Bush: Stopping Bin Laden U.S. Attack Great Challenge

[Rose Siding]

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"Recently we learned that Osama bin Laden has urged the terrorist Zarqawi to form a group to conduct attacks outside Iraq, including here in the United States," Bush said at a public ceremony swearing in of Michael Chertoff as the new head of the U.S. Homeland Security Department.

"Bin Laden's message is a telling reminder that al Qaeda still hopes to attack us on our own soil. Stopping him is the greatest challenge of our day," he added.

Bush said that as the United States shifted its defenses to counter the threat from al Qaeda, "the terrorists will adapt their tactics in response."

"We're on a constant hunt for bin Laden. We're keeping the pressure on him, keeping him in hiding," he said.

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7799331

[eternalburn]

1. Gotta keep......

...stoking the fear-fire :(

[Supersedeas]

31. keep it constant, keep it pressurized, keep hiding--fear rules-I am good.

[LynnTheDem]

2. 18,000 US troops in Afghanistan; 150,000 US troops in Iraq.

Where is the priority?

[argyl]

3. If only he'd said and meant this before 911. He had been warned.

[bemildred]

4. Right, al Qaeda plans to attack Tulsa soon.

:puke:

[nolabels]

14. Could it be because they don't like their water fountains?

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.tulsa.com/gallery/gallery3.php&h=252&w=400&sz=54&tbnid=jYFLblfjreAJ:&tbnh=75&tbnw=119&start=24&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtulsa%26start%3D20%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

I know when * is vacationing in Florida I should be watching out

[bemildred]

16. "They hate our freedoms" is my guess.

That statue of a driller might do the job with someone weakminded though.

[Ironpost]

25. no not tulsa you say, I'm only 35 miles to the east

[bemildred]

28. I expect 35 miles is safe enough. Actually, I expect Tulsa is safe

enough other than the occasional fundy mass murderer and
rapist running loose in the Midwest.

I used to spend a lot of time down around Lawton, but
it has been a while now. Nice country. Nice People.
:hi:

[Ironpost]

35. Mayes County here.

[Zenlitened]

5. Yeah, George, CATCHING bin Laden was too big a challenge, too...

... you fucking asshole.

Bush let bin Laden walk away, and that is UNFORGIVABLE. :grr:

[nolabels]

21. Was that before or after he chartered them planes to take..........

the half of the Laden clan that were still living in the US back to Saudi Arabia while the rest Air flight was grounded?

Yea, we can't find him, but we can immediately broadcast he is the one responsible, misidentify eight or ten who MIGHT have been on them flights after it happens. Yet they never could figure he might do it (if he was the main wheel in it, that is) but know right after he supposedly masterminded it from some cave on the other side of the world.

I don't believe liars, but especially a * liars.

Yea, bunny-pants, we AWOLs.........we scared, maybe they find out

[driver8]

38. You are right -- he is a fucking asshole!

He talks the talk but definitely doesn't walk the walk. If he had spent more time with troops in Afghanistan instead of invading Iraq, we might have caught him by now.

I am so sick of the fucking bullshit lies I could scream.

[Bridget Burke]

6. So he's leaving DC to barnstorm the USA with his SS plans...

Great priorities. Maybe OJ can help him hunt Osama (right after OJ finds his wife's murderer).

[Occulus]

7. Fucking. PROVABLE. Liar.

Didn't he say just LAST YEAR that finding OBL wasn't a priority, that Bush* doesn't give him (OBL) much thought?

[uppityperson]

18. That's the problem now, he only wants to "stop" him, not find him.

Get him, smoke him out, catch him, find him, now just stop him. Mr.bush doesn't give Osama much thought because he doesn't have much thought. Dang me again but Mr.bush is just saying it how it is and most people don't understand that you need to simply take him at his deceiving word.

[Solly Mack]

8. yeah yeah...dead or alive..blah blah blah

he's a threat
he's not a threat
he's a threat

he's alive
he's dead
he's alive
he's dead
he's alive

he's holed up
we've got him on the run
he's holed up
we've got him on the run
he's holed up

You're being screwed by the government...but LOOK HERE!!! Another new Osama Bin Laden tape AND a sale on duct tape!!!!! ALL in ONE day!!!

Stay tuned for the Jackson-Blake-Shark-A-THON!!!!!

Wrap yourself in the flag, settle down on your comfy couch, and DON'T touch that remote!

[hatrack]

Yeah, it sure was a great challenge for you the first time around, Chimpy

So challenging that The Pet Goat overwhelmed any potential interest you might have had in taking action even when the first chickens came home to roost in the WTC North Tower, you chickenshit dumbass.

