Bush im Umfragehoch
For the last five years the elusive Osama bin Laden has served the Bush administration best by evading capture. While he's out there, he symbolizes the "at large" enemy who, by the sophistry of spin doctors, helps justify our invasions of Afghanistan and to a lesser extent Iraq. Bin Laden is the US version of "the Great Satan," the personification of that external enemy that any would-be fascist state knows it needs, to misdirect the attention of the people.
But the mid-term elections are less than two months away. And the Republicans are in danger of losing congressional control. Bush scored some points with his sophistic address to the nation on 9/11/06. But the effects of oratory are fleeting, there's dissention in the GOP ranks, and the Dems smell blood.
Either one of two things could turn the tide for the Republicans.
The first is another mini-"American Pearl Harbor" scripted as usual by friends of the Project for a New American Century. The nation, still bleeding from the original 9/11 attacks (because there's been no closure), rallies around Mr. Flight Jacket. Mr. Flight Jacket tells us the Dems are soft on terrorism. We the people vote Republican. Big Business winks at itself, the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the US citizenry continues unmasked, and Iran gets very, very nervous.
The problem with another 9/11 is that it could backfire. The Dems could accuse Bush of being ineffectual against terrorism. He let it happen again, folks! There goes the House; There goes the Senate.
The second option open to an Administration desperate to retain its party's majority in congress has no potential backfire. It's a clear victory for the "War On Terror," a clear signal that Bush & Co. are Doing the Right Thing.
So, less than a week before the November elections, the US will announce the "capture" of Osama bin Laden.
Case closed.
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