did the Bush administration really desire to eliminate Bin Laden?

[brainhulk]

How come they weren't able to get it done?

 

[Fear No Evil]

You are so ignorant. Bush PLANNED 9/11. Now you are saying because Obama killed Osama that somehow its all good? The real question is why Obama would kill someone who had nothing to do with 9/11 without a trial.

 

[cubby1223]

Yogurt is good

 

[JSt0rm]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGmnz5Ow-o

No he didnt

 

[sMiLeYz]

incompetence

 

[Zebo]

Fuck no. Elimination of a man is trivial with black ops, infiltration and well placed bribes this was about elections, and increasing share of wealth for his buddies..Tora Bora should tell you that.

 

[Fear No Evil]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGmnz5Ow-o

No he didnt

So Obama wants brown people dead more than Bush did?

 

[JSt0rm]

So Obama wants brown people dead more than Bush did?

Blarg! durr. sporf.

 

[Fear No Evil]

Blarg! durr. sporf.

At least Obama had the decency to put a bullet in his head and not do anything immoral like pour a bucket of water of his head or take pictures of him naked.

 

[wuliheron]

Exactly, Bush planned 9/11, blamed Bin Laden, then killed him and put the body on ice. The only reason to produce the body now is that people have largely forgotten about Obama's promise to close Gitmo, congress extended the indefinite suspension of constitutional rights, and I think Obama just decided it would be fun to pour a little salt The Donald and see if he shrivels up like the slug he is.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Shit, you troll ATOT and now here?

 

[ProfJohn]

OP, perhaps you should look up the history of trying to find one person who doesn't want to be found and who has people helping them hide.

Look at the stories about Jews who hide in basements and attics for years during WW 2 and even the neighbors didn't know they were there.

Read up on Eric Rudolph who hide from the FBI for 5 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Robert_Rudolph

There are plenty of other examples of people hiding for years as well.


BTW what did Bush have to gain by not killing him?

 

[JD50]

No, of course they didn't want to kill Bin Laden. Also, 9/11 was a conspiracy and Obama was born in Kenya.

 

[Zebo]

OP, perhaps you should look up the history of trying to find one person who doesn't want to be found and who has people helping them hide.

Look at the stories about Jews who hide in basements and attics for years during WW 2 and even the neighbors didn't know they were there.

Read up on Eric Rudolph who hide from the FBI for 5 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Robert_Rudolph

There are plenty of other examples of people hiding for years as well.


BTW what did Bush have to gain by not killing him?

Eric price became a billionaire and many more friends of Bush. He could also leverage national security and trump Kerry.

 

[MovingTarget]

Meh. Either way, he would have found it useful. To be honest at this point it doesn't matter.

 

[IGBT]

just like your obama has willing accomplices in the media propping him up.. Bin Laden had numerous willing accomplices hiding and protecting him. They had to be culled out to expose Bin Laden resulting in vulnerability and culpability.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Wow... Y'know... at no point did the Bush admin ever stop looking for him. At no point has the intelligence community ever stopped looking for him. He hid out for 10 years.

And can we stop with this "I'm not concerned" BS? That quote is being taken so far out of context. It's really dishonest the way some of you are using it. Use it in the proper context and it means something completely different than you nutjobs use it for.

 

[ProfJohn]

Eric price became a billionaire and many more friends of Bush. He could also leverage national security and trump Kerry.

Killing Osama would have done a LOT more for him than not killing him, but go one believing what you will.

 

[HomerJS]

Perhaps if Bush made getting him a priority he would have.

 

[JSt0rm]

Wow... Y'know... at no point did the Bush admin ever stop looking for him. At no point has the intelligence community ever stopped looking for him. He hid out for 10 years.

And can we stop with this "I'm not concerned" BS? That quote is being taken so far out of context. It's really dishonest the way some of you are using it. Use it in the proper context and it means something completely different than you nutjobs use it for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tora_Bora

 

[Fear No Evil]

Perhaps if Bush made getting him a priority he would have.

Bush wasn't a racist obsessed with killing brown people.

 

[UberNeuman]

Bush wasn't a racist obsessed with killing brown people.

You should let go of anger at some point.

 

[HomerJS]

Wow... Y'know... at no point did the Bush admin ever stop looking for him. At no point has the intelligence community ever stopped looking for him. He hid out for 10 years.

And can we stop with this "I'm not concerned" BS? That quote is being taken so far out of context. It's really dishonest the way some of you are using it. Use it in the proper context and it means something completely different than you nutjobs use it for.

Nobody is suggesting they never stopped looking for him. The question is how much effort. We have no evidence Bush made it a priority, in fact Bush's own statement suggests it was not. Obama stated in 2010 hunting down Bin laden was a priority in his administration.

 

[tvarad]

Two things

a) The Iraq war was a major distraction in going after Al-Qaeda in Af-Pak. After it peaked, the U.S. could concentrate on Afghanistan.

b) The Pakistani military always knew where bin Laden was and held it as a trump card to use against the Americans to wrest as many military concessions as possible from them. The recent tensions between the U.S. and Pakistani military were probably because they figured their game was up. There is no way the guy could have found refuge so close to Islamabad without Pak military connivance.

 

[JSt0rm]

Nobody is suggesting they never stopped looking for him. The question is how much effort. We have no evidence Bush made it a priority, in fact Bush's own statement suggests it was not. Obama stated in 2010 hunting down Bin laden was a priority in his administration.

A search of the area by U.S. forces continued into January, but no sign of bin Laden or the al-Qaeda leadership emerged. Former CIA officer Gary Berntsen, who led the CIA team (consisting primarily of CIA Paramilitary Officers from Special Activities Division) in Afghanistan that was tasked with locating Osama bin Laden, claims in his 2005 book Jawbreaker that he and his team had pinpointed the location of Osama bin Laden. Also according to Berntsen, a number of al-Qaeda detainees later confirmed that bin Laden had escaped Tora Bora into Pakistan via an easterly route through snow covered mountains to the area of Parachinar, Pakistan. He also claims that bin Laden could have been captured if United States Central Command had committed the troops that Berntsen had requested. Former CIA officer Gary Schroen concurs with this view[4] and Pentagon documents are suggestive.[5]

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