Time to Trot Out the Probable Corpse of bin Laden as a Tool for War Propaganda

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sent by unsinkmolly since 71 days 20 hours 34 minutes, published about 71 days 13 hours 6 minutes
Apparently David Ray Griffin has written a little book that asks a big question, “Is Osama bin Laden dead or alive?” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23691.htm “In March of 2009, former Foreign Service officer Angelo Codevilla published an essay in the American Spectator entitled “Osama bin Elvis.” Explaining his title, Codevilla wrote: “Seven years after Osama bin Laden’s last verifiable appearance among the living, there is more evidence for Elvis’s presence among us than for his.” Now before engaging in Mr. Griffin’s compelling case that bin Laden very well may be dead, I need to take a second to process the freeing but startling experience of putting down the rather rancid by now national kool-aid, and question the authority that is my government. My and our dysfunctional government. The profound realization for me, personally, upon being posed such a question by Mr. Griffin, is that I had not entertained it myself before now. I blithely trusted the idea that bin Laden was alive because my government did not tell me otherwise. In fact, President Obama is still using the call to hunt bin Laden as primary lynchpin of the rationale for this nation’s wreaking so much destruction ...
tags: david ray griffin, osama bin laden
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  1. #1    Well....yeah.
    Did you miss this? Benazir Bhutto said it before she died.
    And most of those tapes were debunked contemporaneously.
    And it just doesn't make sense that a very tall Foriegner who had to be able to access Dialysis, could survive long in the Tribal areas on the AfPak boarder.
    I can't see how that can come as such a belated revelation to anyone.
    written by CwV since 71 days 19 hours 3 minutesCwV
  2. #2    The author didn't question the government's assertion Bin Laden is alive!!? Seriously!? Hilarious!
    written by kevin3g since 71 days 18 hours 47 minuteskevin3g
  3. #3    I heard Benazir Bhutto stating BinLaden was dead - and I believed her. Would it be that this entire war cabal was/is/will be based on one big, fat lie? Lives lost for a lie? Torture for a lie? Country's honor lost for a lie?

    Yes, folks. But wait, that's not all! They will re-animate BinLaden's corpse every time they need you to "LOOK THAT WAY!". BinLaden, albeit dead, will be alive and well in American politics.
    written by Malgoska since 71 days 1 time 28 minutesMalgoska
  4. #4    "...every time they need you to "LOOK THAT WAY!". BinLaden, albeit dead, will be alive and well in American politics"
    rAmen.
    written by CwV since 71 days 1 time 9 minutesCwV
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