Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead...

So they finally got Osama Ben Laden tonight. Great. Only took ten years and billions of dollars and thousands of American lives. Or did it?

After September 11, 2001 when it came to light that the bandit we were looking for was OBL, and he might be in Afghanistan there was not anyone in this country who didn't support going after him. Nuke him until he glows and shoot him in the dark! Going into Afghanistan was the RIGHT thing to do.

Of course, invading Saudi Arabia to stop his funding and go after his family would have been a much better idea. But no, the Bush family has close ties to the Saudi Royal Family. Hell their one son, who was Ambassador to this country was known around Washington DC as, "Bandar Bush" because, Prince Bandar was so close to the Bush family. Used to smoke cigars on the White House balcony with, "W".

Still, going into Afghanistan was a good idea. Until it wasn't.

Shortly after we went THERE, we were sold a big bag of bullshit, that the REAL problem was Saddam Hussein in Iraq. He was developing nuclear weapons. He has weapons of mass destruction. He was aiding Alqeda by hosting terrorist training camps. He was going to invade or bomb Israel. He had weapons that could reach the United States!

All bullshit But he DID sit on top of the second largest oil reserve in the world. And we would use this as an excuse to go after it, and reclaim American interest in the infrastructure that was taken from Shell and Exxon/Mobile and the rest when, Hussein nationalized the oil industry when he took over.

Who had the BIGGEST oil reserves? The Saudis. The friends of, "W" who spawned Ben Laden, and the terrorists who committed the atrocities of 9-11. But we won't go after THEM!

So we go into Afghanistan for GOOD reasons, and Iraq for all the WRONG reasons and end up stuck in TWO wars we really didn't NEED to fight. But hey, it's OK. It's only going to last six months right? Just ask, "Rummy"!

Well, sometime in 2002 or 2003 information starts to leak out that our Special Forces have OBL cornered in the Bekaa Valley of Afghanistan. They could take him out. But were told not to by the White House. Why would they do that?

Because if they killed him THEN, there would be no reason to continue the War in Iraq and get the oil back for the American oil companies! DUH!

So they let him go.

And who didn't know that he went right to Pakistan from there? Really? Do you read as little as, Sarah Palin? Are you that stupid? Really?

Our intelligence forces DID know it. Why do you think there were so many drones dropping missiles into Pakistan for all these years?

Now, the, "Packi's" can claim we violated their sovereignty by coming over the boarder without permission, but they are full of shit. They might have, "The Bomb" but they got no way to get it HERE. And they know that if we thought, for even a minute they would try to use it on us, or India we would wipe them off the face of the earth.

So tonight, with an American Presidential Election coming right up, we get word that the, "Packi's" (yeah, I know it's a raciest term in England. But I'm using it on purpose. Fuck em) "helped us" get, OBL. Helped us? Right.

They had to know that given the political situation in this country right now, the current President knew that OBL was in Packistan. And he would be happy to use that intelligence to bomb the shit out of the place and gain MEGA political clout with even the MOST right wing nut balls in this country just before the campaign starts.

Well played, Mr. President. Well played.

Now, can we just please, please, bring the troops home? From Germany!

And Japan, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan?

Did we learn nothing from the fact that the Russian's spent 10 years in Afghanistan and couldn't win? Get out, get out now, and call it a, "retreat with honor" or some other bullshit, but get out! We got Ben Laden. Now, lets go home! That country sucks, and we can't change it, so let them govern themselves how ever they want.

Same goes for Iraq. We killed the evil dictator for them. Now? Bring everyone home and let them get on with their lives. Hell, we killed, by some estimates, almost a million of their civilians. I think we have done enough there.

Germany is pretty stable now. The Soviet Union is gone. Why are we still there?

Japan? It's getting on OK. We can quit sending troops to rape school girls in Guam and probably still be safe.

Korea might still be a problem. What with, "Lil' Kim" threatening to invade. But if we brought MOST of the troops home, we could still get there in a few days if anything happened and we had an interruption in our supply of cheap ass cars that LOOK like Audi's but aren't.

The first time Deb and I were in Grenada, we took a bus tour of the island. It's a beautiful place. I asked the tour guide what the locals thought of the, Ronny Ray-Gun invasion of the country in 1983. The pretext being that the Cubans were building an airport that would allow Soviet planes to land there and become a Communist outpost in the Caribbean.

He said, "We were glad you came, Mon. But you stayed too long, you know?"

This last trip to Grenada, we took a tour with the Markham's on the day there were there. Saw that airport. The shot up Russian plane (yes, singular. Plane) is still where is was when we shot it up in 1983.

So, ding dong, the witch is dead, the wicked witch, the witch oh witch. Ding dong the wicked witch is dead. What took so fucking long! Now, can we get out of the middle east, bring all the troops home and quit trying to be an empire? Ask England about how well THAT works out.

And if we had all our troops home? We might have been able to turn Libya into a democracy and steal THEIR oil, all at the same time!

As the events of tonight unfolded, I couldn't help but think about Robin Williams comedy special on HBO a few years ago where he was talking about the hijackers getting their 70 virgins. He claimed there was a mistake and it was actually 70 Virginians. So right now, if there is a heaven and hell, OBL is is being made a, "Prison Bitch" by George Washington, Andrew Jackson and Robert E. Lee. And with any luck at all? Micheal Vick's former dogs.