Bin Laden's losing bet

Asia Times ^ | Jan 14, 2004 | Stephen Blank

[Texas_Dawg]

bin-Laden is dead. Has been for 2+ years. Dust don't rust, and it sure as hell don't speak......

Hear, hear.

Osama Bin Laden (1957-2001)

[Texas_Dawg]

WHY?

Because until you can absolutely say it is him and demonstrate this conclusively, what's the point in saying his dead?

[Texas_Dawg]

demonstrate that he is dead, I mean.

[reagan_fanatic]

I can't stress this enough - NONE OF THIS WOULD BE HAPPENING IF ALGORE HAD WON THE ELECTION!

Ponder where we would be right now if that feckless pantywaist was formulating foreign policy from the Oval Office.

(shudder)

[Tunehead54]

The intensification of terrorism in advance of efforts to negotiate a comprehensive peace has always been a recognizable trademark of Palestinian and other Arab terrorists with regard to Israeli-Arab negotiations and the same pattern is likely to manifest itself here again.>

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No. Things have changed. We don't negotiate with terrorists. Period. We just hunt them down and kill them. As the Israelis have learned ... start at the top.

[Sabertooth]

Good analysis, thanks for the post.

[xJones]

Thank you for the ping, FRiend. Most interesting article.

[bjcintennessee]

I can't stress this enough - NONE OF THIS WOULD BE HAPPENING IF ALGORE HAD WON THE ELECTION!

ALGORE would still be holding meetings. The first meetings would have been with the UN, apologizing for whatever misunderstandings had driven those poor hijackers to commit suicide.

And while waiting for the UN's approval to bomb another aspirin factory, he would have been meeting with environmentalists to weigh the adverse effect of bombs on the environment -- provided the UN gave us permission to defend our sovereign nation.

[sleavelessinseattle]

Excellent Ping, Gratias Ago!

[BriarBey]

Naw, its just that 10% of Bush's decisions are really boneheaded.


Then I guess we are still ahead of the game because 90% of Clinton's decisions were really boneheaded!! And I'm bettin 100% of Dean's decisions would be boneheaded, if he were given the chance.............NOT.

[Indie]

If he ain't dead, he's surely deaf and maybe blind after the repeated blast pressures from Daisy Cutters and MOABS falling on his cave.

[Dajjal]

BTTT

[baseballmom]

BTTT

[Dog]

Thanks for the ping Saber.

[expatpat]

Good point.

[wayoverontheright]

Why oh why oh why cannot people admit the fact that bin Laden is dead? A megalomaniac who hasn't been seen for two years? Give me a break. He's a pile of crushed bones under several hundred tons of mountain rock.

I agree. As proof I submit that there has never been a more opportune moment for him to surface publicly than when Saddam was captured, and NONE of the tapes, etc., confirm him as a contemporary, living carbon unit.

[kevao]

I'm looking forward to seeing this published in the NY Times. ;)

LOL!

[Aeronaut]

...but I'd guess about 10% of Freepers would rather see a Democrat be President next year.

Call me a 90 percenter.

[wayoverontheright]

The United States' global "war on terrorism" has clearly entered a new phase.

First humiliation, then denial. Then frustration, accompanied by more denial, then impotence, accompanied by bluster, then disillusionment, accompanied by loss of allies and realignment of power, then derision from the masses, then peace.