Just curious... Why can't "the most powerful country in the world" with

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the most advanced technologies and "intelligence" agencies find a single person in six years?

Could it be that "we" don't want to find him?

My God, If you have ever been behind in your bills, you will be hunted down in a week.

Thoughts?

[Olney Blue]

1. Silly rabbit. Everyone knows that the real war is in Iraq!

[Blashyrkh]

2. He died in 2002 in a CIA hospital from kidney failure.

They just haven't told anyone yet because that, you know, kills the whole "Al-Qaeda" thing.

[jobycom]

4. It wouldn't have killed the al-Qaeda thing.

They'd just promote someone else and use him as the bad guy. They've got enough fiction writers on staff to sell anything.

I don't think they know where he is, or whether he's alive. If they could claim he was dead, they would do so. They need the good news now. They needed it two years ago.

[Critters2]

12. True

There's a new "No. 2" every week.

[Yupster]

14. If they could have gotten him, they

would have gotten him a week before the 2004 election.

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16. Naw, the fix was already in for that. n/t

[Blashyrkh]

17. True perhaps. We'll never know because Osama will be "alive" for quite some time.

[jobycom]

3. Same reason the nation with the most powerful military in the world

could invade an unarmed nation, and lose.

The problem is that they weren't really trying to find Usama, and they weren't really trying to establish a viable government in Iraq. Oh, I'm sure they'd have been happy if either had happened, but that wasn't their primary focus. In Afghanistan, they wanted to overthrow the Taliban and build pipelines. In Iraq they wanted to grab the oil fields and give away large contracts. The other issues were secondary.

[tom_paine]

6. I believe you have hit the nail onthe head, sir.

It is NOT that the Bushies are incompetent, it is just that in all cases of "incompetence" it was either purposeful negligence or the fact that they were being "inompentent" was actually part of the plan.

You know, like "inompetently" letting new Orleans drown and "incompetently" "losing" all the recovery money which "incompetently" cements Bushie control of the state forevermore.

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9. Ouch!

I feel you are spot on.

Follow the money.

Oil=Money

[lonestarnot]

13. Up and down nod here.

[daninthemoon]

5. Hmmm...Let's see...Who would benefit from bin laden still

being on the loose, threatening mom & the kids at the mall? Who will protect us?

[Double T]

7. How else can THEY justify blowing all the hundreds of billions spent..........

on 'wars', surveillance and 'intelligence' if the Big Kahuna Boogieman is NOT still at large? The WMDs and Bin Laden are BOTH phantoms of his majesty's 'imagination'.

[Marr]

8. First, that person is related to Bush's senior business partners.

He's not about to piss off the people who essentially pay his family's bills.

Second, if the bogeyman were captured, Bush wouldn't have a bogeyman to shake around.

[baldguy]

10. Most powerful?

Best technology? Best inteligence?

Not Bush's America.

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11. You know....

I think you have a valid point there.

[BlooInBloo]

15. Because Americans are too stupid to vote for somebody who cares.

[Alcibiades]

18. Bin Laden will die of old age

before he is brought to justice, so long as a Republican is in the White House.

There is no doubt the government could "get" Bin Laden. They are not even trying.