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		<title>By: Tony Snow: â€˜I Donâ€™t Knowâ€™ If Bin Laden Is The Leader Of Al Qaeda &#171; Tons of Fresh News</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tony Snow: â€˜I Donâ€™t Knowâ€™ If Bin Laden Is The Leader Of Al Qaeda &#171; Tons of Fresh News</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Snow: â€˜I Donâ€™t Knowâ€™ If Bin Laden Is The Leader Of Al&#160;Qaeda  Tony Snow: â€˜I Donâ€™t Knowâ€™ If Bin Laden Is The Leader Of Al Qaeda On Sunday, it will have been 2,000 days since the 9/11 terror attacks â€” 2,000 days that Osama bin [...]</description>
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		<title>By: bert</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-2005434</link>
		<dc:creator>bert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Where are the evidences of OBL involvment in the 9/11 attacks?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Where are the evidences of OBL involvment in the 9/11 attacks?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=2005434', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Blues</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-1982324</link>
		<dc:creator>Blues</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does the media even bother to be in the same room as this spin flak?  He&#039;s lying, plain and simple.  What if they gave a daily briefing and no one came? Seriously.  What real, truthful information do we get from this idiot?  If he was just left to talk to an empty room, we&#039;d get the same thing we get now - NOTHING.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does the media even bother to be in the same room as this spin flak?  He&#8217;s lying, plain and simple.  What if they gave a daily briefing and no one came? Seriously.  What real, truthful information do we get from this idiot?  If he was just left to talk to an empty room, we&#8217;d get the same thing we get now &#8211; NOTHING.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1982324', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: links for 2007-03-03 &#171; Voxefx</title>
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		<dc:creator>links for 2007-03-03 &#171; Voxefx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Anna</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-1978870</link>
		<dc:creator>Anna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The audio doesn&#039;t sound convincing, where the reporter asks the
question  &quot;Q:&quot;

MR. SNOW: Well, you take a look also at statements that have been made by generals in recent days â€” General Schoomaker the other day had a comment that I was asked about, which is he thought bin Laden had been marginalized. The question is whether al Qaeda â€” I think the bin Laden question may be separable from the al Qaeda question. Itâ€™s clear that al Qaeda is trying to gain strength â€“

Q But isnâ€™t he the leader of al Qaeda?

MR. SNOW: Well, I donâ€™t know. Itâ€™s a real question about who assumes operational command. One of the things weâ€™ve found is that the command structure has been degraded significantly and that remains the case. But in terms of trying to characterize precisely how the command structure looks or how it operates, it would be inappropriate to comment from the podium.

(The audio sounds dubbed over the video, or the video looks a bit
edited)...

Anyway, 9/11 was definitely an inside job.  Just watch 9/11 Mysteries
and Loose Change 2 (movies) at:

http://www.truth911.net

http://www.911weknow.com

and watch the unmistakable explosions along the sides of the WTC
buildings as they collapsed at FREE-FALL accelerating speeds, as if
the lower materials were as weak as air, offering no structural strength
or support at all...  you cannot convert strong engineering materials to
zero strength powder and molten liquid steel, just from air fires...

Air fires burn at between 233 C to 300 C  (depending on the breeze),
no matter how much fuel you have available...  it is the rate at which
available oxygen can react with the hydrogen from the fuel, which
determines the combustion reaction rate and flame temperature... and
every scientist and engineer knows, there is not enough oxygen in the
air we breathe to get hydrocarbon fuel air fires hotter than 300 C...
and there is no way that steel, which melts at 1532 C, can lose all its
strength when exposed to atmospheric pressure hydrocarbon fuel air
fires... there is no way 300 C fires can bring the metal temperatures to
above 1532 C to weaken the steel, so that it all fails instantly, even
for the lower unburned levels that were not affected by any fires.

SCIENTIFIC FACTS:

All WTC 1, 2 and 7 buildings that collapsed on September 11, 2001, fell &quot;into themselves&quot; or into their foundations at close to free-fall, zero-resistance, accelerating speeds, and did not damage nearby buildings significantly. (This is the path of highest resistance, and the least likely way a building could collapse... just like if you were to chop a tree, and rather than leaning over on an angle and bend about a hinging point, it disintegrates into fine sawdust powder from the top, all the way down to the roots, even below the point where you chopped or cut the tree... the area where it was weakened)

Melting point of steel (when steel displays zero strength) = 1532 C (Celcius) or 2790 F

Temperature of jet fuel fire in open air = 233 C (451 F) to 300 C (depending on breeze)

A metal object can never get hotter than its heat source, eg. the flames...

