‘Unnamed sources’ and ‘senior U.S. intelligence officials’ are now saying Osama bin Laden is dead. Does this matter? Why are they saying this now? What’s important is what our own tax-paid terrorists want you to think. Speculating whether or not bin Laden is dead only serves craven propaganda purposes. For one, declaring bin Laden must be dead because basically ‘we haven’t seen him’ diminishes his power to those that support him and his goal of disrupting US hegemony and global domination through sabotage. It also serves as a goad to provoke bin Laden or Al Quaeda to make a statement or to appear to dispel the rumors of his demise. The fact is, the US government doesn’t know shit. They like to appear as if they do, but as long as the money keeps rolling in and they can continue with their charades it doesn’t really matter to them. Hell, even if they knew for a fact that he was dead I’m pretty sure they would keep that information to themselves as long as it serves their purposes. As long as Americans can personify the ‘enemy’ and ‘evil’ they can be more easily manipulated. The same thing happened in the Gulf War with Hussein. Who was Saddam to 99% of Americans before 1991? Nothing. It wasn’t until we needed a strawman that we built him up into the big bad wolf, the Arab Hitler with his big, bushy moustache. Of course, no one thinks its significant that he was a big bud of the CIA and the US for decades. I’m just tired of the bullshit. People have such short memories.