the quotes were misplaced, giving the impression that the leading sentence -- the sentence not part of the MLK quote -- was attributed to MLK. This then led other reporters, bloggers, commenters to assert that MLK never said it. And that’s a false conclusion. But the larger point here is that journalists are doing a piss-poor job of research. Indeed, the research can be found in the comments section of The Atlantic article. Has this journalist ever heard of... books? Direct sources? *The article has been picked in places like the WashPo, The CS Monitor, and if you Google the first line, you’ll easily get 50-60k hits (the last time I looked).

This is bullshit, lazy, hack writing, plain and simple.

Now on to the important stuff...

I guess it was to be expected. No sooner than the news of OBL’s assassination was released, that the right wing cretins went into feces flingin’ mode, and started patting themselves in the back for the deed. What’s that? Yes, the Bush administration spent trillions, sent us to two unnecessary wars where about 50,000 of our men and women were killed or maimed, and spent almost a decade without even getting close to OBL, but Bush should be given the honors. Obama is just the lawn jockey. he can’t possibly be smart enough to capture/ kill OBL, right?

Except that it isn’t true. In fact, only six months after 9/11, The Village Idiot publicly admitted he was no longer concerned about OBL. Let’s take it to the videotape, Johnny:

Spin that bitches. More importantly, Bush shut down the CIA unit weighted with the responsibility of capturing Bin Laden. Guess who opened it up again? Yup... Obama.

Why I Cried When Osama Bin Laden Died

As I got ready to climb into bed, my husband looked up at me with an urgent look on his face. 

"Do you know that Osama Bin Laden was killed?  It's all over my Facebook."

I told him to turn it to CNN and sure enough there it was.  The screen showed happy people in front of the White House rejoicing, waving American flags.  They were rejoicing in New York.  The news was at a fever pitch. 

At first I was happy.  Not jump around happy, but I was very happy.  It was an amalgamation of feelings.  I felt that this would be beneficial to President Obama, and Democrats in general.  I wanted to feel like this made wrongs right, but then reality set in again, and I became deeply saddened.  Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that God is in control.  I am happy that Osama Bin Laden has transitioned because there's no justice we could ever dispense in this life that could ease, or sadly erase, the pain that man caused. 

The sad fact is his death didn't do anything to bring those lives back.  I wish to God that it could.  Wouldn't that seem fair?  Instead, he's gone on and we're all here, left with somber memorials and 9/11 observations to remember those who were murdered or killed because of his actions.

I didn't know why, but this emotion came over me.  This sadness.  A profound sadness.  One which found me trying to make sense of why I felt that way.  Like most Americans, on 9/11, I woke up to news and phone calls about planes flying into the World Trade Center.  I saw it with my own eyes.  I saw planes disappear into those towers and felt like my entire world was crashing down on me.  I wondered what the hell kind of world did I wake up to.  It was all good the night before.  I was active duty then.  Like most of my comrades, they could've handed me an M16 right outside my front door, and I would've happily landed in Afghanistan to avenge those who were killed on that chaotic day.  The pain we felt as servicemen and women was amplified because we pledged to protect the country against all enemies foreign and domestic, and somehow we didn't because Osama's hate was so compelling, that he violated the very rules of war we thought were understood everywhere.  Being in Hawaii didn't help.  I felt so cut off.  I felt like I couldn't grieve because I was in a paradise.  And thousands of miles away, the country--one that tends to forget about Hawaii unless it's vacation time--was feeling the pain of such unprecedented attacks.

The death toll grew and it became clear that--with action in Afghanistan and then Iraq--that Osama Bin Laden had set off, with the help of an eager American Military Industrial Complex, a chain of events that claimed lives over and over again.  Day after day after day with no end in sight.  The base became emptier and Hawaii lonelier.  As we prepared to get out of the Army, because our child was our priority, it became clearer that the blood on Bin Laden's hands would multiply; would swell like a river ushering forth.  In one day, in one fateful day, Bin Laden's actions and those of his minions would change the lives of thousands for days, weeks and years to come.  Naturally, everyone responsible, whether their intentions were good or otherwise, will be held accountable, if not in this life, the next.  However, the ONE man that made this insanity possible will have to answer not only for his actions, but for the actions of others on a grander scale. 

