I like a little irrationality with my coffee in the morning.

How do you know so much about the inner workings of international intelligence and police work living out there all by yourself in the desert?

Look how quickly people like you jump on the news - only because they are rooting for Al Qaida.

Logic, please?

If I were to point out that the perps of certain capital crimes are still officially listed at large, even though no one has heard from them or seen them in years, does that mean I'm rooting for murderers and rapists?

That's just plain old mean character assassination.

Though it is logical to believe that bin Laden is buried under tons of rock, it's just as logical to believe that he got out early and is in hiding. What isn't logical is to pronounce a man dead after a year of invisibility in an area of the world where there's a powerful disincentive to cooperate and where the infrastructure, such as it was, has been largely destroyed one way or another. It's not as if he hasn't enough money to find shelter...

Your attempt to spin this viewpoint as sympathy for Al Q'aida attempts to cover up the Bush Administration's embarrassment over not "getting Osama", as the President said they would. My suspicion (worth just as much as your assertion) is that the US is still looking for him too.

If we aren't, we're fools.

Regards--
Mary Anne