President Bush's Homeland Security Advisor, Fran Townsend recently stated that Bin Laden is "virtually impotent". As opposed to literally impotent like the Commander in Chief.
The "mainstream" media has been reduced to spewing the fear rhetoric of the Bush administration, like good little Nazis; they carry the water for Big Brother. The Telescreen flashes the doctored pictures of the person we should all fear, ala "Goldstein" in Orwell's 1984. In our sad version of the famous novel, Osama Bin Laden is flashed on the screen conveniently every time the Administration is experiencing political or legal trouble. For a great example of this, see Keith Olbermann's Nexus of Politics and Terror: Bloggermann
Sample: Number Eleven:
October 22nd, 2004. After weeks of Administration insistence that there are terrorist plans to disrupt the elections, FBI, Law Enforcement, and other U.S. Intelligence agencies report they have found no direct evidence of any plot. More over, they say, a key CIA source who had claimed knowledge of the plot, has been discredited.
October 29, 2004. Seven days later - four days before the Presidential election - the first supposedly new, datable tape of Osama Bin Laden since December 2001 is aired on the Al-Jazeera Network. A Bush-Cheney campaign official anonymously tells the New York Daily News that from his campaign’s point of view, the tape is quote "a little gift."
Whenever Bush begins to shrink in the polls (pun intended), he trots out Bin Laden or Al Zawahiri. He quotes them in his speeches, as if to say "this is what the terrorists say, so it must be true". He has said: "Zawahiri writes that Al Qaida views Iraq as, "the place of the greatest battle." "The terrorists regard Iraq as the central front in their war against humanity. We must recognize Iraq as the central front in our war against the terrorists."
Interesting how he doesn't quote Al-Zawahiri when he says "Bush is a lying, gambling alcoholic who has failed in Iraq and the Middle East." Now that I believe.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Saturday the release of a new video of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden underscored the need to show resolve in Iraq.
"The tape is a reminder about the dangerous world in which we live and it is a reminder that we must work together to protect our people," Bush told reporters after a meeting with close ally, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
"I found it interesting that on the tape, Iraq was mentioned, which is a reminder that Iraq is a part of this war against extremists," Bush said.
He added that the militant group was seeking to establish a safe haven in Iraq to launch attacks against the United States and its allies.
"Therefore it's important that we show resolve and determination to protect ourselves and deny al Qaeda safe haven."
The Orwellian propaganda is so obvious to anyone with brains and common sense. In fact, if you view the entire tape, you will notice that the current events which are mentioned are during stilled frames of the "video". This video is quite possibly a very elaborate hoax on the American people. Almost anyone with a computer and a printer can "Photoshop" pictures/video to superimpose different features to create almost any result. Just imagine the technology the CIA has at it's disposal. Yet, the complicit media never questions the validity of the tape. They just feed the people the fear, like good members of the Bush Brotherhood.
Bush and his minions need to make up their collective minds. Either Bin Laden has an impotency problem, in which case his words should not be quoted by supposedly the most important political figurehead in the U.S., whenever he needs to "get it up". Or he is the powerful leader of Al Qaida (which DID attack us on 9/11), in which case, they might want to re-think calling him "impotent".
Fran Townsend seems so confident in the fact that her words will not provoke Bin Laden into an attack on the U.S., it makes me wonder what kind of secret information she is privy to. Only someone with the knowledge of a subject's neutering, would taunt them.
"We know that al-Qaida is still determined to attack, and we take it seriously," Townsend said. "But this tape appears to be nothing more than threats. It's propaganda on their part."
This reminds me of another idiot who arrogantly said, "Bring it on".