Yeah, but what if we can't believe what we're told:
1) is he actually alive and in custody (good news); or
2) is he actually alive and in a cross-hairs somewhere (also good news); or
3) is he actually dead and al Qaeda knows and we don't (bad news); or
4) is he actually dead and nobody knows (best/worst news, depending on where you sit); or worst yet
5) is he actually dead and "we" know, but nobody else knows and his continued supposed "existence" is being used to perpetuate the War in Iraq...
I tend to trust the Government. But his al-Qaeda stuff has more than a scent of X-Files about it. I'll believe the demise of Osama when I see his head mounted on a pike in Baghdad.
I couldn't agree more. His head on a pike would go a long way towards answering the question at hand. However, if he's been hiding in the mountains of Pakistan, way out in the middle of feudal tarritory that not even the Pakistani government could access (if they wanted to), how in the hell does he get his dialysis? Maybe we should see if the French have been selling some battery-powered portable dialysis machines to Pakistan
lately. That would shed some credence on the theory that bin Laden is still alive. Anyone who believes that Pakistan is really trying to stop al-Qaeda and other Islamo-fascists is off their rocker anyway.