Even up to 300 C, steel loses no strength. The Twin Towers stood strong for over 56 minutes...

Another important fact about the WTC 1, 2 and 7 basements...

The emergency and clean-up crews reported seeing large pools of MOLTEN METAL in the basements of all 3 WTC buildings that collapsed. Firefighters described the basements as &quot;red hot&quot; and full of molten steel, just &quot;like a foundry&quot; (which can also be seen in photographs). The basements remained at super-hot temperatures, hotter than air fires, for up to 6 weeks after September 11, 2001, and many clean-up workers had gone through up to 5 or 6 pairs of boots, because their boots had melted due to the hot ground conditions, even several weeks after 9/11...

Videos shows hot steam gushing out of the WTC ground zero, as water was pumped into the basements in order to cool down the molten steel... (note that steel and iron only melt at temperatures above 1532 C, and that if fuel-air fires can melt steel, then your motorcycle engines and car engines would all start sagging and turning all soft on you due to explosions! )

Don&#039;t forget... everytime you use a steel cooking pot (exposing it to gas flames), or a steel grill or barbeque hotplate, to cook your steak and sausages ... you are proving to yourself that fire cannot melt steel... because open atmospheric air pressure cannot supply enough oxygen to react with the available hydrogen in the fuel (eg. gas, propane, paper, wood, etc) to get temperatures much hotter than 250 C to 300 C.

