America chasing Osama 24/7

[lojasmo]

http://www.cnn.com

"U.S. forces searching for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden along the mountainous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan will soon implement high-tech surveillance tactics in the region"

My goodness, "High-tech" I'm all aflutter

[bluestateguy]

1. You mean we haven't been doing so since 9/11?

I guess finding the WMD's in Iraq was more important!

[fearnobush]

2. WTF!!!!

Did they purposefully wait 2 years to nab him during an election cycle? The bastard should have been caught before the ringing in of the new year...2002!!! Fucking Freeper incompetence. You Freepers Couldn't catch a dead rat if it were staring you in the face!!!

[DemonFighterLives]

3. Pulling out all the stops

Maybe the top gun himself will need to go over there and sniff him out. Oh, that was smoke em out. Don't forget to pay off the Saudi Royals there b*.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. gonna use some high tech smoke to smoke em out!!!

Why do images of Elmer Fudd come to mind about this?

[bonemachine]

5. This is not a war on Terrorism

It's bad theatre.

[HawkerHurricane]

6. Bull puckey.

It took the US only two years to track down and kill the man responsible for Pearl Harbor (Adm. Yamamoto)... why should it take longer to do the same for Bin Laden? Of course, killing Adm. Yamamoto wasn't our top priority, since we had to defeat the fleet that he commanded first... and Bin Laden doesn't even have a fleet!

[KenLayedOff]

7. A fleet

War has changed since Pearl Harbor. The "fleets" of today can inflict serious harm with small chemistry packages. But you knew that...

[HawkerHurricane]

8. Yeah, sure.

Except...
Do you know why chemical weapons are used so seldom in warfare? I mean, except for the mass use in WW1, and a few others... why no more uses? Geneva Conventions? Nations ignore the Geneva Conventions left and right. Why do so few use chemical weapons?

Because they are so ineffective.

Remember that terror attack in Japan? The one that used Sarin, one of the deadliest nerve agents known to man in a subway station?
Why a subway station?
BECAUSE...
they needed a enclosed space to prevent it from disappaiting to a non lethal dose.
And even then, more people died from the panicked stampede than from the nerve gas.

And, now that I think about it...
What nerve agents does Osama have? The stuff he got from Saddam(snarf!) How do you use a nerve agent (or bio, or nuke) to stop a sattelite from tracking you down and a Seal team from putting a bullet in you?

Nope, we should have put a maximum effort to get Osama from the beginning; and not gone into the Iraq sideshow until we had him, not wasted time and treasure on a job that didn't need to be done.

We can't be destroyed by Osama. We can only be destroyed by ourselves. Lincoln said it in 1865; he was right then and he's right now: As a nation, we are destined for greatness, or death by suicide.

[KenLayedOff]

9. No, I meant chemical in a broader sense

Thinks like KCl04 and fuel, Asprine nitrated with drain cleaner and saltpeter, you know...the simple things that go boom. Osama types teach this shit to the deadly and suicidal and that makes it bad news.

I know this shit.

[HawkerHurricane]

10. Still doesn't protect him

from that Seal team.

I'm not saying Osama isn't a danger. I'm asking why it's taking so long to track him down. It's not like he's got a fleet protecting him. Guys with improvised explosives aren't going to stop a determined search; why did we wait until now to make it?

[xchrom]

11. you honestly believe that a country like the u.s.

with all the resources at our disposal would take two years to track down someone as notorious as obl?
more like a planned ''gee, george, where did he go?''

[Spentastic]

12. Yeah honest

More likely they'll be opening the door of the room they have him in already taking pictures of someone examining his hair.