Osama is dead?

Fake image of dead Osama Bin Laden



What a bizarre day. First we get the announcement that Obama has finally killed Osama. I immediately think, well, they will have to thaw him out first. He's probably been dead for years. Then I see young American crowds cheering USA USA USA! Like they've just scored the winning basket in the NBA final. Then I get home to watch the news and discover that Osama's body has been buried at sea in accordance with Islamic traditional practice? What?! Let me get that right, you just got the guy supposedly responsible for the crime of the century (9/11) and you don't bring back the body for independant verification because of Muslim religious observance? You don't put his head on a spike outside Ground Zero? You've got to be joking. The building in which the final shootout occured has gone up in flames. There goes the crime scene as well.

So basically, we've got nothing. No evidence whatsoever. The Whitehouse has proved nothing. Was nothing learnt from the demise of Hitler, about the need to verify such deaths with proper documentation, lest the persistant doubts thereafter. This would get nowhere in a court of law.

How stupid do they think we are? Well, by the way the news is being taken at face value and the celebrations have erupted, they think we are quite stupid and sadly they are right.

Regardless of the veracity or otherwise of OBL's death, here are the likely benefits to the Obama administration:

-Immediate boost to Obama's flagging approval rating

-Everyone fails to notice the Photoshop experts declaring Obama's birth certificate a fake

-Afghanistan can be declared mission accomplished and they can move the troops out of there and into Libya

-They have an excuse to go and thump Pakistan for harboring OBL

-The Truthers heading to Ground Zero this year for the big 10th anniversary of 9/11 will now be challenged by pro USA chanting dupes emboldened by today's news

-But worst, they can stage another false flag attack on the US mainland in the guise of an Al Qaeda "retaliation"

The War on Terror is not over. It's meant to be a war without end against a faceless foe. OBL will be replaced by another boogie man and he will held responsible for a staged atrocity. Tomorrow, the TSA will continue to naked body scan US citizens and grope their gentials. Osama might have been written out of the script but this soap opera has plenty more episodes to run.