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The Obama administration is determined to link the Times Square Fizzler, Faisal Shahzad<\/a>, to the Pakistani Taliban, and isn\u2019t about to let logic, reality, or anything remotely related to the facts get in its way. With the complicity of the Obama-stricken media, they just might get away with it, opening the way for expanded military operations in Pakistan, in \u201cretaliation\u201d for an attack that never even happened.<\/p>\n Attorney General Holder did the talking heads circuit this Sunday, no doubt for the explicit purpose of launching this trial balloon, and he had plenty of help from \u2013 for example<\/a> \u2013 Jake Tapper, formerly of Salon, the pro-Obama liberal news site, and currently George Stephanopoulos\u2019 replacement on \u201cThis Week.\u201d Asked by Tapper what\u2019s new with the Shahzad investigation, Holder replied:<\/p>\n \u201cWell, we\u2019ve now developed evidence that shows that the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attack. We know that they helped facilitate it. We know that they probably helped finance it and that he was working at their direction.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Pretty incendiary stuff, if true: but where\u2019s the proof? What\u2019s the evidence? One would think the normally inquisitive Tapper would at least make a perfunctory effort to get the facts, but no, he just goes with the flow:<\/p>\n \u201cIs there any evidence that there\u2019s a cell that Shahzad was working with in the United States? Or was it just him operating from directions from Pakistan?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Holder\u2019s assumption \u2014 that it was all a plot hatched in Pakistan \u2013 is accepted at face value, without question, and it\u2019s on to the implications.<\/p>\n This is what \u201cliberals\u201d like Tapper and the Salon crowd have learned, after eight years of the Bush<\/a> administration\u2019s<\/a> lies<\/a>, and the entire Iraq fiasco<\/a> \u2013 nothing. They think because their guys are in power that it\u2019s okay, that we can give them a blank check and they won\u2019t walk away with the family jewels. This isn\u2019t mere naivete. It\u2019s collaboration.<\/p>\n Tapper might have asked about the statement of Gen. David Petraeus<\/a> \u2013 who surely has some good connections to US intelligence \u2013 to the effect that Shahzad acted as a \u201clone wolf<\/a>.\u201d He might have asked about the possibility that the Fizzler acted out of anger at his apparently<\/a> desperate financial situation, or some problem in his personal life \u2013 but no. Instead, Tapper cut to video of Hillary Clinton threatening Pakistan<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cWe want more. We expect more. We\u2019ve made it very clear that if, heaven forbid, an attack like this that we can trace back to Pakistan were to have been successful, there would be very severe consequences.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Remember how Bush administration officials used to go on the talk shows<\/a> and rant about Saddam\u2019s \u201cweapons of mass destruction<\/a>\u201d \u2013 effectively using the \u201cmainstream\u201d media as a sounding board for their lies masquerading as \u201cintelligence\u201d? Well, as Yogi Berra<\/a> would say, \u201cIt\u2019s d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu all over again!\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019m saying it\u2019s a lie because Holder offered no actual evidence, and because everything we now know points away<\/em> from the administration\u2019s conspiracy theory, namely:<\/p>\n The alleged Taliban connection just doesn\u2019t comport with the known facts. Via \u201cleaks\u201d coming out of the administration, we hear<\/a> Shahzad claims to have met top Taliban leaders, but as Robin Wright, of the US Institute of Peace (a government agency) said on Tapper\u2019s show<\/a>: \u201cWell, apparently, he\u2019s singing like a bird, I was told last night. But there are also a lot of tall tales that he\u2019s telling, and they have to keep going back to him over and over and over because a lot of it\u2019s not making sense.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course it\u2019s not making sense: crazy people are funny like that.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what I think: a deranged individual, who couldn\u2019t put together a car-bomb if his life depended on it, sought to make his increasingly meaningless and unpleasant existence count for something \u2013 and he wound up being the equivalent of the Maine<\/em>. Remember the Maine<\/em><\/a>? It was a US ship parked in Havana harbor that suddenly blew up \u2013 and the incident was blown up into a convenient casus belli by a US government (and media establishment) eager for war with Spain<\/a>.