"'America can't get me alive,'' bin Laden was quoted as saying. 'I can be eliminated, but not my mission.'''

He's probably not up on the latest news, hunkered down in his cave and all, but the President has already expressed our national indifference as to his metabolic state when we get him. If he wants to be taken dead, we will be pleased to accommodate him--it's actually easier. Maybe he should sign up with the crack suicide squad just to further ease things.