[Billthedrill]

Hey, maybe we should cheer the poor fellow up...I know - let's all chip in and get him a Candygram! I know some fellers in funny-looking blotchy clothing who'd be happy to deliver it...

[mhking]

I'd be more likely to believe that Bin Laden's heart has stopped.

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[John H K]

Hmmm...

Maybe we need to change the "Daschle is deeply saddened" posts to "Bin Laden is deeply saddened."

[Tricorn]

Even a demented jihadist can only take so much failure and defeat before he starts to lose heart. Think how his followers feel. They die while he hides and all the while W and the Americans rout them at every turn. They are truly pathetic and who can't see that?

[Stentor]

Is bin Laden Losing Heart?

Pulled out of his dessicated body by the indigenous wildlife? Here's hoping they have wild hogs over there.

[Doctor Stochastic]

More likely, he's losing kidney.

[LexBaird]

If anything, he's losing kidney. Isn't he supposed to need regular dialysis? I often wonder how available kidney dialysis machines are in the mountains of Pakistan.

[DoctorMichael]

Are we supposed to feel sorry for this clown because he's depressed?

Are we supposed to feel guilty because we are making him depressed because we are thwarting his schemes?

He's certainly got enough money for some Prozac.

[steve-b]

Except as confirmation that he's still alive

A low-fidelity audio tape doesn't confirm anything. I could cobble up an audio tape of President Bush giving the order to nuke Paris or announcing the abolition of the Departments of Energy and Education (whichever one you consider less plausible).

[Destructor]

"A terrorist leader who appeals to his supporters for advice on how to "find a way out of these adversities and calamities" is already applying the loser label to himself."

I wouldn't count on a large percentage of Muslims being smart enough to figure that out!

[Redcloak]

Is bin Laden Losing Heart?

Heart, stomach, spinal fluid, liver, spleen, lower intestine, skeletal muscle, aqueous humor, lungs, bone marrow, connective tissue, kidneys...

Pretty much everything that gets squishy and runny in the presence of bacteria and mold.

[onedoug]

I hope he is/was good and depressed when he is/was snuffed out.

[skeeter]

I don't think he's exactly lost his heart. Its likely to be somewhere within the radius of the debris field caused by the high explosive blast that caused it to cease functioning.

[LibWhacker]

I agree with this for the most part. But to say he's losing heart implies there was some degree of bravery to begin with.

[expatpat]

He sounds like Jimmy Peanuts when he came down from Camp David saying there was 'a malaise' in the country. Thank God for Ronnie!

[expatpat]

He's looking more and more like an ideologue who took on a fight he lacked the resources, ability and imagination to win.

I don't know whether he's looking like anything you'd recognize as human, right now. But when he started 9/11, he had no idea how large and relatively invulnerable this country is. He had no direct knowledge of the US, and also probably thought all its inhabitants were pussy wimps like Clinton.

[Darlin']

Losing heart ? Allowing that he has a heart, I look forward to some future reports that it has stopped beating.

"These terrorists kill not merely to end lives, but to disrupt and end a way of life. With every atrocity, they hope that America grows fearful, retreating from the world and forsaking our friends. They stand against us because we stand in their way.

We're not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They're the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way to where it ends in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.
-snip-

And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.

From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime. Our nation has been put on notice. We're not immune from attack. We will take defensive measures against terrorism to protect Americans.
-snip-

I will not forget the wound to our country and those who inflicted it. I will not yield, I will not rest, I will not relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Fellow citizens, we'll meet violence with patient justice, assured of the rightness of our cause and confident of the victories to come.

In all that lies before us, may God grant us wisdom and may He watch over the United States of America." - President George W Bush, address to Congress, 20 September 2001

[prairiebreeze]

meant to include you on my post #26

[Land of the Free 04]

"O Muslims, I am in deep doo-doo."

[Grampa Dave]

He's dead Jim and Richard Gwyn!

What part of dead, don't you understand?