Do You Remember bush* EVER Mentioning OBL/Al-Qaida before 9/11??

[leftchick]

me either. I have been thinking about this for days now, how easy it is to prove their lies about being at " battle stations"
pre-9/11!... Now here is a contest brought to your attention courtesy of James Carville on Crossfire...

CONTEST
Beat the Progress Report

Yesterday, on Hannity and Colmes, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said "the assertion that somehow the Bush administration wasn't paying attention when we came into office is just false." But, despite Rice's comments, we were unable to find a single instance where Rice, Vice President Cheney or President Bush said "al Qaeda" or "bin Laden" in public between Bush Inauguration and 9/11. (The closest thing we could dig up – despite extensive searches on Nexis and the White House website – was a routine written extension of an executive order dealing with the Taliban.) During the same period, however, we were able to identify roughly 400 times that Rice, Cheney and Bush publicly mentioned "tax relief" or "tax cut." Prove you're better than the Progress Report! Send any instance of Rice, Cheney or Bush uttering the words "al Qaeda" or "bin Laden" in public between 1/20/01 and 9/10/01 to [e-mail]. The first person to submit a successful entry (which we can verify) will receive a free copy of "Deliver Us From Evil" by Fox News Anchor Sean Hannity signed by the members of the Progress Report team.

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=6228#1

[MrBenchley]

1. How about "terrorism?"

Don't recall them mentioning that, either....

[keithyboy]

18. How about 'missile defense' and 'no nation-building?'

I'll begin my search tonight.

[soleft]

2. Only when he chucked out the Hart Rudman report and said Cheney

was to be in charge of putting together a new report.

[klook]

3. Nope

They were at "battle stations" to wage war on ordinary working Americans and on Saddam Hussein, not on OBL.

[jpak]

4. Furthermore - after OBL escaped from Tora Bora

"OBL" disappeared from the Chimp's vocabulary for nearly 2 years.

Not one mention in any SOTUS after that I believe...

So much for "smoke 'em out" etc.

[leftchick]

10. I remember that too... wasn't the new theme...

Saddam/9/11/WMD?!?

[Robbien]

5. No, but I do remember him throwing Iraq's name around before 9/11

Strange, no?

[dennis4868]

6. HECK, I DONT REMEMBER....

Bush talking about Saddam, WMD and invading Iraw during the 2000 election.

[RobertSeattle]

7. Priorities of Bush Adminisration Jan-Aug 2001

Tax Cuts for the Rich
Tax Cuts for the Rich
Tax Cuts for the Rich
Tax Cuts for the Rich
Tax Cuts for the Rich
Star Wars
Star Wars
Star Wars
Star Wars
Star Wars
Cutting Sagebrush at Ranch

[bagnana]

14. you forgot

mulling over how to eliminate stem cell research without looking like a heartless ass -- which occupied much of the last 2 months before 9/11, if I recall.

[RobertSeattle]

15. You are correct

Revised priorities:

Tax cuts for rich
Star Wars
Coming up with "politically optimal" Stem Cell research decision
Cutting sagebrush in Crawford

[Tim4319]

8. No!

I do remember him mentioning Saddam!

[MI Cherie]

9. He sent $43 million ...

... to the Taliban in May, 2001.

http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/01_columns/052201.htm

[Zero Gravitas]

11. no but

I turn down the radio when his annoying whiny voice comes on...

[chookie]

12. Lots of talk of "The First Gulf War" pre-Sept 11

Was it just me, or did anyone else think that calling "The Gulf War" (George HW Bush's leadership of a coalition against Iraq in '90-'91 because of the Iraqi invasion and attempted annexion of Kuwait) from 1999 onwards "The First Gulf War" a little weird, or perhaps even a little revealing about what was going to take place?

"The First Gulf War" terminology was used everywhere in the media and popular parlance. Long before His Chimperial Majesty's plan to attack Iraq again became public in post-Sept 11 2001.

This term was bandied about so casually that it seemed inevitable, the most natural thing in the world, for the US to make war against Iraq again.

[proud patriot]

13. I don't remember bush uttering a word about terrorism or osama

I remember staw wars missle defense ,tax cuts tax cuts tax cuts ,
drilling in ANWR , stem cell research is bad , faith based
charities should get federal money etc......

[King_Crimson]

16. I remember them antagonizing...

the Chinese by sending a spy plane too close to the Chinese mainland...sinking a Japanese fishing boat when a sub carrying several of Bush's cronies on a joyride surfaced too quickly and sunk it...but do not recall any mention of OBL!

[leftchick]

17. lordy I forgot all about that...

the last three years have been the longest and unhappiest years of my life. No wonder I suffer from selective amnesia.