You also prove this true each time you use an aluminium frying pan, because the melting point of aluminium is about 600 C... So if you do not notice your aluminium frying pan melting, or even aluminium foil, turning into liquid, when exposed to air fire, then you are not getting any hotter than 600 C. At 600 C, steel is still at about half of its full strength, and still able to carry the weight of a mostly empty building that has a 600% or 6 times overdesign safety factor for extra strength; even at half strength, the steel was still 3 times stronger than necessary to hold up the WTC 110 storey towers at maximum loading capacity.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The audio doesn&#8217;t sound convincing, where the reporter asks the<br />
question  &#8220;Q:&#8221;</p>
<p>MR. SNOW: Well, you take a look also at statements that have been made by generals in recent days â€” General Schoomaker the other day had a comment that I was asked about, which is he thought bin Laden had been marginalized. The question is whether al Qaeda â€” I think the bin Laden question may be separable from the al Qaeda question. Itâ€™s clear that al Qaeda is trying to gain strength â€“</p>
<p>Q But isnâ€™t he the leader of al Qaeda?</p>
<p>MR. SNOW: Well, I donâ€™t know. Itâ€™s a real question about who assumes operational command. One of the things weâ€™ve found is that the command structure has been degraded significantly and that remains the case. But in terms of trying to characterize precisely how the command structure looks or how it operates, it would be inappropriate to comment from the podium.</p>
<p>(The audio sounds dubbed over the video, or the video looks a bit<br />
edited)&#8230;</p>
<p>Anyway, 9/11 was definitely an inside job.  Just watch 9/11 Mysteries<br />
and Loose Change 2 (movies) at:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.truth911.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.truth911.net</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.911weknow.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.911weknow.com</a></p>
<p>and watch the unmistakable explosions along the sides of the WTC<br />
buildings as they collapsed at FREE-FALL accelerating speeds, as if<br />
the lower materials were as weak as air, offering no structural strength<br />
or support at all&#8230;  you cannot convert strong engineering materials to<br />
zero strength powder and molten liquid steel, just from air fires&#8230;</p>
<p>Air fires burn at between 233 C to 300 C  (depending on the breeze),<br />
no matter how much fuel you have available&#8230;  it is the rate at which<br />
available oxygen can react with the hydrogen from the fuel, which<br />
determines the combustion reaction rate and flame temperature&#8230; and<br />
every scientist and engineer knows, there is not enough oxygen in the<br />
air we breathe to get hydrocarbon fuel air fires hotter than 300 C&#8230;<br />
and there is no way that steel, which melts at 1532 C, can lose all its<br />
strength when exposed to atmospheric pressure hydrocarbon fuel air<br />
fires&#8230; there is no way 300 C fires can bring the metal temperatures to<br />
above 1532 C to weaken the steel, so that it all fails instantly, even<br />
for the lower unburned levels that were not affected by any fires.</p>
<p>SCIENTIFIC FACTS:</p>
<p>All WTC 1, 2 and 7 buildings that collapsed on September 11, 2001, fell &#8220;into themselves&#8221; or into their foundations at close to free-fall, zero-resistance, accelerating speeds, and did not damage nearby buildings significantly. (This is the path of highest resistance, and the least likely way a building could collapse&#8230; just like if you were to chop a tree, and rather than leaning over on an angle and bend about a hinging point, it disintegrates into fine sawdust powder from the top, all the way down to the roots, even below the point where you chopped or cut the tree&#8230; the area where it was weakened)</p>
<p>Melting point of steel (when steel displays zero strength) = 1532 C (Celcius) or 2790 F</p>
<p>Temperature of jet fuel fire in open air = 233 C (451 F) to 300 C (depending on breeze)</p>
<p>A metal object can never get hotter than its heat source, eg. the flames&#8230;</p>
<p>Even up to 300 C, steel loses no strength. The Twin Towers stood strong for over 56 minutes&#8230;</p>
<p>Another important fact about the WTC 1, 2 and 7 basements&#8230;</p>
<p>The emergency and clean-up crews reported seeing large pools of MOLTEN METAL in the basements of all 3 WTC buildings that collapsed. Firefighters described the basements as &#8220;red hot&#8221; and full of molten steel, just &#8220;like a foundry&#8221; (which can also be seen in photographs). The basements remained at super-hot temperatures, hotter than air fires, for up to 6 weeks after September 11, 2001, and many clean-up workers had gone through up to 5 or 6 pairs of boots, because their boots had melted due to the hot ground conditions, even several weeks after 9/11&#8230;</p>
<p>Videos shows hot steam gushing out of the WTC ground zero, as water was pumped into the basements in order to cool down the molten steel&#8230; (note that steel and iron only melt at temperatures above 1532 C, and that if fuel-air fires can melt steel, then your motorcycle engines and car engines would all start sagging and turning all soft on you due to explosions! )</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget&#8230; everytime you use a steel cooking pot (exposing it to gas flames), or a steel grill or barbeque hotplate, to cook your steak and sausages &#8230; you are proving to yourself that fire cannot melt steel&#8230; because open atmospheric air pressure cannot supply enough oxygen to react with the available hydrogen in the fuel (eg. gas, propane, paper, wood, etc) to get temperatures much hotter than 250 C to 300 C.</p>
<p>You also prove this true each time you use an aluminium frying pan, because the melting point of aluminium is about 600 C&#8230; So if you do not notice your aluminium frying pan melting, or even aluminium foil, turning into liquid, when exposed to air fire, then you are not getting any hotter than 600 C. At 600 C, steel is still at about half of its full strength, and still able to carry the weight of a mostly empty building that has a 600% or 6 times overdesign safety factor for extra strength; even at half strength, the steel was still 3 times stronger than necessary to hold up the WTC 110 storey towers at maximum loading capacity.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1978870', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Nick</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-1976897</link>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;The CIA ? Why the hell would the CIA be in control of Bin Laden ? ...but youâ€™ve really got to show some goods in order to make that statement.&quot;

