Bush Outfoxed By Osama Bin Laden

[Itsthetruth]

CounterPunch
February 22, 2005

The Agents of Instability
Bush Outfoxed by Bin Laden
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS




President Bush's invasion has turned Iraq into a recruiting and training ground for anti-US terrorists, according to CIA director Porter Goss in testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on February 16. Goss' report was supported by Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, director of the the Defense Intelligence Agency. Jacoby told the committee that "our policies in the Middle East fuel Islamic resentment." The Iraq insurgency, Jacoby reported, has grown "in size and complexity over the past year" with daily attacks increasing 240%.

The neoconservatives' goal is the same as Osama bin Laden's--to spread instability in the Middle East. The neocons seek to foment instability in order to justify more US invasions in an insane quest to remake the Middle East in the American image. Bin Laden seeks instability in order to topple the secular rulers and recreate Islamic rule. Bin Laden does not want US troops out. He wants to suck America in deeper in order to create revolutionary insurgency throughout the Middle East.


Any day now the neocons may orchestrate a scenario that will suck the US into a wider war that America has no possibility of winning. If the American people had the slightest sense of their danger, they would demand immediate US withdrawal from Iraq and accountability for the liars who orchestrated the ill-fated US invasion.

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02222005.html

[underpants]

1. ~"Bin Laden must have been sitting on a mountain and thinking...

please please invade Iraq President Bush"

-not an exact quote but it came from Richard Clarke's book

[applegrove]

4. The Americans baited the Soviets into Afghanistan - Osama learnt

the lesson well. He really has hurt the finances of the USA too.

[underpants]

7. ~"They were young, had lots of money, and thought they could...

take down a super power. They just had."

Another close quote from Clarke's book on what became alQaeda kicking the Soviets out of Afghanistan and turning their sights on the US.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Wow, looks like the real conservatives are calling it like it is.

Roberts has the credentials to back up his position....it's quickly becoming the liberals, conservatives, and moderates AGAINST the criminals. Bushbots ought to stop drinking the kool-aid and start thinking for themselves again. They are betting on the wrong horse here.

[Itsthetruth]

6. He Certainly Does

He does have credentials:

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Blood is thicker than oil.

In my humble opinion, Bush wasn't outfoxed by just one bin Laden, but by all of them.

[Acryliccalico]

5. Outfoxed, outdone and beaten , IMHO

The only ones who don't see it are the neocons. :kick:

[Inland]

8. "Nobody could have predicted.." Of course, we did.