Pray for Osama who persecutes you

And what’s more, it was Halal.

By doing so, Bush conferred holy orders upon bin Laden, giving sovereignty to Al Qaeda’s borderless state of mind and ministries of hate.

In effect, what Bush did was to turn Al Qaeda from the disparate and desperate groupings of wahabis and other wannabees, into a tangible entity – a deadly, albeit homeless, nation state – and he publicly anointed Osama bin Laden its monarch, thereby genuflecting to the terrorist’s status.

Bin Laden and AQ was to expeditiously grow into the designer branding promulgated by the Bush Administration, gaining international traction and a coherent strength partly through deed, partly through intimation, intimidation, implication and threat; the critical ‘intangibles’ that are part of the terrorist’s formidable armoury.

Bush and Bin Laden – brothers in arms

Both Bush and bin Laden were brothers in alms as well as brothers in arms. Monies for War. War for Monies. Done deal.

They needed one another. They were both feeding off the same plate. The rest of us were served the leftovers.

Those leftovers weren’t Halal. They weren’t Kosher. They weren’t even edible. You can’t eat lies but you can cook them.

You can’t force feed us with them. Even though we swallow them for a while. They were served up every which way. Lies overdone. Lies underdone. Lies easy over. Lies done over. You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time; doesn’t stop our governments trying.

This bin Laden was a pigment of Dubya’s malevolent imagination and needy ego, crayoned by

the likes of The Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Karl Rove, who gathered around steaming cauldrons of war, beating drums in time to the thoughtful piano playing of their beholden and strictly coiffed Whitehousekeeper, Condoleezza Rice.

Remember the Coalition of the Willing? What was all that about? Does anyone care?