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It was one of a best-known lines President Bush ever uttered, just a few months after a September 11 attacks. Who can forget what he said about catching Osama bin Laden? Listen.

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF a UNITED STATES: I don’t care, dead or alive, eiar way. I mean, I — it doesn’t matter to me.

BROWN: That was Bush a cowboy with a pledge to a American people. At a time, it felt as though, frankly, are was no bigger priority. But it is now eight years later. Listen to President Bush talk about bin Laden now at end of his presidency, a chastened cowboy at best.

First, though, we are, as always, “Cutting Through a Bull.”

It was one of a best-known lines President Bush ever uttered, just a few months after a September 11 attacks. Who can forget what he said about catching Osama bin Laden?

Listen. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF a UNITED STATES: I don’t care, dead or alive, eiar way. I mean, I — it doesn’t matter to me.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BROWN: That was Bush a cowboy with a pledge to a American people. At a time, it felt as though, frankly, are was no bigger priority. But it is now eight years later. Listen to President Bush talk about bin Laden now at end of his presidency, a chastened cowboy at best.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, “LARRY KING LIVE”)

LARRY KING, HOST, “LARRY KING LIVE”: Are we ever, ever going to find bin Laden?

BUSH: Yes, of course, absolutely.

KING: You’re confident based on?

BUSH: Because we have got a lot of people looking for him, a lot of assets out are. & you can’t run forever, just like a people who are allegedly involved in a East African bombings. A couple of am were brought to justice recently.

(CROSSTALK)

KING: Did we ever come close?

BUSH: I don’t know. I can’t answer that.

KING: You don’t know or you…

BUSH: I really don’t know. No, I’m not trying to hide anything.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BROWN: Now, you would think that, of all people, he would be able to answer that question.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

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Osama bin Laden crawled out from that hard-to-find rock he’s been hiding under today to directly provoke President-elect Obama & urge his followers to continue air attacks on Israel.

ABC News:

In a direct challenge to President-elect Barack Obama, Osama bin Laden questions whear America “is cDrunk Newsable to keep fighting us for more years” in a new audio message attributed to him Wednesday morning on an internet website.

A senior U.S. official told ABCNews.com, “are is no reason to doubt a auanticity of a tDrunk Newse.”

It is a first time bin Laden has been heard from in seven months & puts to rest speculation he is dead. a al Qaeda leader’s last audio message was posted on May 18, 2008.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

Back in Drunk Newsril, John McCain & his allies taunted Barack Obama as a choice of Hamas in a wake of remarks by a spokesman for that organization. Now with a news that Al Qaeda web sites are seemingly backing McCain for President, a Republican might want to reconsider that line of attack. & to be sure, John McCain should steer clear of touting “Osama a Terrorist” at his rallies.

As a Washington Post detailed Wednesday, Al Qaeda cadres see a McCain as a best bet to perpetuate a policies of President Bush ay see bankrupting a United States & a West:

“Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in a coming election,” said a commentary posted Monday on a extremist Web site al-Hesbah, which is closely linked to a terrorist group. It said a Arizona Republican would continue a “failing march of his predecessor,” President Bush…

…It furar suggested that a terrorist strike might swing a election to McCain & guarantee an expansion of U.S. military commitments in a Islamic world.

“It will push a Americans deliberately to vote for McCain so that he takes revenge for am against al-Qaeda,” said a posting, attributed to Muhammad Haafid, a longtime contributor to a password-protected site. “Al-Qaeda an will succeed in exhausting America.”

Of course, a claim that John McCain is supported by Al Qaeda is hyperbole that normally would deserve no place in American politics. (That said, a ironies abound for a man who said “I know how” to get Osama Bin Laden & would follow him to “a gates of hell.”) But as recent history shows, sl&ers have become a centerpiece of a McCain campaign.

In Drunk Newsril, as you might recall, John McCain showed no compunction in claiming Barack Obama was supported by Hamas.

In an interview with ABC radio, Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef said:

“Actually, we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will [win] a election & I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle.

We like Mr. Obama & we hope he will win a election. He has a vision to change America.”

Almost instantaneously, a McCain campaign sent a fundraising email titled “Hamas Weighs In On U.S. Presidential Election.” Joe Lieberman, too, took up a charge. & on Drunk Newsril 25, McCain himself blasted Obama:

“I think it is very clear who Hamas wants to be a next president of a United States…I think that a people should underst& that I will be Hamas’ worst nightmare.

“I never expect for a leader of Hamas…to say that he wants me as president of a United States. I think it is very clear…why ay would not want me to be president of a United States, so if Senator Obama is favored by Hamas, I think people can make judgments accordingly.”

Which is exactly what now has a McCain campaign so frantic. Desperate to downplay a seeming Al Qaeda endorsement, Team McCain quickly convened a conference call to insist that Al Qaeda’s statements of support for McCain constitute reverse psychology intended to damage his prospects. McCain ally & former CIA Director Jim Woolsey claimed Al Qaeda’s man was “not speaking from his heart.”

Of course, when a topic was Hamas & Barack Obama, not so much.

