Piper,

Ain't folks smart enough to get from there to here?

I don't get it.

Pipe/Slab

I'm with ya, maybe we need a road map

Thad be oem if we caught him! All the time i thought he was dead, hmm we will see soon hopefully!

Please note the date of the original post. Must have been a BIG corner. I guess.

DV,

If I recall correctly, the British "report" was in one of those tabloids that they are so famous for.

Probably sandwiched between stories of the alien abduction of Prince Charles and poparazzi pics of boobs.

SQ: The quote was from our president. My point was there seems to be a consistent drumbeat telling us about things that are about to happen that don’t. i.e. how many times were we told that it looks like we have found WMDs, only to be told it was a false alarm? Same with Bin Laden and this other guy we have had cornered for about three days now.

I don't totally blame the administration for this. No doubt they were clutching at straws to prove their allegations of WMDs, but another part of this is the media seemingly trying to make the war and the battle against terrorism, which are two VERY different things, into some sort of spectator sport.

Fox and CNN seem the worst with their constant "breaking news” stories. The news folks can get a lot more mileage out of something if they tell us what is about to happen, what is happening and what did happen. If they cry wolf too long we get turned off. I imagine we will find Osama one day. I sure hope we do. But by the time we do the press and the administration will have us believe it is a huge victory. I don’t think so. I think this Al Quida monster has too many cells to ever stop totally. Too bad we wasted so much time and energy in Iraq when we could have been fighting the real threat - Al Quida.

I think that we have been doing both and in the long run you will see that ridding the world of the Hussain family was a good thing.

My best friends' son is comming home from Bagdad at this very moment and I hate the fact that he has to hear this kind of BS about how he wasted his time.

We can rehash this over and over again and I will back our policy and you will hate GWB. Put a politcal sign in your yard, enjoy your freedom, go fishing, and vote in November.

PS: I am a disabled veteran. I am so very proud of our men and women in uniform and truly appreciate their sacrifices. Nothing is more tragic than seeing a 19 or 20 year old die so young, in service to their country. I also think our country is the finest in the world. If I could, I would shake your friend's son's hand and tell him thank you!

But, that sure as heck wont keep me from that very American tradition of questioning our politicians and wanting our country to do the right thing. My patriotism does not extend to the point that I must always believe our president is right. Do you think good patriotic Americans should have always backed whatever Clinton did? I sure don't! Wouldn't it be awful if your friend’s son came home to a country where there was no open dissent, no freedom of speech and only one, government sanctioned, set of opinions? A country like that would not be one I want to live in.

Dave..I didn't know you were a veteran. I can't imagine how it would be to actually shoot people and get shot at and also watch your buddies get blown away. It is so sick that the world is populated by so many people that want to kill each other. When I was at the Unioversity of Washington in the 70s I was surrounded by protest and it turns out for good reason. My most clear memories are of friends who had to go fight and die in Viet Nam. Some of them came back pretty scarred by what they did and saw. One friend was in on what you saw in Apocolyps Now..Heads on sticks and scalps on their belts...running PT boats up the Mekong Delta...That sucks bad. We are pretty darn lucky that we have young men and women willing to go through that kind of thing so we can sit here and complain about everything.

I suppose those that ran Nixon out of office were also anti-americans?

...and likely communists as well!

Plunker-

Forgive my skepticism. Goharley and I discussed several months ago his idea that Osama would somehow be produced at election crunch time. At first I was skeptical....but the writing is on the wall for just exactly that to happen. When they do find him, I wouldn't be surprised if he was sittin on every WMD 'iraq had', for the double political Coup De Gras...

H2O....that would be cool

DV,

So you're telling me that GWB said we had OBL cornered?


h2o,

oooh, I hope you're right....that would be more than cool.

Maybe they could save OBL and his cohorts in caskets until a little later in the year then have Bush land on another aircraft carrier where he could open the caskets for a photo op! Then he could high five all the troops assmbled on the deck....Take all the credit for the war on terror and call Kerry a pinhead....blame 911 on Bill Clinton wohooooo bring it ONNNN

GP, WHAT ARE YOU DOING??!!! You let the sinister republican secret out of the bag... Oh man. Now all the leftist (oopps meant lefties) are gonna think the whole thing was planned from the get go... :rolleyes: