Something has always bothered me about the Bush Administration’s turnaround on Osama Bin Laden. Consider these two quotes with emphasis on the time lapse between the two:

The most important thing for us is to find Osama bin Laden. It’s our number one priority, and we will not rest until we find him.
–George W. Bush, September 13, 2001–

I don’t know where he is. I have no idea, and I really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.
–George W. Bush, March 13, 2002–

We’re talking about a major shift in the focus of the enemy in only six months. At the time, I thought it was probably because OBL had been captured and was being interrogated (read tortured) and would be brought out on a spike at a later date.

But my conspiratorial mind also made the connection that if one were to create a national enemy, you would want no better than the caricature of evil that OBL has become.

I remember watching an NBC special in 1993 titled Ancient Prophecies where one of the scholars was discussing the Third Antichrist as prophesized by Nostra Damus. He said that his name would be some version of the name “Mabos” and that he would make his appearance in 1997 or shortly thereafter. Amazingly, this was about the same time (1998) that Osama bin Laden issued his now infamous declaration of war against the United States.

So, I had to do a double take when I came to page 123 in Crossing the Rubicon (affiliate link) which had the above two Bush quotes and this section:

Osama bin Laden is probably the last witness the United States would like to have interrogated. There is a compelling case to be made that Osama bin Laden has long been a well-cultivated, protected, and valued asset of US and British intelligence. It is also possible that he has been used.

The bin Laden family of Saudi Arabia is vastly different from what has been described in the American press. Much of its wealth, power sophistication, and political and economic influence has been overlooked. And this does much to explain why American corporate media has avoided discussing it in detail.

To understand the deep connections and alliances between the bin Ladens and Western economic and political interests–including the Bush family–is to glimpse the overall fragmented nature of Saudi Arabia: at once extremely powerful and extremely fragile because of its own internal fault lines; under intense pressure and held together by extraordinary means; manipulated unceasingly by the United States and its own elites.

It is necessary to dispel one popular myth that has remained in the public consciousness since September 11: that of Osama bin Laden as an outcast, totally estranged from his family. This estrangement allegedly occurred after the 1991 Iraq War as the United States kept its military bases on Saudi soil and Osama, who had been a US ally and CIA protege during the Soviet-Afghan conflict of the 1980s, turned towards terrorism.

When I read this, I went back to Jim Garrison’s book On the Trail of the Assassins where he argues that Oswald was a patsy created and fostered by the government to a specific end. Ruppert argues that the end, in the case of Osama bin Laden, was to create public support for an invasion of the Middle East that would allow American corporate interests to seize control over the last remaining fossil fuels in the era of peak oil when supply will be far surpassed by demand and the global economy will self-destruct, ushering in a Mad Max-like end times scenario.

I also go to the video interview of James Files (the man I believe helped murder President Kennedy in Dallas 1963) when he was asked by the interviewer if the though the American government would kill people. Without missing a beat, he said, “Absolutely.” Then he looked into the camera and said, “The US government will kill people.” I don’t think I ever felt so alone and hopeless as I did the first time I heard James Files speak that sentence.

At some point, all governments and corporations are deaf, blind, and completely stupid. It is at this point that human will intervenes and this nexus is where history is made and it is beyond good and evil. This point really does come down to sheer will and was the point from which Nietzsche spoke in both Beyond Good and Evil and Thus Spake Zarathustra.

So, if Osama bin Laden was just a patsy, you’ve got to admit that his handlers did an oustanding job of setting him up and shutting him down when they needed him the most.

But it could just be a bunch of bogus boogey-man give you nightmares bedtime stories also…Then again, maybe we’re not paranoid enough.

What do you think?

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