Posted on 09/30/2004 7:19:17 AM PDT by presidio9
Even though tonight's presidential debate is planned to curtail spontaneity I keep expecting the Woody Allen moment — Senator Kerry will be pounding President Bush on what he sees as a lack of progress in the war on terrorism, and noting that the Coalition has thus far failed to locate Osama bin Laden.
"Well, that's funny," the president replies, "because I happen to have Osama bin Laden right here..."
I noted several weeks ago that if Osama were produced any time soon it would be dismissed as a stunt, denounced as sneaky politics. As if on cue, Mrs. Heinz Kerry said she would not be surprised if he turned up before the election. This has been a topic of conversation at least since December 2003 when Madeline Albright noted her belief that Osama's capture would be timed for prime political impact. But there have been few signs of life from Osama recently, and even his followers seem to have given up on him. When al Qaeda's number-two man Ayman al Zawahiri emerged from his cave to issue the annual 9/11-anniversary message he did not mention the titular leader of the movement. Previous messages had featured audio or video footage of OBL, but this year all we saw was Zawahiri against a blank canvas background, making some uninspiring comments about how the United States and its Coalition partners are trapped in a quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan, and struggling to avoid collapse like the Soviet Union. Osama is also conspicuously absent in statements from Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi in Iraq, probably the most publicly active member of al Qaeda, but who seems to have forgotten for whom he is working.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Yep, OBL's been dead a long time.
Jack Higgins has a good cartoon in today's Chicago Sun-Times, however he does not put his cartoons up on the web until a few days later.
http://www.suntimes.com/index/commentary.html#
Click Higgins.
Anyway, if anyone can post the cartoon it is good.
The cartoon depicts the debaters and their shawdows from the lighting showing one shawdow of GW and two shawdows of Kerry.
I'm not positive but my gut tells me the same thing.
If he isn't dead then is a damn good job of playing possum.
Pretty sobering to have a 100% certainty that al Qaeda's going to pull one off... or at least try.
I should have written "In my opinion" of course. I can't prove he's dead - and will never be able to because (I think) he's spread molecule-thin over Tora Bora. But he's real quiet.
IMHO, what would be the BEST, would be for two LARGE Secret Service people to knock on Kerry's door at about 8:55 PM EST, ask for Sen. Kerry, and when he comes to the door, hand him a gym bag that contains OBL's head, and ask him to open it.
I'd wager he would be a little "late" for the 9:00 pm debate.......
Right now, with The Prez riding high in the polls and sKerry's campaign at a low, early voting is good
A friend who has reason to know says that reports of probable surveillance (e.g., videocams and photos) are registered almost daily.
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