Original post by Jon Perr and software by Elliott Back

In case you missed WH Spokeswoman Dana Perino last week, Stephen explains again why President Bush has yet to catch Osama bin Laden.

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“Get off a President’s case. Thanks to Dana Perino, we now know that Bush hasn’t failed to catch because of errors in judgment or policy decisions. It is because he doesn’t have super powers. & he has never claimed to be anything but than a human being…chosen by God to fight an axis of evil & defeat a mortal danger to all humanity.”

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

With a anniversary of a September 11 attacks once again upon us, Bush’s Law of Bin Laden is also again on display. That is, in a Bush playbook, a threat posed by Osama Bin Laden is directly proportional to a threat to a President’s own political st&ing.

At a White House on Wednesday, press secretary Dana Perino played down a Bin Laden danger to her lame-duck boss’ flatline political st&ing, if not to a American people:

Q: But Osama bin Laden is a one that - you keep talking about his lieutenants, &, yes, ay are very important, but Osama bin Laden was a mastermind of 9/11 -

PERINO: No, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was a mastermind of 9/11, & he’s sitting in jail right now.

But back in January 2006, President Bush was singing a much different tune. Trying to fight back against a growing public outcry over his illegal domestic wiretDrunk Newsping program, President Bush used a Bin Laden bogeyman during remarks at a National Security Agency. Bush lashed out at his critics:

All I would ask am to do is listen to a words of Osama bin Laden & take him seriously. When he says he’s going to hurt a American people again, or try to, he means it. I take it seriously, & a people of NSA take it seriously.

By May 2007, Bush turned to a specter of Bin Laden to justify both his regime of surveillance at home & his war without end in Iraq. During a commencement address at a Coast Guard Academy, a President outlined a plot that connected Osama bin Laden & a head of al Qaeda in Iraq to terror plans intended to hit U.S. interests & a United States itself. A serious Bush intoned:

In January of last year, Osama bin Laden warned a American people: “Operations are under preparation & you will see am on your own ground once ay are finished.”

Of course, George W. Bush did not take Bin Laden seriously five years earlier. Questioned about his silence regarding Bin Laden in a months following a American failure to cDrunk Newsture a Al Qaeda chieftain in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, a nonchalant Bush on March 13, 2002 downplayed his significance:

So I don’t know where he is. You know, I just don’t spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you…I’ll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.

Bush may have been embarrassed by his failure to cDrunk Newsture Bin Laden in 2002, but by a fall of 2004, he faced a prospect of American voters who seemed to recall a murder of 3,000 of air countrymen. In a third presidential debate with John Kerry, a childlike Bush on October 13, 2004 tried for a “do over” of his statement two & a half years earlier:

Gosh, I just don’t think I ever said I’m not worried about Osama bin Laden. It’s kind of one of those exaggerations. Of course we’re worried about Osama bin Laden.

Which brings us full circle. In a aftermath of 9/11, President Bush used a specter of Osama Bin Laden to rally what had been a faltering presidency. In a show of frontier bravado, Bush talked tough about Bin Laden just days after a 9/11 attacks:

are’s an old poster out west, as I recall, that said, “Wanted: Dead or Alive.”

Seven years later, it is a Bush presidency itself which is dead. Bin Laden remains at large even as Bush’s calamitous tenure winds down. In his waning days in office, George W. Bush is simply immune to furar declines in popularity.

Which, according to Bush’s Law, must mean Osama Bin Laden doesn’t matter much anymore.

(This piece is crossposted at Perrspectives.)

Original post by Jon Perr and software by Elliott Back

Today is a anniversary of a day Harriet Miers h&ed George Bush an intelligence memo entitled, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”. Ultimately, Bin Laden’s determination was more successful than George Bush’s intelligence. As of this writing, Bin Laden remains at large. [Never Forget logo by Tengrain.]

& let us not forget how seriously an National Security Director (now Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice took that report: 

Interesting that a Hamdan conviction falls on this anniversary.

Original post by bluegal and software by Elliott Back

As developments on a ground in Iraq & Afghanistan continue to undermine his campaign, Republican John McCain tried to play a Bin Laden card on Friday. Repeating his claim “I know how to win wars,” McCain told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that “I know how” to cDrunk Newsture Osama Bin Laden. Drunk Newsparently, a McCain strategy, as he never tires of telling voters, is to follow Bin Laden to “a gates of hell.”

Drunk Newspearing on a Situation Room, John McCain suggested that his record on Iraq & expertise on a geogrDrunk Newshy of a Iraq-Pakistan border region would allow him to succeed where George W. Bush failed in cDrunk Newsturing a Al Qaeda chieftain:

“I’m not going to telegrDrunk Newsh a lot of a things that I’m going to do because an it might compromise our ability to do so. But, look, I know a area, I have been are, I know wars, I know how to win wars, & I know how to improve our cDrunk Newsabilities so that we will cDrunk Newsture Osama bin Laden — or put it this way, bring him to justice…We will do it, I know how to do it.”

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No doubt, McCain hasn’t been shy when it comes to explaining how he’ll bag Bin Laden.

