WHY BUSH LIKES ISLAMIC TERRORISM

Earlier this month I wrote about how, despite spending countless taxpayer dollars, the Bush administration has left our nation's borders wide open to one and all, done nothing to make the hazardous chemical industry more secure, and has not convicted a single terrorist.

Last week, the other shoe dropped. From CNN (just in case you didn't already hear about this):

CIA chief has 'excellent idea' where bin Laden is

CIA Director Porter Goss says he has an "excellent idea" where Osama bin Laden is hiding, but that the al Qaeda chief will not be caught until weak links in the war on terrorism are strengthened.

In an interview with TIME magazine published Sunday, Goss said part of the difficulty in capturing bin Laden was "sanctuaries in sovereign nations."

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Never mind the fact that the Bush administration has made it repeatedly clear that national sovereignty means nothing as far as hunting terrorists goes, what's important here is that Goss cryptically claims to know where bin Laden is, but offers a slipshod excuse as to why we don't go get him. The only way that statement makes any sense is if either Goss is lying about bin Laden's whereabouts or Bush is lying about his desire to capture him "dead or alive." One way or another, somebody's lying. My guess is that it's Bush.

Adding fuel to the fire is this report from MSNBC courtesy of the Daily Kos:

Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermind

With Tuesday’s attacks, Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, is now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq.

But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself — but never pulled the trigger.

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If you read the article, you'll find the same kind of flimsy explanations offered by Goss. Again, the point is that US officials know where terrorists are, but do nothing about it. This isn't simple incompetence; it's happening too consistently. It's pretty easy to conclude that our President just doesn't want to do anything that would actually make Americans safer from terrorists. Throw in the fact that making war on Afghanistan and Iraq has done nothing but enrage Muslim populations world wide, and it appears that Bush is trying to provoke Islamic terrorism.

But why?

The answer is pretty simple. Just look at Republican history. The Reagan administration back in the 80s managed to stoke the Cold War fears of American voters by trumping up the danger of such communist powerhouses as Grenada, Nicaragua, and Cuba. The Gipper's "Evil Empire" gambit worked exceedingly well, convincing Americans to vote against their own economic interests, believing that only the GOP was tough enough to deal with the threat of the menacing Nicaraguan Red Army, which was "only three day's march" away from the Texas border. It was all bullshit, of course, but the perpetual fear mongering had its effect, and Reagan was reelected in a landslide in 1984.

The obvious connection to today is that numerous officials and advisors from those sick days are back in the White House, playing the same game. Bush really seems to want another terrorist attack on American soil--it's the only way that Americans will put up with the rest of his conservative lunatic policies; he'll keep us "safe." That's why "Homeland Security" is simply a charade. That's why bin Laden and his top lieutenant Zarqawi remain at large despite excellent opportunities to capture or kill them. They're much more valuable to Bush alive, as propaganda tools, than dead. The "War on Terrorism" is a joke, and Bush actually likes Islamic terrorism.

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