The death of Bin Laden is a threat to the military industrial contracts.

[kentuck]

How do they convince Americans that the American people are still in danger of being killed?

How do they keep Americans from feeling safer?

They do not want this gravy train to end. They will do everything in their power to keep it going. How about another anthrax attack? How about a bomb threat in a subway station? Something. Anything.

But, the politicians would be wise to bring our troops home. The people are tired of the military mindset, the torture, the drones, Tomahawk missiles, etc. It is time to get out of that part of the world and let those people sort out their own problems. If they want to grow opium, that is their choice. If they want to kill each other with car bombs, that is up to them. We have enough problems at home.

[malaise]

1. 100% correct

Notice how quickly they're trying to frighten people with the number two.

And don't forget he was very good for the oil men - prices moved from $29 to over $100.

Now you see why General Electric selected the three guests for MTP tomorrow.

[earthlight101]

8. YEP, AND THAT IS WHY THE STOCK MARKET TUMBLED

THEY ARE AFRAID THAT THE WAR MACHINE MIGHT LOSE SOME REVENUE BECAUSE OBL'S DEATH MIGHT CAUSE A CUTBACK IN MIL SPENDING.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Soon enough our present planet will make it so they will not have time to consider

weapons, they will be scrambling to make life support, floats, sand bags, UV shields, buildings and domiciles that can withstand severe quakes, MRE's for the masses, and so forth. They will be forced to turn their swords into plowshares. Don't laugh it is possible.

[dkf]

3. We are already moving on to Yemen

[pscot]

4. Amen

End the wars and grope searches at airports; end the WOD too.

[Vinnie From Indy]

5. That's why they label it a War on Terror

This war will never end and that is the way they like it! Bastards!

[IDemo]

6. I don't think they're too worried

Hillary pointed out that the global War on Terror will continue. OBL's death will do nothing to slow the torrent of cash flowing to military industrial interests anytime soon.

[tex-wyo-dem]

7. You're right, of course...

...always need find and maintain a powerful threat to the USA so that the gravy train will keep rolling along.

That's the beautiful thing (from the MIC's perspective) about terrorism and the "war on terror"...the enemy is an amorphous, constantly changing entity that can be molded and redefined over and over and over again to suit whatever purpose it needs to serve. It can't be totally defeated...ever...so the wars can always be justified. In reality the wars are always fought for the same reasons...resources that the wealthy want to control.

[robdogbucky]

9. This is true

You would think the MIC would have to be brought to heel, under the Pentagon's own assessment to Bush in 2004:


Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us

· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
· Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years
· Threat to the world is greater than terrorism

Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in New York
The Observer, Sunday 22 February 2004 01.33 GMT
Article history

"Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.

'Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes the Pentagon analysis. 'Once again, warfare would define human life.'..."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver



Someone's not listening. Imagine that? They would take the rest of us out just to preserve that gravy train to the last kibble.

It looks like something has someone by the cojones.

Can you hear me now?




Just my dos centavos


robdogbucky

[tekisui]

10. It seems to me they are going in the opposite direction. They are hailing

the raid as proof that what we are doing is working and must be continued. Expanded even. We are essentially in a situation now where the American people have been sufficiently prepped for acceptance of assassinations and strikes anywhere, anytime on anyone that the US government labels a threat. It can be done with little to no justification and we will silently accept it.

[GeorgeGist]

11. Counting chickens, eh?

[sabrina 1]

12. Not necessarily. Not if we are told that all that 'intelligence'

they collected in the compound has revealed plans for hundreds of attacks. Before his death was when the MIC's profit-making was threatened. The Arab Spring had awakened people to the fact that all we were told about Arab youth being signed up for terror was completely false.

Arab youth, it turned out, had no interest in living the kind of life signing on to a terror org. like Al Queda, would have meant. Iow, the whole Muslim youth/terrorists meme was completely evicerated. Bin Laden's photo, name didn't even come up in any of the revolutions. He was apparently of no interest, and certainly not a hero, of the youth of any of these countries.

What we learned from the uprisings was that the real problem for Arabs/Muslims in general was US backing for their brutal regimes, keeping them in power and preventing any real chance of democracy. The people chose to conduct peaceful revolutions, unarmed (except in Libya) and are still doing so, to get rid of these brutal dictatorships and replace them with Democratic governments.

There was no 'terror', no connections to terror orgs and Muslims and Christians were united in the goals to end those regimes. What they wanted after all was NOT fundamentalist religious regimes, they wanted jobs, decent lives for their families and for all of their citizens, Muslims and Christians, and an end to their torturing secret police infrastructure etc. who were used by the US to torture detainees. In Egypt and Tunisia those were the structures the people wanted abolished immediately.

What became clear from all of this was that the number of Muslims attracted to terror organizations had to be very, very small. No worse than our own domestic extremist groups. What these uprisings did was to completely contradict everything we have been told about Muslims and what they want so the conclusion was that there there was no more need for this vast and hugely costly WOT.

Killing Bin Laden and 'finding' all sorts of terror plots could extend the WOT for a long time.

[chill_wind]

13. Obama's counter terror chief: al-Awlaki poses a bigger threat than OBL

We'll just keep growing them bigger and badder. The number two guy is always bigger and badder, and we never run out of them.

"Obama's counterterrorism chief, Michael Leiter, has said al-Awlaki posed a bigger threat to the U.S. homeland than bin Laden did."

Terror electioneering and budgeteering was a BushCo greatest hits. We've seen it for 10 years running already, and they've learned America just can't get enough of it.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/05/06/yemen.drone.strike/?hpt=T1