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LeftwingPitbull Donating Member (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:02 PM
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My fear.
Very possibly, we have had Osama in custody, and will keep him secret untill election day, and Bush will become America's hero again and win in a landslide.

Scary thought, eh?
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:03 PM
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1. Welcome to DU
:hi:

You're not the only one with that fear.
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reprehensor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:04 PM
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2. Yup.
It's good to get it out of your system, though.
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:08 PM
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3. This comes up every now and again
My personal prediction for the "October surprise" is Ronald Reagan finally heading to the great ranch in the sky. Win one for the gipper, and all...

We do need to keep repeating "October surprise" over and over, so if/when one actually happens, it won't be a surprise and won't have as dramatic an effect.

Welcome to DU, by the way! :toast:
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:10 PM
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4. nancy HATES the bushies
she won't let her ronnie be used.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 05:51 PM
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15. Do you really think she can stop it, nostamj?
Can she guard Ronnie 24/7? Can she stop the Busheviks from planting one of Uncle Karl's Boys or one of Charlie Kane's Sociopaths in the hospital, complete with all the proper "papers" and fake ID?

I don't think Nancy, who is any spring chicken anyway, can do a damned thing to stop it.

Raygun will just, you know, die, and that will be that. Personally, if I was Nancy I would hustle raygun out to a private hospital with Private Security 24/7.

But she CAN'T do that. As an ex-pResident (or at least a Bush I Sock Puppet who played the role on TV), Raygun is "entitled" to government health care.

Which means he is dead whenever the Busheviks want him to be dead.

If you ever watched "I, Claudius" and read Tacitus/Suetonious who's actual history were cribbed and embellished to write it, then you know what I'm talking about.

When Livia murdered Augustus (a historical fact, not an embellishment) by smearing poison on the figs, Augustus KNEW that she would try to kill him and he took what steps he could. What he COULDN'T do (or wouldn't...same thing in the end) is to have his wife watched by security or take other steps to prevent her from killing him.

So he died. Same thing with Raygun. He cannot escape the clutches of the Busheviks in the same way Augustus couldn't escape his own Imperial Doctors, some of whom conspired with and helped Livia, probably.

Raygun is in the exact same spot as Raygun was. His killers are those tasked with his protection.

Nighty-night, Ronnie.
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 05:53 PM
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16. really she does?
i never knew that
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jean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:12 PM
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5. Greetings! Richard Clarke said yesterday he had no doubt UBL would
be found in the next few months, dead or alive.

Today a radio report mentioned UBL might already be dead,killed in recent fighting, but no body has been found.

I don't think springing him or his dead body on the public will be the hosanna moment the admin would hope for.

Clarke said the Iraq invasion created a hundred more bin Ladins. One of those men would probably launch a big event to stomp us if b*sh parades bin Ladin or his body for political gain.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:22 PM
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6. I'm not sure the capture of OBL

will be as big a deal as we think it will be unless they "bring him out " two days before the election.

The message that Howard Dean and others have been telling us is "Are we safer without Saddam?" Tell that to the people in Spain, tell that to the families of all that have died since his capture.

I believe the OBL is either dead or seriously ill. Now that Bush has awakened every horrible sleeping terrorist giant in this world, OBL probably has at least 25 - 50 terrorist that are just as vicious as he is/was.

What this government fails to understand is that we are not dealing with the Russians or the Germans anymore. They had a country, a language that many Americans could speak etc.

These OBL destroyers are all over the WORLD. They have so many sleeper cells that are alive and well.

Will America be safer when the elusive OBL is captured(and will that be a major catch?) I'm not sure that I will be instantly safer.

I'm not sure that GWB, who has been trying to find OBL since 911 -2001, should get the total credit if and when he is captured.

I hope we find OBL today! Let's get it out there now.


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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:45 PM
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7. My guess is that the US forces know exactly where he is...
I'm betting his capture/death will be in July, August or September. Vice President Rove will decide exactly when that occurs, and he knows it would appear too contrived if in October or November.

av8rdave
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:45 PM
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8. Why even speculate about it?
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lichenorleaveit Donating Member (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 04:50 PM
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9. You forgot a few...
Starting with a sudden WMD find and some bad news for Kerry.
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Gato Moteado Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 05:41 PM
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10. where will they find the WMDs?
they've scoured iraq. chimpy even looked under his desk and made a funny joke about it at the expense of those who died in the war to protect halliburton's profits.

and, what sort of bad news for kerry do you mean? i would think chimpy would be worried about bad news....he's getting exposed left and right by his own people.
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Gato Moteado Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 05:42 PM
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11. he was never america's hero.
he's only been the hero of the braindead freepers and facist apologists.

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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 05:43 PM
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12. LOL he's been dead since December 2001. Even the FBI can't be bothered
to post about him and his alleged involvement in 9.11 on their website.
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mot78 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 05:44 PM
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13. You're not the only one who thinks that
And welcome to DU :toast:
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drhilarius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 05:46 PM
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14. I hate to say this
but can't our desire for no "october surprise" be easily misconstrued by any freepers trolling about. They'll return to their lairs and say "see, the libs want osama to be safe and sound. Traitors!" If he is caught our goal should not be lamenting the impact on the polls (actually, it shouldn't be lamenting at all), but rather it should be illuminating the fact that it should not have taken this long, and it wouldn't have had there not been a little diversion in Iraq.
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 05:56 PM
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17. Unfortunately, no matter what we say....
Trolling Freepers will not be nice to us.

Most of us have stopped worrying about this.

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