Day After Kerry Puts Bush on Notice - Bush Claims to be Looking for Osama

[kerrygoddess]

One Day After Kerry Puts the Bush Admin on Notice - Bush Claims to Still be Looking for Bin Laden
July 8th, 2006 @ 12:34 am

On Thursday, John Kerry sent a letter to John Negroponte putting the Bush administration on notice that the CIA Unit “responsible for hunting down Osama bin Laden,” should be reopened immediately. The NY Times reported Monday that “he unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned within the C.I.A. Counterterrorist Center.”

During Friday’s traveling Bush road show in Chicago, when questioned about the CIA Unit, Bush claimed that the report that the CIA bin Laden unit was closed is ‘incorrect.’

From the Bush press conference transcript:

QUESTION: But the question I have — the question I have is, it appears that the CIA has disbanded the unit that was hunting him down. Is it no longer important to track him down?

THE PRESIDENT: It’s just an incorrect story. I mean, we got a — we got a lot of assets looking for Osama bin Laden. So whatever you want to read in that story, it’s just not true, period.

Q — you’re still after him —

THE PRESIDENT: Absolutely. No ands, ifs, or buts. And in my judgment, it’s just a matter of time, unless we stop looking. And we’re not going to stop looking so long as I’m the President — not only for Osama bin Laden, but anybody else who plots and plans attacks against the United States of America. We’re going to stay on the offense, so long as I’m your President.

It appears we have another flip-flop from the Bush administration… Bush is looking for Osama, Bush isn’t looking for Osama… Bush is looking for Osama.

Bush done dropped the ball looking for Osama when he let him slip away in Tora Bora.

John Kerry has nailed Bush on that colossal failure more than a few times including in an interview with Don Imus back in December.

Osama bin gone so long now… and Bush was nailed again - asleep at the wheel - for slipping on the search.

LINKS - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=3545

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Yeah, right....

If that's the case then why were that Schuer (sp) guy and Tyler what's-his-name on MSNBC last week bemoaning the fact that the unit had been disbanded? Have I mentioned lately how much I hate **?

[MADem]

2. WTF is WRONG with reporters????? Are they fucking stooges, or what?

How tough is it to ask THIS follow-up?

Q. So, Mister President, you are stating that ALEC STATION has NOT been disbanded???

FORCE the bastard into a yes or a no.

[Frances]

3. I think Bush was taking questions from the public

when he made this statement. But, I think a reporter should definitely ask this question.

Can you imagine how the media would have handled this situation if Bush had been a Democratic president?

[MADem]

7. Hmmm, what kind of public? GOP public, that knows how to toss

a foam rubber softball? "Oh, Ah PRAY fer yew, Mista President, and say, y'all still are a-huntin' that Ole Samma, aincha?"

[stepnw1f]

6. Not Stupid, Just Compromised

I don't buy the stupidity for a second. Maybe the fear of losing their careers, but not stupidity.

[Deja Q]

4. 13 March 2002 - I thought Osama no longer interested him?

:shrug:

And don't forget, during the joke of a debate, Bush also said the same thing about there being no drafts "so long as I’m your President."

[jobycom]

5. My seven year old lies more convincingly

"we got a lot of assets looking for Osama bin Laden. So whatever you want to read in that story, it’s just not true, period."

Notice, he didn't exactly say that the CIA unit had been disbanded, he just said they still had a lot of assets looking for UBL. Well, the original story said that, too, it claimed that the job was folded into the CIA Counterterrorist Center. Yet, Bush said the original story was incorrect. Which part? Is the unit disbanded? If so, which part of the story is incorrect? And why doesn't the damn media ask follow up questions?

I love this line: "whatever you want to read in that story, it’s just not true, period." Okay, Mr. Bush, I guess you're saying that we should ignore the media and just listen to whatever you tell us, basically, right?

[louis-t]

8. He meant "ass-heads"

we have a lot of "ass-heads" looking for Osama. Such a moron.

[kerrygoddess]

9. LOL!

The idiot in chief.

[tirechewer]

10. This is like one of those paddle things....

where you have a little rubber ball attached by an elastic string. You hit it with the paddle and it goes up and down, up and down.

Now let's see. First he was gonna take Osama dead or alive, at whatever cost. Then when that didn't happen he announced that he couldn't care less what happened to Osama. Osama was not important anymore. Wuh. Was he not the reason for the war in Afghanistan?

This is the first I've heard that Osama is important again. I've seen several stories about the CIA unit being disbanded, and the agents who manned it redeployed. Now Bush says that didn't happen.

Just keep your eyes on the bouncing ball as he sends it up and down, smiling and lying the whole time. Next thing you know, Osama will be touring Graceland with George.:crazy: :crazy:

[Vidar]

11. Rove is quick.