The audacity of mendacity
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
02/11/09
It’s amazing how quickly Obama started sounding just like Bush, because, when cornered by this question on the Afghan endgame, he reverted to waving the bloody flag of 9/11, just as his predecessor did in the run-up to war with Iraq, and long after the alleged links between Saddam and 9/11 had been thoroughly debunked. The president claims ‘you’ve got the Taliban and al-Qaeda operating in the FATA and these border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan,’ and he promises a ‘concerted effort to root out these safe havens.’ … we have heard much about the alleged presence of al-Qaeda’s shadowy remnants in Pakistan, yet we have seen no evidence. Nor have we been offered any specifics. It seems to me that the president came pretty close to saying, definitively, that Osama bin Laden is in the tribal areas, without, of course, actually coming out and saying it. If he doesn’t know this to be true, then Obama is doing precisely what Bush and his gang did to gin up a war with Iraq — lying...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14224
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=raimondo
by Justin Raimondo
02/11/09
It’s amazing how quickly Obama started sounding just like Bush, because, when cornered by this question on the Afghan endgame, he reverted to waving the bloody flag of 9/11, just as his predecessor did in the run-up to war with Iraq, and long after the alleged links between Saddam and 9/11 had been thoroughly debunked. The president claims ‘you’ve got the Taliban and al-Qaeda operating in the FATA and these border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan,’ and he promises a ‘concerted effort to root out these safe havens.’ … we have heard much about the alleged presence of al-Qaeda’s shadowy remnants in Pakistan, yet we have seen no evidence. Nor have we been offered any specifics. It seems to me that the president came pretty close to saying, definitively, that Osama bin Laden is in the tribal areas, without, of course, actually coming out and saying it. If he doesn’t know this to be true, then Obama is doing precisely what Bush and his gang did to gin up a war with Iraq — lying...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14224
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=raimondo
rudkla - 11. Feb, 10:29
