I read this nonsense of an “article” and nearly choked on my coffee!! Propaganda at it’s finest. This is pure mainstream hogwash. Eugene Robinson psyop 101.

azythos:

“Robinson now writes almost exactly like Goebbels.”

Exaggerating, much?

“Why doesn’t his idol Obama appont him to be the current moron in charge of telling ridiculous nonsense to the journalists? He’d be as good at it as Ari Fleischer…”

see above comment.

“Bin Laden also took 300 million prisoners: the rest of us.” Oh, so that wasn’t the mass murderer Bush and his administration or his accessory and also mass-murderer Obama… and with a straight face. Robinson now writes almost exactly like Goebbels.

Why doesn’t his idol Obama appont him to be the current moron in charge of telling ridiculous nonsense to the journalists? He’d be as good at it as Ari Fleischer…

Pretty sad when official Americadom depends for getting its jollies out of a sneak attack on an old bearded maniac in the dead of night, courtesy of special forces in roaring helicopters risking life and limb to sneak into loosely “allied” foreign countries with one leg in modernization and the other in medieval heirarchy.

An appropriately aimed drone from Denver or somewhere could have done the job and dismembmered the entire household, thus making burial at sea an unnecessary formality. But then, where would the heroism have been? And all the valuable data retrieved? Probably the derring-do “sealed” the decision in the end.

Unmanned aerial vehicles are just never going to have the necessary “cajones”, are they?—Or are they? Not to worry.  The robots are just off stage,  waiting in the wings.  Grapes of wrath, and all that.  Glory, glory hallelujah!

Here is another Churchill quote you may be proud of:

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

This article wreaks of the dominant mainstream ideology. This Upton Sinclair quote is very apt for this Washington Post Group writer:

“It is difficult for a man to understand something if his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Tokarski, May 14 at 7:40 am:

I come to Truthdig because it is edgy, as opposed to, say, Common Dreams. But this piece, man oh man, swallowing whole on every bit of agitprop put out there. Good grief.

Part of the deal here is that a number of established-order flacks from the Washington Post and other such thieves’ dens are held up to the masses for derision and abuse.  Robinson is one of these.  All the fun stuff is in the comments, unless you like flackery.

One of the things I wonder about is if these writers actually believe the stuff they write.

Everyone is still talking about the Bin Laden shooting.  The republicans want to
give credit to Bush/Cheney, no problem.  Let them have credit for the
helicopter that malfunctioned, you can’t get any more fitting than that.  Buy
the way what does one of those 50% reliable fine outstanding examples of a
piece of junk cost anyhow?  Remember you have to use the Paul Ryan
congressional accounting standards which are…. how many grandmothers will
have to live under a freeway overpass eating dog food and doing without medical
care.  How stinking decent.

So now they’ve made OBL an even bigger boogie man now that he’s ‘dead’.

Immediately the drum beat began about turning our rail systems and other ‘soft targets’ into the same Gestapo hellholes that they’ve turned the airports into.

And not ONE dissenting voice anywhere in the media about the continual and complete destruction of our rights, freedoms and privacy. None.

Put a fork in it, this country is completely done.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/05/03/expert-security-checkpoints-near-soft-targets-may-soon-become-the-norm/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42949742/ns/us_news-security/t/sen-schumer-proposes-no-ride-list-amtrak-trains/

Man, did this article bring out the lefty OBL-loving, America hating conspiracy nut
cases or what?

Both Osama and 9/11 have been in the news lately but how many of us know
that Osama bin Laden’s role in the events of September 11, 2001 is not
mentioned on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted notice
(http://www/fbi.gov/wanted.htm).  In 2006, Rex Tomb, chief of investigative
publicity for the FBI explains, “The reason 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama bin
Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting
bin Laden to 9/11. . . . He has not been formally indicted and charged in
connection with 9/11 . . . . .”

The Ithaca Journal asks, “If the U.S. government does not have enough hard
evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11, how is it possible that it had enough
evidence to invade Afghanistan?” Indeed.

