SHAME > George Bush FAILED to Get Bin Laden "Dead or Alive"

[Stephanie]

The ONLY thing Bush really had to accomplish in his term of office is to capture the man who bombed our Twin Towers with airplanes. Yet here we are almost four years later and bin Laden is still out there taunting us with threats.

What a complete and utter failure George Bush is. I don't know how he holds his head up in public. SHAME on you George Bush. What's your excuse this time?

Why does Bush get a free pass on this, of all things? And when can we have a REAL president again?

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12/14/2001
Bush pledges to get bin Laden, dead or alive

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush pledged anew Friday that Osama bin Laden will be taken "dead or alive," no matter how long it takes, amid indications that the suspected terrorist may be bottled up in a rugged Afghan canyon. The president, in an Oval Office meeting with Thailand's prime minister, would not predict the timing of bin Laden's capture but said he doesn't care how the suspect is brought to justice. "I don't care, dead or alive — either way," Bush said. "It doesn't matter to me."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/2001/12/14/bush-binladen.htm

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3/1/2005
Bin Laden Enlisting Al-Zarqawi for Attacks

WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden is enlisting his top operative in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, to plan potential attacks on the United States, U.S. intelligence indicates.

Al-Zarqawi, who rivals bin Laden as the nation's public enemy No. 1, has been involved in attacks in the Middle East but has not been known before to have set his sights on the United States.

The Homeland Security Department issued a classified bulletin to officials over the weekend about the intelligence, which spokesman Brian Roehrkasse described Monday as "credible but not specific."

The intelligence was obtained over the past several weeks, officials said.

The United States has no immediate plans to raise its national terror alert level, Roehrkasse said. However, the intelligence "reiterates the desire by al-Qaida and its associates to target the homeland," he said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20050301/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/terror_threat

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[leftynyc]

1. Whenever anyone asks me

why New York went so heavily for Kerry, I tell them this is the reason. As opposed to the schmucks who say NY has forgotten 9/11, I say we seem to be the only ones who really remember it AND who was responsible (and yes, I do believe it was Bin Laden - whether he was working with the BFEE is something else).

[Stephanie]

2. I agree - it's like it happened yesterday here

And it's shocking to see bin Laden back in the news as if that's normal. 52 warnings! And nothing was done.

[bluedog]

3. * says He's Hiding".....................remember......n/t

[DemGirl7]

25. Yeah...but didn't Bush say that "we were going to smoke him out "

LOL...Gotta love the Cowboy tough talk...that is some funny stuff.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. SUH-PRAHZ! SUH-PRAHZ! SUH-PRAHZ!

Just add this to the long list of ways that the dimwit has screwed the country. He has continued to do such a wonderful job of securing the country and protecting us from "terraists"

Let me take this opportunity to thank all the maroons who voted for him.



I am sure all the dead and wounded American soldiers and their families are grateful, as well as those of the dead and wounded Iraqis.

[Stephanie]

5. Also the dead and wounded New Yorkers

very grateful, and proud

[BrklynLiberal]

6. Yes. I apologize for not including the NYers, being one myself.

[understandinglife]

11. $hrub needs these guys free and out-there. We all know that, don't we.

BE THE BU$H OPPOSITION;24/7

[BrklynLiberal]

17. True. Just as they need the chaos in the Middle East.

[BrklynLiberal]

7. And how many opportunities did dimwit pass up to get Al-Zarqawi?

Nominated for greatest.

[Stephanie]

8. I don't know - what is the history of Al-Zarqawi?

I don't know much about him.

[BrklynLiberal]

9. Supposedly Bush has three opportunities to get him before the invasion

of Iraq, but considered the invasion of Iraq a higher priority. I am looking for sources right now.

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Here is some of Al-Zarqawi's story

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?id=1521846767-884

[Stephanie]

18. Wow! So al Zarqawi and bin Laden opposed each other?

From your link:

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?id=1521846767-884

During the trial of suspected terrorist Shadi Abdallah, it is learned that Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi, a Jordanian Muslim militant accused by the Bush administration of having ties to Osama bin Laden, is actually the founder of another Islamist group, al-Tawhid, which works “in opposition” to al-Qaeda (see Mid-1990s). The aim of the group is to kill Jews and install an Islamic regime in Jordan. Abdallah recounts one instance where Zarqawi vetoed a proposal to share charity funds collected in Germany with al-Qaeda. According to Abdallah, Al Zarqawi's organization had also “competed” with al-Qaeda for new recruits. Details of the trial are passed on to US intelligence. Nonetheless, Bush will claim in a televised speech on October 7, 2002 (see October 7, 2002) that a “very senior al-Qaeda leader ... received medical treatment in Baghdad this year,” a reference to Al Zarqawi. And Colin Powell will similarly state on February 5, 2003 (see 10:30 a.m. February 5, 2003) that “Iraq is harboring the network of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda lieutenants.” Both statements are made even though “US intelligence already had concluded that Zarqawi was not an al-Qaeda member ....”

[BrklynLiberal]

19. We can probably thank Dim Son for pushing them into each other's arms.

[cyberpj]

12. If he gets Bin Laden then what will he have to frighten us with?

There will be no truly scary name to attach to CIA bulletins and "chatter" about the next attack on US.

[mwb970]

15. That's what I was going to say.

There is no "failure" to capture bin Laden. Bush needs him out there so he can be used as a bogeyman to scare the sheeple.

