If Bush doesn't want to catch bin-Laden he should get out of the way

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Democrats are ready to provide the focus and resources to catch the mastermind and accomplices responsible for the 9-11 slaughter at New York, Foggy Bottom, and Shanksville.

Bush and the republicans are not . . .

from Think Progress: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/14/barnes-osama/

Bush Tells Barnes Capturing Bin Laden Is ‘Not A Top Priority Use of American Resources’

Weekly Standard editor Fred Barnes appeared on Fox this morning to discuss his recent meeting with President Bush in the Oval Office. The key takeaway for Barnes was that “bin Laden doesn’t fit with the administration’s strategy for combating terrorism.” Barnes said that Bush told him capturing bin Laden is “not a top priority use of American resources.”

Bush’s priorities have always been skewed. Just months after declaring he wanted bin Laden “dead or alive,” Bush said, “I truly am not that concerned about him.” Turning his attention away from bin Laden, Bush trained his focus on Iraq — a country he now admits had “nothing” to do with 9/11.

more: http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/8462.html

transcript:

HOST: Alright Fred, you and a few other journalists were in the Oval Office with the President, right? And he says catching Osama bin Laden is not job number one?

BARNES: Well, he said, look, you can send 100,000 special forces, that’s the figure he used, to the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan and hunt him down, but he just said that’s not a top priority use of American resources. His vision of a war on terror is one that involves intelligence to find out from people, to get tips, to follow them up and break up plots to kill Americans before they occur. That’s what happened recently in that case of the planes that were to be blown up by terrorists, we think coming from England, and that’s the top priority. He says, you know, getting Osama bin Laden is a low priority compared to that.

Kerry weighs in:


Kerry faults Bush's Afghanistan strategy

Thu Sep 14

"The administration's Afghanistan policy defines cut and run," Kerry said in remarks at Howard University on Thursday. "Cut and run while the Taliban-led insurgency is running amok across entire regions of the country. Cut and run while Osama bin Laden and his henchmen hide and plot in a lawless no-man's land."

"The central front in the war on terror is still in Afghanistan, but this administration treats it like a sideshow," said Kerry, adding there are seven times more troops in Iraq than Afghanistan.

"When did denying al-Qaida a terrorist stronghold in Afghanistan stop being an urgent American priority?" Kerry said. "How is it possible that we keep sending thousands of additional U.S. troops into the middle of a civil war in Iraq but we can't find any more troops to send to Afghanistan?"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060914/ap_on_go_co/kerry_afghanistan&printer=1

[Nozebro]

1. Hate to tell you, but "the Democrats" won't try to catch him either.

N/T

[bigtree]

2. hate to tell me? Don't mess with my Democrats.

Bullwinkle could do a better job than Bush and his republicans. You just have to want to catch him.