Posted by
Rick on Friday, February 23, 2007 1:37:51 PM
Well, perhaps SOME of the former republican leadership would have liked GWB to release this information prior to the elections in '06 to take the spotlight off their newly found liberal leanings, but my suspicion is that the U.S. military has detained Osama Bin Laden (OBL) somewhere in Iraq or Afghanistan, and this information will be leaked as a last middle-finger from the Bush Administration to the U.S. media in the days prior to the election in '08.
This is the plan that seems most likely to me. Osama is too much of a nihilist just to be so difficult to track these days. Someone who is as self-centered as this guy is wouldn't want his name to fade from the papers and people's minds. After 9/11, he kept releasing tapes with the help of his captors, more than likely, and the media bought this crap hook, line, and sinker since not having him in possession would always prove to be a black mark against the administration, and one in which the media would love to rub in the faces of the administration any time they chose to do it.
Right now, the republican party is making most of the dems' "best" candidates disassociating with their post-9/11 "yea" votes on military force in Iraq. This is part of the plan. By primary time, Mrs. Clinton will have said something in a speach that can be spliced together, and she will be saying that she voted for it before she voted against it, and it will be 2004 all over again.
Another tack would be a republican commercial where the narator would be explaining something down the lines of,
"How can anyone support a candidate who thinks one thing one day, and then changes his/her mind the next day?" There will be audio and or video to illustrate this as the narator is mentioning this point. Do we really want somone so feebily-minded with his/her finger on the button?