It's been 2006 days since September 11, 2001. And Osama bin Laden is still a free man. Today he turns 50 years old. This is a gigantic failure for President Bush.
It has been five and half years since September 11th -- and Osama has still not suffered the consequences for killing nearly 3,000 Americans. And now he's blowing out candles on his birthday cake in relative comfort in Pakistan. When are we ever going to get this guy?!
We sent 150,000 troops after Saddam Hussein and found him in a hole in the ground in Iraq. We sent 36 troops after bin Laden when we had him cornered in Tora Bora and we didn't get him. Big surprise. The priorities of this administration are completely out of whack. Will you for the love of God go get the guy who killed our people?
Apparently not, because this is what President Bush said about Osama bin Laden on March 13, 2002:
"So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him. ... And, again, I don't know where he is. I -- I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him."
I guess that about explains it. Are you comfortable with a president who never caught the man behind September 11th and brags about how he doesn't spend any time on him? Or as Darrly Worley would ask: Have You Forgotten?
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Bush's Gigantic Failure -- Osama Turns 50
Posted Mar 10th 2007 11:28AM by Cenk Uygur
Filed under: Iraq, Middle East, George Bush, Young Turks, 9/11
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1. The essential mistake made by this administration has been the decision not to be utterly ruthless in the prosecution of this war with Islam. Until they (the mullahs, the sheiks, the tin pot dictators) shit a brick whenever the eagle cocks an eye in their direction -- we will go on losing. Fallujah should have been flattened and the ground sewn with salt. Bin Laden should have been hunted to his last lair and obliterated, the delicated sensibilities of the Pakis be damned. These acts, or their equivalents, will be done, of course, but only after The Bomb goes off here in the States. What a pity. What a pity that millions of American lives will have been sacrificed to the great god PC.
ricpic at 4:25PM on Mar 10th 2007
2. Bush has spent all this time lumping Al-Quida and Iraq together. Two subjects which have NOTHING to do with each other. Ofcourse he has lost interest in Bin Laden, Bin Laden is not in Iraq.
Tim Cobb at 10:36AM on Mar 12th 2007
3. Let us get it straight on that subject once and for all. The priorities of this administration are quite clear actually. First comes securing their own financial benefits. If any course of action offends arabic entities,it will be abandoned every time. The fate of this nation ranks rather low on the totem pole.
christine at 6:56AM on Mar 13th 2007
4. Your criticism of this administration stopped well short of the truth. Let me help you understand the reality. I call this poem "No Way!" I hope you like it.
If Christian Radical declared war on China, would they make war on all of us? If Radical Muslims declared "A fight to the death", should we lose all faith and trust? On 9-11, some radicals hit us hard. Were they alone or did they have help that day? There's no way in Hell, they could be a success! Unless, we looked the other way?
You wonder why Bin Laden escaped? It makes me wonder if these 20 guys weren't working for us or with us? Why was Saddam killed before them? Why are we releasing this information now about KSM? It's helping us make the case.
Cecil Jones at 5:09AM on Mar 17th 2007