<\/p>\n Years from now, if we go into Pakistan with \u201cboots on the ground<\/a>,\u201d as some are suggesting, in \u201cretaliation\u201d for this \u201cattack\u201d by the Taliban, Shahzad will go down in history as the nutjob who started a major war. How fitting for a nation that has itself gone crazy<\/a> \u2013 a nation whose elites are now<\/a> considering abolishing the last of our civil<\/a> liberties<\/a> on account of this failed act of mental aberration and alienation. Imagine if Richard Nixon<\/a> or anyone in his administration had suggested abolishing or even \u201cmodifying\u201d Miranda<\/a> rights when that Weatherman bomb-making factory<\/a> exploded by accident all those years ago in Manhattan. The ensuing uproar would have deafened the gods on Olympus. Yet Holder suggested<\/a> the administration is taking this very course<\/a> \u2013 and nary a peep of protest, or even surprise, out of Jake \u201cthe Stenographer\u201d Tapper.<\/p>\n Go back to Salon, you hack!<\/p>\n NOTES IN THE MARGIN<\/strong><\/p>\n Today is the first day of our spring fundraising drive<\/a>, and I just want to point out that we are practically the only major media outlet questioning the Taliban-did-it narrative being put out by the Obama administration. It\u2019s incredible to me that we may actually make a major move into Pakistan based on such a flimsy and utterly unconvincing pretext.<\/p>\n Even more incredible is the fact that the American media seems to be going along<\/a> with it \u2013 exactly as they did when George W. Bush told us about those nasty \u201cweapons of mass destruction\u201d just waiting to be launched by Iraq. The only difference being that the Bushies were much better liars<\/a> \u2013 this crowd doesn\u2019t seem to care much about the quality of the \u201cevidence\u201d they present.<\/p>\n Indeed, as seen above, they don\u2019t even bother with evidence \u2013 nor are they asked for any, either by the Jake Tappers of this world or by anyone in Congress (Ron Paul, of course, is the exception). And of course the \u201copposition<\/a>\u201d party is even more eager than the Obamaites to go barreling into Pakistan, and we can safely predict they\u2019ll never question the rationale for \u201cShahzad\u2019s war\u201d in the slightest, except to criticize the President for not having launched it sooner.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why you need to make your donation \u2013 today, right now: because we\u2019re the only ones standing up to challenge these transparent lies. Are we really going to invade Pakistan \u2013 a nuclear-armed nation teeming with rising hatred of the US government \u2013 on the basis of a madman\u2019s tall tales? It can\u2019t happen; it must not happen. They can\u2019t get away with it \u2013 not this time.<\/p>\n You can help make sure they don\u2019t get away with it by contributing to Antiwar.com. Help us get past the \u201cmainstream\u201d pro-war pro-administration media, and get out the truth. And the best way you can do that right now is to make a donation \u2013 it\u2019s 100% tax-deductible, and it\u2019s much-needed. We depend on you, our readers and supporters, to keep us going. We aren\u2019t asking for much: there\u2019s no executive-type salaries, and certainly no perks, around Antiwar.com\u2019s virtual \u201coffice.\u201d It\u2019s bare bones and nose-to-the-grindstone. Now, if you\u2019ll pardon me, I have to get back to my grindstone, but before I go, let me say in parting: give as much as you can as soon as you can.<\/p>\n Source <\/a><\/p>\n Faisal Shahzad: An Ordinary Man – From Wall Street to Waziristan: a story that doesn\u2019t quite add up<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0Drone attacks in Pakistan to car bomb in NYC<\/a><\/p>\n Pak being \u201cset up\u201d but civil-mly leadership remains silent<\/a><\/p>\n Times Square Bomber Linked With CIA-Controlled Terror Group -Jaish-e-Muhammad founded by CIA-MI6 asset who bankrolled 9\/11 hijackers<\/a><\/p>\n Pakistani Taliban behind failed New York attack: US <\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/a>Pakistan the Evil Doer and the Times Square Fizzler<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Obama administration is determined to link the Times Square Fizzler, Faisal Shahzad, to the Pakistani Taliban, and isn\u2019t about to let logic, reality, or anything remotely related to the facts get in its way. With the complicity of the Obama-stricken media, they just might get away with it, opening the way for expanded military operations in Pakistan, in \u201cretaliation\u201d for an attack that never even happened. Continue reading \n
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