CIA Higher Up...we let bin laden get away

[OldJeff]

This is a surprise to anyone ?

Of course we would let Bin Laden get away, otherwise the whole thing would have been over, and there never would have been any support for Iraq.

[Rolo]

Or we would have killed him, and created a new martyr, which would draw hundred of thousands into radical islam causing terror to really expand world wide...

First do the character killing, then do the actual killing - the other way around is 1.000.000 times harder...

[OldJeff]

As opposed to the hundreds of thousands we have created by invading an unrelated country.

As for making him a Martyr, when his kidneys finally give out, he will be that, nothing we do will change that.

Trying to kill his character in the Arab world is along the same lines as trying to sell them sand.

Besides, how the hell does a war in Iraq have anything to do with Bin Ladden, the only ones buying that bullshit propaganda are idiot Americans.

[Rolo]

Muslims might be ignorant to world policts and how democracies work, but they do understand the difference between civilians and military targets, so with having Al qaeda running amok in Iraq blowing up civilians, then in time Al qaeda, Osama Bin Laden etc. will have committed character suicide.

Opinion polls are already showing less support for Al qaeda and Osama Bin Laden in the middle east due to massive attacks on civilians in Iraq... in time their followers will only be those 5% of nutcases there are in every nation on this planet. Then we can kill him.

Ex. killing Adolf Hitler in 1938 vs. 1945 would have lead to 2 very different scenarios... one of them would have created a martyr statsman killed for his vision - the other a crazy person who lived like a coward after loosing it all...

[Mike AI]

Originally Posted by Rolo

Muslims might be ignorant to world policts and how democracies work, but they do understand the difference between civilians and military targets, so with having Al qaeda running amok in Iraq blowing up civilians, then in time Al qaeda, Osama Bin Laden etc. will have committed character suicide.

Opinion polls are already showing less support for Al qaeda and Osama Bin Laden in the middle east due to massive attacks on civilians in Iraq... in time their followers will only be those 5% of nutcases there are in every nation on this planet. Then we can kill him.

Ex. killing Adolf Hitler in 1938 vs. 1945 would have lead to 2 very different scenarios... one of them would have created a martyr statsman killed for his vision - the other a crazy person who lived like a coward after loosing it all...

Rolo you are correct, the insurgency cannot "win" in Iraq. They have no popular support at all, nor do they have a platform of what they would do if they did win. It would be chaos, and the people of Iraq know this.

The Iraqi people are the ones who have been paying the price from the terrorist. These guys target children, mosques and anything else that they can. The only power they have over people is fear. This is not the vietcong, this is not a popular uprising, this is not even a politcal movement.

[sarettah]

There goes the "No more political posts"

[Mike AI]

Originally Posted by sarettah

There goes the "No more political posts"

Wasn't politcs. It was a war post, and I am agreeing the liberals. Bush sucks!!