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Roybert, you've yet to show that more people are needed to look for bin Ladin, or that an easter egg hunt through the Afghan mountains would be the best use of our military resources.

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Secondly, you say that a dead bin Laden would only be a martyr to put on terrorist recruiting posters? What the [censored] is he now? He's the guy who not only killed 3000 americans, he GOT AWAY WITH IT. What better recruiting tool could the terrorists ask for?

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Woah, isn't one of the tenets of this type of Islam that it is glorious to die killing infidels? Well, Osama hasn't done that, now has he? He's on the run, sleeping in caves dodging bombs and Predator drones. Hardly the heroic ending you would want to portray for recruits.

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Given the proper levels of manpower, we can find and capture bin Laden

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Explain to me you know more manpower is all that is necessary.

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We don't have bin Laden because, quite simply, Bush wasn't willing to exhaust the resources needed to get the job done.

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Explain to me why Osama, and not people like Zarqawi (who is probably far more engaged in operational attacks than bin Ladin), is more worthy of these resources. Hopefully this answer will tie into your explanation of how you know that all it takes is more resources.

Sometimes you need to use an axe and sometimes you need to use a scalpel. So if you want to get a sliver out of someone's body, I'd go with the scalpel.