Here it is:  Like it or not, 911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB.  That&#039;s all you need to know.  Google on it, do your own research, I would say it&#039;s worth a little investment of your time.  The evidence is scientific, unmistakable, and overwhelming.  It&#039;s a closed case.  Yeah, you may have to revise your whole world view to accomodate this, but the truth is inconvenient like that sometimes.  And of course they&#039;ll never find bin Laden as long as they need a bogeyman.  Wake up sheep.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The CIA ? Why the hell would the CIA be in control of Bin Laden ? &#8230;but youâ€™ve really got to show some goods in order to make that statement.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here it is:  Like it or not, 911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB.  That&#8217;s all you need to know.  Google on it, do your own research, I would say it&#8217;s worth a little investment of your time.  The evidence is scientific, unmistakable, and overwhelming.  It&#8217;s a closed case.  Yeah, you may have to revise your whole world view to accomodate this, but the truth is inconvenient like that sometimes.  And of course they&#8217;ll never find bin Laden as long as they need a bogeyman.  Wake up sheep.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1976897', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: rainlillie</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-1975976</link>
		<dc:creator>rainlillie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The fact is Bin Laden is coming back stronger than ever. The Taliban and Al Qaeda has tripled in size. Meanwhile we&#039;re stuck in this mess in Iraq. Bush should have stayed in Afghanistan until Bin Laden was captured or killed. Iraq isn&#039;t a threat to America, they didn&#039;t attack us on 911. The Iraqis are engaged in a civil war and we should not be in the middle of it. Tony Blair knows where the threat is, that&#039;s why he pulled some of his troops out and put them in Afghanistan. Michael Scheuer served in the CIA for 22 years before resigning in
2004; he served as the chief of the bin Laden unit at the
Counterterrorist Center from 1996 to 1999. I think he knows how Bin Laden operates better than anyone else. People need to sit up and take notice to what this guy is saying. IF there&#039;s a chance that he&#039;s right..We&#039;re in deep $hit! This is not about the Iraq war it&#039;s about protecting America, and so far Bush has done a piss poor job at that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The fact is Bin Laden is coming back stronger than ever. The Taliban and Al Qaeda has tripled in size. Meanwhile we&#8217;re stuck in this mess in Iraq. Bush should have stayed in Afghanistan until Bin Laden was captured or killed. Iraq isn&#8217;t a threat to America, they didn&#8217;t attack us on 911. The Iraqis are engaged in a civil war and we should not be in the middle of it. Tony Blair knows where the threat is, that&#8217;s why he pulled some of his troops out and put them in Afghanistan. Michael Scheuer served in the CIA for 22 years before resigning in<br />
2004; he served as the chief of the bin Laden unit at the<br />
Counterterrorist Center from 1996 to 1999. I think he knows how Bin Laden operates better than anyone else. People need to sit up and take notice to what this guy is saying. IF there&#8217;s a chance that he&#8217;s right..We&#8217;re in deep $hit! This is not about the Iraq war it&#8217;s about protecting America, and so far Bush has done a piss poor job at that.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1975976', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: WC</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-1975947</link>
		<dc:creator>WC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Remember this?  It&#039;s on TP somewhere...

Reporter:  Are we winning the war in Iraq?

Tony Snow: I don&#039;t know...how do you define &quot;winning?&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember this?  It&#8217;s on TP somewhere&#8230;</p>
<p>Reporter:  Are we winning the war in Iraq?</p>
<p>Tony Snow: I don&#8217;t know&#8230;how do you define &#8220;winning?&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1975947', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: 9/11 Truth Seeker</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-1975258</link>
		<dc:creator>9/11 Truth Seeker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is bin Laden wanted for 9/11? 

Why doesn&#039;t the FBI say so? Check this link: 

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm

He is wanted for the embassy bombings of 1998. But why doesn&#039;t the FBI post the marquiz crime of all time - 9/11? Is it because they don&#039;t have enough evidence? 

I&#039;m not saying we shouldn&#039;t catch him. But wake up. 9/11 Was covered-up and possibly an inside job. 

No one in our government has been charged with criminal negligence, no one has been fired, or even demoted as a result of 9/11. 

The elephant is right in front of our faces.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is bin Laden wanted for 9/11? </p>
<p>Why doesn&#8217;t the FBI say so? Check this link: </p>
<p><a href="http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm</a></p>
<p>He is wanted for the embassy bombings of 1998. But why doesn&#8217;t the FBI post the marquiz crime of all time &#8211; 9/11? Is it because they don&#8217;t have enough evidence? </p>
<p>I&#8217;m not saying we shouldn&#8217;t catch him. But wake up. 9/11 Was covered-up and possibly an inside job. </p>
<p>No one in our government has been charged with criminal negligence, no one has been fired, or even demoted as a result of 9/11. </p>
<p>The elephant is right in front of our faces.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1975258', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: tom baker</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-1974795</link>
		<dc:creator>tom baker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A press corps with balls would unanimously refuse to show up for these things, and Tony could get paid to just stand there by himself like the idiot/c*cksucker he really is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A press corps with balls would unanimously refuse to show up for these things, and Tony could get paid to just stand there by himself like the idiot/c*cksucker he really is.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1974795', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Winston Smith</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-1974273</link>
		<dc:creator>Winston Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As Bin Laden was our guy in the late 80s when we formed Al-CI-aida, we ought to know something don&#039;t we??</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As Bin Laden was our guy in the late 80s when we formed Al-CI-aida, we ought to know something don&#8217;t we??<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1974273', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: eatmeneocons</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-1973747</link>
		<dc:creator>eatmeneocons</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In a review of a new biography of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli paper Ha&#039;aretz included this purported exchange between President Bush and the now-comatose Sharon:

