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?
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
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