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The Osama Videotapes and Audiotapes, are They Real? The Mainstream Media and Bush Don't Seem to Care.

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 8:51am.

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Kristina Borjesson

(Borjesson's most recent BuzzFlash commentary on the questionable authenticity and origin of many "terrorist tapes" "leaked by the White House, CIA and Pengaton was, "Does The Hormuz Videotape Literally Produced by the Pentagon Mean Cue Up the War with Iran?" This is another commentary in an going series about the lack of the mainstream media's interest into exploring what are real terrorist threats and what is psy-ops propaganda produced by our own government.)

On Monday, in the Al Qaeda section of his State of the Union address, President Bush cited an unauthenticated December 2007 audiotape, purportedly a message from Osama bin Laden, as evidence that the surge of US troops in Iraq was having the desired effect. “Last month, Osama bin Laden released a tape in which he railed against Iraqi tribal leaders who have turned on al Qaeda and admitted that coalition forces are growing stronger in Iraq….Ladies and gentlemen, some may deny the surge is working, but among the terrorists there is no doubt. Al Qaeda is on the run in Iraq, and this enemy will be defeated.” The president’s words were met with a virtually unanimous standing ovation, long applause, and hoots of approval, including what sounded like one loud signature Marine Corps Hoorah!

Four days earlier, in their article “Attacks Imperil U.S.-Backed Militias in Iraq,” New York Times reporters Solomon Moore and Richard A. Oppel Jr. mentioned the same unauthenticated videotape. “American-backed Sunni militias who have fought Sunni extremists to a standstill in some of Iraq’s bloodiest battlegrounds are being hit with a wave of assassinations and bomb attacks,” they reported, “at least 100 predominantly Sunni militiamen…have been killed in the past month.” Further down in their article they add, “American and Iraqi officials blame al Qaeda in Mesopotamia for most of the killings, which spiked after the December 29 release of an audio recording in which Osama bin Laden called the volunteer tribesmen ‘traitors’ and ‘infidels’.”

So, according to President Bush the unauthenticated audiotape shows al Qaeda on the run thanks to the surge. But according to the New York Times, the same unauthenticated tape shows al Qaeda on the offense—and a bloody one at that.

The awful truth is, it doesn’t matter if the tapes are real. They are having a real effect, thanks to reporters and government leaders who treat them as genuine even though they can’t prove it.

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION

Kristina Borjesson is an award-winning investigative reporter and media critic. Her books, INTO THE BUZZSAW: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press and FEET TO THE FIRE: The Media After 9/11, Top Journalists Speak Out, both won the Independent Publishers Award for Best Book in the Current Events category. INTO THE BUZZSAW also won the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism. This editorial is the fourth in an ongoing series examining press and government use of unauthenticated material in reportage and official announcements related to the War on Terrorism.

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Fool Us Once Shame On Them, Fool Us Twice* Shame On Us

Submitted by crackerjack on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 8:55pm.

"But what can we do about it?"

"Put someone in the White House who upon taking office is going to end the Iraq war plus turning things around here at home."

"And then what sort of world?"

"That'll be up to us."

*with twice being a gross undercount of the number of times they've tricked us into a war

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Media and Bush Don't Care If They Are Real? Wrong!

Submitted by kjlovell on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 3:06pm.

Don't kid yourself, they care very very much. They know they aren't real - or you would never hear about anything else except what a current and very real danger OBL is.

They are not however real, and OBL is most likely dead. The neo-CONs don't want their favorite bad guy to be dead or their whole illusion of danger is proven a lie.

If we would ask ourselves who found and trained OBL we might second guess the motives of this criminal mis-administration. One might wonder why 911 isn't mentioned on OBL's wanted poster.

The reason he isn't blamed for it - it was an inside job. With links directly to the shrubs.

Don't be suprised when the next false flag attack happens and we're subjected to martial law, cancelled elections and chimpy sticks around. As stupid as you may think dumbya is - he isn't, so don't be fooled. He is not stupid - just plain evil. Stupid dictators wouldn't have a plan "b" - see paraguay.

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Dumbyass' Plan B

Submitted by Norm on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 4:51pm.

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
Written by Frank Morales
Thursday, 26 October 2006

President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions.

Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."

President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America. Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is "martial law."

Section 1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon another $500-plus-billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies." Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal law" states that "the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public order, "in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy."

http://www.towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/911/

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