I Think there is at least a 50-50 Chance, -that except for perhaps Spending some Time in Caves and Other Underground Fortifications, -that he is Still Above Ground!

Simply None of us Know, One Way or the Other, for Sure.

There's also a Good Chance that he was Gotten Back at Tora Bora. Andor his Kidney Problem Got to him, Especially Out There in the Sticks. Makes for at Least a 50 % Chance there in your Favor as well.

But Neither Nor Any of Us Really 100 % Knows, for Sure! And I Know you Weren't Claiming that!

I Too Feel a Reasonable Enuf Possibility that we've Already Got him. "Reasonably" and "Possibility" are the Key Words there!

But I myself Lean to a Greater Chance and Possibility that we Yet Have Not!

This is Not a Time to be Talking About *Not* Being a "Doubting Thomas". Nor is it a Time to be Giving a Benefit of any Question or Doubt!, to Osama's Fate.

It's rather a Time and Matter of, "I'll Believe it When I See it!"

We had something called a Body Count, back in Vietnam, -We Didn't just Take Things that could Really Come Back and Bite U.S., -on Faith!

We Thot we Got Chemical Ali Too!, a Year Ago in Iraq. -That he was Suppossedly Pushing Up Southern Iraqi Daisys! But Guess Hoo Turned Up Alive!, a Few Months or so Later?! Yes, at least we Still Got him, as a Captive. But we Weren't so Automatically Right as we Thot we were!

Just like that Gorilla that Escaped and Mauled someone(s) the Other Day.

(I Know, Man is Usually One Way or Another Behind Many Animal Attacks, as I've Read in Past Posts and Threads. But This is Not my Immeadiate Point here.)

We Cannot just Always Trust, that Such a Gorilla will be Benign!

The President's said as Much in Reference to saadam. To *Not* just Put a Benefit of the Doubt sort of Faith!, in One with his sort of Characteristics and Track Record! Who also, BTW, was Not Pushing Up Daisys, and was Caught. (I Don't Know that you also Placed Bets on saadam!)

Many Gorillas are Benign. One that Got Out Among the Crowd at our Zoo, Not too Long Ago, was Benign. Though an Elephant here also Recently Attacked and Crushed it's Keeper.

But we Know saadam and Company, and osama / al qaida and Company, are Not Benign! Are they Dead or Alive, We Simply Do Not Know! (concerning one). As to the Question of, -Are they Benign, or Most Definitely *Not* Benign?!, -We Do Know the Answer to be a NO on that!, as to the Both of Them!

I'm Sure that Irwin Guy Doesn't just Benignly Trust his Beloved Crocs! (Not even when He Judiciously Had His Tot Near!, -The Guy Knows What He's Doing!) Nor Shud we Bank that Osama's been Gotten so!, just because we Think it Rather Likely that he's been Gotten!

Just some of my Thots. I'm Not Downing your's, -They are a Reasonable Possibility too. Though I may Well Differ with your's. Yes he May Well have Been "Tora Boraed!" And Then Again he Just as Well May have Not!

But it's at least as Reasonably Possible, that as Lawman La Boeuf (Glen Campbell) said in True Grit, -"I Ain't Dead Yet!", -It's just as Possible that Osama Too Isn't Dead Yet! I Personally Put a Greater Lean on that Possibility and View.

I Wouldn't Want to Bet my Butt or Life on It's Possibly Not being so! -Of Giving A Benefit of the Doubt or of the Uncertainty So! When we, After All, -Really Don't Know One Way or the Other For Sure!

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