Assume for the moment that the Bin Laden tape is legit and all

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the others were too. Then isn't what we have going on just Osama coming along from time to time to give a hearty whack to the wedge that Rove and his ilk are driving into the heart of this country?

If you think the Rove faction is doing all the whacking itself the result would be the same.

If Osama is alive, why is he alive? The answer is that Bush is an abject failure as a "War President" and Kerry was right when he said the wet-brained weasel let him get away at Tora Bora.