MAJOR STRATEGIC VICTORY IN WAR ON TERROR

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U.S. General Says Bin Laden 'Out of the Picture'

By Yousuf Azimy

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A senior U.S. general said on Friday that al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden had "taken himself out of the picture" and that his capture was not essential to winning the "war on terror."




This is actually pretty brilliant when you think about it. With one blythe sentence it's no longer an embarrassment that we can't find the man without whom the 'War on Terror' might well never have begun.

If W. had a little forsight he could have said that we'd get Osama "Dead, Alive, or out of the picture."

How long before someone in the administration does a little think' and declares Sadam Hussein 'out of the picture'.