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TrueAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:32 AM
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Breaking News: Osama Bin Laden caught
Not really,

But I bet it gave you a heart attack. I wish it was true that he has been caught even through it would be another 4 more years of Bush.

Does anyone disagree? Is it still possible for John Kerry to win, if Bin Laden is caught between now and elelction day?
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BootinUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:33 AM
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1. OOOOOHHH! That was bad
*Grasping at chest*

:)
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freetobegay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:33 AM
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2. Oy vey.
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:33 AM
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3. If Osama is caught there are far more willing to
take his place, thanks to the policies of the Bush administration.

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rkc3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:34 AM
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Check for freezer burns on his carcass, then get back to me.
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BootinUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:34 AM
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4. Okay, I'll try to answer your question now
I think if Bin Laden is caught before November 2, we can write this one off.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:34 AM
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5. We don't want to get into the trap
of looking like we DON'T want bin Laden caught. What we have to be on guard against is the political exploitation of such an event. Hopefully Kerry's campaign has a strategy planned for that possibility.
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John_H Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:34 AM
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6. ONLY if the a few Dem surrogates start screaming about the following:
1)it doesn't matter if we catch Osama--the prez has says so himslef

3) Look what they did after the dem convention--they'll do anything to win. Will there be an october surprise?

But just think, the also have WMD.
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:35 AM
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7. Of course! That way *s dumb mission is accomplished, and he can go!
It would be ideal, actually. War on terror -- OVER!
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:36 AM
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8. Yes. Enough people are getting the real message that Corporations have
taken over the government and all the other stuff is just for show.

Also, don't ya think if Osama gets trotted out that al Queda will pull a flashy stunt just to remind everyone that Osama is a sick ole man and there are still plenty of young angry ones left?
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:36 AM
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9. I will never open one of your posts again.
I don't appreciate having my time wasted.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:48 AM
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16. I'll second that!
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prodigal_green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:36 AM
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10. If Bin Laden had been caught in 2001 or 2002
it might have made a difference. He is totally irrelevant now, operationally speaking. The hydra has so many heads, you could cut a dozen of them and still be at risk.
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unfrigginreal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:38 AM
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11. Kerry will still win it
By the time this campaign is over people are going to be pissed that the Bushies screwed up the opportunities missed in Afghanistan. Especially when it finally dawns on some that perhaps their thoughts about going into Iraq would have been different had he been captured when we had the chance.
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NewYorkerfromMass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:40 AM
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12. bin Laden is now just a tiny blip in the big WOT
Bush has now created thousands of bin Ladens whom we don't even know about.
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Connie_Corleone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:40 AM
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13. Yes, you definitely almost gave me a heart attack.
LOL!
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Demit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:42 AM
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14. caught then released, maybe...
I think he's too valuable to Bush as a raison d'etre. Osam bin Bogeyman. Osama bin Maguffin. Gotta have that perpetual state of war, you know.

BTW, haha on the freezer burn joke, rkc3! A friend and I were musing on that with the Hussein boys last year. Did we ice them and then ice them?
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Bernardo de La Paz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 08:42 AM
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15. Do you have an original thought on the issue? Seems not. I was not fooled
I was not fooled by your post. I did look at it to see if you had an original thought on the issue. Could you point me to one?
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