Does it upset you that Bush abandoned the hunt for Osama Bin Laden?

Question

Bush decided to focus all of our resources and energy on Iraq (please remove your support, or lack there of, for this war while you think about this) instead of finding Osama Bin Laden. If you support the war on Iraq - just put that aside and realize that we could've focused on that AFTER we finished with Osama.

The FBI has removed Bin Laden from their most wanted list, and has admitted that we are no longer searching for him.

Bush has never explained this. Did I miss his acceptable explanation of why we have not held the person who Bush has claimed is accountable for this horrific crime against the American people?

Why aren't we demanding answers to this? Please tell me why you are not demanding that Bush answer for this.

nighthawk - the last I heard Osama wasn't in Afghanistan - and the taliban is taking the country back.

Don't believe everything you see on Fox News.

For the person who said it's on the back burner. You should be ashamed of yourself. My point is WHY is it on the back burner, and why are you ok with that?

And to the girl that said Bush knows what he is doing - I'm at a loss for words on that one. That's the most pathetic thing I've heard all night.

Angels Raising Hell - you are correct. It's the CIA that closed their unit that was hunting for Bin Laden. http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/washington/04intel.html&OQ=_rQ3D1&OP=28a8d755Q2FzAXQ7Cz-54Q3CU55bQ51zQ51Q5CQ5CLzQ5CQ27zQ5CHzAQ7DQ3Cpd8Sb58zQ5CHd8bXBQ7BpbPB

greg r....I agree with you 100%. I wish you had a contact on your profile. I would like to respond to some of the things you said. If you see this...there is a contact on my profile.

Thank god that there are so many other people who see this, too.

I asked this question to make a point...if Bush is telling the truth about 9/11 why didn't he "stay the course" and find Bin Laden?

advicemom - sadly, I agree with you, except that I do think there is something we can do. Everyone needs to write their Congressmen and demand an answer for this - demand an honest investigation into 9/11 (one that is not on the terms of Cheney and Bush - with their handpicked members). Go to your City Council and demand that Bush be impeached for illegally wiretapping Americans, and for lying to Congress and the American people about Iraq. It can be done, it starts with your city council...they take it to the State. A state legislature can bring about impeachment charges. You may be right, and it may be too late, but at least we can say we tried.

Answer 1

If bin Laden were captured, who would Bush be able to use as the reason we have to "stay the course" against terrorism? It is the same with marijuana, he says "it is ruining our country" so he appropriates a gazillion dollars for the phoney "war on drugs". Notice though that he hasn't declared a war on nicotine, the worlds most dangerous narcotic, nor alcohol. Bush won't catch bin Laden because w wants to keep 20,000 US troops in Afgahnistan. if bin Laden is captured, w wouldn't have a reason to keep troops there anymore.
Anyway, I did my "demanding answers" stint from Nixon when the USA was in Vietnam, and I got arrested and lost two semesters of school. So, now it is your turn. The young people today don't care, they are to wrapped up in their hiphop R&B, MP3 players, ipods and cell phones to do anything about world problems.

Answer 2

Demand all of the answers you want. I promise you and everyone else here that Bush has more information than we will ever have concerning this. You might get answers, but not the whole answer. The information the government has can not be leaked or Osama will get away. Do you really believe that the news has all of the information Bush has?

This is what the CIA told the Washington Post:
The officials told the Times that the change reflects a view that al-Qaida's hierarchy has changed, and terrorist attacks inspired by the group are now being carried out independently of bin Laden and his second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

The CIA said hunting bin Laden remains a priority, but resources needed to be directed toward other people and groups likely to initiate new attacks.

"The efforts to find Osama bin Laden are as strong as ever," said CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyck. "This is an agile agency, and the decision was made to ensure greater reach and focus."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/04/AR2006070400375.html

Answer 3

It would bother me if I was convinced Osama bin Laden was responsible.

I agree with a statement you made earlier:
"...he blames him for all the terrorist plots since then, and uses him and his organization to instill fear in us on a daily basis"

THAT bothers me. I don't want my children to live in fear.
I'm also tired of the political spin to keep the war hawks (and their agenda) in office.
THAT is the main reason Bush dropped his search for bin Laden.

The Bush administration deserves no credit for having no further attacks on American soil. PLEASE. What about previous presidents then???

If anything, Bush has bruised America's good name, made the Middle East far more unstable, and is helping terrorist organizations find recruits hell-bent on destroying the West. What's worse, Cheney and Bush's self-interests are profitting from this.

If Osama Bin Laden is really the culprit behind 911, yes, we should finish the job. Then get our troops out of Iraq and redirect our efforts on something more worthwhile.

