[B-bone]

Here's a buy-your-tin-foil-by-the-gross alert theory.

OBL is in custody in Diego Garcia. We need a final nail for Saddam. We arrange for OBL to make a tape implicating Iraq. Powell knows about tape and its contents prior to it being broadcast or even being offically acknowledged.

Screwy theory? Yes.
Likely? Hardly.
It's been a slow afternoon and the mind is idle? Certainly.
He's dead? More likely than the above theory.

[bobi]

Here's my buy-your-tin-foil-by-the-gross alert theory.

OBL is not in custody in Diego Garcia. We need a final nail for Saddam. We arrange for OBL to make a tape implicating Iraq. Powell knows about tape and its contents prior to it being broadcast or even being offically acknowledged.

Screwy theory? Yes.
Likely? Hardly.
It's been a slow afternoon and the mind is idle? Certainly.
He's not dead? More likely than the above theory.

[IoCaster]

"OBL is in custody in Diego Garcia. We need a final nail for Saddam. We arrange for OBL to make a tape implicating Iraq."

This explanation would comfort me. This is the kind of activity I'd prefer my tax dollars to be supporting.

*As I sit here scribbling my signature on another check to the f$%#ing IRS*

[Once-Ler]

If we had OBL it would have been announced. I seriously doubt that the US is forging tapes either. I even doubt the possiblity the tapes are fake and we know it. If it ever came out that any of these conspiracy theories was true Bush could kiss his 80% honesty poll numbers good bye.

The risks are not worth the possible payoff. Most people with brains can make the connection between Saddam and the war on terror. The truth is damning enough without having to make up stuff. It may seem like Dubya is loosing support but I have confidence that Dubya, and the best administration in my lifetime, have everything thought out. They have a timeline and the events that transpire around us are mearly the moves to get us to checkmate.