(Rasmussen Poll) 80% Say bin Laden Still Alive

[sabra]

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/National%20Polls/bin%20Laden%20Alive.htm

80% Say bin Laden Still Alive

March 23, 2006--Eighty percent (80%) of Americans believe that Osama bin Laden is still alive. But only a little more than a third believe that whether the Al Qaeda chief is alive or dead is relevant to national security.

Slightly fewer women (78%) than men (83%), and slightly fewer Democrats (79%) than Republicans (83%) think bin Laden is still alive.

Last summer we asked whether it was likely that bin Laden would be caught or killed within the next year, and found that about half of Americans were optimistic on that score.

Thirty-seven percent (37%) of all likely voters agree that if bin Laden is killed or captured, the United States would be safer, 47% say the country would not be safer.

[xiamiam]

1. gotta keep the boogie man alive...nt

[shain from kane]

2. What does his doctor say?

Has Frist seen the videotape and x-rays?

[oneighty]

3. Stupid it is to be

thinking people into or out of existence.

I think therefore he is?

Jeeze.

180

[HereSince1628]

4. I totally agree. OBL's mortality isn't a matter of populism.

[Common Sense Party]

5. Dead or alive, OBL doesn't matter more than symbolically.

It's his organization, AQ's widespread cells and the plans they have in place, that's what matters. They already have their funding, they have targets and plans, and even if OBL showed up dead as a doorknob on the White House lawn tomorrow morning, that wouldn't affect the independednt cells worldwide.

[jackpan1260]

6. I am amazed that the man who killed 3000 Americans got away with it

and Bush doesn't really care. I am also amazed that more Americans don't hold Bush responsible for not caring.

[rodeodance]

7. "The al Qaeda leader died of kidney failure and was buried in Iran,..."

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http://www.nationalreview.com/lopez/ledeen200601090808.asp

January 09, 2006, 8:08 a.m.
One Moment in Time
Our age of revolution.



........This historical moment is not easy to understand, since we are in transition from a relatively stable world, dominated by a handful of major powers, to something we cannot yet define, since it is up to us to shape it. It seems clear, however, that there is a greater rapidity of change, accompanied — inevitably — by the passing of the leaders of the old order. This is particularly clear in the Middle East, where seven key figures have been struck down in the past six years: King Hussein of Jordan in February, 1999. King Hassan of Morocco in July of the same year. Syrian dictator Hafez al Assad in June of 2000. Yasser Arafat of the PLO in April, 2004. King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in May of last year. Ariel Sharon of Israel was incapacitated by a stroke in early January. And, according to Iranians I trust, Osama bin Laden finally departed this world in mid-December. The al Qaeda leader died of kidney failure and was buried in Iran, where he had spent most of his time since the destruction of al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The Iranians who reported this note that this year's message in conjunction with the Muslim Haj came from his number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, for the first time.

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— Michael Ledeen, an NRO contributing editor, is most recently the author of The War Against the Terror Masters. He is resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute

[liberal N proud]

8. If he was not alive, bu$h regime would not have him to use at

their convenience to put the fear into people.
When is Osama needed:
- When the poll numbers are as low as they are now
- Right before an election
- When the media starts to do their job and work for the people.

This year should be a very good year for tapes to surface reported to be from Bin Laden.