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General: Eliminating bin Laden not priority
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By CHRIS VAUGHNFort Worth Star-Telegram
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FORT WORTH — The Army's highest-ranking officer and the former leader of the secretive world of Special Operations offered his thoughts on the importance of capturing or killing Osama bin Laden during a luncheon here Friday.
They're probably not what anyone expected.
"I don't know whether we'll find him," Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, said in a speech to the Rotary Club of Fort Worth. "I don't know that it's all that important, frankly."
Schoomaker, pulled out of retirement in 2003 to lead the Army, pointed to the capture of Saddam Hussein, the killings of his sons, Uday and Qusay, and the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as evidence that bin Laden's capture or death would have little effect on the threats to the United States.
"So we get him, and then what?" Schoomaker said. "There's a temporary feeling of goodness, but in the long run, we may make him bigger than he is today. He's hiding, and he knows we're looking for him. We know he's not particularly effective. I'm not sure there's that great of a return" on capturing or killing bin Laden.
In the minority?His comments would put him in rare company in this country, according to the chairman of the history department at the University of North Texas and a former Army infantry officer.
"I don't think the vast majority of American people would agree with him," said Adrian Lewis, the author of a new book, The American Culture of War. For overall effect, General Schoomaker may be right. If we kill Osama, al-Qaida is not going to go away.
"But my own estimate is that there would be considerable psychological and morale benefits, not just for the American people but for our credibility around the world, if we captured Osama."
Schoomaker is due to be replaced as chief of staff in April, handing the reins to Gen. George Casey.

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Bin Laden is worth more to the war machine as a living boogey
man.
When you are terrified.... our trusted representatives can get away with murder (and theft and torture and the shredding of the Constituion they have sworn to defend).

FBI says, "No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 911"

Audit: Anti-terror case data flawed - Yahoo! News

FAKE TERRORISM

Audit: Anti-terror case data flawed Yahoo News
WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors counted immigration violations, marriage fraud and drug trafficking among anti-terror cases in the four years after 9/11 even though no evidence linked them to terror activity, a Justice Department audit said Tuesday.

Oooga-Booga generator exposed!

Because, when you are terrorized.... our "representatives" can get away with mass murder, torture, cronyism and theft.

911 911 911 911 Be afraid, be afraid!!

Escapa!

Try this game Escapa!

Fair warning, its addicting.


PILOT TEST
This will drive you nuts!!

The object of the game is to move the red block around without getting hit by the blue blocks or touching the black walls.
If you can go longer than 18 seconds you are phenomenal.

The US Air Force uses this for fighter pilots. They are expected to go for at least 2 minutes.

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Democracy Now! | Citing Democracy Now!/BBC Broadcast, Rep. John Conyers Confronts Bush and Demands Investigation of Vulture Funds: "Conyers also reveals that on Thursday he met with President Bush and asked him to stop vulture investors from preying upon African debtor nations."

BUSH CLAIMED IGNORANCE?... playing the stupid hick card again. While all his elite cronies are getting rich..... he is looking the other way. Sheehan is the anti-hero reverse of Robin Hood, stealing from the poor while making the rich richer.

Democracy Now! | “Vulture Fund” Company Seeks $40 Million Payment from Zambia on $4 Million Debt: "GREG PALAST: Speculators, the vultures, realized they could make massive profits off everyone else's generosity by diverting into their own pockets the debt relief meant for the poor.
UNIDENTIFIED 1: You look at an animal. The meat’s all been picked off. The country seems bankrupt. And these guys can double, triple or make even more of their money. Debt relief is actually just clearing a path for the vultures to walk in right behind them.
GREG PALAST: Here's how the vultures got Zambia. In 1979, Romania lent them $15 million. By 1998, Zambia was broke, so Romania offered to write off the entire debt for just $3 million. But before the deal was final, a vulture swooped in, and somehow snatched Romania’s cheap offer for his own company.
Michael Sheehan and his associates are now suing Zambia, not for the $3 million they paid, but for the original debt, plus interest: $42 million. But even bigger money is to be made in the US courtrooms, where Sheehan and others are asking for hundreds of millions of dollars from several desperately poor nations. "