Poll: Bin Laden bust a boon for Bush re-election?

MystikMango

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I find this article intersting. What do you think the chances are that the USA doe know where Bin Laden is, and that we are just holding this Ace in our hand to show if Bush looks like he'll be in trouble for not being re-elected?
 

Ionizer86

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Hmm, sounds doubtful. This conspiracy "backdoor to war" type stuff is usually pretty extreme.
 

MoobyTheGoldenCalf

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Originally posted by: MystikMango
I find this article intersting. What do you think the chances are that the USA doe know where Bin Laden is, and that we are just holding this Ace in our hand to show if Bush looks like he'll be in trouble for not being re-elected?

Wow. :Q I don't think I have ever seen this many stupid posts in one day on Anandtech before. Is it s full moon or something???
 

TheBDB

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I don't think it is true. But if he is caught or killed before the election I think Bush would be a lock.
 

ProviaFan

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I tend to believe that conspiracy theories (either right or left wing) are just a bunch of male bovine excrement.
 

ManSnake

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Originally posted by: MoobyTheGoldenCalf
Originally posted by: MystikMango
I find this article intersting. What do you think the chances are that the USA doe know where Bin Laden is, and that we are just holding this Ace in our hand to show if Bush looks like he'll be in trouble for not being re-elected?

Wow. :Q I don't think I have ever seen this many stupid posts in one day on Anandtech before. Is it s full moon or something???

It's the first day of the year of the monkey, go figure!
 

MoobyTheGoldenCalf

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Originally posted by: ManSnake
Originally posted by: MoobyTheGoldenCalf
Originally posted by: MystikMango
I find this article intersting. What do you think the chances are that the USA doe know where Bin Laden is, and that we are just holding this Ace in our hand to show if Bush looks like he'll be in trouble for not being re-elected?

Wow. :Q I don't think I have ever seen this many stupid posts in one day on Anandtech before. Is it s full moon or something???

It's the first day of the year of the monkey, go figure!

Ahhhh, that explains it! ;)
 

labrat25

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i seriously doubt it, no way that wouldn't get him (and us!) in a whole lotta legal trouble

(ie. international courts, Geneva Convention, etc)
 

Zipp

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I heard that POS Michael Moore throwing rumors around like this a few months back on some talk show. I think he ate the host at the end of the interview as well.
 

glugglug

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Where is the option for "We have no idea where Bin Laden is, but a bust will be faked shortly before the election."?
 
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Yeah, I don't tend to buy the Conspiracy theories (most are too ridiculous to seriously consider, honestly, and Michael Moore can't be considered an authority on anything. How did that jackass win an oscar for best documentary for a video that *WASN'T* a documentary??) but I will say this:

If Bush's administration manages to bag bin Laden, alive or dead (but especially alive), his re-election is *guaranteed*. I kinda hate that thought because I think Bush is a jackass, but I think it would be dishonest and short sighted to think otherwise.

Jason
 

heartsurgeon

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i have always thought that bin laden head is frozen and in cold storage at the Naval Observatory (Vice-President Cheney's official residence) in Washington D.C.
about two weeks before the election, they're gonna thaw that thing out, and Cheney is gonna present it to the public!

Bush II learned from Bush I...don't win a war to fast,
The American public has a two week attention span (or maybe it's just the media) Two weeks is the longest any news cycle lasts...so expect big news two weeks prior to the election..you heard it here first!
 

glugglug

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Unfortunately I have to agree with both of the last 2 posters. Expect a faked Bin Laden capture 2 weeks before the election. The fake is unlikely to be revealed for what it is within 2 weeks.
 

tallest1

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Originally posted by: glugglug
Unfortunately I have to agree with both of the last 2 posters. Expect a faked Bin Laden capture 2 weeks before the election. The fake is unlikely to be revealed for what it is within 2 weeks.

If so, the media is gonna be hella stubborn to reveal the truth. Remember Jessica Lynch's "rescue"?

I'm not even gonna get into how the Kurds may have found Saadam first. No one bothers to clear those facts up.