BUSHCO's Response To Shoe Bomber-'Stop Chasing Intell On Bin Laden's Location' 12/27/01-REALLY, GOP?

[kpete]

He had 'stopped chasing' intelligence on Bin Laden's location? On December 27, 2001? Really, GOP? That's what you've got?
JUAN COLE
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Bush, Rumsfeld responses to Shoe Bomber & Bin Laden Video: Bin Laden 'Not Escaping us'; 'We've Stopped Chasing'; Government 'Responding Accordingly'
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Both talked about the process of government response after a near-atrocity. Yet Bush was never attacked for having nothing really to offer other than praise for the flight attendants.

As for the then Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, his response to the airliner attack and Bin Laden's videotape was to announce that with regard to intelligence reports on Bin Laden's whereabouts, "I've stopped chasing them."

Rumsfeld helpfully explained, "We do know of certain knowledge that he is either in Afghanistan or in some other country or dead. And we know of certain knowledge that we don't know which of those happens to be the case."

He had 'stopped chasing' intelligence on Bin Laden's location? On December 27, 2001? Really, GOP? That's what you've got?

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Bush's response was to plant a live oak tree and go for a jog, and follow 'through on his promise to get a little bit of rest and relaxation on this trip down here to Crawford.' CNN reported this as a good thing. Bush also declined to comment on the Bin Laden tape, and CNN helpfully explained this silence as a wise decision not to respond to someone who 'might be dead.' (???)

more:
http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/bush-rumsfeld-responses-to-shoe-bomber.html

[jpak]

1. After the fiasco at Tora Bora - Bush did not mention OBL's name for nearly a year

the cowboy also shut up about the Old West, Dead or Alive etc., and in 2002 said he didn't care all that much about him.

[ClusterFreak]

2. Republican hypocrisy is as certain as the sun, the moon...

....the earth and stars....death and taxes....

All that stuff.

:puke:

Yes, they make me sick.

[zbdent]

3. 3/13/2002 ... Bush ...

"I truly am not that concerned about him," (Osama bin Laden)

When Kerry points this out in October 2004 during a nationally televised Presidential debate, the "liberal media" conveniently misplaces the video and audio from one of the few press conferences where Bush actually is allowed to answer non-pre-screened questions from the "media" ... and suddenly, that specific date is unviewable on the White House web site for quite some time ... that date, and only that date ...

[malaise]

4. Convenient collusion from the

so called liberal media. That's the best meme of all time - liberal media my ass.

[zbdent]

7. that is one of the biggest pieces of evidence that the "liberal media"

was covering up the shi*stain of the Bush administration ...

[Edweird]

5. Funny how this doesn't get brought up.

[sakabatou]

6. Wow, they really don't give a fuck about US's safety

Of course, we knew that for a while now.