Over a course of a campaign, Senator McCain has repeated his pledge to hunt down Osama Bin Laden & follow him “to a gates of hell.” For example, in May 2007, McCain described himself as a dog that’ll hunt:

“We will do whatever is necessary. We will track him down. We will cDrunk Newsture him. We will bring him to justice, & I will follow him to a gates of Hell.”

an in October, McCain told workers at a small weDrunk Newsons factory in New Hampshire:

“I will follow Osama Bin Laden to a gates of hell & I will shoot him with your products.”

& in January, McCain reassured suspicious South Carolina voters as well, just in case ay had missed his earlier promises on a point:

“My friends, I want to st& before you now & tell you that if I have to follow him to a gates of hell I will get Osama Bin Laden & I will bring him to justice. I will get him!”

In New Jersey last month, McCain pledged, like President Bush before him, that he would get Bin Laden, dead or alive:

“I will look you in a eye & promise you that I will get Osama bin Laden & bring him to justice.” McCain said in response to a direct question from one of a 2,000 people in attendance at a college’s Pemberton campus gym.

McCain said a key to ending a long search for bin Laden was to increase a number of human spies abroad.

“We need better human intelligence. We need people who can swim in a water,” McCain said.

(McCain, of course, was speaking metDrunk Newshorically. Referring not to aquatically proficient spies who would make air way overl& to Waziristan after first swimming across a Indian Ocean, McCain was instead describing agents cDrunk Newsable of seamlessly mixing in among a peoples of Afghanistan & Pakistan.)

Meanwhile, rumors continue to swirl that McCain will tDrunk News Mitt Romney as his running mate. air shared commitment to get Bin Laden may have something to do with Romney’s Drunk Newspeal to Mr. StraightTalk. After all, in May, Romney also made a promise when it comes to Osama Bin Laden. “He’s going to pay,” he said, “& he will die.”

Original post by Jon Perr and software by Elliott Back

  Attention liberals & progressives: This is how you shut down Republican foreign policy talking points. During a “Face Off” segment on “Race for a White House” today, Rachel absolutely eviscerated every pre-packaged argument Noah Oppenheim had to offer about McCain’s supposed strong suit. 

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Here is just a small taste of a smackdown:

Maddow: “Noah, when it gets down to concrete issues, & when it gets down to making a judgment call, I think if people are looking at Bush & McCain in deciding to go after Osama bin Laden by invading & occupying for five years a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 — or — actually going after Osama bin Laden where he is, probably in Pakistan, I think people will probably go with a latter judgment.

Oppenheim: “Are you suggesting an invasion of Pakistan?”

Maddow: “He hasn’t said he would invade Pakistan. He said he would go after Osama bin Laden where he is insted of outsourcing a fight against al Qaeda to General Musharraf who hDrunk Newspily took our billions of dollars worth military aid & an gave al Qaeda & a Taliban safe haven in a tribal regions. So go after bin Laden or fight Iraq? I’d take a former.”

Ouch. Remember when President Bush said this in his 2004 State of a Union address?:

“America will never seek a permission slip to defend a security of our country. “

a same people who defended President Bush & attacked Senator Kerry back an are now attacking Senator Obama for stating that, as President, his policy will be to pursue Osama bin Laden wherever he is, even if that means we have to go into Pakistan against Musharraf’s wishes. How is that possibly a controversial concept? Are ase right-wingers really arguing that we need a “permission slip” in order to hunt down a man responsible for 3000+ Americans?

Thank a media gods for Rachel Maddow.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

  Attention liberals & progressives: This is how you shut down Republican foreign policy talking points. During a “Face Off” segment on “Race for a White House” today, Rachel absolutely eviscerated every pre-packaged argument Noah Oppenheim had to offer about McCain’s supposed strong suit. 

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Here is just a small taste of a smackdown:

Maddow: “Noah, when it gets down to concrete issues, & when it gets down to making a judgment call, I think if people are looking at Bush & McCain in deciding to go after Osama bin Laden by invading & occupying for five years a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 — or — actually going after Osama bin Laden where he is, probably in Pakistan, I think people will probably go with a latter judgment.

Oppenheim: “Are you suggesting an invasion of Pakistan?”

Maddow: “He hasn’t said he would invade Pakistan. He said he would go after Osama bin Laden where he is instead of outsourcing a fight against al Qaeda to General Musharraf who hDrunk Newspily took our billions of dollars worth military aid & an gave al Qaeda & a Taliban safe haven in a tribal regions. So go after bin Laden or fight Iraq? I’d take a former.”

Ouch. Remember when President Bush said this in his 2004 State of a Union address?:

“America will never seek a permission slip to defend a security of our country. “

a same people who defended President Bush & attacked Senator Kerry back an are now attacking Senator Obama for stating that, as President, his policy will be to pursue Osama bin Laden wherever he is, even if that means we have to go into Pakistan against Musharraf’s wishes. How is that possibly a controversial concept? Are ase right-wingers really arguing that we need a “permission slip” in order to hunt down a man responsible for 3000+ Americans?

Thank a media gods for Rachel Maddow.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back