Tears sprang forth from my eyes.  I cried because all the memories came flooding back.  I cried because in some way, it felt like some lives were vindicated.  I cried because it was so anti-climactic.  That was it.  He was dead and did not even have to explain himself, and because of that, future generations will never learn the flawed logic of a megalomaniacal madman.  In turn, we may never learn from our mistakes.

So many sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, relatives taken away by IEDs, or suicide because of the strain of combat and the killing of one's fellow man.  So many lives gone never to get married or have children or see their parents grow old and wise.  So many flags draped over so many caskets.  So many grim processions through small town streets to a final resting place.  So many children without their parents.  So many veterans left to their own devices because they are no longer of "use."  I cried because it's not over and if we continue on this path in our foreign policy, it will never be over.  My husband tried to console me.  There was no fairness to this.  His death was as much a simple figurehead as he was.  It is but a chapter in a very large book filled with chapter upon chapter of the same old story, just with different characters.  The outcome in many ways is still the same.  They are all still gone.  Erased and forgotten.  The nation moves on as if they never existed.  The nation moves on as if those who survived tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq are lepers.  We, as a collective, pretend they are invisible.  We look on with some sort of sadness when we realize who they are and what they've lost, but that's it.  As a nation we expect that a "thank you for your service" will erase the fact that limbs are forever gone and psyches forever marred by nightmares and visions of fallen comrades; guilt for making it out alive.

With just a few bullets to his body, Osama Bin Laden was gone.  It was quick; probably painless.  A merciful death for a man who showed no quarter, not even to women or children.  In one day, it was over.  For us it's been a gradual punishment.  It's been a sick and twisted deja vu. 

"Two soldiers killed in bomb blast in Iraq"

"Soldier Killed in Afghanistan"

I cried because even after his death, more lives will be lost and now there won't be a major figure to blame, but the country won't care.  As time progressed I wiped my eyes, and proceeded with my night.  His death has become as meaningless and utterly irrelevant as his very existence.  In the end, we shouldn't mourn or even pay attention to his death any longer.  If we truly want to dish out some sort of justice; if we really want to make his death mean something, let's rally around the 9/11 families and survivors, those veterans who answered the call and came home, and those currently still answering the call.  Let's stop talking about that beast, and let's start talking about the forgotten war and the forgotten troops in the forgotten country we went to war with first.  While at it, let's help those who serve and served in Iraq, and the families of those who died there. 

The tragedy in all of this was Osama Bin Laden attacked us, and we were united, but then we let factions fracture us again, and then we discarded those who sacrifice and sacrificed everything, and then we forgot--or never bothered to care--about how Osama Bin Laden even rose to power on our watch.  The tragedy was not learning from the actions of the wicked to combat the wicked.  I guess only time will tell if the life and death of Osama Bin Laden and all those he touched, negatively or otherwise, will actually mean something more than just an "eye for an eye."

Was Killing Bin Laden Justice, Or Should He Have Been Brought To Trial?

I set off a a explosive discussion and pissed off a couple people (as only I can) on Facebook by the following status update in reference to the event that was the assassination (killing sounds less humane) of Osama bin Laden: The next time an unarmed Black man gets shot by the cops, I'm gonna call it justice and start chanting, "USA! USA!! USA!!!" Will you join me? I learned from the feedback I received, that my "thought" was inappropriate.

Many missed the hidden question or message as asked by Alan Colmes over at Liberaland: Was It Legal To Kill Bin Laden? It's a really nice quick read and I urge you to check it out. Like my Facebook status and subsequent comments alluded, the real question is whether bin Laden himself should have been afforded due process as afforded per the U.S. Constitution? Well, checkout the following via POLITICO, as some food for thought. Like Alan Colmes asked in his post: Can  you imagine if another country sent commandos to the United States to assassinate someone who was living here?

[...] human rights and civil liberties groups that have sharply criticized the Obama administration for its use of lethal force against terror suspects outside of war zones remained largely mum after the notorious bin Laden was shot by U.S. Navy SEALs in an operation that took place in Pakistan, where the U.S. is not involved in formally declared combat.

Tom Malinowski, the Washington director of Human Rights Watch, said his group wasn’t prepared to express an opinion “until we know more solid details about the facts of the operation.”

