WH: bin Laden Capture "A Success That Hasn't Occured Yet"

[Mark E. Smith]

TPM Muckraker.com
December 29, 2006

Five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden is still at large -- but
that's not a failure of White House policy, says Frances Fragos Townsend. As
she explained to CNN's White House correspondent Ed Henry last night:

Henry: You know, going back to September 2001, the
president said, dead or alive, we're going to get him. Still
don't have him. I know you are saying there's successes in the
war on terror, and there have been. That's a failure.

Townsend: Well, I'm not sure -- it's a success that hasn't
occured yet. I don't know that I view that as a failure.

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Now there's a new and exciting definition of success. I'm an American League
batting champion, you know. Just hasn't occured yet.

[demnan]

1. That's Bushit

n/t

[CJCRANE]

2. It's a Failure that has occurred

every day for the last five years.

[dave_p]

3. Awesome!

All our successes are there, they just haven't happened yet. Maybe these a-holes will eventually be raptured after all into some imaginary parallel universe where they won't impinge on intelligent life.

[calimary]

23. That's a worthwhile wish for 2007 for those assholes. And Welcome to DU!

Glad you're here!

[pokercat999]

34. I beat Tiger Woods in the Masters by a record setting

40 strokes with 6, count em 6 holes in one.....just hasn't happened yet. But it will oh yes indeedy it will. Just like their success in capturing Bin L....in their dreams.

Unbelievable just unbelievable!!!

[Cha]

47. Hey, maybe the bushits have

osama on ice just waiting for the right time to thaw him out. It wouldn't be now with Ford in the Rotunda and sadam freshly hanged.

OTH, maybe they're just blowin' smoke outta their collective ass.

[Mark E. Smith]

50. I doubt it.

They'd have dragged him out for public display a long time ago. They'd
probably parade him through the streets of Washington DC given the
chance.

[tridim]

4. Orwell is probably jealous..

"Failure is success" was just too insane to even be considered for his work of fiction, yet in Bush-reality it's the norm. How could he have known?

[buff2]

5. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now THAT is real typical bu$h logic! :rofl:

[Rob H.]

6. How far has the bar been lowered by now?

I'm thinkin' probably somewhere down near the Earth's core or something.

[Tin Man]

12. lol - good one!

...it's funny because it's true. I guess one day, Osama will keel-over from old age - and BushCo will claim they've won a huge victory in the GWOT.

[Tin Man]

7. Whee! I'm king of the world!

...it's only a matter of time - I just know it.

[kamtsa]

8. Brilliant!

[Tin Man]

9. FWIW, here's a pic of Homeland Security Advisor FrancesTownsend

[wryter2000]

14. Separated at birth?

[Mark E. Smith]

16. Perhaps even more frightening ..

[Tin Man]

17. lmao!

:rofl:

[wryter2000]

36. That needs a spew alert

Okay, are you going to come over here and clean my keyboard? :rofl:

[Mark E. Smith]

44. Sorry.

[calimary]

24. Oopsie! I see michael chertoff isn't the only one with a receding hairline!

:D

You suppose THAT is a "success" that hasn't happened yet?

:rofl:

[wryter2000]

10. That's why I still have my day job

My writing career is a success that hasn't happened yet. I feel so much better now.

[Generic Brad]

11. Bush is a successful and great president. It just hasn't happened yet! n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

13. I would call that a failure

I'd also go as far as to say that Afghanistan has become yet another failure.

[VegasWolf]

15. Bush's entire life is a "success" that hasn't occurred yet!!! nt

[Monomorphic]

18. Yes I saw that on CNN too...

i laughed for a good 15 minutes. Blah ha ha

[Supersedeas]

19. the filth that comes out of a Repigs mouth should not surprise anyone

[Strelnikov_]

20. "Well, Loindelrio, Why Don't You Have The TPS Reports Completed"

"Well, it's a success that hasn't occured yet."

Love it.

[valerief]

21. As stupid as "unrealized potential" --nt

[Gidney N Cloyd]

22. and "A Stranger's Just A Friend You Haven't Met"

[trogdor]

25. And I'm an Academy Award winning actor.

...and a Nobel laureate in physics, but it hasn't happened yet.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

26. Bush in his majestic greatness has even conquered time travel

and has already been to the future where he has captured Bin Laden. Other examples of Bush's divinity as a being from beyond this world who has special powers that allow him to move backward and forward through time:


“I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.”
~ George W. Bush

“I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for my predecessors as well.”
~ George W. Bush
Washington, D.C., 2001-01-29

“One year ago today, the time for excuse-making has come to an end.”
~ George W. Bush
Source: Federal News Service, Remarks by President George W. Bush on Anniversary of No Child Left Behind Act, Washington, D.C., 2003-01-08

“Today’s struggle against terrorism will require the sacrifice of our forefathers, but it is a sacrifice I can promise you we’ll make. It’s a sacrifice for the good of America, for the good of France, for the good of freedom around the world.”
~ George W. Bush
at Ste Mère Eglise, near Utah beach.

