Bush Advisor gets laughed off the stage about Osama dragging his dialysis machine from cave to cave

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-7.html

Press Briefing by White House Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend

James S. Brady Briefing Room

July 17, 2007

<snip>Q Fran, I think a lot of Americans watching this will have two very simple questions: Where is Osama bin Laden? And why, nearly six years after the President said we would get him, dead or alive, do we not have him? How has he possibly eluded our grasp?

MS. TOWNSEND: Well, there is no question that we have put extraordinary resources against finding him. If I could answer directly, with a pinpoint on a map where he was, he wouldn't be there. So the question is, does he -- it presumes, frankly, that he sits in a single place with an address, a street address and a phone number, so it should be easy for us to go and get him. I wish, Sheryl, that it were that easy. It's not.

You can assume, just based on sort of operational security behavior, that he's moving around, he doesn't make it easy, he doesn't have a lot of contact, and he is in a very remote area that is not easily accessed certainly by Americans, and frankly, by the Pakistanis, themselves.

And so the President has made perfectly clear, we will be relentless. He will be captured or killed. And it is a huge priority for us, for our intelligence and military. And we will continue until we're successful.

Q Can you talk about the extraordinary resources? What kind of resources?

MS. TOWNSEND: Military, intelligence and law enforcement resources.

Q -- operations you can share with us?

MS. TOWNSEND: No.

Q Fran, do you know if Osama bin Laden is still on a dialysis machine, is he still ill? What? I mean, could you tell us about that? I mean, because -- it might be laughable, but people are finding it hard, six years this man is sick, moving around from cave to cave, and can't be found -- with a dialysis machine?

MS. TOWNSEND: Have you ever been to the tribal areas? I suspect not.

Q No, I haven't, but I've seen some great pictures from Ken Herman as to the rough terrain over that way. (Laughter.)

MS. TOWNSEND: It's not exactly easy. If it were easy he'd be dead.

Q But it's not easy for him to travel around with medics and machinery if he's sick. I mean, is he -- do you know from your intelligence if he's still sick? What do you know about that?

MS. TOWNSEND: I'm not going to talk about that.

Thank you.

[Javaman]

1. Snif sniff?

is that bullshit?

I think OBL is in a nice retirement community somewhere in Dubai.

[monmouth]

2. Personally I think he's in Delray Beach..Been down here lately..very mid-east..eom

[tkmorris]

9. Yeah I saw him at Walmart just yesterday

Seriously though, it really isn't that "middle-eastern" here. Now, if he were Haitian, he could seriously get lost and never be found here.

[yurbud]

5. I think he's a cgi algorhythm on somebody's hard drive

[Javaman]

12. point goes to you! LOL

very good answer. :)

[CJCRANE]

3. It was bizarre (during the Afghan campaign)

to watch Osama bin Laden play his "get out of jail free" card and skedaddle over the border into Pakistan.

Luckily for him, when * said "he who harbors the terrorists is with the terrorists" it didn't apply to Pakistan (or the anthrax killer...)

[soothsayer]

7. Plus it was pakistan and the saudis who created the taliban and put 'em

in afghanistan

[TahitiNut]

4. It seems clear that Usama is on Cheney's health care.

After all, Usama is the best ally the Cheney/Bush regime can possibly have. They're sure going to be more concerned about Usama's health care than that of 48 million Americans who have none.

[Monk06]

6. "....put extraordinary resources AGAINST finding him." Quite the Freudian slip Stimpy.

[Ghost in the Machine]

8. That was the first thing that jumped out at me, too

I wonder why the M$M doesn't call the chimp a "flip flopper"?

One time he says "I'll hunt him down and kill him"

The next time he says "well, he's just not that important, I'm not concerned with him"

Now it sounds like they're saying they're hunting him again.

Which is it? Are they hunting him or not??

Fucking FLIP FLOPPER!

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Hmm I have an answer and one that Mrs Townsend

our our intel community seem aware off

You can do dialisys sans machine

The system requires lots of sterile liquids and it is slow as molases and not as effective

But hey... it works, sort off

And it is used in the developing world ALL THE TIME

I doubt OBL is dragging a machine, quite frankly.

[Rex]

11. Hmmm...sounds like Townsend is full of shit.

Like she has the control to say if she knew where OBL is, he would be dead. Earth to Ms. Delusional, you are a pawn with a pathetic little job. You care nothing about OBL, you want him to stay one of Rummy's unknowns.

[MagickMuffin]

13. The bin Laden's are members of the Bush clan, business partners for decades

Osama responsible for 9-11 (or so we are told) killing thousands of people. Osama never threatened Poppy's life.

Saddam threatened Poppy's life and we go after him, hunt him down and kill him. Saddam was never responsible for 9-11, even though Mad king Boy George told us he was.

:crazy:

Now 1/3 of americans believe the lie behind the 9-11 conspiracy perpetrated by the White House.

:crazy:

All's well in LALA LAND....

[KG]

14. more evidence the US international intelligence services work at the level of the keystone kops.