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Al Qaeda is still active and still engaging in and still planning attacks.
W = Wrong
Al Qaeda is still active and still engaging in and still planning attacks.
Bush 'Not Concerned' About Bin Laden in '02
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So basically, it's been proven he was wrong about Al Qaeda, wrong about Iraq, wrong about the economy, wrong about stem cell research, etc....
The second one should make him impeachable.... alright, I'll say it, he lied his ass off and took the intelligence he wanted to hear.
The second one should make him impeachable.... alright, I'll say it, he lied his ass off and took the intelligence he wanted to hear.
TastesLikeChicken
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kage69
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You can imagine how I howled laughing when Bush denied this in the debate, as the quote is in my sig. How sad is that - after 9/11 we get the Dub relishing in getting the chance to sound like a famed Texas Ranger (we want OBL, dead or alive. He will be brought to justice) and a year later he's practically yawning at the mention of the man.
Even if there wasn't a mountain of other reasons why this idiot doesn't deserve to be president, this fact alone is more than enough to get me to vote against him. I am ashamed of many of countrymen and leaders for forgetting 9/11 in this fashion.
Even if there wasn't a mountain of other reasons why this idiot doesn't deserve to be president, this fact alone is more than enough to get me to vote against him. I am ashamed of many of countrymen and leaders for forgetting 9/11 in this fashion.
But didn't you know... Al Qaeda has been 75% destroyed....
Ummmm.... no. AQ is more powerful than ever, thanks to the Bush Administration foreign policy.
Yeah, Bush lied to the American people _AGAIN_ the other night during his final trouncing by Kerry. It's probably habit for him. Lie lie lie.
TastesLikeChicken
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Read what Bush said. He never said the OBL no longer matters. He said that OBL is on the run and his power has effectively been marginalized. Bush is not concerned about bin Laden because he is on the run and really can't do anything.
I for one don't think OBL is as important as most appear to think. Didn't that story come out a while back that said he didn't really fund that much of it? He didn't plan it, he didn't fund it, so he's not that important. He should be brought to justice but the obsession with him seems unwarranted. (Of course the Saddam obsession is ten times more absurd and tragic.)
TastesLikeChicken
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As long as you want to turn a blind eye to what Bush actually said, and remove context, which seems to be a standard ploy for the RBH crowd, go ahead and feel that way.
It would be just as easy to take some Kerry quotes out of context and twist them around? Would you like to see me do it?
Well, by all means. Let's let bin Laden stay on the run. Let's just forget that he masterminded the plan that killed ~3,000 people and destroyed the World Trade Center buildings and caused severe damage to the Pentagon.
Let's forget that bin Laden is the most wanted man in the world.
Let's forget he's wanted for orchestrating other terrorist attacks including one on U.S. soil in 1993 and American embassies in Africa in 1998.
kage69
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Seems to me you're the one turning a blind eye to what Bush actually said.
I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority So he doesn't care, he doesn't feel it's important, and it's not his priority. Care to try and dance around this anymore? You're just another YABA it seems. :frown:
TastesLikeChicken
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Nobody is forgetting.
I just find the whole "We haven't captured bin Laden yet!" a hollow chant. I heard the same thing from the RBH crowd about Saddam, as if it was a big deal when it was really nothing more than a juvenile-ish "Nya, na, nya, na, na". Then, when we finally caught Saddam virtually all of the RBH crowd chimed in with "It doesn't matter. Saddam's capture is meaningless. It doesn't change a thing."
Er...OK. If it wasn't important then why did they make such a big deal about it previously?
Mark my words. When OBL finally is captured, we'll hear the very same thing we heard from the RBH crowd about Saddam.
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There have been a number of audiotapes that the CIA has authenticated, however. I have no idea if he's alive or not, but it seems incongruent to me that OBL is #1 on the Ten Most Wanted list, and there is a $50M bounty on his head, yet we're being told the President isn't worried about him.
As I posted in the debate thread, the fact of the matter is, in the third debate, President Bush said he had never previously said he was not that concerned about finding OBL, when he had in fact said exactly that. I don't believe he intentionally lied, but he did state something completely false about his own words, as truth. I regard that as unseemly.
Frankly, in my view, it simply looks bad if the President of the United States:
a. Makes a rather ill-thought-out comment that he doesn't care about finding the nation's mortal enemy, Osama bin Laden, who is responsible for the largest terrorist attack in the world's history, killing 3,000+ Americans, and happens to be #1 on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List,
b. When challenged about the statement by reporters, confirms that yes, he really doesn't care about OBL,
c. In the context of a nationally-televised presidential debate, apparently doesn't remember saying these things, although footage of the statement has appeared in a wildly successful documentary; and
d. Simply denies he ever said a and b in the first place.
Oh realllllllllly.... Try again.
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
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