[underpants]

27. I just watched "The Smartest Guys in the Room" last weekend

and this sounds like Skillings mark-tomarket accounting. She is already counting it as a success.

[hatrack]

28. Beyond parody, beyond satire, and way the hell beyond reality

:puke:

[flamin lib]

29. Orwell would be proud.

President Bush said that the war in Iraq was “succeeding more slowly than I expected.” It succeeded in killing another 100 soldiers this month while he met with advisors in Crawford. Funny, that. Three and a half years into the occupation, the ISG report and George suddenly asks for advice. Where the hell were those advisors the last three years? Ah! Not advising him to do what he will do anyway. Never mind . . .

Ms. Frances Fragos Townsend, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, has taken success in the war on terror to new heights. In an interview on CNN Dec. 28 with White House correspondent Ed Henry the following exchange was had:

Ed Henry: You know, going back to September 2001, the president said, dead or alive, we're going to get him. Still don’t have him. I know you are saying there's successes in the war on terror, and there have been. That's a failure.

Townsend: Well, I'm not sure -- it's a success that hasn't occurred yet. I don't know that I view that as a failure.

Paraphrasing Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, “That’s a definition of <success> that I have not been previously made aware of,” (Ford Prefect had just told Arthur Dent they were in the hold of a Vogon Destructor Ship and were perfectly <safe> ) or perhaps this is an example of George Orwell’s Newspeak: War is Peace, Truth is Lie, and Failure is Success.

Sometimes the absurdity of it all just makes me weep.

[Beetwasher]

30. Hey, That Means It's Only A Matter of Time Until I Win a Nobel Prize!!!!

I mean, it's just a success that hasn't occurred yet, right? Cool!! Then I'll get to work on my Oscar!

[tanyev]

31. So's my multi-million dollar winning lottery ticket!!!

:bounce::bounce:

[VegasWolf]

32. Bush is a "moran" surrounded by idiots! nt

[superconnected]

33. And repukes will be dumb enough to celebrate.

[superconnected]

35. OMG! It just hit me. They probably told that to the pretzledunce

and he believed them.

Sorta like them telling him pluto got destroyed by a deathstar, instead of trying to explain why it's no longer deemed as a planet, in that joke that refects the truth

[smb]

37. My Lottery Win Is A Success That Hasn't Occurred Yet

Unfortunately, those America-hating liberal secular progressives refuse to accept this in lieu of cash right now. :eyes:

Geez, are Bush flacks born stupid, or do they go to a special stupid class? :crazy:

[WindRavenX]

38. just when you think things can't get any more Orwelian...

...Good god.

[Quantess]

39. What's YOUR success that hasn't occured yet?

For me, it's losing 20 lbs and writing a #1 bestseller!
And I haven't even started going to the gym, or begun writing a book. But I feel successful already!

[Rex]

40. Stupid people should never be put in charge of

anything that has to do with politics! I ask you, when was the last time we had such stupid little people running our government?

[4nic8em]

41. Maybe all

this bullshit is one of those "unknown knowns" or "known unknowns". Take your pick.

[YankeyMCC]

42. Ok now I get it

This administration's goal is to stimulate the economy via the comedy industry...in fact they're doing all the comedy writing for free.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

43. Sky Chimp and the World of Tomorrow

There are no failures when one lives in tomorrow land. In tomorrow land, success is always just around the corner.

[tomg]

45. Well, there are two ways we can look at this

It's either:

A) one more example of America's "can do" spirit, the kind that got us through the Depression and World War II, put a man on the moon and built the interstate highway system

Or

B) complete psychosis.

I'm going with B.

[alcibiades_mystery]

46. It's like Enron booking future contract profits now

Same twisted logic.

[Seabiscuit]

48. And Bush is winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Just hasn't occurred yet.

[Seabiscuit]

49. And Bush's approval ratings are at all-time highs. Just hasn't occurred yet.

[Imagevision]

51. Bush breaks up CIA group searching for OBL 5 months ago, duh!

[ckramer]

52. my 13'' long finger is "A Success That Hasn't Occured Yet"

LOL