Osama is baaaaaaaaaack...

[historian]

Suddenly the talk is about how close the us and pakistan are to capturing Osama. My my what a coincidence - here we are entering into a campaign with chimp's ratings in a free fall and suddenly ...voila...we got him!!!
Oh please i going to be sick

[BootinUp]

1. Its still going to be

quite a challenge to catch him. If they do succeed then they deserve some credit for it. But we should still say what the hell took so long. :)

[alfredo]

2. Capturing Osama won't do anything to make us

more secure. Al Qaeda is not an organization as much as it is an idea.

[Birthmark]

6. No, but it will make us feel better.

The sooner OBL is gone, captured, dead, eaten by lions, whatever - the better.

[izzie]

7. They have already said in front of congress that it is now a world...

wide movement. bin larden is not important any more. Each group has it own Osama. Terrorist have been around for 100 years, this is not new. They are now just taking USSR place so we can still dump our money into the new tanks etc. It is big business

[Hippo_Tron]

10. Regardless, it's important that OBL be brought to justice...

It's the principal of the thing really. Nobody should be allowed to lead an attack on our country and get away with it, let alone all of the other things he did before 9/11.

[Exgeneral]

16. and nobody should be allowed to aid and abet that leader

as they are equally complicit in the deaths.
unless you think a Saudi on dialysiis in a cave with a six year old cell phone and a first generation laptop coordinated the whole thing from right there.
http://www.rememberjohn.com

[dudeness]

11. agreed..

this is the old colonial misconception of "capture the head man and the natives will be pacified"..the capture of saddam has not in any way slowed Iraqi resistance..in fact the opposite..capturing OBL will in no way slow instances of international terror..more than provide a photo op for some politicians and generals..

[alfredo]

12. That's it, Osama was just one of many leaders, he was just the most

visible. He has been out of the loop, not being able to send messages by cellphone. He has been sending messages by hand written notes.

[dudeness]

15. which in fact cuts to the chase

of the fictional "war on terror" OBL has been idenified as as a terrorist leader for many years, but similar to saddam was an approved militant whilst funded and supported by the US (previous admnistrations)..in fact OBL was offered up by both the Somalis and the Taliban for capture in previous years..these offers were declined..the US has always needed an enemy to continue the plundering of taxpayers resources to proliferate the military/industrial complex..once the cold war finished (with the help of OBL)..he was deemed an enemy in much the same way way as saddam, noriega and suharto to name a few..

[alfredo]

17. Once the Berlin wall fell, the right started finding enemies

at home.

[tom_paine]

3. Yep. As corrupt and lying and Orwellian as the Soviets

Free-Market Stalinism.

WWFMD?

[Old and In the Way]

4. Why'd we let him escape in the 1st place?

Check out "Escape From Afghanistan" on www.cooperativeresearch.com

I think the answer is obvious. If we had captured OBL in 11/01, how could this administration made the case to attack Iraq?

[teach1st]

5. Escape from Afghanistan link

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/escapeafghanistan.html

[Hippo_Tron]

8. Kerry (or Edwards) should respond to this by simply saying...

"I'd like congratulate our military on their capture of this horrible man."

That's it, don't make it a politicial issue and it won't become one.

[maxsolomon]

9. source is a reporter

probably nothing. don't get your hopes up.

capturing OBL won't stop terror. not when teachers are terrorists.

[never cry wolf]

13. I don't think he'll ever be captured

At least not by this admin.

If you thought a Sadaam trial would embarass this admin could you imagine an Osama 9-11 murder trial?

[Piperay]

14. The Democratic candidates

should begin right away to talk about how the capture of OBL is not the real issue, he's unimportant to stopping terrorism. OBL is going to be captured, if he hasn't already been :tinfoilhat: so the Democrats need to down play his importance immediately to deflect the coming capture..

[tinrobot]

19. Use Chimpy's words...

...or Cheney's, Rumsfeld's or Colin Powell's.

I think over the past two years every single one of them has said that Osama is not important.

I guess he is NOW....

[spanone]

18. It's gonna be one tough freakin' year

They are gonna pull out all the guns they have - maybe some real ones. The kind of money involved in the bushco theiving of America will make it hard for them to let go.