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 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28009.htm

Osama bin Laden's Second Death 

By Paul Craig Roberts 

May 02, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- 

If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool's joke this morning's headline that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight in Pakistan and quickly buried at sea. As it is, we must take it as more evidence that the US government has unlimited belief in the gullibility of Americans. 

Think about it. What are the chances that a person allegedly suffering from kidney disease and requiring dialysis and, in addition, afflicted with diabetes and low blood pressure, survived in mountain hideaways for a decade? If bin Laden was able to acquire dialysis equipment and medical care that his condition required, would not the shipment of dialysis equipment point to his location? Why did it take ten years to find him? 

Consider also the claims, repeated by a triumphalist US media celebrating bin Laden's death, that "bin Laden used his millions to bankroll terrorist training camps in Sudan, the Philippines, and Afghanistan, sending 'holy warriors' to foment revolution and fight with fundamentalist Muslim forces across North Africa, in Chechnya, Tajikistan and Bosnia." That's a lot of activity for mere millions to bankroll (perhaps the US should have put him in charge of the Pentagon), but the main question is: 

how was bin Laden able to move his money about? What banking system was helping him? The US government succeeds in seizing the assets of people and of entire countries, Libya being the most recent. Why not bin Laden's? Was he carrying around with him $100 million dollars in gold coins and sending emissaries to distribute payments to his far-flung operations? 

This morning's headline has the odor of a staged event. The smell reeks from the triumphalist news reports loaded with exaggerations, from celebrants waving flags and chanting "USA USA." Could something else be going on? 

No doubt President Obama is in desperate need of a victory. He committed the fool's error or restarting the war in Afghanistan, and now after a decade of fighting the US faces stalemate, if not defeat. The wars of the Bush/Obama regimes have bankrupted the US, leaving huge deficits and a declining dollar in their wake. And re-election time is approaching. 

The various lies and deceptions, such as "weapons of mass destruction," of the last several administrations had terrible consequences for the US and the world. But not all deceptions are the same. Remember, the entire reason for invading Afghanistan in the first place was to get bin Laden. Now that President Obama has declared bin Laden to have been shot in the head by US special forces operating in an independent country and buried at sea, there is no reason for continuing the war. 

Perhaps the precipitous decline in the US dollar in foreign exchange markets has forced some real budget reductions, which can only come from stopping the open-ended wars. Until the decline of the dollar reached the breaking point, Osama bin Laden, who many experts believe to have been dead for years, was a useful bogyman to use to feed the profits of the US military/security complex.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/massive-boost-to-obamas-chances-of-reelection-2278038.html

Massive boost to Obama's chances of re-election

View from Washington

By David Usborne, US Editor

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

It's not October and it's not a presidential election year, but call it Barack Obama's "May Surprise", the moment that he and his supporters hope will transform his political fortunes just as he launches his re-election bid. In an instant, he restored unity to a country that recently has derived all its political energy from division and strife.

How profound that boost will be and how long it will last remains to be seen. For sure, the killing of Osama bin Laden on Sunday will help inoculate Mr Obama from Republican criticism of his performance on the foreign policy stage. Many of his familiar conservative foes – even Donald Trump – are congratulating him.

"I admire the courage of the president," offered Rudy Giuliani, who tried to parlay the worship he won as mayor of New York City in its 9/11 agony to run for the White House three years ago.

George W Bush, the president who did not get Bin Laden, gave his thanks to Mr Obama, as did Dick Cheney and House Speaker John Boehner. "If something had gone wrong," Mr Giuliani said further, "everyone would be blaming him."

Nothing went wrong, and over the next few days, the White House will put flesh on the story of how the intelligence unfolded as long ago as last August on the whereabouts of Bin Laden and the role – as they will surely describe it – played by the commander-in-chief pursuing that lead all the way through to Sunday's stunning conclusion.

"The domestic political implications are considerable," Ross Baker, political affairs professor at Rutgers University, told the Politico website. "For generations the Republicans have painted the Democrats as soft on national security and hostile toward the military. This will ... allow Obama to be more closely identified with the military in the eyes of the public. Whatever consequences it may have in the war on terrorism, it is a coup for Obama and Democrats politically going into 2012."

Foreign policy, of course, may very well not be the driving force of next year's elections, but rather the escalating price of petrol and the sense that the economic recovery is simply not strong enough to repair the trauma of the recession.

Still, foreign policy is no sideshow of the Oval Office. One of its most pressing challenges is how to deliver on Mr Obama's promise to begin to wind down troop levels in Afghanistan this summer. The death of Bin Laden may give the White House the cover of victory already achieved – even though, of course, it hasn't been – to start that withdrawal on schedule.

But for now, Mr Obama and his team will be sensing a palpable mood change. For ten years America has been in a funk, unsure if it is any more the indisputable leader of the free world. The street scenes in the early hours of yesterday showed a sudden resurgence of the old spirit.

At Ground Zero, the signs held by revellers were mostly about the President. "Obama 1; Osama 0" was the message that Mike McCready was holding up, typed in bold capitals on his iPad. "If the election were today, Obama would be re-elected for certain," he said. Mr Obama has created some electoral magic. Holding on to it until November next year may be difficult, however.

President's poker face

* Barack Obama was forced to keep one of history's most impeccable poker faces in the hours leading up to the top-secret raid on Osama bin Laden's suspected compound.

At Saturday night's White House Correspondents' dinner, the comedian Seth Meyers jollified a routine about America's little-watched public television network C-Span with an unwittingly topical joke about the elusive terrorist. "People think Bin Laden is hiding in the Hindu Kush," it went. "But did you know that every day from four till five he actually hosts a show on C-Span?"

Cameras panned around the room full of guffawing guests, before settling on President Obama. Cool as a cucumber, he laughed and clapped, as if it were just another politically themed gag.

Praise for Obama

Rudy Giuliani: President Obama, our military and intelligence service deserve our admiration for their courage, dedication and professionalism. 

Donald Rumsfeld: This was an intelligence problem from the beginning... We have the ability to kill or capture: we needed the intelligence.

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