Terrorism is Useful

2001:

"I want justice," Bush said. "And there's an old poster out West… I recall, that said, 'Wanted, Dead or Alive.'" (1)

2002:

"I truly am not that concerned about him."
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"So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you." (2)

2007:

"Bin Laden and his terrorist allies have made their intentions as clear as Lenin and Hitler before them. And the question is: Will we listen? America and our coalition partners are listening. We have made our choice. We take the words of the enemy seriously." (3)

My comment:

Which is it?

It would appear that Bush only takes bin Laden seriously when its convenient. Bin Laden has become a boogie man that gets dragged out of the closet and shown to the "children" in order to frighten them into behaving "properly".

One is left with the impression that, bottom line, the official policy with regard to bin Laden is to not capture him. He's more useful to the administration if he's at large than if he's captured and brought to justice. If he were being held, he couldn't be used so effectively to scare the "children".

For seven years the Democrats have caved into every demand made by the Bush administration. He's gotten everything he's wanted with the results being that bin Laden is free and we're caught up in the Tar Baby of Iraq.

Adding insult to injury, the Presidents recent speech blames his lack of success on Democratic opposition!

I wish I could find the link to Bush making a joke about not being able to find bin Laden ... looking under his desk and smirking, "Not here!"