My disgust for this putrid "man" is growing to almost unmanageable proportions. What a horrible, horrible president he is. Imagine! Our president attacks us every single day. Even OBL couldn't manage that.

Impeachment is way, WAY too good for this POS. I think "extraordinary rendition" is called for. Can I help? Please?

[jpak]

13. Let's not forget that the Anthrax Terrorist(s) is/are still at large

When's the last time ChimpCo mentioned that little piece of history??????

[bvar22]

14. The 2nd largest terrorist attack on USA soil!

America's capital was attacked with WMD (bioweapons) shortly after 9-11, and nobody (almost) remembers.

During the campaign 2004, the republicans stated that gwbush* was successful because the USA hadn't been hit again. I like to remind them about the Anthrax attack. So many don't remember.

The 2nd largest terrorist attack on US soil also happened on bush*s watch, and the terrorists are still free!!!

[Az_lefty]

16. George Bush failed. nuff said.

[Stephanie]

24. Well yes. But this one is outrageous.

Bush swaggers around with socks in his flight suit pretending he's winning the war on terror. Meanwhile the one thing we all, pacifists and war supporters alike, can agree on is that bin Laden is a murderer who must be captured or killed. And that is the one thing George Bush has not done. And he should resign in shame because of it. I can't believe I'm still hearing threats from bin Laden.

[killbotfactory]

20. Osama who? Saddam was the real mastermind!

OBL is just a virtual computer generated image made by Saddam Hussien and his sons by linking up a bunch of playstation 2's and creating video's with them.

[ComerPerro]

22. I knew it

[Octafish]

21. Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?

Bush is a TRAITOR. The crazy moron and Osama were in bed in business from waaaay back. Ask James R Bath about it. Then there're the warnings Bush got about using airplanes as missiles in July 2001.

Editor's note: In light of last week's horrific events and the Bush administration's reaction to them, we are reprising the following from the last column Jim Hatfield wrote for Online Journal prior to his tragic death on July 18:

Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?

By James Hatfield

July 3, 2001—There may be fireworks in Genoa, Italy, this month, too.

A plot by Saudi master terrorist, Osama bin Laden, to assassinate Dubya during the July 20 economic summit of world leaders, was uncovered after dozens of suspected Islamic militants linked to bin Laden's international terror network were arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, and Milan, Italy, in April.

German intelligence services have stated that bin Laden is covertly financing neo-Nazi skinhead groups throughout Europe to launch another terrorist attack at a high-profile American target—his first since the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen last October.

According to counter-terrorism experts quoted in Germany's largest newspaper, the attack on Dubya might be a James Bond-like aerial strike in the form of remote-controlled airplanes packed with plastic explosives.

Why would Osama bi Laden want to kill, Dubya, his former business partner?

I knew that bombshell would whip your heads around. So here's the straight scoop, folks.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Hatfield-R-091901/hatfield-r-091901.html

[Stephanie]

23. They've certainly made a name for each other

Dumby would be just another failed one-term Bush presidency, and bin Laden would be just another radical nutjob on the loose, but they managed to find each other.

[Disturbed]

26. Dead or Alive.

"pacifists and war supporters alike, can agree on is that bin Laden is a murderer who must be captured or killed."

Wrong!

It is inceredible to me that a Pres. of the U.S. would put out a reward of death on someone that has not been found guilty of what he has been accused of. There is zero hard evidence that Usama was behind the 911 Attacks. Usama has denied several times that he was not involved. Colon Bowel was supposed to supply the evidence and has never done so. I am not saying that he was not involved or that he was. Even if he had said that he was involved is not evidence that he was either. Merely saying someone did something is not evidence.

[Stephanie]

27. Okay, so you don't agree

I'm pretty convinced that it was al Queda & bin Laden who bombed those buildings. And I'm also convinced that Bush LIHOP. But I should not have stated that everyone can agree, which of course will never happen!

[Spinoza]

28. Uhhh, hows that again?

>There is zero hard evidence that Usama was behind the 911 Attacks<

Sheesh, just because we despise our great Pres, we don't have to talk like we lost 50 IQ points, do we?

[Deja Q]

29. Don't forget 02/13/02 - Bush says he's no longer interested in OBL:

"I'll repeat what I said: I truly am not that concerned about him."
George W. Bush, March 13, 2002

[Stephanie]

30. Thanks!

How could I forget that - Bush admits he does not give a damn about the welfare of Americans under terrorist threat. Just simply does not care.

[Disturbed]

31. SHOW ME THE EVIDENCE.

Shortly after the 911 Attack the Bush Junta placed a bounty on Usama bin Laden. On exactly what evidence did they show that he was guilty of that?

[libodem]

32. I think they just turned Prince Bandar loose in the country

and he rallied those 15 out of 19 Saudis to do their dirty work and the had their families and accomplices flown out of the country while the air space was closed to everyone else. I even think Osama, might, be a ruse. I think that's why they are trying to scare us again. All this mysterious intelligence. i wonder who they are torturing to get it? I bet that's why they can't be clear where the chatter about the connection is coming from.

[moondust]

33. He was the corporate candidate from day 1.

The public cannot be allowed to believe that elite corporations made a serious error in judgment, a disastrous choice. After all, they got big and powerful because of their superior judgment and sound choices, right?

[ConsAreLiars]

34. They are dancing partners (illustrated)

[The_Casual_Observer]

35. What else would you expect from chimp? Success?????

Oh please.