All according to script

They found marijuana, a trove of plans for future terrorists attacks, details about the network, and now pornogrpahy in the bin Laden lair.

It’s a script. I’ve seen it before, my first exposure to it in 1989 when Manuel Noriega was captured and imprisoned. First you give a dog a bad name, then you can beat him, or in bin Laden’s case, kill him.

I swear that if the Soviets were half as good at the propaganda game as the Americans, there would still be an Evil Empire to rail against, and we would not need Muslim terrorists. But the Soviets were crude, which has a lot to do with why they could not sustain their empire.

When W left the White House, they found a trove of cocaine, pornography, including kiddie porn, and secrets about future U.S. invasions. And a bible.
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PS: I can’t help myself here. This is the late great Tim Russert swallowing whole on government propaganda about Al Qaeda caves, which, by the way, never existed except in the drawing shown on screen here.

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From Masterson’s Musings, a guy with a better memory than mine:

May 14, 2011 by sasoc

Enough With the Con about “Finding Porno”

May 13, 2011 by sasoc

Back in 1989, the genteel GHWB authorized the American invasion of Panama to oust Manuel Noriega. After he was captured, news reports of Noriega’s “porn stash” surfaced everywhere. Here is the breathless Time Magazine version on January 1, 1990:

Noriega’s increasingly bombastic language and his trigger-happy troops may have been indications that events were spinning out of control in Panama, forcing him to extremes. But other evidence suggested that the dictator was losing control of himself: U.S. troops searching his various hideouts found, along with pictures of Adolf Hitler, collections of pornography and sophisticated weapons and more than 50 kilos of cocaine. In one Noriega guesthouse, searchers found a bucket of blood and entrails, which they said may have been used for occult rites to protect him. Was the accused drug trafficker deteriorating into a megalomaniac drug user?

It is entirely believable that Noriega was a bad guy needing to be removed, but such an orgy of evidence of corrupted moral character strained credulity.

And now we are being fed the same script regarding OBL:

A stash of pornography was found in the hideout of Osama bin Laden by the U.S. commandos who killed him, current and former U.S. officials said on Friday. (source)

All by the book.