Afghanistan provides one-third of the world's heroin, and with the poppy harvest doubling this year ... could this be a rerun of Iran-Contra? The same Daddy Bush crooks are baaack, but poor Dubya's probably 'out of the loop' too, just like Dad was. (Surprise: Cheney's probably in charge.) The unaccounted-for $12 billion dollars brought to Iraq wasn't enough for the greedy monsters?
Guantanamo Bay: More than 460 men (and boys) have been held more than four years but only 10 have been charged with a crime. Anyone seen/heard of a trial? Probably because there hasn't been one! Bush/Cheney say they can imprison the men for the rest of their lives. The same policy is in place in Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan, but public outcry did force the Pentagon to scrap plans to classify (and hide) interrogation techniques. Where's the evidence of their probable guilt? We'll probably be considered 'enemy combatants' and locked up in Halliburton's soon-to-be-built American Guantanamos across the country.
The (latest) reported death of Musab al-Zarqawi ends a Pentagon (incompetent) psychological operation. Official accounts say two 500 pound bombs were dropped on the house, leaving a 40 foot crater, but al-Zarqawi's body was barely marked. Strange? Five dead, two other men, al-Zarqawi's 16 year old wife and 5 year old child. U.S. troops couldn't take out 3 men without dropping bombs?
Zarqawi, (the terrorist mastermind?) was ridiculed saying he didn't even know how to handle a gun, but ...... Bush said: "We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade." Really? A CIA report found no evidence of any "links" between Saddam and Zarqawi. So goes the U.S. propaganda efforts in Iraq which cost $24 million, (just in 2004) ... and who will get the $25 million Bush placed on Zarquawi's head (dead or alive?)
Consider the the photo-op (without a plastic turkey this time) by Bush as a taxpayer funded trip for a 15 minute visit with a Prime Minister who didn't even know he was coming. I don't think Iraqis want terrorists crossing their border in the dead of night, either, and what a way to show the Iraqi people who's really in charge! This should satisfy the blood lusting neo-cons for awhile, until they find the next 'terrorist' .. since bin Laden's been forgotten.
How much longer will people fall for this smoke and mirrors? How many more must die?