Bin Laden By Election Day?

[medeak]

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/09/bin_laden_by_election_day_new.html

The helicopter-borne U.S. Special Operations raid in Pakistan last week was not an isolated incident "but part of a three-phase plan, approved by President Bush, to strike at Osama bin Laden and top al-Qaeda leadership'' at the end of Bush's term, National Public Radio is reporting, citing well-placed sources.

"The plan calls for a much more aggressive military campaign, said one source, familiar with the presidential order, which gives the green light for the military to take part in the operations,'' NPR reports. "The plan represents an 11th-hour effort by the Bush administration to hammer al-Qaeda before leaving office.''

"Both sources say those in the intelligence community and on Capitol Hill are raising questions about the political intent of this new aggressive stance,'' NPR reports. "The question is," said one of the sources, "Why wasn't this done a year ago?"

[Jennicut]

1. Gee, why was Bin Laden not so important before?

What a dumbass shrub is.

[MorningGlow]

2. October soo-prise

I called it weeks ago. They're defrosting him as we post.

[Frosty1]

3. They probably need time to defrost him

:evilgrin:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. "I don't think about Bin Laden much any more"

the Chimperor

[medeak]

5. Dubya just recently gave authority...

"Definitely, the gloves have come off," said one of two sources cited in the report, who has been briefed on the plan. "This was only Phase 1 of three phases."

Pentagon and White House officials have declined to discuss the new plan.
"The intelligence community already had approval from the president to carry out operations inside Pakistan, which included attacks by Predator drones, which can carry 100-pound Hellfire missiles,'' NPR reports of a dispatch on All Things Considered this evening from correspondents Tom Gjelten and Tom Bowman.

Additional authority came from the president just recently that allowed incursions by U.S. Special Operations forces, a source told them.

[MidwestTransplant]

6. Awesome so that would make foreign policy less of an issue. This is for Bush not for McCain.

[glinda]

7. Of Course this is why the Obama people need to throw this up to the public now

I think a simple line like "and who knows, maybe they'll pull Osama out of the hat just for your vote when they should have done this earlier." They all should be saying it on TV.

[melody]

8. They said this in 2004 and 2006

He has way too much freezer burn on him at this point to prop him up for a trial.

[bulloney]

11. Crawford, Texas has been a four-year sequel of 'Weekend at Bernie's'

from propping up OBL so they can spring him on us just before each election.

That's my theory.

[SmileyRose]

9. why wasn't this done a year ago? Musharraf?

I don't believe this campaign is to get bin Laden - he's too useful as a boogie man to the Republicans. There has to be something else cooking.

[bulloney]

10. I thought Dana Perino downplayed capturing OBL recently, saying we got the mastermind of 9-11.

[JaneQPublic]

12. In the week before the election...

...they will either get bin Laden or else a new, even more threatening tape will be released by bin Laden.

Perhaps the Obama camp should begin predicting those occurrences, just to soften the political effect when one or the other does take place.

[medeak]

13. think I'll send article to Obama watch n/t

[marmar]

14. bin Laden facsimile, like the one they use in those phony videotapes, by Election Day....

.... the real one is as dead as Julius Caesar. Benazir Bhutto said so before she was offed.