Fishing anyone? Bin Laden Is Said to Be Organizing for a U.S. Attack

[dArKeR]

ALTERMAN: SLACKER FRIDAY

Thank goodness, therefore, that, instead of focusing on shutting down al-Qaida, we’ve encouraged it to rebuild and flourish, pulling troops and agents out of Afghan-Pakistani border in order to fight a war in Iraq and thereby created a second terrorist haven.  I’m also thrilled that we’ve pretty much ignored homeland security while spending hundreds of billions on making sure that the entire Arab world hates our guts.

And I think it rather amazing that so serious a warning can be issued by the Department of Homeland Security and is pretty much ignored by everyone, save the page-one editors of the Times.  Can it be that this administration has lost so much credibility in its deliberate misleading of the nation on just about everything that it has lost the capacity to protect the country, even if it were ever to decide to take the job seriously?  Who knows, and it really doesn’t matter because it’s never going to happen.  Bush himself says he cannot think of a single mistake in his policies in which, according to at least one CIA officer, the president launched...

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[MidwestTransplant]

1. Anybody have the quote about Bush saying he doesn't worry about

Bin Laden anymore.

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2. Worry or not, wonder where GWB will be spending the month of August