This is one of this funniest liberal pieces I’ve seen in awhile from my city’s favorite newspaper, the LA Times. I refuse to buy this liberal rag but I do read the free stuff online just to get this kind of silly crap. Apparently Robert Scheer believes the threat from Al-Qaeda is a figment of Bush’s imagination.
Is it conceivable that Al Qaeda, as defined by President Bush as the center of a vast and well-organized international terrorist conspiracy, does not exist?
Apparently he gets this from a BBC documentary which he call’s “brillant”
“The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear,” a three-hour historical film by Adam Curtis recently aired by the British Broadcasting Corp., argues coherently that much of what we have been told about the threat of international terrorism “is a fantasy that has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians. It is a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services and the international media.”Stern stuff, indeed. But consider just a few of the many questions the program poses along the way:
? If Osama bin Laden does, in fact, head a vast international terrorist organization with trained operatives in more than 40 countries, as claimed by Bush, why, despite torture of prisoners, has this administration failed to produce hard evidence of it?
? How can it be that in Britain since 9/11, 664 people have been detained on suspicion of terrorism but only 17 have been found guilty, most of them with no connection to Islamist groups and none who were proven members of Al Qaeda?
? Why have we heard so much frightening talk about “dirty bombs” when experts say it is panic rather than radioactivity that would kill people?? Why did Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claim on “Meet the Press” in 2001 that Al Qaeda controlled massive high-tech cave complexes in Afghanistan, when British and U.S. military forces later found no such thing?
What’s very funny is the fact that they only name Bush as claiming Al-Qaeda is kinda dangerous, as Bill Roggio pointed out he isn’t the only one. The United Nations, France, Germany, Britain, Israel, Russia, China, and NATO also think they can be a little scary.
Is this documentary and Scheer not read the 9/11 report? Right Wing News goes on:
What exactly is the hard evidence he seeks? There is evidence, if he took time to read the 9-11 Commission Report. Much of the background information is taken from interrogations from Hambali, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and others. These men are al-Qaeda terrorists with global ties in South East Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the United States. Perhaps he would have liked these terrorists (or are they just suspects to Mr. Scheer?) to be physically brought before the 9-11 commission to testify in person?
Some other ?hard evidence? exists of al Qaeda?s global reach. He should review al Qaeda’s attacks on 9-11, Madrid, Beslan, Bali, Jakarta, Iraq, the USS Cole in Yemen, the US Embassies in Kenya & Tanzania, the attacks on the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, the ongoing attacks by al Qaeda in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Afghanistan…just for starters. Simply plotting these attacks on a world map will demonstrate the global reach of al-Qaeda.
Apparently Scheer believes it’s us conservatives who have cooked up this conspiracy:
But the film, both more sober and more deeply provocative than Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11,” directly challenges the conventional wisdom by making a powerful case that the Bush administration, led by a tight-knit cabal of Machiavellian neoconservatives, has seized upon the false image of a unified international terrorist threat to replace the expired Soviet empire in order to push a political agenda.
Yup, that’s it. A bunch of Republican’s cooked up this thing about Al-Qaeda to scare everyone so they can get some more big toys. Give me a freakin break. This reminds me of those who say Hitler never killed any Jews, it was all a cooked up conspiracy. Bill then makes a great point.
Democrats try to comfort themselves by claiming the views of those like Mr. Scheer are on the fringe, but the reality is Mr. Scheer?s views are main stream within the party. Over the past year we have seen the respect given to Michael Moore and the willingness of Democratic candidates to embrace his rhetoric, the rejection of serious pro-war candidate Senator Lieberman and the ascendancy of antiwar candidates John Kerry, Wesley Clark and Howard Dean in the Democratic primaries, the embrace of antiwar groups such as Moveon.org, the reelection of Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, a willingness to refer to American soldiers as torturers by the likes of Senator Kennedy, the grilling of Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales over ?torture? by Democratic Senators, and the excitement over Howard Dean?s intention to become chairman of
the Democratic National Committee, and much more. This does not bode well for a party that aspires to regain power during a time of war.
I actually welcome this kind of theory, they keep this up and it will be a looooong time before the moonbats get one of theirs elected to the White House.
Go check out Bill Roggio, there is much more information on his post. Right Wing News, and What Attitude Problem has much more also.
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