Bush Memories of Osama bin Laden
So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you. I'm more worried about making sure that our soldiers are well-supplied; that the strategy is clear; that the coalition is strong; that when we find enemy bunched up like we did in Shahikot Mountains, that the military has all the support it needs to go in and do the job, which they did.
Q But don't you believe that the threat that bin Laden posed won't truly be eliminated until he is found either dead or alive?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, as I say, we haven't heard much from him. And I wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center of any command structure. 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 know he is on the run. I was concerned about him, when he had taken over a country. I was concerned about the fact that he was basically running Afghanistan and calling the shots for the Taliban. (h/t Joe)
Who stole the cookies, the jar was full?
So I don’t know where he is. You know, I just don’t spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you. I’m more worried about making sure that our soldiers are well-supplied; that the strategy is clear; that the coalition is strong; that when we find enemy bunched up like we did in Shahikot Mountains, that the military has all the support it needs to go in and do the job, which they did.
Failed on all points.
Utterly contemptible.
The administration of misinformation.
WTF is Bush talikng about with:
"...he was basically running Afghanistan and calling the shots for the Taliban.
Mullah Omar was ready to give up bin Laden if we simply provided evidence concerning his involvement in 9/11. The plan was never to get him. It's called the "WOT needs Legs" strategy. It's impossible to create any number of nexis relationships if the principle is dispatched.
BTW His parsing of words in regard to the location of OBL gives some measure of support to those who believe that OBL is dead.
is he talking about OBL or himself?
'he's the ultimate parasite, who found weakness, exploited it."
"this a fella who is willing to commit youngsters to their deaths and he himself tries to hide"
Arizona @ 2:
No. The Bush Administration and their collusion buddies in the Democratic party succeeded.
Massively succeeded.
Bush knows exactly where he is. They've been bosom buddies all of their childhood and adult lives. (House of BinLaden/House of Bush) OBL worked for the CIA helping us to move Russia from Afghanistan so what makes anyone think that he's still not in their employ?
Not knowing where he is doesn't bode well for either this presidunce or our intel agencies, frankly. Of course, Bush doesn't know where much is at any given point during the day any longer either. (senile dementia)
These comments are the hallmark of an ignorant bully. Of course, he knows where his "personal boogeyman" is. Don't believe it for a moment.
Makes sense. Terrorists do tend to leave each other alone.
Truth B Told @ 8:
Oh, B.S. :)
Next thing, you'll be telling us Exxon has been earning 3 billion a month, the uber-wealthy are even richer, and the economy is about to be tanked so Bush and his buddies can buy the rest of the country for pennies on the dollar.
OBL=CIA... thats why they are not looking for him, he works for the Bush crime family. Look up ’Tim Osmond’ and see what he was doing in the US
bush is a fucking liar.
where's that hit-and-run bus he drives?
maybe karma will run over this cockroach.
What are the odds? Yet ANOTHER A.Q. leader/#2 man!!! That is the 342, 998th one!!! Only 6 billion more to go!!
"he's the ultimate parasite,who found weakness and exploited it."
flamethrower @ 5:
They also asked for a billion dollars in financial aid to help them rebuild their nation from the decades of warfare that they suffered through.
It would of been much cheaper than spending 3 trillion dollars.
This precedent wants us to believe that the guy who masterminded 9/11, the biggest ever hugest ever event that happened in all mankind*, isn't worth looking for as it's too difficult and they got better things to do? This when they can see what newspaper you're reading from a satellite? It is soooo transparent - and so amazing and cringeworthy.
This man, GWB, is the president of the United States - arguably the biggest, most important office in the world - isn't that a kicker?
*That is, apart from the hundreds of shocking episodes that have happened around the world to equally innocent people.
must see video related to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Ts-oBvvjw
"This is a fella who is willing to commit youngsters to their death and he himself is tries to hide, if he's hiding at all." If you didn't know who that quote was about, who would you guess?
He's probably back home, laughing along with the Saudi royals as Chimpy dances around for their amusement.
www.asecondlookatthesaudis.com
He's the ultimate parasite.
Bush talking about himself.
At last...the truth from president asshole.
From your friends in the 51st state. (UK)
To all of you over there...thanks for 7 years of laughing at you all.
bush is the dumbest fucker ever to have held (stolen) office.
Lynda from Australia @ 17:
but who says he is the mastermind of 9/11? The government? The Bush Administration? You gotta be kidding me.
