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Paranoid? I'll concede your point to a degree. We all know what the mainstream media thinks about us, and that many of them think we're a bigger threat than Al Qaeda. That can't help but color our thinking. But you cannot deny that they have pulled similar crap countless times in the past, loudly trumpeting a bogus story that they think will damage Republicans, only to quietly pull it later on when the damage has already been done or when it's no longer useful.

Furthermore, the Arab leaders and Al Jazeera certainly knew about the election, and it's not hard to figure out who they were rooting for.

So the Bin Laden tape was a attempt by Al Jazeera to influence the results of the mid-term elections?

It's this type of politicizing of the WOT that's gonna get us all killed. Everything is NOT about the elections.

"So the Bin Laden tape was a attempt by Al Jazeera to influence the results of the mid-term elections?"

No, no, no, you're missing the point. The Bush administration had the tape forged THEMSELVES (with not one person aware of it leaking the info to the press) and then gave it to al-Jazeera (guess this had to be in the works for quite awhile, considering the guy who gave the tape to the reporter was a well-known contact inside al-Qaeda) with the intention of it being released and authenticated (though I believe that the actual release of the tape took place AFTER the elections, I know the authentification of it certainly did) in order to give Bush administration a boost.

One of the funniest points about the whole "Bush knows that Osama is dead and we're keeping him alive to justify the War on Terror" line of thought is that while it was marginally plausible when the Democrats were running the Senate, this is no longer the case. With his party in power, Bush can basically get a blank check from the Congress to take any military action he needs to ensure US security. In addition, declaring that the US had killed bin Laden would be the best way for Bush to get re-elected in 2004 and completely destroy his various critics (Gore, Daschle, Hillary, Kerry, ect.). It is politically stupid at this point for him not to do so, so why hasn't he?

These are some of the numerous wholes in logic that are the bane of all conspiracy theories. Though I think that many of these people are going to be caught between their support for President Bush and their own triumphalism if he comes out and says that the Swiss are full of it within the next several days.