Noam Chomsky writes: “We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if
Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and
dumped his body in the Atlantic. Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin
Laden’s, and he is not a ‘suspect’ but uncontroversially the ‘decider’ who gave
the orders to commit the ‘supreme international crime differing only from other
war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole’
(quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal) for which Nazi criminals were hanged: the
hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, destruction of much of
the country, the bitter sectarian conflict that has now spread to the rest of the
region.” 

One of these mornings we’re going to wake up and find that NYC and/or LA has disappeared overnight. And the way our luck is running, D.C. will still be there.

Then what are we gonna do…after we become even more very afraid?

Nuke Switzerland? Send a surge of troops to Canada? Start ‘droning’ Patagonia?

Or wait for our vaunted ‘intelligence’ services to designate another ‘world’s most dangerous’ terrorist?
Tip to ‘intelligence’: Hire Walt Kelly’s ghost. He’ll point out the ‘world’s most dangerous’ to you.

Hey everyone! Lighten up! Even cheerleaders have to make a living.

I am sorry, Gene, but the death of a martyr gives birth to a million doubts.  Given the attack on the Palestinian police training facility (80 dead), the reprisals are almost immediate.  Even the porno reputedly found in the compound will be spun into the al Qaida equivalent of a police throw down, this time some X-rated materials instead of a weapon, there being plenty of them on the premises as it was.  The burial at sea was another misstep.  There are probably in the Muslim world more conspiracy theories going about concerning Osama bin Laden than we have in the USA concerning JFK.

Eugene, Eugene!  What has become of you! 

I have always enjoyed your wisdom,wit and sense of irony.  But, today I must seriously
wonder from what jug of Kool-Aid didst thou drink?

You perpetuate the mythos of bin Laden as an ultra-human, arch-villain rather than
destroy it.  Bin Laden did not start two wars in the Middle East—one definitely illegal. Bin
Laden did not “make” the US spy on it’s citizens, participate knowingly and fully with
extraordinary rendition, nor create the USA Patriot Act which allows the President to
remove a citizen’s rights, making him/her an “enemy combatant” simply for using his/her
right to dissent. Nor did bin Laden hold ours collective hands when we gave up our right
to bodily privacy in our homes and in our airports.

You can finagle your words to convince yourself that you have not become an apologist
for the highly suspect and perhaps illegal actions of the White House, but that does not
absolve you for even implying that the US has ANY business or right whatsoever to lay
the blame for the actions above at the feet of bin Laden.  It is like blaming an old lady of
witchery because you diseased cow died after she scolded you.  How Medieval can you
get? 

You assume that without bin Laden the US would have not so eagerly reduced our civil
rights or pushed for foreign wars of retribution.  You have lived under the umbrella or the
Beltway for too long.  History has demonstrated that power always finds the means to
perpetuate and expand itself.  Had bin Laden not presented the US governement with
the opportunity to expand it’s authoritarian rule, certainly another person or “incident”
would have provided the rationale.  Shock doctrine is the name of the game—the players
are inconsequential as long as the goal is reached; in this case increased executive
power and greater snooping into people’s lives along with the money dump at the good
ole Industrial-Military complex.

Bin Laden was a terrorist, certainly.  But, terrorism is a criminal act according to law
even if it has been ignored as such for the past decade.  He deserved a trial in order for
him tobe held accountable for his crimes.  Unfortunately, his assassination now allows
all manner of pundits to use the bin Laden myth as a convenient excuse for all of our
crimes since 9/11/2001.  God help us if we are ever held to account for ours!

The final bin Laden score has been written: OBL 1, US 0. And should anyone think that the Plutos that run the US will allow the fear that ‘imprisoned’ 300M Americans to wane, they are about to be proven, again and again, for the forseeable future, wrong.
Unless and until the citizens of the US shake the shackles thrust upon them by the avarice, hypocrisy, and lies of their ‘leaders’ and their policies, living in fear is the future.
Because so long as we keep treating the rest of the world as we have been, the rest of the world will keep creating bin Ladens.

Robinson and others like him in the press created this loathsome terrorist. Everything he knows is hearsay, propaganda, and he never questions it. Never questions 911 and the temporary suspension of the laws of Newtonian physics. He’s a very useful idiot. Why the hell does he have a byline at truthdig? He never scratches a surface, let alone dig….

