Why is it that no one seems to get the REAL problem with the OBL death

[saracat]

rumor is if we are sooo powerful, and our intelligence is sooo great , why DON't we know where OBL is , and why CAN'T we confirm if he is DEAD or ALIVE? My god, not being able to capture a 6 foot Arab with a dialysis machine is one thing but not even being able to confirm his existence? Do we treat all our enemies like Bigfoot? Are we to question whether he ever existed? This is pure repuke strategy. Deny it and it will go away. I think the French deliberately leaked this to show up the incompetence of Bush! Viva La France. They couldn't have done a better job.We can't capture OBL, we don't even know if he is alive.He is the bogeyman!

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. Maybe the Asia times is right after all?

They said a few weeks ago that OBL loaded up the U-Haul trucks and moved back to Afghanistan.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2509035

[Vexatious Ape]

2. Wouldn't it be funny if he's not dead but the

French capture him.

[SheilaT]

3. Osama

is more useful alive, and specifically alive, wily, and evasive. He can be trotted out conveniently whenever new scare-mongering is needed. And you don't even think for one minute that any of this is planned, or that Osama is "on ice" somewhere (a truly stupid notion, by the way). All that's necessary is to do overt saber-rattling when needed, not try all that hard to capture him, and place blame on Clinton for not doing the job a decade ago and Bingo! You've got exactly what you need, if you're the administration and want to bamboozle people into thinking you're aggressively fighting the War on Terra and it's not YOUR fault you can't find Osama.

Quite frankly, I've long doubted all the claims about how wonderful our technology and how fabulous or spy satellites are supposed to be. Yeah, I know all of that's top top top secret highly classified you could tell me but then you'd have to kill me but I sincerely think that there's always been a lot of exaggeration about how good this stuff is. But that's just me.

When I was in my first job, at age 17, I was astonished to discover that a lot of adults really weren't very competent at what they did. I'm no longer so astonished, but rather dismayed to discover that's still true.

[Jade Fox]

4. He's more useful as a myth--all powerful and elusive.....

therefore a much more effective bogeyman to keep us all scared and compliant. How could they justify years of war and many more to come if they'd just captured their identified bad guy shortly after 9/11?