... and I have a nice bridge for sale, and if you don't like that, perhaps some swamp land in Florida.
The White House denied on Wednesday that the U.S. hunt for Osama bin Laden has been downgraded after the CIA disbanded a unit set up in the 1990s to oversee the search for the al Qaeda leader.
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Bush had vowed to get bin Laden "dead or alive" after the Sept. 11 attacks but as the hunt dragged on, he described bin Laden as only one part of a global terrorist organization.
That "dead or alive" promise is one that he ought to have kept, but the events at Tora Bora put an end to that. Whether it was utter incompetance or as the conspiracy theorists maintain, a wink-and-a-nod to the well-connected bin Laden family by La Famiglia Boosh will never be known. But it's certainly one of the more interesting failures of the administration, and one that the 1600 Crew has tried valiantly, with some success, to lay off on the US Military. You have to wonder how hard is it to miss a 6'10" Arab, hooked up to a dialysis machine in the mountains. Pretty easy, I guess.
Someone asked me to define the Bush Administration in less than six words. After thinking about it, I came up with this: A Smorgasboard of Malfeasance. If the foo shits....
posted by Jo Fish on 08.16.06 at 07:00 PM
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Good post.
As about half the country knows, Brother Bu$h & NeoCon, Inc. switched from Bin Laden to Iraq. It's as if they want Bin Laden to stay a threat and at-large, so they can keep him around in order to scare voters with his spectre.
There's no need to turn to conspiracy theories when simple incompetence explains everything. Bush got taken in by con men, failed to recognize threats to the country, and screwed up.
posted by: Tony on 08.18.06 at 09:47 AM [permalink]
In one of the debates in the presidential campaign of 2004 Our Fearmongering Leader claims that it's debatable if he has even made any little mistakes at all, but regarding all the "big questions", in six or fewer words he says, "I'll stand by those decisions".
Those are The Decider's 6 words anyway. Well, and the 33% bushbot contingent in this country agree with him too.
GRABEL: President Bush, during the last four years, you have made thousands of decisions that have affected millions of lives. Please give three instances in which you came to realize you had made a wrong decision, and what you did to correct it. Thank you.
BUSH: I have made a lot of decisions, and some of them little, like appointments to boards you never heard of, and some of them big.And in a war, there's a lot of -- there's a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't have made that decision. And I'll take responsibility for them. I'm human.But on the big questions, about whether or not we should have gone into Afghanistan, the big question about whether we should have removed somebody in Iraq, I'll stand by those decisions...
