>I don't know. There are those who believe it has served the Bush administration's purposes to have Mr. bin Laden and associates alive and well, still provoking us.
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>With all the military firepower the U.S. has, I refuse to believe there is anyone we couldn't hunt down.

There are limits to the number of haystacks one'd want to burn to find a needle. Specially when the needle is a reason to charge outrageous money for the folks (did I hear "contractors"? tsk tsk...) who are supposedly guarding all of them haystacks.