>>>Obama had previously painted a narrative during the Democratic Conversion that "GM was alive and Al Q was dead", so it was extremely embarrassing. This is as big a lie as it gets - he wouldn't dare admit they were caught with their guard down and had ignored the increase in Al Q training facilities in North Africa - and decided to manufacture this bunk of a lie.
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>>FWIW, the line was "GM is alive and bin Laden is dead."
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>>Tamar
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>And here is an additional tidbit you won't hear from the mainstream media.
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>The new Libyan president was furious at the Obama administration for pushing the phony theory of the Youtube video. They knew immediately it was an Al Q affiliate and stated so openly, and felt the White House was undermining the Libyan president's credibility.
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>Between that...and the problems of Al Q in Syria and now in Iraq...I think the "Al Q is on the run" statement lost all credibility a long time ago.

I think you're wrong here. There was a group called Al Qaeda, run by Bin Laden. That group has been largely shut down. However, it (or, to some extent, the way we responded to it) inspired many new groups across the Arab world, many of which put "Al Qaeda" in their names.

Tamar