Go look at the FBI Most Wanted listing for Osama. 9/11 doesn't even appear on his rap sheet.
"You know, Kelly, he's just some guy who puts out more videos than Girls Gone Wild. I truly am not that concerned about him."
What really strikes me about that video of Bush is how absolutely uninterested he looks about the whole thing. His demeanor is so un-presidential and immature. While the reporter is asking him her question, he stands there like a bored 10 year old, wishing he could be out playing instead of having to sit with the boring grown-ups. What a complete buffoon he is. I can't wait till 1/20/09.
more at my blog...
Jeff @ 18:
yep. pretty well sums it up, especially the frustration
ConcernedCanuck @ 14:
They probably bombed another wedding party. The US military has done a piss poor job of explaining the local traditions of the people in Afghanistan. They celebrate weddings by firing rifles into the air. All it takes is 1 dipshit Reservist to call in an airstrike and you have a 2 dead extended families. Things like this tend to go over poorly with the locals. The offial story is always the same. The US bombed a group of people based upon intelligence that a high ranking Al Queda member was there. Blah...blah...blah... words...words...words... Since, the information is classified; the Army can use it as a cover story. That is why the number 2 man keeps dying. Substitute the word civilian massacre for number 2 man and you have the real story.
I don't think Bush ever INTENDED to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, simply because he's good friends with his family.
Bush has snookered America his entire time in office. I think he must have done that to his wimpy parents, too, and never suffered any consequences for it.
anney @ 27:
No, Bush Jr is just a chip off the old block.
Prescott and George Sr. Old Skull and Bones traditions.
Chuck @ 26:
I heard the US military has a chart for Al Qaeda operatives that explains the group's power structure;
1. #1 guy
2. #2 guy
3. #2 guy, #2 guy
4. #2 guy, #2 guy, #2 guy
5. #2 guy, #2 guy, #2 guy, #2 guy
6. #2 guy, #2 guy, #2 guy, #2 guy, #2 guy.............etc, etc, etc
Truth B Told @ 22:
Of course, totally agree, I didn't think OBL did it from the very beginning, just like I didn't think muslim extremists did Oklahoma (I was in the States for that one and in Michigan to boot) ... the whole thing's a crock and smellier than all of GWB's underpants put together for his entire life - my point was that the vast majority of Americans believe that OBL did 9/11 and he's not interested in finding him... yeah, right!
Look how he is leaning on the podium(insecurity) as if he is in control and knows what he was doing. Bush is the biggest fraud perpetrated on the American people in history.
I said this in 2001 and I'll repeat it again and again until my dying day!
[Watch the all bold, please. Site Monitor]
ConcernedCanuck @ 29:
I heard that the Pentagon Office of Misinformation has an Al Queda #2 man cloning machine in the basement. It is located next to the coffee pot.
Isn't it amazing how dumbed down the propaghanda is this country is. Didn't Dr. Evil have a #2 man. They have convinced people that we are at war with a comic book villian.
Russ Mason UK @ 21:
Thanks B.P. and Royal Dutch Shell - couldn't have done it without you.
P.S. Why isn't it the U.Q.?
motorfingaz
I've often wondered if GW would fade into obscurity in the minds of Americans as his father has, except for an occasional surfacing that reminds us he's still in the land of the living.
I suspect GW will be hated by a great number of Americans who lived through his term of office until their dying day. I don't think that much would blot him from memory or the history books as being the most corrupt and felonious president in modern times, probably even in American history.
What great manipulators! Machiavelli would be proud. Won't be long before the M&M color-coded alerts start changing....just in time to rack up some electoral votes for Republicans, and given the late convention date, in plenty of time to maybe scare both committed and uncommitted Democratic delegates from one candidate to another.
"No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it."-Clausewitz
I sure wish George had read Clausewitz instead of the Goat book.
Chuck @ 26:
So true... did you ever see a BBC documentary on the US and UK forces doing bombing raids on small family farms in the north of Iraq before this war started? They showed families who's homes, flocks of sheep and goats, trucks, cars, roads, all decimated... lives ruined, people killed and maimed and all just bombing practice runs. It made me sick to my stomach... we had it on our major media here in Australia. I doubt it was shown on the MSM in the States...
Lynda from Australia @ 30:
Osama Bin Laden died of dual kidney failure in 2000.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/bin-laden-said-to-be...
why the bitch talk like he's in paine?