&lt;em&gt;Speaking of George Bush, with whom Sharon developed a very close relationship, Uri Dan recalls that Sharon&#039;s delicacy made him reluctant to repeat what the president had told him when they discussed Osama bin Laden. Finally he relented. And here is what the leader of the Western world, valiant warrior in the battle of cultures, promised to do to bin Laden if he caught him: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;I will screw him in the ass!&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;

&lt;strong&gt;All hail our first psychotic gay President&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a review of a new biography of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli paper Ha&#8217;aretz included this purported exchange between President Bush and the now-comatose Sharon:</p>
<p><em>Speaking of George Bush, with whom Sharon developed a very close relationship, Uri Dan recalls that Sharon&#8217;s delicacy made him reluctant to repeat what the president had told him when they discussed Osama bin Laden. Finally he relented. And here is what the leader of the Western world, valiant warrior in the battle of cultures, promised to do to bin Laden if he caught him: <strong>&#8220;I will screw him in the ass!</strong>&#8220;</em></p>
<p><strong>All hail our first psychotic gay President</strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1973747', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Valiant Penus</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-1972957</link>
		<dc:creator>Valiant Penus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Osama Bin Goldstein. why do I feel like im living in a novel these days?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Osama Bin Goldstein. why do I feel like im living in a novel these days?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1972957', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: rainlillie</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-1972570</link>
		<dc:creator>rainlillie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Republicans keep saying we can&#039;t leave Iraq until &quot;the job is done&quot; Well lets see... the troops where sent to look for WMD&#039;S they&#039;ve done that. They were sent to capture Saddam..They&#039;ve done that, which means that job was finished a while ago. Why didn&#039;t Republicans have a problem with us cut and running from Afghanistan? Obviously with the resurgent of the Taliban and Al Qaeda..That job wasn&#039;t done. Shouldn&#039;t we have moved every stone, rock and pebble until we found the man responsible for 911? It&#039;s totally INSANE for anyone to think that Iraq war will make America safer. If anything it&#039;s just the opposite. FYI Bin Laden is&#039;nt in Iraq..SO WHY IN TH EHELL ARE WE STILL THERE? The former head of the &quot;Bin Laden Unit&quot; Michael Scheuer said that &quot;Al Qaeda is going detonate a nuclear device inside the United States ... and we&#039;re going to have no one to blame but ourselves.&quot; &quot; 
&quot;The war in Iraq broke our back in the war on terror,&quot; said the former official, Michael Scheuer, it has made everything more difficult and the threat more existential.&quot; 

Scheuer, a former counterterrorism expert with the CIA, is one of more than 100 national security and terrorism analysts who were surveyed this spring for the nonscientific poll by Foreign Policy magazine and the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning research group headed by John Podesta, who served as White House chief of staff in the Clinton administration. 

Of the experts queried, 45 identified themselves as liberals, 40 said they were moderates and 31 called themselves conservatives. The pollsters then weighted the responses so that the percentage results reflected one-third participation by each group. 

Asked whether the United States is &quot;winning the war on terror,&quot; 84 percent said no and 13 percent answered yes. Asked whether the war in Iraq is helping or hurting the global antiterrorism campaign, 87 percent answered that it was undermining those efforts.&quot;

