IS TERRORISM A GAME OR A BUSINESS? : Veterans Today

NO MORE CONVENIENT COINCIDENCES

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

After the Christmas bombing fiasco in Detroit, prettymuch everyone is talking about new body scanners and more torture and terrorism against decent law abiding airline passengers. Are we saying a word about the Dutch who lied to us about the terrorist's passport or the Israelis, yes, let's admit who they really are, whose airport security companies only seem to protect El Al planes and nothing else? No more terrorist "walk arounds" or hidden box cutters on planes. We aren't buying it anymore. We have had one coincidence too many.

Do we talk about folks like Michael Chertoff, the creator of our totally broken system of phony counter terrorism when he headed Homeland Security with its spying on everyone BUT terrorists. Chertoff, is the guy who now is out selling radioactive scanners to fix the problems caused by his own incompetence. He is going to make tens of millions off his own utter incompetence, or what we hope is incompetence. Does anyone really think we can stay ahead of the human mind with gadgets operated by illiterates, incompetents and, at times, terrorist sympathizers?

I would hate to start putting together a pattern of money grubbing companies, "fly by night" Cheney/Rove demagogues and the worldwide network of Israelis who seem to have their hands in both ends of every disaster and come up with an inescapable conclusion: If terrorism weren't so damned convenient, useful and profitable for everyone but the victims and the supposed terrorists, the two groups that get blown to hell, we might not have terrorism at all.

You don't have to be a genius to see a con, not one this lame.
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The next time an "expert," be it a retired spy, self proclaimed counter-terrorist consultant or one of the robotic Pentagon morons or, worse yet, the especially despicable gang at Family Security Matters, the GOP front group that fills my mailbox with childish "terrorist under the bed" stories intermingled with "vote for my thieving friend" and "send us more money so we can keep lying" messages, sticks its head up, it might be time to consider a Jihad here at home.

Time to call a halt to all of it.

I'm sorry. I am not buying any of it anymore. I'm not buyin 9/11 and Rumsfeld telling me, "I didn't know there were terrorists, it was a big surprise to all of us," or every Air Force plane in the US suddenly breaking at the same time.

I am not buying the, "We're sorry about lying to all of you about Saddam and his WMD's but we needed to steal his oil and it only killed 5000 or so kids, most of them not all that important anyway."

I am not buying the "Let's bomb and invade Iran though there is even less proof Iran has a weapons program than Saddam. There hasn't been a credible word about Iran, only the usual harping from the Murdock/Israeli press and the folks who want a chance at stealing Iran's oil too.

We knew the oil from Iraq, the oil Americans were bled to death paying for, was stolen from the people of Iraq. If a crime works once, why not try it again. Iran, expect a visit, we are coming to save you from yourselves. Start digging graves for your children, our oil tankers are on their way.

Then we come to the "whatever" in Afghanistan. I won't call it a war. War needs an enemy and some sort of objective. Our only objective is to "surge." Can't we do that here at home? It has kind of an indecent sound if you think about it.

I'm not buying the surge. Nobody is, but a few are pretending to, mostly because they are so addicted to constantly lying that they don't know how to stop. The entire idea behind our strategy is based on smoke, mirrors and horse manure. "Yes, the warlike Pashtun tribes are waiting with open arms for us to start handing out Ipods and Laptops. Nothing brings out love in a fanatical Jihadist like a bit of Steve Miller Band."
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