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Hobarticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:28 AM
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Fucking useless CNN. New poll question, test-marketed for morons.
"If U.S. intelligence officials have an Ôexcellent ideaÕ where Osama bin Laden is, should they go get him?"

No. We should send a fruitcake.
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:29 AM
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1. Better question
If US Officials have an "excellent idea" where bin Laden is, why havent they captured him yet?
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getmeouttahere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:31 AM
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4. Bravo, AllegroRondo...
nail, meet head!
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 12:23 PM
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23. Using-a Bush's "intelligence" . . .
they're still trying-a to find-a the Pope in-a the Pizza . . .
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getmeouttahere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:30 AM
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2. There are no words...
yet created to describe the idiocy in that question
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kliljedahl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:35 AM
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11. How about this one from last week?
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 12:18 PM
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22. kliljedahl, please tell me that's not real.
Is that for real? :rofl:
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kliljedahl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 12:30 PM
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24. According to last weeks "Top Ten Idiots" it is
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 12:33 PM
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25. Huh?
:dunce: :wow: :silly: :wtf: :spank: :argh: :banghead: :shrug:
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Oreo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:30 AM
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3. Look at it this way....
We find out he's in Iran. This poll is Bush's mandate to attack.
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etherealtruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:34 AM
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10. I never wear tin foil ...
..and I think you make a frightening observation.
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parasim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:41 AM
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14. That's exactly what I'm thinking
From CNN's story (where they talk about "the excellent idea"):

-snip

In an interview with TIME magazine, Goss said part of the difficulty in capturing bin Laden was "sanctuaries in sovereign nations."

-snip

http://www.cnn.com/

So, 90 some-odd percent is saying yes, go get him! and well, however, here in the story is our problem...

My question is, is "excellent idea" the new "fixed intelligence"?
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kliljedahl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:54 AM
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16. My first thought too, but not far-fetched
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woodsprite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:56 AM
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17. Ding! Ding! Ding! - that was my first thought. n/t
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:31 AM
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5. "No. We should send a fruitcake." What an EXCELLENT way to get rid of
that damn fruitcake so many of us are so unfortunate enough to receive every damn year!

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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:31 AM
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6. It's all a little too Bob and Ted
except it's George and Dick's Excellent Adventure playing with real lives.
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Kazak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:33 AM
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7. Their poll questions are the worst,...
most sophomoric questions ever. Whoever writes those polls is pathetic!
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Maraya1969 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:34 AM
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8. Excellent! Send it to CNN directly!
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jojo54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:34 AM
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9. The question should be
Why wasn't he captured in Afghanistan in '02, when he was within reach?
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:36 AM
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12. I don't know what shocks me more...
That CNN is asking questions like this... or there are
people out there still watching it.

Something to ponder.
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Village Idiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:39 AM
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13. "If US intelligence officials had a clue..."
"Would they not already have arrested Usama bin Laden?"
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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 11:42 AM
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15. Osama bin Laden is anywhere you want to invade
Wait for it, cos you know it's coming: "He's been commuting between Iran and Syria."

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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 12:03 PM
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18. Are these the same intelligence officials
Who told us that Saddam had nuclear weapons? Then I'd say that their information should be taken with an entire truckload of salt.

By the way, has the promised white paper detailing Osama bin Laden's alleged involvement with the September 11 attacks ever come out from the corrupt Bush administration? Just asking.
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joanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 12:06 PM
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20. Suggestion for tonight's Larry King
Get those two guys who were on the Today show to discuss what Saddam likes to have for breakfast.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8288955/
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 01:04 PM
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28. No, the white paper
promised by Powell has never been presented to the public.

Furtheremore, no evidence of any kind has been presented to the public that OBL did the 9/11 attacks.

None.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 01:54 PM
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29. That's how I remember it, too
Well, we shouldn't worry too much. After all, the Bush administration would never lie about something that important, would they?
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dbonds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 12:05 PM
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19. If we had an idea where he was, and...
we had the desire to get him. Why in hell would he announce he knew where he was. That would be self defeating. Either we don't know or don't want to get him. Why would we not want to get him? hmmmm.....
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 12:06 PM
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21. Actually, I find this poll a little bit subversive.
Almost saying, "You assholes, if you know where he is, what are you sitting around for?"

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darkism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 12:35 PM
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26. Poll being freeped by al Qaeda!
6% of people say NO!
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Ksec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 12:39 PM
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27. "No. We should send a fruitcake." LMAO good line.
They need this bad guy. They use the sovereign word when it suits them, ignore it when it doesnt.

They need the bad guy bin laden. He keeps them in power.
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Oreo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 02:17 PM
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30. So after we attack Iran because intel says Osama is there....
will we see Bush looking under his desk saying "Nope... no Osama there"

This makes too much sense. Bin Laden's name is starting to be floated again. They'll say he's in Iran and we are going in.

Granted... he was supposed to be in Pakistan but they wouldn't go in there. The Amurikan people won't care though.
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