http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/06/binladen.video/index.html what a b@stard :evil: :evil: :evil:
"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." - G.W. Bush, 9/13/01 "I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." - G.W. Bush, 3/13/02 "There are some who, uh, feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is: Bring 'em on. We got the force necessary to deal with the security situation." - George W. Bush, July 2, 2003. 4 years later...........
It would seem, many have the seriously flawed 'enlightened' world view that Bin Laden should only be pursued by lawyers and judges instead of bullets and bombs. "In 1998, President Clinton announced, “We will use all the means at our disposal to bring those responsible to justice, no matter what or how long it takes... The tape proves the Clinton administration was aggressively tracking al-Qaida a year before 9/11. But that also raises one enormous question: If the U.S. government had bin Laden and the camps in its sights in real time, why was no action taken against them? ... A Democratic member of the 9/11 commission says there was a larger issue: The Clinton administration treated bin Laden as a law enforcement problem." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4540958/
In my opinion........ Bin Laden is still out there because GW needs him to still be out there. If Bin Laden is captured the feeling of the American people would be that the war is over. Without a visible bad guy out there Georgie has even less of a reason for this stupid war than he already has. If GW really wanted to get Bin Laden we would have the higher number of troops in Afghanistan, not Iraq.
In my opinion........ Bin Laden is still out there because GW needs him to still be out there. If Bin Laden is captured the feeling of the American people would be that the war is over. Without a visible bad guy out there Georgie has even less of a reason for this stupid war than he already has. If GW really wanted to get Bin Laden we would have the higher number of troops in Afghanistan, not Iraq.
Yes. His #1 priority is to keep that war going until he goes back to full-time brush-clearing and it becomes somebody else's problem. And the way the GoP is imploding before our naked screaming eyes and ears, I'd say it'll be a Democrat's problem. Good luck fixing THAT screw-up is all I can say. Detailed results of ABC/BBC/NHK in-Iraq polling here... http://abcnews.go.com/images/US/1043a1IraqWhereThingsStand.pdf Highlights (or lowlights, I guess)... The number of Iraqis endorsing attacks on US troops has INCREASED since March (ie since the surge has taken effect): 57% as compared to 50% now endorse such attacks (93% of Sunnis, 50% of Shiites, 5% of Kurds). [Note those Sunni numbers!] The number of Iraqis saying security has WORSENED since the current US troop buildup (this is an answer to a specific question about the "Surge") is 70%. Only 12% think it has improved things in the country. The number of Iraqis in favor of an IMMEDIATE withdrawal of US troops is now 47%, up from 34% in March the number of respondents expressing "a great deal of confidence" in Coalition forces is 4%. The number expressing "no confidence at all" in coalition forces is 58% (up from 52% in March). Overall 85% of Iraqis express little or no confidence in coalition forces (up from 82% this March) 53% of Iraqis strongly oppose the presence of coalition forces (the highest number ever, up from March of this year). Only 5% strongly approve their presence. In total 79% disapprove of their presence and 21% approve their presence. This is unchanged from earlier this year. On "Al Qaeda," 0% of respondents support attacks by AQ on Iraqis, 1% support AQ attempts to "take over communities," but 48% support AQ attacks on Americans. The Maliki government has an approval rating now of 33% (down from 41% in March)
