>If the team involved in the hunt had nothing to do with the elections, why would elections being over change anything?
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>By the same reasoning you're using, if I threw a stone at a window and after the stone leaves my hand I twist my face it will change direction and not hit the window. Let me explain myself: Bush ordered his capture and he's overseeing the operation from far above. The people in charge of the operation already have their orders and are trying their best to fulfill them. It's out of the president's hands. Maybe, like the joke said some time ago, we should have Blockbuster looking for bin laden.
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Hmm, that's about as bad an analogy as you could have come up with. My point is this, if the president now has the time to check with his top level staffers on this on a weekly basis, don't you think they will understand that he's taken an increased, PERSONAL interest in this? I think so. At any rate, it's conjecture on anyone's part. We will be seeing OBL captured within the next year - that's my conjecture.