"If this is true, expect Kerry and Dean to say something stupid like, "this just confirms Bush's incompetence! He let Bin Laden die before he could be captured!""
Yes, probably, but anyway they cannot continue to say why is Bush expending all this energy doing (fill in the blank) when he should be concentrating on finding/killing Bin Laden.
And others have mentioned THIS...if he dies from living in a remote area where he doesn't get the best medical treatment and perhaps there are harsh conditions, the whole reason for that would be that we were on his trail, relentlessly, and he dared not do otherwise.
Therefore, it is the same as if WE got him.
Who cares about the captured part, anyway? That would just give the imbeciles something to yell about whether we were treating him well. Spare us such an outcome...