CNN's Towsand: 'bin Laden Capture "A Success That Hasn't Occurred Yet"

LynneSin

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CNN's Towsand: 'bin Laden Capture "A Success That Hasn't Occurred Yet"

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WH: bin Laden Capture "A Success That Hasn't Occurred Yet"

By Justin Rood - December 29, 2006, 8:25 AM
Five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden is still at large -- but that's not a failure of White House policy, says Frances Fragos Townsend. As she explained to CNN's White House correspondent Ed Henry last night:

HENRY: You know, going back to September 2001, the president said, dead or alive, we're going to get him. Still don't have him. I know you are saying there's successes on the war on terror, and there have been. That's a failure.

TOWNSEND: Well, I'm not sure -- it's a success that hasn't occurred yet. I don't know that I view that as a failure.

(Thanks to Reader RT for the tip.)

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dipsydoodle

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Tue Jan-02-07 10:10 AM
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1. that's not a failure of White House policy ?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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spanone

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Tue Jan-02-07 10:12 AM
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2. Takes 'spinning' to a new low.

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LynneSin

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Tue Jan-02-07 10:13 AM
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4. Yes, me winning the lottery is a Success that hasn't happened yet

But even still I'm gonna go out and spend the money anyways

:eyes:

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tabasco

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Tue Jan-02-07 10:12 AM
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3. Yeah, just like preventing 9-11.

Oh wait - those prospective successes only work in the future.

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rodeodance

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Tue Jan-02-07 10:14 AM
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5. gawd. what a play on words!!

HENRY: You know, going back to September 2001, the president said, dead or alive, we're going to get him. Still don't have him. I know you are saying there's successes on the war on terror, and there have been. That's a failure.

TOWNSEND: Well, I'm not sure -- it's a success that hasn't occurred yet. I don't know that I view that as a failure.

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derby378

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Tue Jan-02-07 10:21 AM
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6. Borat having "sexy time" with Pamela Anderson is a success that hasn't happened yet

High five!

:silly:

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ashling

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Tue Jan-02-07 10:25 AM
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7. I had almost gotten used to

Edited on Tue Jan-02-07 10:27 AM by ashling

the euphamism that mistakes are just an opportunity for improvement, now, failures are just successes that haven't happened yet. This administration is full of those.
:rofl:

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Fovea

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Tue Jan-02-07 10:27 AM
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8. What do you call a success that NEVER occurs?

An abject failure?
George W. Bush?

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