October surprise -- Bin Laden Dead?

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Re: Re: Re: October surprise -- Bin Laden Dead?

Originally posted by The Mad Monk


This is not really good campaign news, since we're really not the ones who got him. At best, it means our worst enemy has lost its inspirational leader through no effort of our own; at worst, it underscores the incompetance of those who claimed to be hunting him down.

Confirmed by the Saudis (most 911 terrorists were Saudi) and leaked by French intelligence (THE FRENCH??)? I can’t see an easy way for the Bush admin to spin this.

[BeBMan]

His death isn't confirmed.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Victor Galis
Reminds me of a political cartoon. I can't find a picture, but it showed a bunch US presidents saying:

Kennedy: Fidel...
Johnson: ... Castro ...
Nixon: ... will ...
Ford: ... die ...
Carter: ... any ...
Reagan: ... day ...
Bush Sr: ... now.

I remember that.

[chequita guevara]

If its true, I'm gonna be pissed. It shoulda been us that killed him, not some lowly bacterium.

[Alexander's Horse]

could be a ruse to get him to surface

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
If its true, I'm gonna be pissed. It shoulda been us that killed him, not some lowly bacterium.

Perhaps it was the work of Allah.

[asleepathewheel]

Typhoid-who knew that Osama was hiding on the Oregon Trail.


This, combined with gas prices now at 1.99/gal here, is going to make for a funfilled november.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs


Living free is the point, Sloww. Free from incarceration, free from justice. Here is a man who, since leaving the comforts of a Saudi royal's life, has been "living in caves" for many years prior to 9/11 of his own volition and still living free from any sort of punishment. Yes, I'd call that living. I'd rather he be rotting ...in a cell, for as long as we can reasonably maintain his life. No sweet mercy of death for him; he shouldn't get off that easily.

Drawn and quartered would be fine by me.
If he HAD been living in caves, it wasn't to the extent of the last 5 years though.

[Jon Miller]

gas prices are down a lot here, dwn to 2.10 or so

in MD they were about .30 higher

JM

[MrFun]

Re: Re: Re: October surprise -- Bin Laden Dead?

Originally posted by The Mad Monk


This is not really good campaign news, since we're really not the ones who got him. At best, it means our worst enemy has lost its inspirational leader through no effort of our own; at worst, it underscores the incompetance of those who claimed to be hunting him down.

There are a lot of ignorant voters in United States. Some of them are probably just so obtuse that they will be in such a celebratory mood anyway, and vote for Republicans because they will still equate with Osama's death with Republicans serving their terms even if there is no correlation.

Come on Mad Monk -- you know that there are an incredibly large number of stupid voters in our country.

[Darius871]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
Typhoid-who knew that Osama was hiding on the Oregon Trail.

[DanS]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
This, combined with gas prices now at 1.99/gal here, is going to make for a funfilled november.

I asked myself whether the gas prices or OBL would make for a good October Surprise thread. OBL won out this time, although you are free to start your own October Surprise thread. The more the merrier.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Can we get the body and bury it with pig entrails?

[Gibsie]

Originally posted by Gatekeeper
It'd be ironic if an illness claimed Osama bin Laden's life, considering all of the ordnance, time and lives that have been used/lost/affected over the last five years in the pursuit of him.

Given that he's probably been living in an area that's been "bombed back to the stone age", and that in all wars before the modern day more fighters died from disease than combat, it's especially un-ironic.

[DanS]

I wouldn't be too proud to claim it as a military victory. Disease has always been a part of the battlefield.