We Created Bin Laden by Michael Moore Well, the pundits are in full diarrhea mode, gushing on about the ?terrorist threat? and today?s scariest dude on planet earth ? Osama bin Laden. Hey, who knows, maybe he did it. But, something just doesn?t add up. Am I being asked to believe that this guy who sleeps in a tent in a desert has been training pilots to fly our most modern, sophisticated jumbo jets with such pinpoint accuracy that they are able to hit these three targets without anyone wondering why these planes were so far off path? InnerSelf Magazine Thousands of articles on health, lifestyle changes, behavior, parenting astrology, and much more. Holistic Politics Social and political commentary, discussion forums, and thousands of news feeds. Natural Yellow Pages Listings of natural products and services worldwide. List your natural product or service. Article Index - Back Online Soon Links to related articles around the web. Share a link to your articles online here. InnerSelf Market Natural products sold and shipped by Innerself What I do know is that all day long I have heard everything about this bin Laden guy except this one fact ? WE created the monster known as Osama bin Laden! Where did he go to terrorist school? At the CIA! Don?t take my word for it ? I saw a piece on MSNBC last year that laid it all out. When the Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan, the CIA trained him and his buddies in how to commits acts of terrorism against the Soviet forces. It worked! The Soviets turned and ran. Bin Laden was grateful for what we taught him and thought it might be fun to use those same techniques against us. We abhor terrorism ? unless we?re the ones doing the terrorizing. We paid and trained and armed a group of terrorists in Nicaragua in the 1980s who killed over 30,000 civilians. That was OUR work. You and me. Thirty thousand murdered civilians and who the hell even remembers! We fund a lot of oppressive regimes that have killed a lot of innocent people, and we never let the human suffering THAT causes to interrupt our day one single bit. We have orphaned so many children, tens of thousands around the world, with our taxpayer-funded terrorism (in Chile, in Vietnam, in Gaza, in Salvador) that I suppose we shouldn?t be too surprised when those orphans grow up and are a little whacked in the head from the horror we have helped cause. Yet, our recent domestic terrorism bombings have not been conducted by a guy from the desert but rather by our own citizens: a couple of ex-military guys who hated the federal government. From the first minutes of today?s events, I never heard that possibility suggested. Why is that? Maybe it?s because the A-rabs are much better foils. A key ingredient in getting Americans whipped into a frenzy against a new enemy is the all-important race card. It?s much easier to get us to hate when the object of our hatred doesn?t look like us. Congressmen and Senators spent the day calling for more money for the military; one Senator on CNN even said he didn?t want to hear any more talk about more money for education or health care ? we should have only one priority: our self-defense. Will we ever get to the point that we realize we will be more secure when the rest of the world isn?t living in poverty so we can have nice running shoes? In just 8 months, Bush gets the whole world back to hating us again. He withdraws from the Kyoto agreement, walks us out of the Durban conference on racism, insists on restarting the arms race ? you name it, and Baby Bush has blown it all. The Senators and Congressmen tonight broke out in a spontaneous version of ?God Bless America.? They?re not a bad group of singers! Yes, God, please do bless us. Let?s mourn, let?s grieve, and when it?s appropriate let?s examine our contribution to the unsafe world we live in. It doesn?t have to be like this? Yours, Michael Moore   Book written by this author: "Stupid White Men... And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!" by Michael Moore Info/Purchase This Book. About The Author Michael Moore can be contacted by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or by visiting his websites: www.theawfultruth.com and www.michaelmoore.com where you will find archives of his articles and columns. Comments (0) >> Write comment Name Website Title Comment Write the displayed characters Add Comment

 

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