[Benhurst]

9. Bush did such a great job on 9/11, why should we worry? NT

[Roland99]

10. "greatest challenge of our day?"

I thought it was SS?

Oh wait, and I thought Bush didn't care about bin Laden? That he was marginalized?

Can he even keep up with this fast-paced volcano of lies?

[bvar22]

11. What about the terrorists who attacked Washington DC

with Anthrax (biological WMD) in October 2001.
This was the 2nd successful Terrorist attack on the USA during the bush* watch!

Have you forgotten???

Why aren't these terrorists a priority??

Why aren't these terrorists EVER mentioned in the MSM?

[Spinoza]

39. Damn right!

The anthrax attacks also killed thousands. (NOT)

[robbedvoter]

12. And to think it's Clinton's fault!

[liberal N proud]

13. Pushing fear to enable them to trounce on even more civil rights

Every time they mention bin Laden and a possible attack, it drives their intent of stripping us of even more civil liberties.

[Journeyman]

15. He's quite the hider, bin Laden be, sending faxes to Zarqawi . . .

how "on the run" can the poor man be when he's sending intercepted messages to the "Snow Ball" Zarqawi.

[adigal]

17. Hey Bush, 52 Warnings!!

What will you need this time?? 53???

[Lone_Star_Dem]

19. Sorry, you can't have it both ways.

"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

"I am truly not that concerned about him."
- G.W. Bush, responding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts,
3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)

Someone needs to run the video of him 'hunting' bin Laden in the White house again. :grr:

[dave123williams]

20. So...we're not talking about Social Security reform anymore, GEORGE?

[Blue_Tires]

22. when will bush publicly thank binladen

for releasing his little 'tape' two days before the election?

[VegasWolf]

23. I thought Boosh told us that bin Laden had been neutralized, that

he was now a person of no consequence, that hunting for him
was no longer important. I can't keep the blatant lies of
this administration straight from day to day.

[Malva Zebrina]

24. this stinks

"Keeping him in hiding"--yeah, but in spite of that wonderful Bush cowboy tactic of keeping him in hiding, and not to mention your bombastic bragging of gettin em dead or alive, he manages to trump you. You must like it that way--keeps the dread and fear in your citizens, who you seem to view as your enemy and keeps you looking like a tough cowboy-- coward.


This is nothing more than propaganda and my worst fear is that he will LIHOP or even MIHOP. Although there is no more elections for him forthcoming, saving face might be a motivation.

Anyhow, this whole Bin Laden thing should turn people against Bush for letting him get away, but that, incredibly, has not happened. He's still looking and searching and lordy lordy, he has kept him in hiding.

Almost every night at sleeptime I fantasize that some Ellsberg type has suffered acute pangs of conscience and comes forth with hard evidence to prove how this country has been lied to repeatedly by Bush, Cheney and so forth down the line.

[Toucano]

26. That's the first time he's uttered that name

in I don't know how many months!

Must be feeling the heat on the Social Security piratization issue, which has been issue #1 for the second term. Maybe something else should be issue #1?

Time for a distraction and a red alert.

[xxqqqzme]

27. is 'greatest challenge'

the same as 'hard work'?

If it is, we R truly f*cked!

[Guckert]

29. it's even harder when your not trying!!!

[54anickel]

30. Crap! Are they setting us up for a MIHOP? "It's a challenge". "It's

hard work". Yep, just so his adoring followers don't blame him for messing up when the next "attack" occurs.

[rukkyg]

32. SS is still his priority

He was just saying this because it was at the swearing in of the new head of Homeland security.

[fshrink]

33. Instruction 1.02

When in trouble on any agenda, press firmly on lever B.

[Guaranteed]

34. *GASP* Bush said the "O" word!!!!

My God, what is the world coming to??

[jdj]

36. what a load of horse, I mean pig, shit.

Recently we learned that Osama bin Laden urged Zarqawi to take a psyllium seed laxative when he got constipated after eating a cheesburger and the ex-lax didn't work.

this shit kills me.

yesterday I heard Leslie say "Please stay tuned to CNN day and night for all the latest news on terror threats."

I'm not making that up, he said day and night. They are probably searching the internet for info for porno pics of Gannon and McClellan and are trying to keep people distracted.

[ramapo]

37. Just CYA

Now that Bush doesn't have to tout his great ability to protect us in order to get reelected, he can say what a difficult problem this is so if/when the shit hits the fan, he can say "Hey I told you this was hard work. We did everything possible and thanks to me you've been safe up until now...blah blah blah".

