Once it became clear that Ayman al-Zawahiri was not amongst the dead women and children in the mountain village of Damadola, Pakistan, the Bush Administration, the CIA, the Pentagon, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and all three U.S. cable news outlets realized they had a problem.
So now they're out to solve the problem. Yesterday, I became nauseated watching Wolf Blitzer trying to cover up his mistakes of a few days before when he said they "might, might, MIGHT have killed Ayman al-Zawahiri" (saying it in every way as if he meant that they PROBABLY got Al Qaeda's #2). more....
Well, Wolf got thrown a bone. Yesterday, he was using the "might, might, MIGHT" again, only this time, it was in reference to "Top Al Qaeda Terrorists". Evidently, one of the ones we're to believe they might, might, MIGHT have gotten was the one responsible for Al Qaeda's experimentation into nerve gas weapons. We know this because Wolf kept playing that despicable footage of the dog getting gassed. That same footage we saw over and over and over before the Iraq invasion. Any time you see that poor dog die over and over and over... you know you're getting fed a carefully crafted and very effective line of bullshit. Convenient bullshit. The effect of that footage upon American audiences is devastating and complete. CNN knows the truth. The truth, in this case, is that Americans care a lot more for that long-dead yellow dog than they do the recently dead women and children of Damadola, Pakistan.
Read the most recent reports on CNN.com
You'll find that the bodies of the four "Terrorists" killed no longer exist. Conveniently, nothing can be proven. It will remain maybe maybe maybe. That's good enough when you show that dog getting gassed. This is nothing but a war crime. It is being covered up by Pakistani intelligence. It is saving President Gen. Pervez Musharraf his job and quite possibly his life. It is saving CNN their pride.
You never hear from that poor man in Damadola, Pakistan, the one who had his house destroyed and three of his children killed, the one who said he didn't know who these terrorists everyone was talking about were and they certainly weren't in his now-leveled house.... you'll never hear from him again.
We killed one of his cows, too. Pitty it wasn't a dog.