FRTothus, you’re absolutely right on all of it and Noam Chomsky has been saying that America is the world’s biggest terrorist state for years. The more I read of America’s history, the real history, not the lying trash that passes for American history, the more obvious it is that the biggest threat to peace and progress is America’s corporate and military elite who are the beneficiaries of America’s violence and aggression in the third world. Globalization was invented because they wanted it and Americans don’t have a decent health care system because they don’t want it. They decide where and when the wars will be fought. They are the real government, whoever’s in the white house and they are fascists and terrorists.

I think somebody decided to play the “we got bin Laden” card in the game of American psyops.  Shot in the face and dumped in the ocean!?  I want to ask, did they tie concrete blocks to his feet first?

What a childish point of view. It wasn’t Osama bin
Laden who made us all prisoners to the US Homeland
Security/Defense Dept. War Machine, it was Bush,
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Obama, Congress & the
850,00 people who make a living in the name of
“National Security.”

Dear Eugene, which I doubt very much is your real name,seems too close to eugenics for me and going by your article you are either delusional or part of the evil being inflicted upon humanity, hence the Eugene(ics)stage name.
E, I apologise if it is your real name but on the same token i would change it to something a little less provocative if you are to continue writing for whoever you do.
Truthdig ? more like BSdig on that tripe !

Bin Laden is behind 9/11? Here why he was wanted by the FBI ” Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world.” Anything about 911??? Anything???

Robinson should stick to writing such drivel for the Washington Post. He writes of what OBL did (or is accused of doing) but never examines why OBL did it—which is not to justify the action.

Secondly, there is no “fundamentalist” Islam. Islam is Islam just as Christianity is Christianity. It is individuals or groups who will interpret religion in their own way.

The people killed in New York on 9/11 were as guilty
as those being killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and
Pakistan, and everywhere else the US wages its
indiscriminate and perpetual war of terror, exacting
collective punishment and targeting of civilians as a
matter of policy. Bin Laden had nothing to do with
9/11 (except taking credit for it, sort of), but
there is every indication and a mountain of evidence
which the faithful will continue to ignore, that it
was an inside job, carried out by key US officials
inside and outside the Pentagon and the White House,
likely with the support of Israel, a false-flag
operation using US military exercises as a cover,
pre-planted explosives, missiles, and a compliant
press.  The real operation was one of deception with
the goal being to determine if the American public
could be coerced into war based on cartoon planes,
piped-in television images, rumor and innuendo and
the same techniques used in advertising to sell any
product… and it worked spectacularly.  The dumbed-
down American public believe what the media tells
them they believe, and the intellectual and moral
midgets, in their tens of thousands, repeat the lies
which point the finger of blame east.  The US is the
world’s largest terrorist state, a criminal, lawless
state, engaging in every sort of war crime
imaginable, and on a far grander scale than anything
bin Laden could ever muster.  It is the US that is
the central figure in international terrorism. Bin
Laden wasn’t even in the same league. Further, bin
Laden, CIA asset that he was, could have been
captured while he was undergoing dialysis treatment
at the US military hospital in Dubai when he was
visited by the local CIA station chief.  He could
have been had when the Taliban offered him up to the
US several years ago, but the US had no evidence
which was what the Taliban insisted upon before
turning him over. And as certain as Robinson is of
the fairy-tale he unquestionably swallows, the
majority of people who actually use their heads for
something other than a hat rack know that the
international Mafia known as the US needs its
Hitlers, needs its Noriegas and Saddam Husseins and
Ghadaffis and bin Ladens, needs to keep using the CIA
to stir up trouble and engage in terrorism in order
to keep the US public scared, so they endlessly pay
for endless wars of aggression for resources and
domination, continue to sacrifice their civil rights
and the lives of their children. The REAL liberation
of the US will begin when the REAL perpetrators,
starting with Bush and Cheney, not patsies like Osama
bin Oswald, are brought to justice, but if turn-about
is fair play, then that justice will not be by trial,
but will be by hit squad which kills their families
and neighbors as well, just as the US does. And we
can be certain that lackeys and hypocrites like
Robinson will repeat official pronouncements and
lies, and will be there to tell us how moral and
righteous we are, no matter how despicable or
criminal our actions.