Reply #36: I'd go with that one, too. After all, if we finally "git" Osama bin Laden,

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there goes the last boogey-man. He's the human face on al Qaeda. He's the one easiest to wrap your brain around, especially if you choose to be of limited reasoning - because you've decided to bow down obediently to bush without question or doubt. I mean, think of it - that beard! That turban! Just look at that bastard! Easy stuff. Sinister and exotic and facial-haired - ooooooh... We're ALL neoCONS now, to quote a drooling, panting chris matthews. If bin Laden were caught, not all of America would roll over and go back to sleep but some of them would, making them that much less reachable for the manipulators at work here. Harder to scare people when there's nobody to scare them with. Others will ratchet up the hysteria by redirecting the terror-mongering to al Qaeda as a group, but that's more nebulous and faceless than a specific PERSON. Therefore, that's more difficult to wrap your brain around, it's not an easy link-up. Mind you, this also feeds into those who are visually oriented and process information visually - which is a majority of us, statistically. So bin Laden is far more useful to them while on the lam. Adds to his mystery and danger and ominousness. Puts him beyond our control and completely unpredictable. The unpredictable is also scary. People tend to fear what they don't know. As long as they can use bin Laden for their own purposes and benefit, they will.