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The boogeyman can't die...at least not until after the elections!

posted by Whacky on September 25, 2006 at 12:24 AM | link to this | reply

Corbin
It will be over when the fat lady sings. We will hear her because most people will be dead then. He is not the only bad apple in that basket. Horrible as he is he has millions of followers who are really bad ones too.

posted by Justi on September 24, 2006 at 2:08 PM | link to this | reply

This is from "Ace of Spades" blog.......
Six Good Adequate Reasons To Believe This Bastard's Rotting In Hell:

None of these is a good reason on its own. Together, though, they do suggest that this time it's for real. Not strongly. But enough for those who want to believe. (And I'm among them.)

1. The Article Itself. It's not beyond plausibility that the Saudi police may know a little bit about Osama bin Ladin. Why, I've even heard Osama might have allies in the Saudi government!

2. Pakistan's Strange and Sudden Announcement It Was Closing Its Border To US Incursions, And The Signing of a "Peace Deal" With Taliban Remnants and Tribal Jihadis In Early September. This went down Sept. 2 or so.

It had the feeling, I thought, of Pakistan telling us "Contract filled and finished." They'd done their part; they would do no more.

3. Musharraf's Declaration That The US Had Threatened To Bomb It "Into The Stone Age" If It Did Not Cooperate. Although some said this was "old news," I sure didn't think it was. I'd known, vaguely, we'd threatened Pakistan somehow. I didn't know we'd threaten to bomb them "into the stone age" if they did not assist us against their client and creature, the Taliban.

Why would Musharraf make such a dramatic announcement now?

Perhaps he felt he had to get out ahead of a coming story-- a story that would be very unpopular with the people who've tried to kill him several times. A defense offered in advance -- I had to help them stalk your Cult Leader, or otherwise they'd have bombed us to hell.

4. Bush's Strangely Overhyped Press Conference. Maybe this is just me trying to save face. But when the WH put out the word for all conservatives to watch the September 6th press conference, noting that 9/11 families would be in attendance, and that there would be "big news" announced there, a lot of us got the crazy idea that there would be big news announced there. Yes, I speculated that Osama bin Ladin was dead (incorporating reason two, above, as a reason for hope).

Yes, Bush did make news that day. But a lot of us felt a bit underwhelmed, after we'd been juiced up to expect... more.

It might be that Bush was prepared to announce Osama bin Ladin's death on that day, but was restrained by advisors who felt there simply wasn't sufficient proof to make such a dramatic statement.

And so the speech became about what had been intended to be a secondary matter or, perhaps, the next day's intended speech.


5. Rove's Alleged Promise of a Coming "October Surprise." Sort of speaks for its damn self, doesn't it? If Rove heard about this -- and of course he had -- he knew it was only a matter of time before there was either confirmation (discovery of hte body) or at least a news source reporting it.


6. Bush's Recent Statement That He Wasn't Terribly Concerned By Osama bin Ladin. I want to thank a new troll for spamming my threads with this. I can't find the quote, but apparently Bush recently said he just didn't consider Osama bin Ladin a top priority:

posted by Corbin_Dallas on September 24, 2006 at 10:41 AM | link to this | reply

CD
Nope it isn't over until it's over...I hope he is dead, but we have a long way to go before they stop breeding them..

posted by Offy on September 24, 2006 at 10:17 AM | link to this | reply

If this lovely rumor is true

it will justify the Bush administration's war on terror to the max. I'm personally not a big fan of Bush II, but bin-Laden requires the regular attention of a dialysis machine, and it's kinda hard to access one of those when you're hiding in a cave, unable to sneak down to, oh, say, Iraq and get hooked up to one.

    So ironically, if true, the story indicates putting the hammer down on bin-Laden and his wretched bretheren everywhere we were able to put boots on the ground might have killed him indirectly.

    The conduct of the Iraqi war has still had substantial elements of a bad Three Stooges script, but still, one never knows when a felicitous unintended consequence will accrue to even the most incompetently-executed enterprise, performed by the sloppiest and least-able actors.

posted by Rarmcwa on September 24, 2006 at 9:24 AM | link to this | reply

I Don't Know...
...know why Bush is so keen to maintain bin Laden as Bogey Man No.1. I mean, isn't he just an embarassment?

Consider...

1. The bin Laden family are major funders and shareholders of the Carlyle Group, as is Daddy Bush

2. The members of the bin Laden family who were in the US on 9/11 were flown out to Saudi - at a time when no planes were in the air!

3. Bin Laden is a sick and aging man, needing regular kidney dialysis, and yet the best the US could throw at his Bora Bora hideout couldn't track him (and his kidney machine) down. (He was also in an American-run hospital, getting treated, in the last few years, but was allowed to wander out again, scot free).

4. Bin Laden was trained in the School of the Americas, which I think is in Carolina?

5. He was also trained and funded by the CIA in his fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan.

6. There's a $25 million bounty on his head. He hangs out in some of the poorest and most corrupt regions of the world, where $100 is a small fortune, and yet no one has turned him in in five years!

7. And, if he is still alive, he can get videos out the the world media easily and with impunity.

And the comment below is correct - even if he is dead, it isn't over. it isn't over because Bush is commited to a perpetual war against an abject noun (terror) which, by it's very nature, canot surrender. Happily for Bush and the Gang, that means a population in constant fear, pliant because of it, plus massive government contracts for his buddies in the arms and oil industries.

Hurrah for the Never-Ending War!

D

posted by DamonLeigh on September 24, 2006 at 6:13 AM | link to this | reply

Corbin,
what a crock! The CIA is up to it's usual tricks! Even though it knows damn well that old Binny has been given refugee status in Canada, and he's now driving a cab right here in Toronto!

posted by Nautikos on September 24, 2006 at 5:59 AM | link to this | reply

Corbin
Hi.. If he is dead then that is one more down and still much to do before we are done!

posted by BrightIrish on September 23, 2006 at 7:30 PM | link to this | reply

I agree with Shelly....Hallelujah if he's really dead!!!!!!
But he's not the only terrorist on the planet. There are thousands more like him. We must keep fighting.

posted by Passionflower on September 23, 2006 at 6:44 PM | link to this | reply

Bingo......
Shelly......but that will never register with some.....

posted by Corbin_Dallas on September 23, 2006 at 5:15 PM | link to this | reply

Even if he is dead...it isn't over.

posted by shelly_b on September 23, 2006 at 5:04 PM | link to this | reply