Underreported Stories You Need To Know

by Margie Burns

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* Another reason is that Osama bin Laden is dead. You don't bounce back from renal shutdown, and anyway if he were alive, we'd be hearing from him. This tidbit has been outed in Pakistan, which supported bin Laden and the Taliban. Here, it was fed to the supermarket tabloids.

I have NO way of knowing if Osama bin Laden is dead or not.  I honestly don't know if anyone in the West does.  I do find it interesting, though, that no one in the government seems to be very eager to find out the answer to that question.

But then again, why would they?  Osama bin Laden and the Al Queda network are the ones who are supposed to be our targets, are they not?  If Osama were dead, we'd probably lose a fair amount of support for our continuing war on terrorism, as one of the main objectives - finding Osama dead or alive - would have been met. 

Instead, whether Osama himself lives or not, keeping the specter of his exisence alive and out front is enough to insure that support continues for George Bush's little party.  Few things motivate people to fall in line like fear - justified or not.