“There are certainly circumstances under which lethal force is justified even in a law enforcement situation far from the battlefield,” Malinowski said in an email. “But we'll have to know more about what actually happened before making a judgment.”

Bin Laden Didn't Blow Up The Projects

“Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.


I hate to be the piss in your morning coffee, but Bin Laden wasn't the one who caused the housing bubble to burst; and the reason the economy is to' up from the flo' up. If you're making the news of Bin Laden's death out to be a victory for Obama and a loss for Bush, you're an idiot. Nobody wins in a war; that is, with the exception of cprporation on Wall Street. You know, the same people who raped what little wealth common folk held as they targeted minorites with their predatory lending scheme? So yeah, you fools can run around slapping high fives and chanting , "USA, USA," all you want. Innocent lives were lost, and for what? So that wealthy elites can use fear to rule our lives?


To me, that's all that matters. Because at the end of the day, my Black ass wasn't looking over my shoulder for some 6' 9" cave-dweller with a ZZ Top beard and a towel on his head frothing at the mouth ready to take me out. No, it was never him; instead it's the crowd of people celebrating his death reminiscent of those vintage town square lynching photos. Those are the Americans who scare me. Because the truth is, while I'm struggling to survive and navigate this cold harsh world of ours. Instead of trying to kill me, they'd rather have fun keeping me and anybody who looks like me in perpetual servitude: or, trapped in a life of accepted economic inequality as I chase the carrot that is the American Dream, while they take what little wealth we have?

SIDENOTE: If George Bush caught Bin Laden in his 2nd term there'd be no president Obama. Just something to think about while making this a partisan discussion. And, it kinda sucks that they killed Bin Laden. I would've loved to hear him tell how he pulled off the Building 7 thingy after trial. But I guess we can still count on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to tell us just how they pulled off that magic trick.

Yes, it isn't Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, or any foreign entity that I'm afraid of. It's the ones who call themselves American, to whom God has entrusted the right to fuck me, and anyone else in the world who looks like me over, I see as a threat. If I were you I'd be worried about them too. Because it ain't about a difference in skin color. It's about generation after generation of them being born into wealth, while we live and die poor doing their dirty work for crumbs. I didn't mean to depress you, and hopefully you're not. This is just something to think about while Bin Laden lies at the bottom of the sea like "Megatron".

Hopefully you can sleep better at night now that Osama sleeps with the fishes...

I know for me, it makes no damn difference.

Osama Bin Laden Buried At Sea? You Mean Like Megatron?? Hmm...

by Eco.Soul.Intellectual

After years of being this elusive figure, the "killing" of Osama Bin Laden occurs in a shroud of mystery, then his body is dumped in the sea. Reports say he was killed in Abbotabad, a city between Gilgit and Ismabad, which is located in the northern part of the country, which is well over 1,000 km from the Arabian Sea.

Very fishy.

Who buried the body? Where is the ceremony? Where are the photos? Come on . . . my conspiracy nose is itching like I have pollen allergies. Just doesn't sit right is all I'm saying.

Then I look at the covers of the Daily News and shake my head. The "report" of this death without concrete data is irresponsible, but the way in which it was handled by this paper is beyond crude. It actually debases the American deaths that are connected to this search of Bin Laden, and in my opinion, pours fuel onto a oil field.

There is this idea that justice has been served. However, in war, there is no justice, just killing, and disrupted lives, and grief. The Bin Laden "killing" doesn't give a father who lost his daughter in Iraq a boner. It doesn't lessen the heartache of a sister who lost her brother at ground zero.

When you are dealing with a population of folk who will use children in diapers to blow up a couple of soldiers, the last thing you want to do is agitate people more. Oh, I thought I was speaking about the US military.

To be so smart, especially as a news source, some folk sure are stupid.

I have to conjure up King's quote, "War no more."

CNN Reports

(CNN) -- Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil, is dead -- almost 10 years after the attacks that killed about 3,000 people.

The founder and leader of al Qaeda was killed by U.S. forces Monday in a mansion in Abbottabad, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, U.S. officials said.

Four others in the compound were also killed. One of them was bin Laden's adult son, and another was a woman being used as a shield by a male combatant, the officials said.

Bin Laden's body was later buried at sea, an official said. Many Muslims adhere to the belief that bodies should be buried within one day.

The official did not release additional details about the burial, but said it was handled in keeping with Muslim customs.

