I think that you'd have to ask some very searching questions about the timing if OBL were caught now. It's been ~162 weeks since 9/11, and I'd have a difficult time believing that he'd turn up one week before the election. Especially since that leaked memo a month before the Democratic convention suggesting to the Pakistanis that the week of the Democatic convention would be a good time to announce the capture of a big terrorist. Even more so since that actually then happened.

Don't misunderstand me - I want OBL caught. I'd just be extremely concerned about the state of US democracy (*) if he were to miraculously turn up now. I suspect that all the flag-waving high-fiving patriotic fervour that would result from such an event would be enough to convince enough undecided- or weak Kerry- voters to vote for Bush.

(*) Yeah, like I'm not concerned at the moment, what with all the election fiascos, the defacto two party system, 65% of the Senate 'race' already decided, etc.