What's Behind the Continuing Rumor that bin Laden Is Either Dead or near Death?

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Prakosh

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Let’s look at what is going on with all this hubbub about whether bin Laden is dead or alive. The whole purpose of this exercise is to get bin Laden all worked up and get him to make and deliver another movie or statement or otherwise demonstrate that he is alive. I think that Bush and Rove feel that they have him pinned down to a particular location somewhere, well enough that if he were to try to get a message out they would be able to trace it back and get him.

That is what I think this is all about; an attempt to provoke a response in the hope that they could then nail him. Is this very smart, maybe, but bin Laden would have to be pretty damn dumb to fall for something that I was able to deduce. Since I personally think bin Laden is smarter than I am, I’d say that this tactic probably isn’t going to be doing much to get bin Laden to come out. But nice try Bush.
 
Or it might be bin Laden, making you think that he thinks that you know that he knows...

;)

Seriously, if I were bin Laden and wanted to make you look foolish I'd put forward something like this to see if you'd bite and get all excited, then release another tape making you look stooooopid... It appears that Bush is smarter than that as the official position of the US is he is alive and that they have no evidence of his near demise...
 
Damocles said:
Or it might be bin Laden, making you think that he thinks that you know that he knows...

;)

Seriously, if I were bin Laden and wanted to make you look foolish I'd put forward something like this to see if you'd bite and get all excited, then release another tape making you look stooooopid... It appears that Bush is smarter than that as the official position of the US is he is alive and that they have no evidence of his near demise...
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Then why the continuing controversy, what is feeding that? If the US has stated emphatically and convincingly that he is alive why is this still all over the media?
 
The media loves to sensationalize....

But it could also be that bin Laden hired different sources with that stack of cash of his to keep feeding the beast...

Look, it's not that I believe my post any more than yours, it was just fun to think in paranoia and work from the opposite spectrum as yours, hence the little winky... You know, this guy: ;)
 
Damocles said:
The media loves to sensationalize....

But it could also be that bin Laden hired different sources with that stack of cash of his to keep feeding the beast...

Look, it's not that I believe my post any more than yours, it was just fun to think in paranoia and work from the opposite spectrum as yours, hence the little winky... You know, this guy: ;)
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I know!
 
uscitizen said:
why would Bush care ? Didn't he say something to the effect that catching OBL did not matter ?
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I think it will after tomorrow. Olbermann called Bush a "coward" tonight for the way he has handled the war on terror and specifically OBL!!!!

Things are beginning to hit a stride, I thiink the wheels are coming off Bush's wagon.
 
Prakosh said:
I think it will after tomorrow. Olbermann called Bush a "coward" tonight for the way he has handled the war on terror and specifically OBL!!!!

Things are beginning to hit a stride, I thiink the wheels are coming off Bush's wagon.
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Bush's freepass has been revoked.

Even chickenshit Chris Mathews has been calling the Chimp out. So has Joe Scarborough.

Today, on capitol hill, four top generals who served in the iraq war called the bush adminstration's prosecution of the war incompetent and intolerable. ONe of the generals even called bush a liar - he said the bushies haven't been telling the truth about the war.
 
Cypress said:
Bush's freepass has been revoked.

Even chickenshit Chris Mathews has been calling the Chimp out. So has Joe Scarborough.

Today, on capitol hill, four top generals who served in the iraq war called the bush adminstration's prosecution of the war incompetent and intolerable. ONe of the generals even called bush a liar - he said the bushies haven't been telling the truth about the war.
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In more bad news for the Defense Department, a group of retired military officers on Monday bluntly accused Rumsfeld of bungling the war in Iraq, saying U.S. troops were sent to fight without the best equipment and that critical facts were hidden from the public.

"I believe that Secretary Rumsfeld and others in the administration did not tell the American people the truth for fear of losing support for the war in Iraq," retired Maj. Gen. John R. S. Batiste said in remarks prepared for a forum conducted by Senate Democrats.

General Batiste commanded the 1st Infantry Division in Iraq.


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/25/politics/main2037169.shtml
 
I watched most of that hearing tonight on CSpan and wrote up my own impression of it as a post. Their condemnation was much stronger and harsher than this CNN story admits. But there was only a panel of three ex-commanders in what I saw. They all testified together. I didn't have a notebook or take notes. I wrote what I posted from memory, but I don't remember who the other two were.
 
The bag of spinach I saw on a CNN picture said Dole on the front ;)
Or perhaps it means the people that picked and packaged it are also on the Dole ?
 
uscitizen said:
Viagra is all about play ;)
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I always thought if you needed Viagra it wasn't play it was work...Reminds me of the Rodney Dangerfield joke, he was having sex with his wife and nothing seemed to be happening so he looked at her and said, "What's the matter can't you think of anybody, either."

That's how I see Viagra, an aid for those times when you can't think of anyone else...
 
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