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yankeedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:11 PM
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Let's face facts folks, OBL is dead
and probably has been dead since late 2001.

He has serious kidney problems, requiring frequent dialysis.
He is in a remote part of Afghanistan/Pakistan hit by not one, but now two major earthquakes which have isolated this area from the rest of the world.
He is reportedly living in a cave complex, which surely would collapse in a major earthquake.
That area of the world has been constantly tracked by spy satellites and drones constantly for years.
He has not made an authenticated video since late 2001 (that one before the election in 04 was digitized, sorry).

So assuming I'm correct, can our troops come home now? Keeping OBL "alive" is the only thing that allows Bushco to justify the "War on terra'", with him out of the way, can we end the killing?
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:15 PM
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1. Even in the USA..
... with top notch medical care, once you are on dialysis your life expectancy is not forever (10 years?) - and the only cure is a new kidney.

Transplant surgery is not likely to be done in a desert cave.
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MrModerate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:16 PM
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2. C'mon now . . .
With at least 643 seconds-in-command, 12,678 number three men, 376,543 senior lieutenants, 49,342,301 implacable supporters, and 5,318,773,002 fellow travelers, I think we can string the war on terra out until the whole frickin' planet is depopulated.

Think big!
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understandinglife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:16 PM
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3. Remember the tall guy in the white robe who had an encounter with ...
... a hellfire missile -- that's when they did him, imho. However, I think several of his Taliban and AQ buddies are being pursued, robustly, in the Pak/Afghan border region.


Peace.
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mikehiggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:19 PM
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4. Is that supposed to be bad news?
If he's dead, that's okay with me.

As to Bush, he doesn't even talk about Osama bin Forgotten anymore.

He's got a war to win!
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kliljedahl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:53 PM
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9. Hasn't for a long time
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dmkinsey Donating Member (789 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:24 PM
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5. He might be dead or
he could be living with one of his kin-folk in Saudi. Last I recall some of them still fond of him and of course Saudis still support the theology.
Who knows where the big O is?
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yankeedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:26 PM
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6. Kinsey, the big O
The joke just writes itself.
:rofl: :spray:
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dmkinsey Donating Member (789 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:28 PM
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7. Oh, thank you very much
n
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yankeedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:35 PM
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8. Just kidding
couldn't resist.
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 09:55 PM
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10. wrong. osama is unimportant, the wot is biger then that.
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journalist3072 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 10:51 PM
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12. Osama is unimportant?
I'm sorry, but I think the man that helped orchastrate the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans is very much important.

Which is why I was so pissed that we went into Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11.

I want Osama's head on a platter.
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 10:39 PM
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11. Not so. Remember his fireside chat with the 'merikun people on
bush's behalf two days before the election? Proves that bush and the bin Ladens are still tight.
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 11:03 PM
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13. I mean this in all seriousness
It would not surprise me at all to find out that OBL
is living comfortably in a CIA run safe house somewhere in the ME.

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