Lynda from Australia @ 37:
Our media is owned by defense contrators like General Electric. We get the dumbed-down version of everything.
"Memories of Bin Laden" sounds like a President's Choice product. Tastes like a combination of humble pie and ass. (Insider's Joke for Canucks)
Chuck @ 38:
No, no, no! He's on a dialysis machine in a cave in northern Pakistan - don't you listen? ;)
I imagine he's either dead or that they made all the stuff up about his health in order to obfuscate the issue (make him weak and impotent and probably dead - no longer a major threat because of his health)... looks like it to me.
Rico @ 35:
You should actually read "The Price". Machiavelli would of described Bush as a capricious moron that undermined his legitimacy at every opportunity. Machiavelli would use Bush as an example of how not to rule.
He served his purpose as a bogeyman for what... four? Five years? Of course he isn't our priority anymore. Why would they ever make him a priority when we're invading countries he has probably never visited, much less a chance he might be there.
It takes a liberal mind to manage the complexities of a large country like the US. Conservatives should stick to what they do best: churches and businesses, and stay out of serious government positions as a general rule.
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OBL is dead.
This is why BushCo isn't going after OBL.
You can't hunt and capture a dead man.
But you CAN use his image as that common enemy to rally the Nationalistic hysteria behind --- NO?
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He sounds like he's reading from his autobiography.
I can't imagine Bush living without bin Laden. Could Batman exist without the Joker or the Riddler?
Then the screen couldn't go Pow! Zap! Kaboom!
Lynda from Australia @ 42:
The word Al Queda is interesting. It means "the base". In the West "the base" is seen as something that is strong, a foundation. In the Arab World. "The base" is where the shit goes when you flush the toilet; it is where the dirt is. When Arab papers describe a terrorist attack the use the term"Al Queda" to describe the person who did it. We do the same thing in the West; when someone does something bad we call them "A dirtbag" or a "Lowlife". During the Clinton years, the American Media began describing Al Queda as an organization. It was simple to blame everything on "One enigmatic super boogeyman". The truth is; Osama was no more significant than any other dirtbag terrorist. The 17 people who did the World Trade Center Bombings were probably the only people that he knew that were dumb enough to do something like that. Even at that, it took him decades to find those 17 people. Not a very impressive organization. Most the people we are going after are business associates or people that had brunch with him at one time or another; the most significant of which was a taxi-driver that drove him from Kabul to a mountain village. The War on Terror is a sham. Almost every terrorist attack attributed to Bin Laden was at one time or another associated with the real people who did it. It kinda goes like this; we blow up the Chinese Embassy in Serbia; the Chinese blow up 2 of our Embassies in Africa. Rather than tell the truth to the American People and start a war with China; we tell the sheep that the enigmatic super boogeyman (Osama) did it. The sheep continue shopping at Walmart like nothing happened. All is well.
Chuck @ 49:
[Emphasis added]
That is OTT.
What sense of justice, rather than consequence, would the Chinese receive in this sort of deal? And has diplomacy devolved to Hammurabi's Code?
Chuck @ 49:
AND, the Bin Laden family probably get the contract to rebuild... they've been doing sheep bombing runs on us for years and years, it's just that we've been looking the other way.
Ever seen the doco The Power of Nightmares? Fascinating - seems to explain a lot - but then there's always more to know and we're unlikely (as mere sheeple) to find out what's really going on to the enth degree. Hard to see when there's so much smoke and mirrors.
Thank God, or someone, we got rid of John Howard in Australia. Now we can try to live in the delusion that all is better in this country (the 52nd state of the US).
Andy K @ 50:
Corrected.
Why doesn't Mama Bush just ask her best friend mama Bin Laden where he is. a mother always know where their sibs are.
Chuck @ 43:
Actually, Machiavelli would have been held the Bush family syndicate as an excellent example of how to RULE. For indeed they have.
Machiavelli explained hundreds of years ago how the US was overthrown
America, an illusion of a Democratic Republic.
#43 Chuck says: "You should actually read “The Prince”. Machiavelli would of described Bush as a capricious moron that undermined his legitimacy at every opportunity. Machiavelli would use Bush as an example of how not to rule."
You are absolutely right, and your point certainly applies in places where Princes are not subject to term limits. My reference was simply to two Machiavellian principles mastered by even this moron...to rule by force and not by law, and concern yourself above all else with war. In this country, where you only get eight years on the throne, that's all it takes.
