The Bush Doctrine: Just Redefine Everything When the Original Definitions Go Wrong

Remember right after 9/11, when George W. Bush put his arm around a fireman and swore that he was going to get the people who did this? Remember "Smoke 'em out"? Remember "Dead or alive"? Remember all the tough, wild-west rhetoric?



Three-plus years later, when Osama Bin Laden STILL hasn't been apprehended, the only thing left for the inept morons at the Pentagon and at Foggy Bottom to do is simply redefine him, to make him seem like less of a threat:



This comes to us via Rising Hegemon:

THE world may be better off if Osama Bin Laden remains at large, according to the Central Intelligence Agency’s recently departed executive director.

If the world’s most wanted terrorist is captured or killed, a power struggle among his Al-Qaeda subordinates may trigger a wave of terror attacks, said AB “Buzzy” Krongard, who stepped down six weeks ago as the CIA’s third most senior executive.



“You can make the argument that we’re better off with him (at large),” Krongard said. “Because if something happens to Bin Laden, you might find a lot of people vying for his position and demonstrating how macho they are by unleashing a stream of terror.”



Krongard, a former investment banker who joined the CIA in 1998, said Bin Laden’s role among Islamic militants was changing.



“He’s turning into more of a charismatic leader than a terrorist mastermind,” he said. “Some of his lieutenants are the ones to worry about.”



Krongard, 68, said he viewed Bin Laden “not as a chief executive but more like a venture capitalist”.



He added: “Let’s say you and I want to blow up Trafalgar Square. So we go to Bin Laden. And he’ll say, ‘Well, here’s some money and some passports and if you need weapons, see this guy’.



“I don’t see him keeping his fingers on everything because the lines of communications are just too difficult.”



Several US officials have privately admitted that it may be better to keep Bin Laden pinned down on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan rather than make him a martyr or put him on trial. But Krongard is the most senior figure to acknowledge publicly that his capture might prove counter-productive.

Heh. Buzzy Krongard. You know who he is? Here ya go, courtesy of Mike Ruppert:

Until 1997 A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard had been Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown. A.B. Brown was acquired by Banker’s Trust in 1997. Krongard then became, as part of the merger, Vice Chairman of Banker’s Trust-AB Brown, one of 20 major U.S. banks named by Senator Carl Levin this year as being connected to money laundering. Krongard’s last position at Banker’s Trust (BT) was to oversee “private client relations.” In this capacity he had direct hands-on relations with some of the wealthiest people in the world in a kind of specialized banking operation that has been identified by the U.S. Senate and other investigators as being closely connected to the laundering of drug money.



Krongard joined the CIA in 1998 as counsel to CIA Director George Tenet. He was promoted to CIA Executive Director by President Bush in March of this year. BT was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1999. The combined firm is the single largest bank in Europe. And, as we shall see, Deutsche Bank played several key roles in events connected to the September 11 attacks.

Ruppert goes on to document that on September 6 and 7, the Chicago Board Options Exchange saw purchases of 4,744 put options on United Airlines, but only 396 call options. On September 10, 4,516 put options on American Airlines were bought on the Chicago exchange, compared to only 748 calls.



None of this information is new, in fact, the put options on the affected airlines in the days before 9/11 is one of the most well-documented Peculiar Things that the LRWM has chosen not to investigate over the three years since the attacks. However, what's interesting is that Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, the American investment banking arm of German giant Deutsche Bank, as the investment bank used to purchase at least some of these options.



And now this same Buzzy Krongard whose bank was used to purchase these put options is essentially saying "Let Osama Bin Laden Go"?



Doesn't that seem strange to anyone?