He doesn’t bother to attend secret CIA briefings of his fellow senators because he seldom learns anything he hasn’t read in the newspapers, but Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is convinced the U.S. will track down the elusive mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks before November.
“Obviously, he’ll be caught between now and the election,” Grassley said Monday when asked if he’s disappointed that Osama bin Laden hasn’t been killed or captured.
“I think they’re on his trail now in a way they haven’t been all year,” Grassley said. “It will happen because we will be able to divert more resources [to hunting down bin Laden].”
Grassley, who’s an overwhelming favorite to win a fifth term in November, declined to say why he’s so confident that bin Laden will be brought to justice.
How will they find bin Laden? My money's on a charred corpse with ostensible "positive" DNA identification performed by vague, unverifiable means.
The corpse is probably already in custody, hence the story above. For political purposes, it's immaterial if the body actually belonged to Osama bin Laden or not — he has already descended to evil-icon status just like Nazis, the stock villains in the B movies of the past sixty years. And the Bush-Cheney War on Terror, with its shock and awe over Baghdad, and "Mission Accomplished" flight suit, and spider-hole Hussein, is very much B movie stagecraft with D-minus effectiveness. It's as if Ronald Reagan starred in Apocalypse Now.
When will they find bin Laden? Grassley already spelled out the timetable: "Before November."
A good guess would be mid to late July, the ideal time for a preemptive action against the protests of shrill New Yorkers sickened by the cremation of their neighbors in lower Manhattan, as well as the subsequent callousness and incompetence of the Afghan, Iraqi and homeland (via the Patriot Acts) invasions. Trotting out any old corpse and calling it bin Laden will be intended to dampen the effect of the passion and outrage that New Yorkers must still feel, and create a gauzy halo of "security" around what matters most to the administration: the Republican convention.
