Posted on 09/29/2002 1:15:17 PM PDT by Cascadians
Could it be that all this bluster to get Sadam is a big smoke screen for a behind the scenes deal made by the oil cartel in the White House and the Saudis to let Bin Laden escape alive? If this is true, why would the royal Saudis need him alive? Blackmail perhaps? Connecting Iraq to the war on terror is as silly as trying to reach Paris, France by flying to Sidney Australia first. Why are we no longer interested in Osama?
What we do know for sure, is that there has been no mention from the White House of Osama Bin Laden for months now. Osama, who?
Those signs take some time to manifest, so they wouldn't appear on a fresh corpse.
That said, the guy in the pics is no more Osama bin Laden than I am.
There are two other reasons bin Laden would have sent out a video tape by now if he were able to do so: 1)The remnants of al-Qaeda need all the morale boosts they can get, and 2)his need for ego gratification and validation of his role as Somebody Who Matters makes Bill Clinton look like St. Francis of Assisi.
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