Why has Bush always been more concerned about capturing Saddam Hussein instead of Osama bin Laden?

Question

After all, Osama bin Laden was the one responsible for the 9/11 attacks, not Saddam Hussein.

notadummyrat: I DO read, and I remember reading that it was Osama bin Laden, not Saddam Hussein, who was responsible for the attacks. The question is, why was more focus put on Saddam from the very beginning, even though he was in no way connected to 9/11?

wmcritter: Don't think that this is also an issue of justice, as well as of defense? After all, 3,000 people died on 9-11-01, so don't you think that Bush should have devoted more time to pursuing Osama bin Laden, not only for the purpose of protecting our country, but also for the purpose of getting justice for the many who died?

Answer 1

because he needed to be rid of saddam so he can try to control the oil but now he's having more problems than before and the fact that he had the bin laden family in his home made it worse for him do you really think someone who has kidney failure cannot be found but the president wants the oil in iraq that's why he hasnt gone for bin laden at all because if he really wanted to find bin laden he would of done so along time ago people on dialysis has to check into a hospital every week or they would die the president just doesnt want to find him because he is studying the money he can get out of the oil from iraq

Answer 2

OK, First Bush has never been more concerned about capturing Saddam than bin Laden. Second we already have Saddam.

You seem to be making the claim that the WAr on Terror is only for vengence on the 9/11 collaberators. That is a load of crap. The War On Terror is a campagain against those who would terrorize their people with rape, murder, and coruption, use WMD's against humanity, try to destroy countries and fragment economies, and force an exremist ideology on people who don't want it. This includes Saddam Hussein, Osama, the Mullahs of Iran, Kim Jong Il, Huego Chavez, among others.

Even more Iraq has not taken precedence over Afgahnistan and the hunt for bin laden. It is the American media's portryal of Iraq that makes it seem like nothing is happening in Afgahnistan. Don't think we are not trying. Osama is an expert at hiding in mountains.

Also just a few quick items to clear up:
1) Iraq was a threat to the US. Saddam routinely shot at American fighters enforceing the no fly zone in Iraq, he had a 2 million man army, this army was the 5th strongest in the world just a few years ago.
2) Iraq had a terrorist connection. Put aside those misconceptions about the War on Terror only being about al-qaeda! Saddam Hussein had trained PKK terrorists in plane takeover tactics, meet with al-qaeda officials through the 90's, and gave money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.
3) Iraq had WMD's. If you watch the news at all (Not the liberal media of CNN and CBS but the fair media like NBC ABC and MSNBC) then you would know that 3000 tons of chemical munitions were found in Iraq. Although the shell caseings in which many of the munitions were found had expired; the toxins inside had a good 15yrs of shelf life left and could have been put in new shells. Iraq also had scud missiles, a missile program to develop missiles that exceeded UN limits, and an additional 6000 tons of precursor chemicals needed to make WMDS.
4) Oil is not a motive for war. If it was then we would have seen massive maounts of Iraqi oil and then gas prices would not be high. So because Iraq is an OPEC member oil was not amotive.

5) To the person who said watch ferinheight 9/11 as a source of facts about Bush. BAD BAD BAD IDEA!!! First the creator of the movie is a far far far left liberal nutcase. Second the movie is mostly fake. IT EVEN STEALS IMAGES USED IN BLACK HAWK DOWN. Although the Bush administration did have some connections to the bin laden family, so did half of the world leaders. Bin Laden's family is a very important construction mogal in the Middle East and around the world. Of course there was a connection.

Answer 3

Think about it....
Seriously, I'll wait.....

Still can't figure it out? Ok, here it is: It's all about resources. Osama has a few thousand nut jobs and his personal fortune. Saddam had a nation of 25 million, billions in oil money, a military, and WMD. Now, if you had to decide, which one would you make a higher priority? The person that can cause damage like 9/11, or the person that could cause damage that would be infinitely worse than 9/11?

Answer 4

Because Saddam had "weapons of mass destruction", which is why we went to war there to begin with. And Osama uses Americans as his weapons. Five years ago Bush stood at ground zero and said "we will visit Osama soon." And what did he do? Flew Osama's relatives to safety. And five years later, he's still alive and still making threats against the United States. And apparently Bush could now care less. It's what we get for electing a oilman as President.

Answer 5

actually, remember when the troops were searching the hills and nooks and cranies of the middle east for that murderous man?

the truth is, we are looking for him! we tried doing it by mechanically searching, that didn't go so well. we've tried using satelites to find him, that didn't go so well. we've tried every trick we have in the book and it's still not working. hmmm, what would you do after searching as hard as you could and getting no results? change gears maybe. also, the media would get tired of reporting the same story so the public would say 'hey! why have we always been so much more concerned about saddam than bin laden?' when the truth is, it's just the same story over and over, it won't be huge news until we catch him.

Answer 6

His dad started the war (with Saddam) in his administration, and George W Bush needed to use Osama to rally the American people behind him so he could go to war with Iraq for hiding weapons of mass destruction.

Answer 7

Bush wants to make his daddy proud. Bush Sr. didn't kill Saddam when he had his chance so own Bush Jr. sees his chance to become the favorite. So he makes daddy happy and the families of thousands of soldiers cry their self's to sleep wondering when the call will come and for some it already has.

Answer 8

A: Saddam was captured over a year ago. No one is concerned about capturing him now.

B. Saddam and Osama are equally scummy. We wnated both of them.

C. Read

Answer 9

Because he's in cahoots w the Saudis, who were friends w/ and/or related to the 9/11 hijackers. He can't damage that precious oil relationship, so he went after a totally unrelated guy and hasn't looked back. He must think we're all idiots...or at least be one himself.

Answer 10

that is because the bush family is very close friends with the bin laudin family. this is fact.
watch the movie ferinheight 9/11 sometime to get some real truth about our pres.