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0630-06.htm</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Republicans keep saying we can&#8217;t leave Iraq until &#8220;the job is done&#8221; Well lets see&#8230; the troops where sent to look for WMD&#8217;S they&#8217;ve done that. They were sent to capture Saddam..They&#8217;ve done that, which means that job was finished a while ago. Why didn&#8217;t Republicans have a problem with us cut and running from Afghanistan? Obviously with the resurgent of the Taliban and Al Qaeda..That job wasn&#8217;t done. Shouldn&#8217;t we have moved every stone, rock and pebble until we found the man responsible for 911? It&#8217;s totally INSANE for anyone to think that Iraq war will make America safer. If anything it&#8217;s just the opposite. FYI Bin Laden is&#8217;nt in Iraq..SO WHY IN TH EHELL ARE WE STILL THERE? The former head of the &#8220;Bin Laden Unit&#8221; Michael Scheuer said that &#8220;Al Qaeda is going detonate a nuclear device inside the United States &#8230; and we&#8217;re going to have no one to blame but ourselves.&#8221; &#8221;<br />
&#8220;The war in Iraq broke our back in the war on terror,&#8221; said the former official, Michael Scheuer, it has made everything more difficult and the threat more existential.&#8221; </p>
<p>Scheuer, a former counterterrorism expert with the CIA, is one of more than 100 national security and terrorism analysts who were surveyed this spring for the nonscientific poll by Foreign Policy magazine and the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning research group headed by John Podesta, who served as White House chief of staff in the Clinton administration. </p>
<p>Of the experts queried, 45 identified themselves as liberals, 40 said they were moderates and 31 called themselves conservatives. The pollsters then weighted the responses so that the percentage results reflected one-third participation by each group. </p>
<p>Asked whether the United States is &#8220;winning the war on terror,&#8221; 84 percent said no and 13 percent answered yes. Asked whether the war in Iraq is helping or hurting the global antiterrorism campaign, 87 percent answered that it was undermining those efforts.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: nullchristopher jones</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-1972453</link>
		<dc:creator>nullchristopher jones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Good day Mr. Snow.

I ahve but one question for you. Weapons of Mass Destruction were a highly publicized issue. Phots wwere dislpayed, prominent politicians reafirmed theis mancae, to mention . 
Please eomment on this situation, after all it was the rigimes motive for invadin Iraq.
I realize that this is far from you topic of Bin Landen, hower I feel confident he is fairing well.
Thank you for you time anf for your concern.
Cdhristop heric Jones
If there are errors, the print is sot samll itis diffuclut to read.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Good day Mr. Snow.</p>
<p>I ahve but one question for you. Weapons of Mass Destruction were a highly publicized issue. Phots wwere dislpayed, prominent politicians reafirmed theis mancae, to mention .<br />
Please eomment on this situation, after all it was the rigimes motive for invadin Iraq.<br />
I realize that this is far from you topic of Bin Landen, hower I feel confident he is fairing well.<br />
Thank you for you time anf for your concern.<br />
Cdhristop heric Jones<br />
If there are errors, the print is sot samll itis diffuclut to read.</strong><strong></strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1972453', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: TripMaster Monkey</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-1971470</link>
		<dc:creator>TripMaster Monkey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I already said this earlier on in the thread, but it bears repeating:

Osama bin Laden will forever elude capture, as he has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osama_dead.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dead since December of 2001&lt;/a&gt;.

If Osama is not dead, and is in fact operating even now in Pakistan, why is it that we haven&#039;t seen a single verifiable communication from him since 2001?  Beginning with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;phony &#039;bin Laden confession video&#039;&lt;/a&gt;, all the &#039;communications&#039; from &#039;bin Laden&#039; have been obvious frauds.

So, why would this administration work so hard to perpetrate the fiction of bin Laden alive and well?  Because he&#039;s too useful as a bogeyman...a focus for our anger and fear...to discard.  

Briseadh na Faire sums it up quite succinctly with the following simple statement:

