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Tiger Beer
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 Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:03 pm Post subject: McCain has a SECRET PLAN To capture Bin Laden |
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http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2008/01/mccains_secret_plan_to_capture_bin_laden/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/27/mccains-secret-plan-to-c_n_83497.html
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Apparently, John McCain has confided to reporters that he has a secret plan to capture Osama bin Laden.
So Washington Wire was wondering, what does McCain know that President Bush and the Pentagon don�t about how to sweep up America�s most elusive enemy.
�One thing I will not do is telegraph my punches. Osama bin Laden will be the last to know,� he said today while riding on the back of his bus between Florida events. In other words: he�s not telling. Why not share his strategy with the current occupant of the White House? �Because I have my own ideas and it would require implementation of certain policies and procedures that only as the president of the United States can be taken.� |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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Well, Christ on a crutch! I've heard this one before. Nixon also had a 'secret plan' to end the war in Vietnam. It turned out the secret plan was to fight four more years and then announce 'Peace is at Hand' just weeks before the election.
I might be cynical, but I think I've earned the right. |
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Beeyee
Joined: 29 May 2007
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:27 am Post subject: |
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Milwaukiedave
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:37 am Post subject: |
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Is that similar to the secret plan to take out IGTG?
Ooophs...that slipped out. |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:58 am Post subject: |
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| Anyone point out yet that Nixon claimed during an election that he had a secret plan to end the Vietnam war? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:00 am Post subject: |
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No, no one mentioned that tidbit.  |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| No, no one mentioned that tidbit. |
Huh, turns out this is a bit of a myth:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/006742.php
A reporter attributed the phrase to him but then Nixon did not deny it. (Surely, a "do you still beat your wife?" question. "No I don't have a secret plan." "Oh you don't have a plan then hun?") In any regard, the idea was used against Nixon and it would seem silly for McCain to repeat the error, robbing McCain of his straight shooter appeal. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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Bush never managed to get Osama in his 8 years in office. That's kind of a failure of his presidency. Plain and simple. For a guy so proud to take Saddam's gun and put it over his fire place, that's gotta eat at his craw.
I do remember the conspiracy theories about how Bush knows where he is and will capture him just before the election. Well, never happened. Another one I've heard for this election is oil companies will start to drop the price of oil. This will rob the Dems of votes. An economist noted if you really believe this, just go long on oil futures and you'll make a killing. Since you know the future, there is a great way to profit from it. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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| I was actually surprised McCain mentioned Bin Ladin's name. That's kind an unwritten Republican embarrassment. To name his name is to basically say what a complete failure Bush's only mission in office has been at the expense of all other issues/national concerns. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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^ Nobody's running against Bush.* So no harm in mentioning Bin Laden's name per se. Indeed, it appears McCain is promising to do what Bush failed to do.
*Edit: now that I think about it, every candidate is running against Bush. |
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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| I'm an insider, people, so I've got the scoop on the poop. McCain, always a fan of war movies, went to see "Rambo" a few days ago. Seeing a decrepit old man kick so much ass has inspired McCain. John McCain has decided that he will go after Osama himself. And he will destroy him. All the gladhanding of Huckabee was not an appeal to Huckabee's voters rather an appeal to Chuck Norris. McCain is putting together a strike team to take out Bin Laden. I expect him to appeal to Arnie and Stephen Segal while campaigning in California. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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Milwaukiedave
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John McCain
Crazier then ever! |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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U.S. won't say who killed militant
Pakistan too is mum on who launched strike on a top Al Qaeda leader.
By Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
February 2, 2008
WASHINGTON -- The top U.S. military officer on Friday described the airstrike that killed a leading Al Qaeda commander in Pakistan as an important victory, but he refused to say whether the U.S. government had anything to do with it.
"The strike was a very important one, it was a very lethal one," Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a Pentagon news conference. He brushed aside questions about any role the Pentagon may have played.
The CIA and the Pakistani government also refused to say who might have fired the missile or missiles that are believed to have killed Abu Laith al Libi and perhaps other Al Qaeda leaders in a small compound in northwest Pakistan this week.
The U.S. government's reluctance to take public credit for the killing of Al Libi underscores the growing tensions between the United States and Pakistan over how to attack Al Qaeda as it entrenches itself on Pakistani territory, current and former U.S. officials and other experts said. |
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-alqaeda2feb02,0,1572059.story |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:20 am Post subject: |
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Industries moved factory jobs to China because they could be done cheaper. The result is Americans can buy things cheaper than ever before and then the money they save they can spend on other things. There's nothing at all wrong with this. |
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