El Peregringo

James Galbraith, Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin, poses some very interesting questions with regard to the alleged plot to blow up 12 airliners in his article Groundhog Day post at The Nation.

From all official statements so far, we are led to believe that August 10 was a highly developed, far-advanced conspiracy, under surveillance for some time, which could have been put into action within just a few days. And perhaps 8/10 really was the biggest thing since 9/11. But then again, perhaps it wasn’t. We don’t know yet. And it’s not too early to ask the questions on which final judgment must depend.

Well, then. Here is a checklist of some things we should shortly be hearing about. Bombs. Chemicals. Detonators. Labs. A testing ground. Airline tickets. Passports. Witnesses. Suspicious neighbors. Suspicious parents. Suspicious friends. Threats. Confessions. Let me spell this out: By definition, you cannot bomb an aircraft unless you have a bomb. In this case, we are told that there were no bombs; rather, the conspirators planned to bring on board the makings of a bomb: chemicals and a detonator. These would be mixed on board.

He goes on to detail the many questions which remain unanswered and others, for which the answers point to the alleged conspiracy as overblown political drama.

As Ana and I have been watching and reading about the alleged plot to blow up planes with liquid chemical bombs, something has been smelling very fishy. OK, so I don’t doubt that there was a plot, and I don’t doubt that arrests were made of those allegedly plotting to bomb planes.

Here’s what’s disturbing to me. I think, and I’m not alone, that the whole thing has been blown out of proportion for political ends. Our idiot moron of a president and his handlers are disturbed that his numbers are WAY down. Americans are increasingly skeptical that Dubya’s policies are making them any safer. So, what do his handlers do? Why, take a what may very well be a legitimate, though minor plot, and scare the shit out of the uneducated masses who voted against their own best interests and supported the fucking asshole in the first place. Most of the great unwashed in the US are basically pretty ignorant of the ways of the world. They don’t know that the “norm” in the US is truly aberrant in the wider world. When faced with such scare tactics, they, like the sheep they are, flock to support the ‘Murcan Way uh Lie-f and band behind their “president.”

Poor fools don’t understand how doing so will only decrease their security, decrease the status of the US and in the world, further the decline of the US as a respected global citizen, and basically ensure that the entire muslim world has even more reasons to hate the US.

Let’s face it. Muslims have never forgotten the crusades. For political and economic reasons, the vatican promoted the massacre of millions of innocent, peaceful people. The vatican gets to sit back now and watch BushCo take up the sword for them in the 21st century.