U.S. Senate doubles bounty on Bin Laden to $50 Million

U.S. Senate doubles bounty on Bin Laden to $50 Million

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate, frustrated with its apparent inability to redirect the course of the Iraq war, voted today to nip around the edges by doubling the reward for the capture of Osama bin Laden.

But the overarching goal of the Senate's Democratic majority — mandating a timetable for the withdrawal of most U.S. combat troops — appeared to be out of reach.

Senate rules allow 41 of the 100 senators to block an issue from coming to a vote, and there are 49 Republicans in the Senate

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If $25 million did not do it will 50 really help? This is all for show. The administration has no real interest in heeling OBL. Its far more usefull to have the boogeyman lurking, ever waiting to strike than to have him sitting in GITMO or hanging from the end of a rope.

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Yeah, no kidding. The war is costing us 400 million dollars a day, that's about 90 minutes to burn through 25 million bucks. Seems to me if they wanted him they would have offered a little more incentive a long time ago.

Ah what the hell.. he's probably got an office at Langley and feels up Valerie Plame at the office parties.

Must admit, if they did find binladen it would not stop the fighting, we all saw what happened to Sadden famly... most are dead but still out solders are dieing on a daily basis