The OSAMA SURPRISE

[digno dave]

I think we need to figure out ways to soften the blow our cause will take when Osama gets "discovered" in the coming months(before the election, of course).
Of course Bush will help us by digging himself deeper and deeper into the hole he is waste deep in already.
I think we need to get the word out that this is going to happen and that when it does happen it will be for political gain. This message has already gotten a little play as it is.

Any ideas?

[BearFlagDemocrat]

1. Get Michael Moore to mention it from the stump.

Seemed to work with AWOL. :)

[ComerPerro]

10. Could work

You never know

[Melodybe]

2. I'm telling all the repubs I know

Check that, I am telling everyone I know.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Will it change your mind?

Won't change mine....

[RobertSeattle]

4. Time, for one

9/11/2001 was 869 days ago. Why did it take this long for someone who killed 3000 people? Clinton got the first WTC bombers in a matter of days...

Priorities, Anyone?

http://www.buzzflash.com/perspectives/Osama_Clock.html

[Old and In the Way]

5. Maybe we can get Las Vegas to make book on it......

should see a lot of action. That'd be one bet I'd be happy to lose.

[wysi]

6. To me...

... the only possible angle is the fact that Bin Laden might not be the actual perpetrator of the event - or if he was, where the backing and assistance came from. Mike Moore made an interesting point, about which I have seen some limited support, and that's the possible involvement of the Saudi Arabian government. I'm reserving judgement myself (mainly because Moore's argument was negative - dismissing the idea that Bin Laden could have carried out the operation - rather than giving positive support to a counter-argument, which I would find more convincing).

I don't think it will play well either way. I think he's been dead for a while and will be shown off at just the right time.

[chromotone]

7. Bush & bin Laden...

Could the old Rocky and Bullwinkle routine be resurrected but with Bush and Osama?



“Watch me pull bin Laden out of my hat!”
“That trick never works”
“But this is an election year, and I’ve nothing else to run on!”

[radwriter0555]

8. bin laden has been dead for more than 2 years, since December

2001... when he succombed to kidney disease.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

11. Yeah but what do you want to bet

That the Bushtistas will take credit for eliminating him -probably right before the 2004 election

[Kira]

9. I think we should talk about

how great a job the military did. Bush had nothing to do with them capturing him and I think we should draw that distinction over and over. I think we should also strengthen the case against their pre war "intelligence" and how we should have gone after Osama instead of invading Iraq.

[methinks2]

12. we need to doubt that it's him

Am I the only one who noticed that of the three O tapes that we've been shown, the hands of the person who was supposed to be O were differentfrom one tape to the next. Specifically, from the first tape to the second tape. I would want all of the tapes to be examined by medical people to make sure we aren't being shown video of actors.

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