"Well whaddaya know! He's right here under my dinner jacket!!"
Chuck @ 38:
"I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it." --George W. Bush, Crawford, Texas, Nov. 10, 2007
There's just so many...
Jeff @ 18:
Benazir Bhutto claim about OBL
11/02/07, Sir David Frost international political expert and interviewer did not challenge her on her assertion (2:14) that Bin Laden was murdered.
her credentials.... ex-prime minister of Pakistan a country of 200 million which neighbors Afghanistan and other ME hotspots, and then assassinated not long after this video was made to keep her quiet maybe!
but of course if anything happens outside of the US centric MSM 'bubble' it never really happened.
As Benazir Bhutto said to David Frost in November of 2007 on al-Jazeera TV, Osama bin Laden was assassinated by the man who killed Pearl. He has been dead a long time, and when Bush said that he didn't care about him in March of 2002 and that he disbanded the CIA group that focused on him alone, all signs point to his death. Bush has known it, but he uses the dead boogeyman because the average American still believes the garbage that comes out of his mouth. Meanwhile, the House kowtows to his scare tactics when he keeps pushing for the immunity to the Tel-coms. Sometimes, I think our reps in Washington are dumber than us.
24:What really strikes me about that video of Bush is how absolutely uninterested he looks about the whole thing. His demeanor is so un-presidential and immature. While the reporter is asking him her question, he stands there like a bored 10 year old, wishing he could be out playing instead of having to sit with the boring grown-ups. What a complete buffoon he is. I can’t wait till 1/20/09.
This is why there are people out there believe that he and the VP was involved(in the Sept, 11 attack). President Bush never seems haunted or cares about what happens. People pick up on that.
Tomazulob @ 61:
As someone who was nearly killed by the attack on America finance d by bin Laden, show me his skeletal remains. I won't rest until that man is a confirmed kill.
If he was dead, you know Bush would be reminding us that we got him. He wouldn't let his poll numbers drop with that kind of information kept secret. He has a 'legacy' to build and killing OBL isn't part of it.
dosido @ 48:
Or Superman without Lex Luther?
Dhalgren @ 63:
Plant.
The FBI has itself said that OBL is not wanted for the attacks on 9/11.
Bin Laden did his job.
He started the "War On Terror" that enabled BushCo to invade & occupy both Afghanistan and Iraq, suspend civil liberties in the US and reap enormous profits for the oil & military industrial corporations.
Kelvin Phillips @ 62:
GWB must have had a spark of something long long ago, even being a fortunate son a person needs some stage presence to go for high elected offices or just not appear totally dumb on TV.
Drink and drugs took their toll years ago and when people say McCain is just another GWB think contrary,
GWB is was just another today's McCain, old and brain fried.
Going by that 1988 RNC convention interview when a drunken waffles on about how the TANG could have won the Vietnam war if they had been there... (they were there, he wasnt)
Any competent Dem politico could have wiped the floor with Chimpy pre 2000 if they had had the sphericals to have done it, or not been bought off or blackmailed into silence, likewise with the American MSM.
Thats the sad legacy of GWB and of the Republicans, 8 years of people not summoning up the courage to oppose corruption and incompetence.
The Democrat party has the strength and numbers to oppose the RNC corruption machine, and a good start would be impeaching Cheney and 1 second later impeaching Bush.
US naval ship named Alkaid -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Alkaid_(AK-114)
Interesting - not sure if this is the right register or not, but this ship doesn't show up here (it used to, I checked out USS Alkaid some years ago)
http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/name_A.htm
Interesting stuff about the fixed star Alkaid
http://logos_endless_summer.tripod.com/id216.html
Kelvin Phillips @ 62:
GW Bush: I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you.
GW Bush: Now, watch this drive.
Miserable, useless, lying son of a bitch. Who's getting rich on this war? The U.S. middle class? No, the rich F.O.B.'s (friends of bush's)
I support the Gitmo-ing of Bush, Cheney, and the whole chimpy administration. Except for Dana Perino. She's hot. She should just sit down and shut up because she spews worthless crap. Maybe pose for Penthouse... I could support that.
Richard Greene from Air America has issues with Bush's perspective of Osama Bin Laden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgV-evL0oJs
Richard Greene speech Part 2...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQQiF8wChW8
And Part 3...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtbcWSimlmU
Of all the videos I've posted on YouTube, this one has to be the most difficult for the Brownshirts to defend. :)
Thanks for posting it.
