Must be an election year...Bush actually trying (HA) to capture the REAL THREAT TO AMERICA
Dave Ross Commentaries
Jan 30, 2004
OSAMA
Look whose name is back in the news...
According to a story in the Chicago Tribune, the Defense
Department is planning a spring offensive to capture or kill
Osama bin Laden.
Hey!
I remember that name from somewhere!
But Dave, you say, haven't we been actively hunting for
him since 2001? What's the big deal?
The big deal is that somebody in the government leaked a
story implying that THIS time, in addition to hunting him,
we plan to GET him. And one reason we're so confident of
getting him, according to the officials who leaked the story,
is that with Saddam in the cooler, it frees up a whole lot of
soldiers ... to look for the guy who actually attacked us.
The big debate NOW is between the State Department,
which wants to confine the hunt to Afghanistan -- and the
Pentagon, which wants permission to go hunting across
the border in Pakistan, apparently because that's where
Osama actually is.
The problem there is that the government of Pakistan has
said absolutely NOT.
But to the government of Pakistan, I just say this. Osama
bin Laden has a unique standing in America. He is the one
weapon of mass destruction that EVERYONE agrees on
here.
And I don't think I need to remind you of the ground rules
when it comes to weapons of mass destruction --
especially ground rule number one, which is, we make the
ground rules. You don't really HAVE to have Osama for us
to bomb you. We just have to THINK you have Osama for
us to bomb you. And if we bomb you and it turns out you
NEVER had Osama, that's YOUR problem.
So I would suggest that you cough him up right now,
whether you have him or not.
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