Watch Bush pull Osama out a a hat!Follow

Buddy of mine who is a dentist in the military just called and said they moved up his Tour of Duty from 6 months to 9 months. They are also shipping him to Afganistan instead of the Med Sea. Apparently the military is beefing up the Osama hunt by 3000 troops or so.

So when will Bush annouce that we finally got Osama? October? Or is that too late for a last minute election push for the republicans? The Stock market would get a 10% overnight gain and he will claim the economy is back on track.

Just wondering...

See! Bush knows everything!!!

Heh. A buddy of mine was supposed to ship out to Africa, but he's getting sent to Afghanistan as well.

I think his dialysis machine is broken again. We will fixy.

I really wish us Europeans would do the same. It's totally disgraceful how most European countries, especially France and Germany, are being total pussies on this one. And the worst is that the second Afghanistan fails, and falls into the hands of the Talibans/Pakistan, we're all gonna be whining about it.

And we'll probably blame the US, too.

I'm far from a warmonger, but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring some sort of stability to Afghanistan. And we're fUcking it up, purely because its politically convenient to paint this conflict as another of Bush's wars, unworthy of Euro-casualties.

Disgusting.

/sigh
Every election cycle the conspiracy theorists come out in droves predicting Bush will amazingly do something that, if you think about it, is ridiculous: Suddenly take bin Laden off ice and produce him to a) insure a Republican victory, b) rev up the populace to take their attention off either the economy, scandal, deficit, or Jenna's boobs, or c) to ensure his legacy is glorious.

Seriously, don't you think that every person in the military from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff down to the lowliest private would have personally brought OBL to the States in leg irons by now if it had been in their ability? These guys aren't just sitting around waiting for that executive order telling them to go into the back storeroom and go get Osama, where he's been hanging out eating the Skittles and pork patties out of the leftover MREs.

Freaking ponderous.

If any of you wackos ever bothered to watch the news you'd realize that Al Qaeda is moving their operations to Pakistan, where, if they were successful, wonderful devices called nukes are stored. Makes sense then to focus on placing troops where they are likely to be needed, right?

Totem

Now that I reflect on it, it was NATO who asked for more US troops, not the UN. To which Gates ruffled feathers when he suggested that maybe the rest of NATO could try pitching in a bit more.

Of course it should be noted that Iran is just next door too.....

But every Bush election ends in a recession!

Edited, Feb 6th 2008 3:55pm by bubspeed

Well, they could. And should.

It's not like there are many more important wars going on right now that Euro countries are involved in. We're letting Darfur sort itself out, we don't care about Congo, the Balkans are pretty quiet...

The only place where we might intervene is... Chad! And that's only france, and only because its an ex-colony, and only because we have national interests there. Funnily enough, my phd proposal was about France's unilateral military interventions in its African ex-colonies from the 1960's to 2001. Guess I can extend it to 2008 now.