The evidence suggests Pakistan's ISI hired or forced a Bin Laden double to live in the house. There were a lot of political benefits to both sides in pretending Bin Laden was still alive. Until Obama whacked the guy to change the subject away from the birth certificate. Nobody in the global intelligence community ever imagined a US President would risk military lives on such a cheap political act. Bush could have done the same thing in Fall, 2008 and probably helped McCain beat Obama - but he didn't.
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Sorry, 11/9 WAS reason enough to mobilise the army the way he did. He perpetrated the first attack on American soil in 150 years and had support of many influential Arabian personalities that you, in your stupid ethnocentrism, are unable to know or whose motivations you don't understand. Remember that he was solidly installed in a two store luxurious villa not far from the Pakistani Capital. So, if Pakistan won so much, why doing all that show in the first place?
#1289173
You're an idiot.
-The evidence suggests Pakistan's ISI hired or forced a Bin Laden double to live in the house-
What evidence?
There were a lot of political benefits to both sides in pretending Bin Laden was still alive.
wtf
Until Obama whacked the guy to change the subject away from the birth certificate.
Seriously? What the fuck are you smoking?
Nobody in the global intelligence community ever imagined a US President would risk military lives on such a cheap political act.
The mind reels!
Bush could have done the same thing in Fall, 2008 and probably helped McCain beat Obama - but he didn't.
fail!
Mr. Jeeves,
If you aren't a poe, you must be a severely incapacitated person.
If you are for real, you beat out my aunt for crazy.
@1289173
You don't stop terrorism via land wars. A war is when two or more sovereign nations fight. A "war on terror" is thus meaningless as terror cells are, by definition, stateless.
You know what does stop terrorism, though? Police work. That's right. Good, old-fashioned police work. Why? Because terror networks behave in more or less the same manner as criminal networks. Yes, at some point mobilization of soldiers is likely to be necessary (after enough information about them has been acquired, in order to carry out operations that actually bear results), but you don't mobilize the whole army to level an entire country, just to stamp out a single terrorist group. That's like going after an archeological find with a Krupp earth mover.
@Raised by Horses,
congratulations! You win the boxed set of the first 2 seasons of Miami Vice! Because you are right, organized crime, particularly drug cartels, created the modern standard for running a covert organization, combining the cell structure of the soviet "Red Orchestra" with the capabilities of cell phone communications. This, incidentally, is why torture doesn't work- because as soon as Achmed fails to make his scheduled call to the cell leader, operational plans, codes, meeting times and places all get changed.
Lets imagine Osama's death was faked: citizens cheer, popularity goes up, the birth control is safely ignored... until an amused Osama releases another video assuring people that he's still alive. The Obama administration would be humiliated and disgraced, without the faintest chance of reelection.
You mention that "Nobody in the global intelligence community ever imagined a US President would risk military lives on such a cheap political act." What you fail to realize is that this isn't because it would be incredibly unethical, but because it would be incredibly stupid.
"Cheap military act"... I suppose you think the storming of Berlin was a trite, tasteless stunt? Osama was a mass murdering, fanatical, America-hating woman-hating gay-bashing, conniving terrorist fuckweasel and he deserved to get his brains blown out several thousand times over.
And while people are distracted by this astounding stupidity, they may forget that you're implying that Obama wasn't born in the USA. He was. Fact. Case closed. Period. Get that through your thick skull. The president was born here. Goddamn it if it isn't infuriating that you racists keep calling him shit like "the Kenyan" and "Obamination" and fucking "SNOBama". It's downright juvenile, so just shut the fuck up.
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