In an address to the nation Sunday night, U.S. President Barack Obama called bin Laden's death "the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al Qaeda." Washington is nine hours behind Pakistan.

 Click here for the whole story.

So, is Bin Laden gonna worship at Ground Zero?

So I've been thinking about the controversy surrounding the Mosque being build near Ground Zero. Conservative wing-nuts like Sarah Palin would have you think it's gonna be built on the very site and not blocks away. Which if I were Muslim, in protest of the stupidity and intolerence of Palin, I'd build a library next to her house and hang a banner that says: "Alaskas Worst Governor Ever!" But hey, maybe Bin Laden has plans of sneaking into the country balled up in the anal cavity of an illegal immigrant so you can't be too careful. Yep, especially when you champion for freedoms afforded to us by the Constitution and you last name rhymes with FAILING!

The Truth About Bin Laden That Barack Obama Is Hiding

Look, a lot of you after reading this are going to think I'm crazy. I also think that some of you would think I should be committed to a state run hospital where patients wear tin foil on their heads. That's cool, but I feel its my duty to share with you people the truth as I always do. No longer can I sit idly by as you people accept what's told to you by our government. It is my hope that more Americans are brave like me to come forth and lead fellow Americans towards the light. Having said that, I want you to pay attention to what I have to tell you.

*sigh*

Osama Bin Laden is a Leprechaun.

Yes, it's true, and it's time you people knew it. You see for years we've been lead to believe that this man - the face of everything evil in this world - was a Middle Eastern terrorist. But this image of that man is so far from the truth. So why or how do you know this RiPPa? Well you see, it's not that I'm a conspiracy theorist, I was Christened Catholic. And yes I was, named after St. Patrick. Today being St. Patty's day, I see it fit to come forth with the proper information concerning this man.

Ok, here's something to think about. Bin Laden recently released a new audio, right? Yes he did. And he just celebrated a birthday not too many days ago, right? Uh huh, he's 52yrs old now. Do you think there's any coincidence that he did all of that just in time for St. Patrick's Day? Do you think if he was really Muslim that he would actually be careful enough to do all of this right around the time of the recognition of a Catholic saint? Exactly! If anything, he would have waited until the holy month of Ramadan. But no, instead, he came out with his audio release just to let people know that he was looking forward to celebrating his birthday, and getting sloppy drunk off of green beer, and groping unsuspecting women in bars.

Ha!

And to think all this time you people thought he was some crazy six foot plus tall jihadist. The fuckin guy is a midget who drinks a lot for crying out loud. Having said that, I seriously doubt that he had anything to do with 9/11. Trust me, people who like to drink (i.e. Irish Midgets aka Leprechauns) are into partying and not death and destruction as our gov't would have you believe. But yet, here we are in Afghanistan, 8yrs later, and still no Bin Laden. Surely in an 8yr time span you would think the military would have found at least one dialysis machine in one of those caves, right? Wrong! Instead, they've found nothing. And now our current president is vowingt to step up the number of troops in Afghanistan.

Don't you think it's strange that a president who was against the war in Iraq, is intent on escalating troop levels in Afghanistan? Especially since we've been there longer than in Iraq?!! Uh huh, I bet you didn't even realize that one, nor do you know why. You see boys and girls, with the economy being as fucked up as it is, you'd think Barack Obama would be against any more spending in the war effort in Afghanistan. He's told us that more troops there are necessary to stabilize the region because it's a breeding ground for the Taliban. Bullshit! The truth is, Obama knows that Bin Laden is a Leprechaun and he's really and truly after his gold just like those Lucky Charm kids.

Yes, the US Gov't is not telling you people that the end of the rainbow is really in Afghanistan. Uh huh, all these years I never knew that until now. Which makes me feel pretty dumb because when I was a kid, I actually tried to chase down a rainbow once but the damn thing kept moving. Trust me people, it might sound crazy, but a pot of gold can do wonders for this economy especially after giving away billions to failed banks. So you see, that's why we're still in Afghanistan, and that's why Obama is going to increase troop levels. Yeah, I know it sounds crazy and almost unbelievable, but hey, our gov't lied to us before about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Did they not? Of course they did. That said, are you still gonna believe its about terrorism? Hell, for all we know Bin Laden's real last name is probably O'Reilly.