WH: Osama's cold trail is a sign of success

[Rose Siding]

Q Osama bin Laden -- there was a Washington Post story today saying that the trail has gone stone cold.

MR. SNOW: That's just wrong......One of the things I can say is that bin Laden is harder to find these days.....

Q Harder to find than when, since we haven't found him?

MR. SNOW: Well, let me put it this way. There have been clues in the past, for instance, based on electronic communications, as you know -- satellite telephones -- they have changed the way in which they've done a number of things -- and I won't go into that, but they have changed their methods of operation in response to the fact that they don't want to be found out. It's just tougher. They've moved to more primitive means of communication and they've gone to ground.

Q It sort of sounds like since he's harder to find is a sign of our success.

MR. SNOW: Well, in some ways, it is. I mean, if bin Laden was thoroughly successful, he'd be sitting on a throne conducting press conferences or issuing fatwas in full view of everyone -- and he is not doing so.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060910-1.html

Aha! We are victorious, otherwise...

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[radfringe]

1. isn't that like saying

the rise of insurgent attacks in Iraq is a sign of desperation on the part of the insurgents/terrorists/militants (or whatever the WH is calling them today) ...?

:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

[BR_Parkway]

3. Isn't that what Cheney has been saying all along? Newspeak

[marmar]

2. Up is down, blue is gray, right is left...

in the twisted world of BushCo newsspeak.

[BOSSHOG]

4. Wow, if Bill Clinton had said that

snow would be blathering all over the cameras at faux news about how terribly wrong, wrong, wrong that rational is. And how do we know how bin laden is communicating. and bin laden would not sit on a thrown and his fatwas seems to be doing just fine in Iraq thanks to the "leadership" of george bush.

[Strawman]

5. oh and PS, outsourcing is good

[InternalDialogue]

6. This kind of logic will come in handy.

Next time I can't find my house keys, I can tell myself that because they're still missing, my search, in a way, has been successful.

[AnneD]

7. yeah, that's right

failure=medal of freedom, war=peace, wire tapping=freedom, debt=vibrant economy, opposition to failed policies=terrorist sympathiser. Can't wait til Democrat=terrorist, and believe me, we are a few steps away from that.

[Bob3]

8. Translated into real words "He got away - we don't know where he is.

We failed."

Jesus when the hell is someone going to stand up and say "Tony, with all due respect, you are completely full of shit." Yeah they'll get bounced from the White House pool but hell why would you want to stay someplace where your intelligence is insulted day after day?

[Botany]

9. This shows that "Where is bin Laden?' really scares 'em.

But, what kind of idiot would buy this spin?

[O.M.B.inOhio]

10. My unemployment is a success too: No income tax! But a question...

Why did OBL stop issuing video tapes and go audio only? Afraid he'll give himself away? (Put up a sheet behind him and that's not a concern.) Horribly scarred and either vain or fearful that his followers will perceive him as weak? (Not likely, IMHO.) No access to a handicam? (Ha!) Maybe he's dead and other factions are using his name in their own recordings? Dead and the US is using his name? Captured, and the US is going to have a dramatic success when the GOP needs it badly? (Hmm, but they'd have to trust lots of people to keep quiet -- those who guard him, feed him, transport him, murder him, and plant him in the camp that they daringly storm right before election day.) Got any better ideas of why he uses audio only?

[Jawja]

11. "More primitive means of

communication" as in releasing an occasional videotape to the public? :shrug:

[radfringe]

12. important date...

Q You say it's not political. Can you just explain, though, why he decided to do such a high profile anniversary commemoration, when he has chosen not to do that the last few years?

MR. SNOW: There's something distinctive about a 5th anniversary, just as you will not that there has been extraordinary media coverage. I think it's one of those things -- I don't know about you, but my 3rd anniversary was less important than my 5th.

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Yet when asked about 1st year anniversary of Katrina the response was "It's just a date", and when asked about troop death count hitting 2,500 the response was "It's a number...."