Of course, the other problem is a combination of apathy and blind-following that plagues our nation. Some of it may be the fact that a good portion of Americans are too busy fighting to keep food on their table to really care what is happening. It's a mess and we look like sheeple to outsiders.

Just keep the lines of communication open and question everything. We can change the direction of this country of we really want to. We must keep faith.

Answer 4

Someone asked this question once before about Bin Laden and I will tell you what i said to him. The American people wanted soemone to pay for 9/1100--and we are an impatient lot. Looking for Bin Laden woudl take a lot of time and plenty of resources. There was no way we were going to get him quickly. He wasn't going to let us and he still has plenty of support.

Now, policially speaking, looking for Bin Laden does nothing for Bush politically. He can't go on TV, make speeches about how we are winning the war on terror--when we have nothing to show for it.

So what is Bush to do? He needs to point the finger at someone for 9/11 and show that he is a take charge kind of leader. So he decides to invade Iraq. Now, the press is all over this--Bush can go on TV and make his speeches and talk about how we are winning the war on terror by liberating Iraq. It worked. It helped Bush win reelection in 2004.

We aren't actively searching for Bin Laden because we can't get any intel on him to find him. He is hidden well. We know we can't get him--and he knows that, too. We are so completely committed to this war in Iraq and Afghanistan, adding anything new will tax our abilities and resources. Bin Laden knows this as well.

Quite frankly I gave up on trying to understand Bush and demand he answer for his actions. He never has and he never will. He will dodge until he skates out of office in 2008. I'm just waiting for our chance to vote a new guy in. But then, the current pool of politicians makes me cringe--NONE of them will ever be for the American people--they will tell you that, but they are all beholden to their campaign contributers and lobby friends on Capitol Hill. It's politics as usual.

Answer 5

What make you think that he ever wanted to find Bin Laden? The Bush administration has made a lot of hay claiming they are fighting terrorists. If Bin Laden were found and disposed of, what would they do for a boogy man to scare the population with and use to pass all of their un-constitutional patriot acts?

Answer 6

stop your lying i just checked the fbi's most wanted list and bin laden is no. 1 your lame propaganda is for the ignorant. your statement is false.

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted.htm
please wake up and join the real world.

Aug 16, 2006 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House denied on Wednesday that the U.S. hunt for Osama bin Laden has been downgraded after the CIA disbanded a unit set up in the 1990s to oversee the search for the al Qaeda leader.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada had cited the disbanding of the CIA unit as an example of what he called misplaced priorities in the Bush administration.

Democrats are trying to raise questions about President George W. Bush's national security policies in a bid to overturn Republican control of the U.S. Congress in November elections.

White House spokesman Tony Snow opened his daily briefing with a statement addressing Reid's charges, saying the CIA had reshaped the unit to deal with a more diffuse threat from al Qaeda.

"But the notion that the president has shut down a program designed to capture Osama bin Laden is utterly without foundation. It was a reorganization, not a reduction in effort and commitment," Snow said.

The disbanding of the CIA's bin Laden unit, code-named Alec Station, was described as a "reallocation of resources" within the CIA's Counterterrorism Center when the news broke about it in early July.

"The CIA's efforts to locate bin Laden and other senior al Qaeda figures has not been downgraded. To the contrary, it remains fully committed to locating bin Laden and his collaborators and is devoting more resources, not less, toward the effort," Snow said.

Bush had vowed to get bin Laden "dead or alive" after the September 11 attacks but as the hunt dragged on, he described bin Laden as only one part of a global terrorist organization.

The Islamic militant leader and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri, who are widely believed to be hiding in Pakistan's remote tribal region bordering Afghanistan, have issued about a dozen audio and video tapes this year.

can you tell us where your info came from ?

Answer 7

really, i think the government already knows where he is. how could they not? but how can the people ask for anything, the war protesters are called traitors, and doing anything to the government involves going through the government. the common person doesn't have a chance to change things the way they are now. i didn't want to go to iraq at all, but there we are. so hold bush accountable? how? serisously, how??

Answer 8

Hmmm....You know, last I heard, we still had troops in Afghanistan and just a couple weeks ago, I heard a general in the military talking about how they are still on the hunt for Bin Laden. That doesn't sound like the search has been abandoned. Do not believe what you hear from liberals.

Answer 9

It is rumoured that the government agreed to lessen the search for Bin Laden if Al-qaeda gave up Al-Zarqawi which they did. Theres alot with conspiracy theories that would explain this as well but I won't delve into them.

Answer 10

Not really. It was a sham to begin with, and he knows he can no longer perpetuate the charade.

He didn't give up on it, considering he ate dinner with Osama last night at the White House.