Sunday Sermon...the search for Bin Laden

As the Bush administration beats the terrorism drum like a dead horse trying to scrounge up enough fear and paranoia to eke out the necessary wins in the fall elections to maintain control of Congress, Bin Laden luxuriates in a hut or cave somewhere in northern Pakistan. It looks increasingly like 'America's Most Wanted' will die of natural causes before the Bush posse even gets another whiff of his whereabouts. Here's a good article from the Washington Post outlining some of the changes in man-power, technology and strategy the U.S. government has employed in the hunt for Bin Laden, but the trail has been allowed to go cold...
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Ultimately the Bush/Cheney shift of manpower and focus to Iraq lost us our best shot at Bin Laden. The harsh mountainous terrain of the region and tribal support are difficulties that have been compounded by our shift of resources to Iraq, our incompetent and feuding intelligence agencies and our inability to motivate our Pakistani (supposed) allies. All we can hope for now is a fatal attack of kidney stones.
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