Randi Rhodes predicts bin Laden will be "captured" tomorrow...

[wyldwolf]

place your bets now!

[Sushi_lover]

1. she's seldom wrong. where can I put some money down on that?

[gratuitous]

5. Well, they scuttled Poindexter's great plan

For betting on terrorist futures, but I don't suppose nabbing bin Laden would have been one of the choices on the board.

[DinahMoeHum]

2. Interesting that you should put quotation marks. . .

n/t

:evilgrin:

[htuttle]

3. I would be astounded...

...if the Bushes were actually able to hold onto him through all the criticism without blurting out that they'd had him, just to get what they considered the best timing.

They, quite honestly, haven't demonstrated either that level of 'competence', or self-control. I mean really -- remember when Ashcroft rushed to a microphone when he was in Russia to announce the capture of some unknown 'terrorist' who later turned out to be not one at all?

They really can't STAND the criticism -- I think if they'd caught him at some point, they would have taken advantage of it long ago.

Now, staging a 'capture' with a double or something? Well...maybe, but that's fraught with risk, since the real bin Laden could easily pop his head up at any time afterwards, and really make Bush look like a fool.

So no. I don't think they are really that good. They'd like us to think so (it's always, "I meant to do that!"...just like PeeWee Herman), but I haven't seen it so far.

[tom_paine]

4. Bold prediction

Also, the Busheviks will NEVER allow their former (and perhaps current) business partner to be captured alive.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

7. He'd no doubt take his own life first

why be captured when he can be a martyr? Either way I'll take this as good news. However, Bush has created more than a few more bin Ladens around the world since 9/11 I suspect.

[sushi]

12. I agree with you

He won't let himself be taken alive, and there are more Osamas now. Sometimes I think that he's probably already long gone.

[AntiCoup2K4]

15. Either one of them

Both Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are former employees of the Bush Criminal Empire. Leaving them alive and on the run provides a convenient excuse for the so called "war on terror". Leaving them alive in US custody would risk them talking, and they know too much about Dip W Shit and his daddy. Neither will be taken alive if they are ever taken at all.

[Tracer]

6. "Captured"? Or "Blown to Smithereens" ...

... so his bloody face can be plastered all over our televisions.

[LuminousX]

8. Interesting

I've often pondered the possibility that they had captured him and were waiting to right before the election to bring out his lifeless body to parade around.

Better check for freezer burn if that is the case.

And on 9/11 too... that'd be a kicker, wouldn't it?

[ChangeMan]

9. The Chimps Numbers are Slipping - Time For A Miracle

This would not surprise me at all.

Schrub is slipping in the polls. The economies in the dumpster. The tax cuts won't help. The GIs in Iraq re sitting ducks.

We need a lttle distraction.

After all * was going to "capture" OBL sooner of later...Right?

[markus]

14. Even Chris Matthews wouldn't bit on this

Hell, anybody with two brain cells to rub together would be all over it. So, since you obviously had him and were holding him for the "special day", why did you 1) catch him and not tell us or 2) risk letting him get away by not actually catching him until 9/11?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

10. October surprise in September?

Mebbe next year... it'd play better.

[grasswire]

11. too early

I think they'll do it next year.

Although............if he WERE captured, I believe his own people would let it be known so Bush couldn't use to his political advantage. Yes? No?

[soleft]

13. Next year they'll nab Saddam

year after that it'll be Kim