Comments on: Report: Bush Let bin Laden Get Away

By: PMon

PMon — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:20:02 +0000

I wonder if it’s possible (and I’ve heard this suggestion before) that, calling on their past associations with bin Laden, Bush/Cheney made a pact with bin Laden to let him and his cohort stay relatively free and safe during the Bush term in return for OBL’s pledge to not allow al Qaeda attacks on US soil (attacks on other countries notwithstanding). It’s plausible: cut a deal and leave the guy alone so as to use him as a boogey man to maintain the fear level at home (and to have Cheney now be able to disseminate the we-didn’t-get-attacked-in-8-years meme), and switch the scene to Iraq to go after OBL’s enemy Saddam and for the benefit of the Bush/Cheney contracting buddies. Boy, would I love to see some documentation about that.

By: The Mahablog » Afghanistan: Unscrewing the Pooch

The Mahablog » Afghanistan: Unscrewing the Pooch — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:34:27 +0000

[...] the case with Afghanistan. I think that whatever beneficial result might have been obtained there slipped away late in 2001 and was irretrievably lost in [...]

By: Sam Simple

Sam Simple — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:42:51 +0000

Let’s start with the indisputable fact that bin Laden is a monster of our own creation, in that Reagan and Bush I funded the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in the 1980s and bin Laden himself cut his jihadi teeth on the American nickel. Add to that the stunning fact that Bush II and Condi Rice did nothing – nada, zippo, zilch – about terrorism, despite being warned from his inauguration day forward that this would be the most important issue they were going to have to deal with. In fact, John Ashcroft was proposing to slash funding for anti-terrorism efforts the week 9-11 occurred. Then, Bush received numerous warnings from May 2001 on about an impending terrorist attack and again took no action whatsoever. Finally, as noted above, the Taliban offered to surrender bin Laden to a neutral Muslim country after the attacks and Bush refused! This pattern of gross negligence and reckless incompetence demands impeachment at the very least, if not imprisonment and execution for treason!

By: Happy Eid al-Adha

Happy Eid al-Adha — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:00:38 +0000

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve learned more about Islam in the eight years since 9/11 than in all the forty years of my life before it.

http://wonkette.com/412367/freepers-are-going-to-protest-existence-of-muslims-by-boycotting-best-buy#comments

By: Swami

Swami — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:36:10 +0000

Yeah, Felicity.. I remember well the Taliban’s offer to turn over Bin Laden providing he be tried by an Islamic court.. It was the perfect opportunity to bring Bin Laden to justice but Bush was a perfect jerk(if sincerity is a factor) and refused the opportunity. I suggested on this blog that a panel of Islamic judges representative of the entire spectrum of Islam would without doubt have condemned the terrorist attack on innocent people no matter where they lived, or who they were, and put Bin Laden to death.

If Islam, in it’s entirety, was to judge Bin Laden it would have to convict itself of the endorsement of terrorism in order to find Bin Laden innocent. Bush squandered the perfect opportunity for justice in the tragedy of 9/11. But I don’t think Bush was interested in justice.. He was interested in a holy war where he could be God’s champion and write a page of greatness for himself in history. He is a delusional asshole.. and history will judge him as such!

By: felicity

felicity — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:26:44 +0000

Remember that following an American bombing raid in Afghanistan that killed 4,000 Afghans (perhaps you didn’t know that there were Afghan men, women and children flying those planes on 9/11) Taliban leaders offered Bush to turn over Bin Laden to a neutral nation. Bush refused calling the offer “insincere.”

(Speaking of slaughtering innocent citizens of a sovereign state, do you know why we attacked Iraq in March? Because you don’t launch a new product in August – foreinstance.)

By: Conspicuous Consumption

Conspicuous Consumption — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:32:11 +0000

Off Topic: This is like something out of the Needless Markup or Hammacher Schlemmer more money than brains catalog. Call me a bleeding heart liberal, but as children are going to sleep hungry, JUST maybe if you’re planning on spending $122 on two $8 toy hamsters, stop NOW, donate that money to your local food bank or animal shelter and buy your kid something else. OMG, people are so stupid. This is what our founding fathers envisioned has become.

http://www.amazon.com/Zhu-Pets-Hamster-Pack-Squiggles/dp/B002AJ3EX4/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1259541215&sr=1-15

By: Almost Lifelike

Almost Lifelike — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:54:57 +0000

He almost seems like a poseable action doll. Of course one could argue that he did all through his eight years in office. This picture of Dubya is almost as good as his “Mission Accomplished” in a flight suit. I wonder, if only Prescott Bush had been run over by a bus as a child, how much better the world would be. At least SOMEONE is facing a little heat over the lies we were all told that got us into Iraq. In a perfect world Bush/Cheney would at some point or another face a tribunal in the Hague for the death of a few hundred thousand people who would be alive if it wasn’t for their actions, but alas, this is the real world, not the one that most reich wingers seem to live in.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/29/iraq-war-inquiry-blair/

By: justme

justme — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:02:44 +0000

Testify Sister Maha!!!!!!! This is why I Love you! There is no bullshit here….Well said on all accounts.

If all this is true we all coulda figured it , right? Catching Bin Laden was NEVER in the bushies best interest….hello , can you say end to war president and all the perks they got from it? Holy crap he needed to roll out the bin laden tapes everytime the public got even close to a question…It was never about America for these folks..it was all about how they could use the situation …sad but true…the hearings you suggest could prove me wrong

By: moonbat

moonbat — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:44:53 +0000

OBL was only needed at those times it was necessary to scare the public: to start the war, and to get re-elected. That’s it.