"From 1979 till 2007, this amorphous network, designated as al Qaeda, has functioned seamlessly as a mercenary proxy force, mobilized in diverse strategic regions in the service of Anglo-American imperial expansionism. . . . The real source of terror is the Western states, and the vested interests that dominate them." -- Nafeez Ahmed, author of The War On Truth
Truth B Told @ 22:
Thank You!!!! Yes, someone else had saw that. I told my sister that he wasn't wanted for 911, think he is wanted for the attack on American ships but she was too frightened to check it out. She was in a state of denial. This is the ultimate disgrace this president could have done to the american people, I think when the american people wake up, then things will roll...change will come. In the meantime, all those government contractors making billions from blood money will continue to let the taxpayers think they live in a democracy. Democracy is dead and this "President" shows this. Do you think Roosevelt, Kennedy would stop looking for the supposedly mastermind of 911? How the bar has been lowered since those days. The whole things is a show and the american people are letting it happen. I can see it in this next election. Democracy, my ass!!!!! The only difference between a dictatorship and the United States is that the real dictators are on a board.
I just got back from my second tour in Afghanistan flying medevac missions. It's not getting better, it's getting worse. 2007 was the deadliest year in the history of Operation Enduring Freedom. The Taliban is adapting tactics that are being used against us in Iraq. (IEDs etc).
It just pisses me off to hear our Commander in Chief state that he just doesn't give him much thought....WTF?!?!?
Maybe he should tell that to the families of the men and women whom we flew back in flag draped coffins or to the kids that we brought back with horrific injuries....
I just wish he would wipe that smirk off of his face...
I agree 100% with all the above!!!!! OBL is either dead or is in Crawford Texas [Deleted. Over the top-Sitemonitor]
It's like after you lose a game and then saying, "I wasn't interested in winning anyway."
OUt of all the articles on here, this has to be the most disturbing to me.
Edwin @ 79:
The game was a deception that contained the deception that they lost the game.
Radically Moderate @ 6:
Exactly. Benazir Bhutto said in November that bin Laden was killed. But the BBC interview with Bhutto never was broadcast here. Why not? Was it blocked because the Bush administration finds it useful to continue the illusion that he is still alive and calling the terrorists' shots? Is it more useful to continue the fear-mongering?
"Wait, don't tell me, I never forget a face!"
Anais said "Exactly. Benazir Bhutto said in November that bin Laden was killed. But the BBC interview with Bhutto never was broadcast here. Why not? Was it blocked because the Bush administration finds it useful to continue the illusion that he is still alive and calling the terrorists’ shots? Is it more useful to continue the fear-mongering?"
That is precisely why this president does not acknowledge his death. He need a boogeyman to scare people with. If the boogeyman is dead, people will be less inclined to feed the industrial-military complex (read: profits for FOB). OBL is still serving his purpose.
Time is not on our side, everyday we get a little closer to a draft, our you going to defend this republic? Will the mexican slave laborers? Most vulnerable tarkets in US are Houston, chigago and San fran.
"So I don’t know where he is. You know, I just don’t spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you........Well, as I say, we haven’t heard much from him."
This may actually be the first time Dubya has spoken the truth about OBL. I'm pretty sure he doesn't now and never has worried about "finding" OBL, because early on, he knew exactly where he was, via the CIA guys who controlled him.
And, he hasn't heard "much form him" because he's Dead!
But, I thought he said OBL was wanted, "...dead or alive"? Wasn't that the Spetember 12th quote?
Bhutto's statement was an error. She meant D. Pearl, not OBL. Listen to the whole answer. She simply misspoke.
IMO if OBL was dead, some selfish associate would have spilled the beans, and it would be intl news.
As Dahlgren has said, OBL is alive until proven otherwise.
Van140 @ 77:
This is why this video of Bush is so disturbing to me. This soldier has seen the results. He must feel awful! What about the soldiers fighting in Iraq?? How would they feel?? Bush is a trader. Like the comment above, the only thing the majority of the people are interested in is shopping at Wal Mart. Shameful.
What is this 'coalition' he's referring to??
Jeff @ 18:
I just realized that laugh too. Makes me sick to my stomach.
MLK: Assassinated
JFK: Assassinated
GWB: Still breathing? WTF
The ultimate parasite has met his match. I Couldn't have said it any better, Mr. President.
kc,
That "coalition" speak was his way of blending Iraq into 9/11 (Osama).
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