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A little more Obama "goalpost movement"

On Osama bin Laden:

"My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him, but if we have so tightened the noose that he's in a cave somewhere and can't even communicate with his operatives then we will meet our goal of protecting America.

...But our real focus has to be on Afghanistan, the border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan. And we have to put as much pressure on them as possible.


"Osama bin Laden is — wherever he is — he's in a deep hole. He does not have much impact on the organisation as best we can tell. The important thing was to go after the organisation, after al Qaeda. Even if you got Osama bin Laden tomorrow, you'd still have a problem in terms of whatever residue of al Qaeda is out there.

The situation now obviously is that we've got to continue to be engaged in Afghanistan. It's one of the most difficult places to work in because of the territory, the geography, the terrain, but also because it's one of the poorest countries in the world."


One of these is Obama, the other Dick Cheney. See if you can guess which without peeking at the sources.

From the Times and CBS News.

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