Randi Rhodes predicts bin Laden will be "captured" tomorrow...

For betting on terrorist futures, but I don't suppose nabbing bin Laden would have been one of the choices on the board.

n/t

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...if the Bushes were actually able to hold onto him through all the criticism without blurting out that they'd had him, just to get what they considered the best timing.

They, quite honestly, haven't demonstrated either that level of 'competence', or self-control. I mean really -- remember when Ashcroft rushed to a microphone when he was in Russia to announce the capture of some unknown 'terrorist' who later turned out to be not one at all?

They really can't STAND the criticism -- I think if they'd caught him at some point, they would have taken advantage of it long ago.

Now, staging a 'capture' with a double or something? Well...maybe, but that's fraught with risk, since the real bin Laden could easily pop his head up at any time afterwards, and really make Bush look like a fool.

So no. I don't think they are really that good. They'd like us to think so (it's always, "I meant to do that!"...just like PeeWee Herman), but I haven't seen it so far.

Also, the Busheviks will NEVER allow their former (and perhaps current) business partner to be captured alive.

why be captured when he can be a martyr? Either way I'll take this as good news. However, Bush has created more than a few more bin Ladens around the world since 9/11 I suspect.

He won't let himself be taken alive, and there are more Osamas now. Sometimes I think that he's probably already long gone.

Both Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are former employees of the Bush Criminal Empire. Leaving them alive and on the run provides a convenient excuse for the so called "war on terror". Leaving them alive in US custody would risk them talking, and they know too much about Dip W Shit and his daddy. Neither will be taken alive if they are ever taken at all.

... so his bloody face can be plastered all over our televisions.

I've often pondered the possibility that they had captured him and were waiting to right before the election to bring out his lifeless body to parade around.

Better check for freezer burn if that is the case.

And on 9/11 too... that'd be a kicker, wouldn't it?

This would not surprise me at all.

Schrub is slipping in the polls. The economies in the dumpster. The tax cuts won't help. The GIs in Iraq re sitting ducks.

We need a lttle distraction.

After all * was going to "capture" OBL sooner of later...Right?

Hell, anybody with two brain cells to rub together would be all over it. So, since you obviously had him and were holding him for the "special day", why did you 1) catch him and not tell us or 2) risk letting him get away by not actually catching him until 9/11?

Mebbe next year... it'd play better.

I think they'll do it next year.

Although............if he WERE captured, I believe his own people would let it be known so Bush couldn't use to his political advantage. Yes? No?

year after that it'll be Kim