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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:58 PM
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just how many times have zarquawi & bin laden just barely escaped?
every few weeks, it's another 'official' report that the ever slippery batman comic book bad guys zarquawi and bin laden escaped capture by u.s. forces 'by only moments'.

at what point does one feel justified in calling the u.s. government and it's military INCOMPETENT DUMB ASSES?

oh, and of course, how many of these 'just barely escaped' stories would Clinton had gotten away with? none, that's how many.
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InternalDialogue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:00 PM
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1. "just how many times have zarquawi & bin laden just barely escaped?"
Just enough times to make people think we're concerned with actually finding them.
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:43 PM
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27. Phantom Terrorists, Phantom WMDs, Phantom Jobs, Phantom Improving...
...Economy And On And On
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:00 PM
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it's innumerable, barely n/t
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:00 PM
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2. If they are the same person, should I just answer with one number?
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:00 PM
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3. it can be tought to catch
invented boogeymen
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Ezlivin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:01 PM
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4. Freedom is on the march
It's hard work finding them terraists.

Don't worry, we'll get them. I think Bush wants 'em to go to Mars.
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cdb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:02 PM
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5. I went fishing...
Last summer I almost caught a fish THIS BIG!! REALLY, I DID, almost... catch a fish this big... really
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DearAbby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:04 PM
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12. Osama is in the Brush on B*'s Western White House Ranch
that is the reason he goes there often to clear brush...scare out some Quail and Osama!


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burn the bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:02 PM
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6. none. they've both been in custody since the beginning. lol
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:02 PM
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7. horse shoes and hand granades
those are the only things where close matters
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Blue Belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:02 PM
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8. Probably the same amount of times...
helicopters and planes mysteriously crash in Iraq due to pilot error (and not from anti-aircraft guns fired by insurgents).

Liberty is on the move!
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:03 PM
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9. They've captured Goldberg!
1984 reference
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:03 PM
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10. Face it, those guys can out wit those bumblers every time.
Same reason the US military is getting their collective asses kicked in Iraq.
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Career Prole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:04 PM
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11. It's easy for 'em.
They have lots of hair on their chinny-chin-chins. :eyes:
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Mandate My Ass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:06 PM
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13. when orange alerts stopped working,
Edited on Tue Apr-26-05 04:07 PM by Mandate My Ass
and there was a danger of some real news coming out, they switched to almost catching terrorists to fill up the air time between kidnapped kids, vegetative women, pervert trials and shark attacks.
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:09 PM
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15. AND the occassional breakup of a shadowy, foreign, terrorist ring
which much crowing and boasting and medals of freedom passed around.
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Hobo Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:08 PM
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14. Too many to count......I'll bet
there is a correlation to the amount of bad news comes out about the BFEE.

Hobo
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:11 PM
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17. and the occassional release of the latest bin laden mix
been four months since the last one. that's how they prove to us they are winning, fake news, fake tapes, fake enemies, fake president.
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:10 PM
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16. Ah, but they have the laptop!
So, they're getting a little closer, but the thrill of the hunt is not over for them. If they have his laptop, they can catch him. If they don't, it is because they aren't trying.

Actually, if they have his laptop, they probably have him, and they are keeping it quiet until they round up his supporters.

Personally, I hope they have him and that his terrorist organization is stopped from preying on innocent people.
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:12 PM
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19. yeah but, he's in a cave, & you know how hard that makes finding him
and he has boxcutters, and you know how powerful they are.
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finecraft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:12 PM
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18. The funniest one was when they "almost" captured Mullah Omar
in Afghanistan, but numerous people reported seeing him escape from the area in a rickshaw.
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:14 PM
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20. and today, zarquawi jumping from a speeding car on his 1 leg
and the finding saddam in a spider hole story was proven to be a hoax, as was little jessica's rescue, as was the whole obscenity.
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Selteri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:15 PM
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21. It's a simple formula for how many 'close calls'

(X+Y)- Z = Distractions


X - The amount of times the Administration's numbers have been threatened

Y - The amount of times the Media has begun to look too close

Z is the amount of times that something else has been able to be conviently blamed.
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:18 PM
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22. And how many times they have been killed?
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:23 PM
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23. Slipp'ry liddle fuckerz ...... damn ......
'see ... we're smokin' 'em out .... see, they're .... we're gunna git 'em .... they .... uh ...... fast. yeah. they're fast little suckers.


blah blah fucking blah ...........
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:41 PM
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25. wack a mole is hard when you've had a fifth of jack
look!---there's one o' the suckers now!---oh crap!--he's gone, dammit dammit dammit oh well, we'll git im' next time by doggy.
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:50 PM
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31. Great Leader Chimpus Khan's crack anti terror forces on the job:
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:27 PM
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24. kinda lends an air of credibility to that stupid show "24"..
I mean, if bin Laden and Zarquawi are able to barely escape capture as often as they have, maybe it's plausible that CTU can't seem to get their hands on Habib Marwan.

I think the show sucks, but I may have to watch it in a whole new light.
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KlatooBNikto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:43 PM
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26. If you did not think this was due to incompetence, you might start
thinking it was by design. Come to think of it, that sounds more like it.
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:44 PM
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28. that Emmanuel Goldstein sure is sneaky! always managing to nip
away at the last moment!
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:46 PM
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29. It's a bone they throw every now and then.
sigh.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:50 PM
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30. The U.S. just about captured Zarquawi......That is until he jumped
out of his vehicle doing 90 MPH and out ran every living son-of-a-bitch in the country side. But man, we got a ton of valuable information from his computer that he left behind.
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:52 PM
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32. I think it's Zarquawi - 7, bin Laden - 4.
I may not be up on the latest spin, but that's my scorecard.
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:55 PM
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33. Getting kinda thin, huh? At least Batman had the sense to have a different
villain each week - and they were going for camp.
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KlatooBNikto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:55 PM
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34. When the time comes for their next assignment from the Chimp, they
can be counted on to show up.
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