Osama Bin Laden = Emmanuel Goldstein

(P.S.:  If you don&#039;t understand the &#039;Emmanuel Goldstein&#039; reference, you can look &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Goldstein&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for information, but I highly suggest you visit your local library and check out George Orwell&#039;s &lt;i&gt;1984&lt;/i&gt;...after all, it&#039;s one of the books this administration is using as an instruction manual...)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I already said this earlier on in the thread, but it bears repeating:</p>
<p>Osama bin Laden will forever elude capture, as he has been <a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osama_dead.html" rel="nofollow">dead since December of 2001</a>.</p>
<p>If Osama is not dead, and is in fact operating even now in Pakistan, why is it that we haven&#8217;t seen a single verifiable communication from him since 2001?  Beginning with the <a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape.html" rel="nofollow">phony &#8216;bin Laden confession video&#8217;</a>, all the &#8216;communications&#8217; from &#8216;bin Laden&#8217; have been obvious frauds.</p>
<p>So, why would this administration work so hard to perpetrate the fiction of bin Laden alive and well?  Because he&#8217;s too useful as a bogeyman&#8230;a focus for our anger and fear&#8230;to discard.  </p>
<p>Briseadh na Faire sums it up quite succinctly with the following simple statement:</p>
<p>Osama Bin Laden = Emmanuel Goldstein</p>
<p>(P.S.:  If you don&#8217;t understand the &#8216;Emmanuel Goldstein&#8217; reference, you can look <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Goldstein" rel="nofollow">here</a> for information, but I highly suggest you visit your local library and check out George Orwell&#8217;s <i>1984</i>&#8230;after all, it&#8217;s one of the books this administration is using as an instruction manual&#8230;)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1971470', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Quadrajet</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-1971329</link>
		<dc:creator>Quadrajet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bum intelligence on Iraq - as well as N. Korea - and now they not only don&#039;t know where bin laden is but can&#039;t even figure out if he&#039;s the leader of aQ or not. But by all means let&#039;s give them the benefit of the doubt on Iran, right? After all, even a broken clock gets it right twice a day. Of course that same clock also gets it wrong 1438* times a day.

&lt;em&gt;*Clarification for Trolls: 60min/hr x 24hrs/day x 1 day&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bum intelligence on Iraq &#8211; as well as N. Korea &#8211; and now they not only don&#8217;t know where bin laden is but can&#8217;t even figure out if he&#8217;s the leader of aQ or not. But by all means let&#8217;s give them the benefit of the doubt on Iran, right? After all, even a broken clock gets it right twice a day. Of course that same clock also gets it wrong 1438* times a day.</p>
<p><em>*Clarification for Trolls: 60min/hr x 24hrs/day x 1 day</em><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1971329', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Democrat Soldier</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-1971133</link>
		<dc:creator>Democrat Soldier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It really doesn&#039;t matter if bin Laden is the leader of al Quida.

Both bin Laden and al Quida LOVE Pres. Bush!

Both bin Laden and al Quida HELPED Pres. Bush get re-elected!

Pres. Bush has returned the favor by NOT getting bin Laden, even though he promised &quot;dead or alive&quot;.  Yet another in a long list of promises that Pres. Bush has failed to keep.

Pres. Bush has returned the favor by making sure there&#039;s plenty of recruiting available to al Quida by invading Iraq based on lies and WAG&#039;s (wild a$$ guesses) and fabricated information.

Pres. Bush LOVES bin Laden and al Quida!  Without these two helping, Pres. Bush would NEVER have been re-elected!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It really doesn&#8217;t matter if bin Laden is the leader of al Quida.</p>
<p>Both bin Laden and al Quida LOVE Pres. Bush!</p>
<p>Both bin Laden and al Quida HELPED Pres. Bush get re-elected!</p>
<p>Pres. Bush has returned the favor by NOT getting bin Laden, even though he promised &#8220;dead or alive&#8221;.  Yet another in a long list of promises that Pres. Bush has failed to keep.</p>
<p>Pres. Bush has returned the favor by making sure there&#8217;s plenty of recruiting available to al Quida by invading Iraq based on lies and WAG&#8217;s (wild a$$ guesses) and fabricated information.</p>
<p>Pres. Bush LOVES bin Laden and al Quida!  Without these two helping, Pres. Bush would NEVER have been re-elected!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1971133', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Hector Garcia</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-1970871</link>
		<dc:creator>Hector Garcia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Where&#039;s Waldo Bin Laden?

http://soc.hfac.uh.edu/artman/publish/article_161.shtml</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Where&#8217;s Waldo Bin Laden?</p>
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		<title>By: Max</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/comment-page-2/#comment-1969827</link>
		<dc:creator>Max</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I guess that it all really depends on what the definition of is is. I really miss Bill. He was many times as good as what we have now. I am so tired of the arogant wingnuts whose only response to problems is TAX CUTS and whose only response to criticism is SUPPORT THE TROOPS. They are bunch of selfish sphincters.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I guess that it all really depends on what the definition of is is. I really miss Bill. He was many times as good as what we have now. I am so tired of the arogant wingnuts whose only response to problems is TAX CUTS and whose only response to criticism is SUPPORT THE TROOPS. They are bunch of selfish sphincters.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1969827', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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