Barack Obama: it is no longer important to kill Osama bin Laden

Barack Obama last night suggested it was no longer important to kill Osama bin Laden. In an interview with CBS news the president-elect indicted he believes that it was more important now to simply contain the al-Qaeda leader. He said: "I think that we have to so weaken his infrastructure that, whether he is technically alive or not, he is so pinned down that he cannot function.

[exactly what George has been saying]

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