[cosmicdot]

40. are his lips moving?

"We're on a constant hunt for bin Laden. We're keeping the pressure on him, keeping him in hiding," he said.

if OBL is even alive ... I'd go with the "keeping him in hiding" part ...

No CIA agents searching for Osama in Pakistan -- Daily Times, Pakistan

No CIA agents searching for Osama in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has not allowed CIA agents to launch operation on its soil to track down Osma Bin Laden, Al Qaeda chief, said Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, information minister. “We have not allowed any foreigners to enter into the country for searching the Al Qaeda leader. The US media reports are baseless,” Sheikh Rashid told a private television channel. He said the US media and organisations should know that Pakistan has given a free hand to its media and such things cannot be hidden from it. The minister said it is totally wrong to term the US report true and based on facts. He said the Foreign Office would contact the US through diplomatic channel in this regard.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_3-3-2005_pg10_4

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1279749

[simcha_6]

41. "Al Qaeda still hopes to attack us on our own soil?"

THANK YOU CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!

But seriously, why do we keep bringing this up. We've done nothing to change fundamentalists views on us, and we haven't killed them all, so of course they're still trying to attack us.

Still, nice of him to mention Bin Laden for once. I thought he wasn't important anymore.

(Technically, you can't change Bin Laden's or his deputies views on the U.S. I believe, and I actually don't think he matters that much, but Bush's statement does amuse me.)

[The_Casual_Observer]

42. UBL is chimp's greatest asset. Every time they feel the need to

soften up the public out comes his picture on a flag waved by *. Abortion, gays, UBL, they have quite an accumulation of bogeymen now!

[Lori Price CLG]

43. Yeah, especially when he will be looking for his next paycheck...

from his employers (the Bush regime).

Cheers,
Lori Price
www.legitgov.org

[Moderator]

44. kick to combine

[NNN0LHI]

45. Bin Laden draws rare mention from Bush

http://www.suntimes.com/output/terror/cst-nws-bin04.html

WASHINGTON -- President Bush made rare mention of Osama bin Laden on Thursday, calling efforts to block the terrorist leader's hope of attacking America again ''the greatest challenge of our day.''

Bush insisted the so-far unsuccessful hunt for the al-Qaida founder is ''keeping the pressure on.''

The White House has sought to play down the significance of bin Laden to the global anti-terror battle, since the trail has gone cold on him more than three years after the Sept. 11 attacks. As a result, Bush hardly ever utters the name of the man he once declared wanted ''dead or alive'' and repeatedly promised would be caught.

But bin Laden made headlines again this week, as intelligence officials said he has enlisted the help of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the top al-Qaida figure in Iraq, to plan new attacks inside the United States.

more

[u4ic]

46. Osama should be stopped!

God forbid he be caught. :eyes:

[durablend]

52. Republican TERRA TERRA TERRA campaign would COLLAPSE!

Can't have that, now can we?

This will be the one and ONLY mention * makes of OBL this year...don't you worry, he'll trot him out just in time for the 06 elections!

[XemaSab]

47. We're keeping the pressure on alright

I'm sure OBL's running skeered. We've got him cornered, and we're about to smoke him out of his hole. Dead or alive.

Let's get a wager going on whether OBL dies of natural causes before or after Bush leaves office in '08. I say after.... well after.

[TerdlowSmedley]

48. Six and a half feet tall and traveling with dialysis equipment.

You'd think he'd be a little easier to find, huh?

[XemaSab]

49. He's probably with Saddam's hidden WMD

n/t

[NYC Liberal]

50. It shouldn't be news when the president mentions the name

of the person responsible for the largest attack on US soil.

But in Bushland, it IS! Heil seig, Herr Boosh!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

51. So what's worse for the Chimperor...

Catching Osama or not catching him? After all that strutting and bragging about getting him dead or alive, it's a bit embarrassing for WeeCowboy that OBL is still out there. On the other hand, he really needs the big terr'ist boogeyman to keep us all scared and docile. And that makes me wonder whether OBL is being kept under house arrest by the CIA, holed up in a cheap motel in suburban D.C., eating pizza and watching soaps on the teevee, until such time as it is politically expedient to produce him.

[Fridays Child]

53. He's going to link his fake looming Social Security disaster ...

...to terrorism. Somehow, he's going to use the specter of terrorism to frighten the public into accepting his Social Security "reform."

[Rex]

54. From the horses ass - Bush is keeping OBL in hiding.

All OBL does is hunt for cold cuts in the frig at Bush's pig ranch.