Cheney, is Bin Laden Alive? Barack Obama knows!

Cheney not sure if Bin Laden still alive - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Vice President Dick Cheney said in an interview Sunday that he did not know if the Al-Qaeda terror leader Osama bin Laden was still alive.
Asked if the elusive bin Laden was alive, Cheney said: "I don't know and I'm guessing he is."
"We've had certain pieces of evidence become available from time to time, there'll be a photograph released or something that allows the intelligence community to judge that he is still alive," Cheney told Fox News on Sunday.

Osama bin Laden Wanted Dead or Alive.

Let's first talk about what President elect Barack Obama wants to do. President-elect Barack Obama intends to renew the U.S. commitment to the hunt for Osama bin Laden, a priority the president-elect believes President Bush has played down after years of failing to apprehend the al-Qaeda leader. Critical of Bush during the campaign for what he said was the president's extreme focus on Iraq at the expense of Afghanistan, Obama also intends to move ahead with a planned deployment of thousands of additional U.S. troops there.

Barack Obama said that President Bush has down played, after eight years, his failing to apprehend Bin Laden. And that he can do a better job despite a massive manhunt and a 25-million-dollar bounty on his head. So Obama wants to send more US troops. US troop numbers in Afghanistan could double by next summer to 60,000.

The incoming Obama administration plans to explore a more regional strategy to the war in Afghanistan -- including possible talks with Iran -- and looks favorably on the nascent dialogue between the Afghan government and "reconcilable" elements of the Taliban, according to Obama national security advisers.

And Barack Obama is doing this when he has yet to fully examine available military and intelligence resources and how they are currently being used, and have not yet plotted his diplomatic approach to Pakistan, where U.S. intelligence officials believe bin Laden is hiding.

So this is one promise that looks like Barack Obama will keep. Obama said during the campaign that his administration would explore talks with countries such as Iran and Syria, rejecting bedrock Bush policy. Now that Barack Obama is my President, I hope his head is not in the sand.


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