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Bin Laden

According to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey conducted in December 2005, 68% of Americans believe that the United States will not be able to capture or kill Bin Laden in 2006.

And you know what? There are more important things so spend money on than to look for that old idiot hiding somewhere in the middle of nowhere between Afganistan and Pakistan.

It would probably piss him off way more if we just ignore him and laugh about him, than to take him seriously.

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