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Originally posted by Shaun 84 Targa
When was the last time you used a hammer to adjust your valves?
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O.k. Shaun, I can take a lot of abuse, but that one tears it. Now you've gone too far. Us old-time Harley mechanics do that all the time...
Anyway, I'm pretty sure the hunt for OSB is still on every bit as much as it ever was. It is not nearly as glamorous and news-worthy as all the Americans getting killed in Iraq every day, so our headline pumping press has nothing to sell us. All the spooks and special ops folks sneaking around on the hunt just don't make headlines the way car bombings do. I'm also relatively sure that if we had the play-by-play on how we are closing in on his suspected location it would make it vastly more difficult for these folks to sneak up on him.
The differences between operations in Iraq and chasing OBL are night and day. The war in Iraq is on such a scale as to provide "news" every day. The OBL chase is such that if it generated news every day I'm sure it would undermine the effort. In it we are counting on intelligence; essentially one disloyal faction or man to rat him out. So just because we do not hear about it every day, and Bush plays it down, does not mean we are not putting everything we have into looking for him. It would probably be just a bit counter-productive for Bush to keep reminding OSB that we are looking for him and outlining just how we are doing that.