I see nothing amusing.
I didn't say that it was a good joke, Searle. Only that within the context of this other remarks, it seems to have been made in jest.
As I read it, Cronkite states unambiguously the reason for the strategy -- "get rid of the whole problem of the al Qaqaa explosive dump. Right now, that, the last couple of days, has, I think, upset the Republican campaign"
You read clauses like "I think," "I have a feeling," and "I'm a little inclined to think," as being "unambiguous" in nature?
Of course, it is clear from this that Cronkite accepts that bin Laden is alive which, in my opinion, on the basis of this tape alone, he does not have sufficient evidence to do.
What makes it "clear" to you that the basis upon which Cronkite believes Bin Laden is alive is exclusively limited to "this tape alone"?
But he certainly supplies motive for the Republicans to have "manufactured" a tape which purports to come from bin Laden.
Ah, yes. A Republican-'manufactured' tape, in which - less than a week before a highly-watched and imperceptibly close election - no threat is made, and the following statements...
"...It never occurred to us that the commander in chief of the American forces would leave 50,000 citizens in the two towers to face those horrors alone at a time when they most needed him.
Because he thought listening to a child discussing her goat and its ramming was more important than the planes and their ramming of the skyscrapers. This gave us three times the time needed to carry out the operations, thanks be to God[.]"
reuters.myway.com.
...are given?
ROFL!!!
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