Osama is still alive and taunting the USA 6 years later, does bush want him captured?

Answer 1

No, and I can't quite figure out why bush doesn't want to bring OBL to justice...I'm beginning to think bush and GOP needs him alive for their fear based electioneering.

Answer 2

I doubt it. Both have a symbiotic relationship--each can use the other as a rallying point. As another person pointed out, the Bushes and the bin Ladens (a Saudi family, I might add) are very close. Osama bin Laden is apparently the grey sheep of the family.

According to "Fahrenheit 9/11," members of the bin Laden family in the U.S. were whisked out of the country after 9/11/01 when nobody else was flying. And in spite of Bush's tough talk to get Osama bin Laden "dead or alive," Osama bin Forgotten.

Had Bush REALLY wanted him captured, he would have finished the job in Afghanistan before shifting resources to Iraq, a country that was NOT a threat to us. Yeah, Saddam Hussein was a vicious human, and I'm not sorry he's dead. But the WMDs existed solely in the imaginations of the Bushies and probably Hussein himself.

And I'm not sure that person in the videotape is Osama. If he is, indeed, dead, you better believe that his followers will keep it under wraps. And even if the White House gets this information, they will NOT release it do us.

Answer 3

Bush and his so called intelligence couldn't catch a cold. As much as Osama is a no good piece of *(@%^)(!!!#%! he is smarter than Bush and his army. I think Osama is dead, in the last video you can tell it was not him, that guy had surgery done, Osama has planned this before he died and I'll bet he left orders for the years to come. If I were Bush I would have bombed the heck out of the country for a few months non stop then sent the soldiers in. We all have to remember the innocent people who died for no reason in the 9/11 and we also have to remember who we are dealing with I would take no prisoners.

Answer 4

Al qaeda is finished..I know that the talking heads on TV won't admit that.. but their effectiveness has been reduced to about zero. It's like pursuing the CEO of a company that no longer exists. Why waste time and manpower tracking one extremist in a cave somewhere when there are other fully functional groups that need to be dismantled. And don't argue that the war in Iraq has diminished our ability to catch him... Two hundred thousand groundpounders in Iraq are not the guys that were tasked with catching him in the first place. Either way.. this policy is better than dispatching FBI agents and firing cruise missiles into sand dunes. This administration.. no matter how flawed (and they are) have accomplished more against organized terror that any other government entity in the last thirty odd years.

Answer 5

No, as he has stated it is not a priority.

These Bush-apologists above are arguing that Bin Laden is no longer a tactical/strategic threat. They are patently wrong, but let's accept their premise at face value for the sake of argument.

Yet we hear, constantly, from these same people, that (fill in the blank) gives "aid and comfort" to our enemy or (fill in teh blank) will hurt American prestige.

So it doesn't hurt American prestige or "embolden our enemy" (Bush's phrase) to have the man who planned 9/11 and the fulcrum and spiritual leader of the whole Islamic Jihad still alive and taunting us?? Not to mention the concept of justice for the 9/11 families?

How many gyrations are you cons willing to go through to pretend Bush is halfway competent?

Answer 6

The simple answer, "NO".

If he did, surely the Yanks would have him by now. I mean, they are the greatttttttttttttttest bestest-westest nation is the whole wide universe, with a top of the range fighting machine called the "US Armed Forces"!! Haven't they?

Bin Lala was trained by the CIA, what do you think the chances of catching him are? Added to that the fact that the Bush ape's good friends, the Paks, are helping to hide him so Bin Lala has inside knowledge of where the Yanks are and when they are getting too close to him!

Take your pick of the bigger enemy to human society, the muslims or the yanks!!!

Answer 7

Bush said that capturing bin Laden was "no longer a priority". Not only that, but very shortly after the 9/11 attacks took place, bin Laden was all but forgotten about and the focus was suddenly on Saddam Hussein and his nonexistent WMDs. In fact, within 5 hours after the attacks, Rumsfeld ordered his staff members to dig up as much "evidence" as possible linking the attacks to Iraq. It's obvious that Bush & Co. wanted to go to Iraq all along and that they saw the attacks as their golden opportunity to do so. Never mind the fact that the mastermind behind the deaths of 3,000 people will never be brought to justice!

Answer 8

No, Bush wants him to remain at large. He wants to retain an enemy against which he can rally the american people, so that they will be too busy thinking about Osama Bin Laden to think about the real issues. He wants to paint Osama Bin Laden's face on evil, so that his own can be painted on good while in the meantime he undermines the very freedoms he claims to uphold. Osama Bin Laden is in a very real sense a real-life Goldstein.

Answer 9

Under Bush, bin Laden was able to skate out of Tora Bora. But bin Laden gave Bush the cover he needed for the PNAC-4-Iraq plan to begin. That is what Cheney and Rumy wanted.

"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."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

Answer 10

The Bush and Bin Laden families have been friends and business partners for decades. In fact it was Bin Laden money that bailed Dubya out of at least one of his many failed business ventures. Why would he want to end the gravy train by upsetting long time friends and business partners?

Answer 11

Our tax dollars are buying Osama his Just For Men beard coloring...Bush's barber did a nice job on Osama :)