IMHO Bush needs bin Laden

[dajoki]

Bush: Bin Laden isolated, not leading parades
24 May 2007 18:08:13 GMT
Source: Reuters
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24369699.htm
By Tabassum Zakaria

WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who has eluded a U.S. manhunt, is plotting against the United States but has been isolated and driven into hiding, President George W. Bush said on Thursday.

"He's not out there traipsing around. He's not leading many parades," Bush told a news conference after being asked why bin Laden had not been caught. "He's not out feeding the hungry. He's isolated, trying to kill people to achieve his objective."

<<snip>>

"He is in a remote region of the world. If I knew precisely where he is, we would take the appropriate action to bring him to justice," Bush said.

"He is attempting to establish a base of operations in Iraq," he said. So far bin Laden had not succeeded in establishing a cell there and "that's why we've got to stay engaged," Bush said.

<<snip>>

In trying to make a case for sending more troops to Iraq despite the increasing unpopularity of the war among the American public, Bush insists that al Qaeda and insurgents must be defeated there or they will "follow us" to the United States.
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So bin Laden has been isolated and driven into hiding yet he is still able to establish a base in Iraq and "follow us" to the United States among other things. Well I'd like to know, which is it? Seems Bush wants it both ways, according to him he's made bin Laden no factor yet we still must be protected from him. IMHO Bush needs bin Laden out there as an excuse for everything from the war in Iraq to invading our privacy. I guess I'm saying that I don't think shrub really wants him caught, because then the boogey man won't be there to scare us anymore. Think about it, with all the manpower, intelligence, spies, etc. we have, this guy has been on the loose since Bush declared him "wanted dead or alive". Clinton came closest to getting him by accident when he lobbed those cruise missles at him. Bush could care less about all the lost lives so long as he remains dictator. In his own mind he believes he is needed to protect us and also justify all of his failed policies. He has compleyely gone off the deep end.

[rurallib]

1. Much like Holmes needed Moriarity

and Superman needed Lex Luther.
This all does have a comic book surrealism to it doesn't it?

[MasonJar]

2. Who thinks up this nonsense? We know it isn't Bush (although it

certainly suits him) because he does not think. He is surrounded by a bunch of incompetents, for sure. The best thing on that The View screaming match (saw it via DU) was the list read by the other blonde about all the reasons that W is a loser...the best one (I laughed myself blue) was that he cannot pronounce nuclear.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. You nailed it. I was thinking about that last night. There's a book out called

"If You Had Five Minutes With the President", where a bunch of celebrities 'lobby' an un-named POTUS. If I had 5 minutes with Bush, I'd ask him, "Can you explain to be how you and your ideology differs from that of Osama bin Laden?"

I think they are like two peas in a pod. Both un-veering from their ideologies; both OK with inflicting pain and death on people who did not harm them; both use 'terror' to control; both are opposed to human freedom.

[dajoki]

11. And neither are "out feeding the hungry" n/t

[alstephenson]

4. Yep, you're right on.....

We don't know where OBL is, but we know what his thoughts and actions are. WTF??? This country is in serious trouble if people believe that load of total bullshit he spewed this morning.

[dajoki]

10. You are right...

but there will always be that core group of ignoramuses that keep falling for his line of crap. But fortunately they are shrinking.

[Adsos Letter]

5. I honestly wonder if bin Laden is actually still alive...

or just being kept on propaganda "life support", to be hauled out of the closet when necessary...

[dajoki]

6. That is a good point...

I always used to think that they would "capture" him right before an election.

[Adsos Letter]

8. I think that was pretty much what a lot of people thought

before the 2004 and 2006 elections; personally, I think the guy has been dead for awhile, maybe even since Tora Bora.

[blm]

7. Bush couldn't be in office right now without Bin Ladens - all of the Bin Ladens

remember, it was Bin Ladens who worked with Poppy and bailed out Bushboy on his Harken dealings, too.

[polichick]

9. I don't think Bush ever wanted to get his ol' pal...

...which is why the troops were pulled out of Tora Bora when they had him surrounded. The Bush-Saud alliance is too important to the family. Using bin Laden as an excuse for a failed policy is just the icing on the cake!

[blm]

12. With you all the way on that.

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[dajoki]

13. And flown out of the country after 9/11 n/t