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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 11:15 AM
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So what's Bin Laden still got against us? We pulled out of Saudi, we
we overthrew a secular government and made possible the installation of an Islamic Republic in Iraq and returned Iraqi women to their proper status under Islamic law.

What is really left on the "to do list" Osama sent George?

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Mr Rabble Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 11:16 AM
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1. OBL is dead. So, Im not sure what it matters.
Now he is a figurehead and a martyr for all in the ME.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 11:20 AM
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5. You got proof?
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Mr Rabble Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 11:25 AM
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8. His death was widely reported in ME newspapers.
Edited on Mon Aug-22-05 11:30 AM by emperor72
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 12:08 PM
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12. So you got speculation, not proof
You have one article dated November 2001 saying he and Mullah Omar were executed on October 16, 2001, by the Taliban, according to reliable informants in the Bin Laden camp. You have later reliable sources in the Bin Laden camp saying he died on December 10 when a missile hit his cave. You have still later reliable sources saying he was wounded at Tora Bora and died later.

I remember reading all the conservative psychos claiming Hussein had been killed by the first bomb we dropped in the suburbs of Bagdad. Eye witnesses saw his body taken out. There was much action amongst his advisors which would hint that he was dead. Some Republican commentators were claiming we killed him that first night up until they pulled him out of the bunker. His silence, they said, was proof he was dead. He also died during the first Iraqi invasion, but recovered well.

Eric Rudolph died, as his silence proved, too.

Maybe he's dead, maybe he's alive. But we've seen no proof yet.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 11:22 AM
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6. Now proof of that would be explosive.
Does anyone suppose there is such proof and that he's intentionally left out there as a bogeyman because they realize that support for this war has always been 1,000,000 miles wide and 1/2 inch deep?
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ropi Donating Member (948 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 11:17 AM
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2. you forgot
he hates us for our freedom.
<chants the matra>
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 11:22 AM
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7. What I forgot is that US made him a celebrity
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 11:19 AM
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3. Very true
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jim3775 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 11:20 AM
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4. He loves the U.S.
Edited on Mon Aug-22-05 11:20 AM by jim3775
The bush admin has give him everything he wanted; chaos in the middle east, a ligtning rod for terrorist recruitment, homegrown self-financed terror in western countries and a secular government has fallen and it will soon be replaced with an Islamic republic.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 12:10 PM
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13. He hates the US, he just loves Bush.
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 11:26 AM
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9. I think he has a problem with support of Israel too.
That is the show stopper.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 11:30 AM
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10. Attack Iran, of course
He still doesn't have his pan-global caliphate. Bumbling Dubya has yet further potential to reshape the world for the worse.
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Burried News Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-05 11:34 AM
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11. Who knows what bin Laden thinks? I don't. I would be interested
in hearing his grievances and explanations. I think he's a murderer but I used to think the same of Nelson Mandela. I used to think the IRA was nothing but murderers - they were (are?) but I still want to know what they know.

Who's not available and why is always an interesting question.
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