Tony Blair Spent Taxpayers $$$ To Hire Psychics To Find Bin Laden & WMDs

[kpete]

Psychics 'hired to find Bin Laden'
by BEN CLERKIN -

Psychics 'hired to find Bin Laden'

Psychics were recruited by the Ministry of Defence to locate Osama Bin Laden's secret lair, it was claimed yesterday.

Newly declassified documents revealed that the MoD conducted an experiment to see if volunteers could 'see' objects hidden inside an envelope.

It is claimed the ministry hoped positive results would allow it to use psychics to 'remotely view' Bin Laden's base and also to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

However, after running up a bill of £18,000 of taxpayers' money, defence chiefs concluded there was 'little value' in using psychic powers in the defence of the nation and the research was taken no further.

more at:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=438062&in_page_id=1811

[Greeby]

1. If that were the only thing he wasted our money on

Instead of invading Iraq, I'd be content

[LeftishBrit]

3. I agree!

[graywarrior]

2. Somehow, that makes more sense than what they've actually done which is nothing.

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. They're heeerrrreeee!

I can picture that actress from Poltergeist about now. :rofl:

[RedStateShame]

5. Hell, that's more work that the US did to find him.

Oh, I'm sorry, I mean, giving Rummy a blindfold, a dart, and a map entitled "Everywhere But Pakistan" may have seemed like a bad idea, but I don't want to sound like I'm insulting the troops, who apparently grow weaker if people find flaws in our military strategy.

[Ezlivin]

6. Psychics can always "remotely view" your money

And that's what they are really, really good at ferreting out.

[Prophet 451]

7. It was worth a try

Put it this way: If they'd managed to find bin Laden, all well and good. If they don't, it's still a vaguely more sensible use of the nation's capitol than many things Blair was cooking up.

Oh, and don't get too cocky, the US tried this as part of the MKUltra experiments in the late-fifties/early-sixties.

[TlalocW]

8. Not really

Psychics have never been any help when it came to anything like this - from finding missing kids (or in this case terrorists) to trying to destroy Russian weapons with their minds during the Cold War when both sides were worried about a "psi gap." They're all charlatans who do bad magic tricks for the easily fooled.

TlalocW

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. It didn't work out --

for some reason the psychics kept coming up with "Crawford".