Put Tim Russert On The Dream Team

I think I am serious. Check this for weirdness:

At a party Saturday night in Washington, NBC Meet the Press host Tim Russert bumped into an unusually upbeat George Tenet.

He told the CIA director that he had dreamt that Saddam Hussein had been captured.

"Have a nice holiday," Tenet said, knowing then what the country would learn in nine hours: The Iraqi dictator had been caught.

On NBC's Today Sunday morning, anchor Tom Brokaw put Russert's dream in perspective, quipping that Russert, a Buffalo Bills fan, had often dreamt about the Bills winning the Super Bowl.

OK, we all know enough not to take this seriously. But my question is, does Osama bin Laden know enough not to take this seriously?

If you harken back, Osama was worried that security would be breached by insecure, unauthorized dreams. From an Osama tape:

Before the attacks, bin Laden said some associates had dreams about tall buildings in the United States.

"At that point, I was worried that maybe the secret would be revealed if everyone starts seeing it in their dream," bin Laden said.

As a psy-ops effort, if the US, or a major news organization, was to announce the formation of a "Dream Team", who knows what the effect on Osama might be? And anything that shook up Osama might also prompt him to make a mistake. Of course, the poor sap who actually announces this initiative will have to deal with ridicule, mockery, and scorn - maybe one of the Dem candidates will take this on, as just one more day in the news cycle.

Besides, unless Tim Russert cannot be believed, it might just work. Maybe a bit outside the box...

Comments

[Moe Lane]

I saw no trackbacks, but I just wanted you to know that I linked to this:

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2003/12/dept_of_really_.html

Moe

[TM]

Thanks very much. And are you the Moe Lane that I recall from my ocassional glimpses of the Daily Kos comments threads? My recollection is of a pleasant, but hopelessly outnumbered, righty.

[Moe Lane]

"And are you the Moe Lane that I recall from my ocassional glimpses of the Daily Kos comments threads?"

I don't know about me being /pleasant/, but yeah. :)

Moe