Evidence Is Bin Laden Has Cleverly Played Off Bush's Arrogance & Belligerence (Robert Parry)

Pakistan Is 'Central Front,' Not Iraq

By Robert Parry
December 28, 2007

The chaos spreading across nuclear-armed Pakistan after the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is part of the price for the Bush administration’s duplicity about al-Qaeda’s priorities, including the old canard that the terrorist group regards Iraq as the “central front” in its global war against the West.

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Through repetition of this claim – often accompanied by George W. Bush’s home-spun advice about the need to listen to what the enemy says – millions of Americans believe that Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders consider Iraq the key battlefield.

However, intelligence evidence, gathered from intercepted al-Qaeda communications, indicate that bin Laden’s high command views Iraq as a valuable diversion for U.S. military strength, not the “central front.”

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Now, with Bhutto’s death and with unrest sweeping Pakistan, Bush’s Iraq War backers are sure to argue that these developments again prove the president right, that an even firmer hand is needed to combat terrorism and that the next president must be someone ready to press ahead with Bush’s concept of a “long war” against Islamic extremism.

But the reality again appears different. Though rarely mentioned in the American press, the evidence is that bin Laden and other extremists have cleverly played off Bush’s arrogance and belligerence to strengthen their strategic hand within the Muslim world.

By keeping Bush focused on Iraq, al-Qaeda and its allies also bought time to transform themselves into a more lethal threat in Pakistan, with the danger that the new turmoil could win al-Qaeda its ultimate prize, control of a nuclear bomb.

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I don't think even he could have imagined the success from playing the Chimp for a fool any better. Of course Cheney, I mean, Bush, uses threats of terror for his own purposes, so maybe they're a match made in heaven.

Imagine-nineteen or so people and some box cutters brought an empire to its knees, cowering in fear at every unattended suitcase left sitting in an airport or bus station. Pretty f-ing clever use of resources actually. Maybe a few hundred thousand spent over the course of those years of prep, and nineteen lives, vs. billions and billions spent and hundreds of thousands of lives (if you count the Afghans and Iraqis as people worth counting, which our government doesn't).

weren't even on the air plane 911 passenger lists. Some are even alive. What a lie we Americans are believing. Booo!!

Bin Laden could have been captured many times but has not. He was on a kidney machine and is probably dead. He was in the CIA and a Bush family friend. DA!

The lies and stories about Bin Laden are all bull crap. The motives of our own leaders more suspect. Bin Laden didn't remove our rights or bankrupt our country. He didn't attack an innocent country such as Iraq (rob it and steal the oil)...Bush has.

We want Bush "Laden" gone.

"Iraq is laughable in comparison with this issue. The Bush Administration was hunting the shadow instead of the prey." -- Chain of Command; Seymour Hersch; page 318

They are writ large, and only a fool wouldn't take advantage of them. "Keeping * focused on Iraq"? Baloney! * was focused on Iraq before he took office, and he has no agenda other than raping that nation for the enrichment of his cronies.