Bush says bin Laden means to hurt Americans

[sabra]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1540717

Bush says bin Laden means to hurt Americans
Reuters

Jan 25, 2006 — FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Wednesday he takes the threats from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden seriously.

"I understand there are some in America who say 'well this can't be true, there aren't still people willing to attack.' All I would ask them to do is listen to the words of Osama bin Laden and take him seriously," Bush said at the National Security Agency.

"When he says he's going to hurt the American people again or try to, he means it. I take it seriously and the people of NSA take it seriously and most of the American people take it seriously as well," he added.

...

The terrorists will do everything they can to strike us. I am going to continue to do everything I can within my legal authority to stop them," Bush said.

[lindisfarne]

1. Bush should know; he also "means to hurt Americans" and has. n/t

[acmejack]

In fact he is quite good at it.

* that is. Like father like son I suppose.

[classysassy]

101. OBL & Bush

yo OBL stop hurting my people,thats my job.

[AllegroRondo]

2. We have our Goldstein

These guys seem to think 1984 was a 'how to' manual. We have our eternal enemy in Bin Laden that gets dragged out every couple of months to incite fear in the masses.

[fooj]

3. Then why the fuck has he given him a FREE PASS?

Remember..."I don't think much about him..."

Rat BASTARD!

Peace.

[katty]

50. bush on the BioPolar Express,gets to flip/flop anytime and

the presstitutes tremble in fear kissing his sorry ass

[fooj]

102. BiPolar Express! LOL!! It's funny if it wasn't so damn frightening!!!

Peace.

[meegbear]

4. I don't know where bin Laden is.

I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority. - GW Bush, 3/13/02

[imax2268]

18. Hey George...what about these comments for your own mouth...?

"So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him"

And, again, I don't know where he is. I -- I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html

So now since your fucked because of the domestic spying scandle...you all of a sudden give a shit about Osama...what a stupid stupid man you are...your act isn't fooling anyone...I hope you get impeached...!

[Fire Walk With Me]

67. While simultaneously saying that he's tough on terra-ism!

Someone give me a ticket out of Bizarro World please.

[madmark]

49. bingo, the guy gets a pass for this outrageous statement and outrageous

distracting vanity project, Iraq, from the real conflict with OBL, and now he wants to point out that OBL is dangerous, as if not every motherfucker on planet earth except him didn't already know that, what a asinine incompetent POS.

[Felix Mala]

97. "Gosh, I just don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Lade

It's kind of one of those exaggerations." -- El Muledar 10/13/04

[donheld]

98. Why doesn't anyone in the media hold him to these statements?

He should really be badgered about these statements till he can't stand it.

[skypilot]

5. The old "Some people say..." nonsense!!

"I understand there are some in America who say 'well this can't be true, there aren't still people willing to attack.'

Who? Who, exactly?

[alcibiades_mystery]

47. Exactly: Nobody would say that

It's complete bullshit. Who would say that? Anyone rasing a hand?

What a douchebag.

[Ben Ceremos]

93. The people

who want to attack America are located in the White House and in the Pentagon and in Virginia...Bin Laden has already been more honest and forthcoming than Bush and his lying minions. If Bin Laden were an actual threat, as in people believed him to be a threat, then noone would have rushed out to buy a copy of Rogue State by Blum.

[donkeyotay]

100. Don't know much about Osama, but I do know that we spent trillions

on the best intelligence and military in the world, and it wasn't worth a nickle on Sept. 11th. (Something about the radar being pointed the wrong way.)

Every since then, the only thing we've heard out of the man installed in Washington is "Give me more money. Give me more power. Give me more secrecy."

Why not? It's worked out so well.

[Tight_rope]

6. But wait the Chimperior was, "Just not that concerned about Osama"!

[MrBenchley]

7. So what's he doing about them? Oh, that's right--nothing.

"I understand there are some in America who say 'well this can't be true, there aren't still people willing to attack.'"
Yeah, but I suspect they're freeper trolls.....

"I am going to continue to do everything I can within my legal authority to stop them," Bush said.
Except spend money on security at ports, rail and bus stations, chemical plants and nuclear reactors. He's also going to keep kissing Saudi Arabia's ass and pretending they have nothing at all to do with terrorism..

[Vinnie From Indy]

8. Smirky's Playhouse word for today and everyday is "TERROR"

Here at Smirky's playhouse our word of the day is always either "FEAR" or "Terror"!

[Warren DeMontague]

9. We paid good money for that fake tape

so please give it a lisssen, okay? It's hard work ... coming up with this shit.

[SammyWinstonJack]

103. !

:spray:

[DemInDistress]

10. not osama but bush-laden wants to hit america again

911 wasnt enough for the scumbags now that the heat is on and fingers of guilt and exposure have opened the
lid..spygate,torturegate,plamegate, etc.. osama need only to sit back and watch the folly of the bush crime family implode,,,did they expect not to be found out for the lies and deceptions? or is this the right time for martial law...hell the gopers dont look so good for elections in nov...

[OneBlueSky]

11. what a disgusting waste of protoplasm . . . Bush, I mean . . . n/t

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[underpants]

12. Not as many as Bush has

Oh sorry I didn't mean to say that out loud.

I can't stand either of those guys.

[jimshoes]

13. You could ,...say

capture him maybe!

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[sabra]

16. sadly according to Gallup 70% believe it :-(

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2065201

[savemefromdumbya]

28. Someone needs to challenge Bush - 'hand over BIN LADEN'

Once he is 'captured' then people will be a little less frightened and less dependent on Bush.

Don't people question the incompetence of the Pentagon not finding Bin Ladin.

We need someone like a John Cleese character on an Tv ad played over and over again - "c'mon then hand him over, we know you are hiding him". Reply Bush saying wanting dead or alive and then the next time I'm not concerned where he is.

If a terrorist attack occurs people will blame Bush.

[grytpype]

15. Bin Laden sure comes in handy, doesn't he?

Every time Bush is on the ropes Bin Laden pops up and supports him. Amazing.

[txaslftist]

38. Yup. Wotta Coinky-Dink.

[young_at_heart]

17. I guess that would explain why we went after Saddam

I remember Bush saying once that there was no difference between al-Qaeda and Saddam.

[imax2268]

19. nice...

really nice how he invoked 9/11 again to justify his illegal wire tapping...

[Arkansas Granny]

20. Has he finally gotten around to reading that 8-6-01 PDB?

I thought everyone knew by now that Bin Laden wants to hurt Americans.

[pinniped]

21. Give that POS a pacifire.

Enough already.

You know the cabal's busy planning the next one because too many of us don't believe this shit.

[Bob3]

22. 1) duh 2) why invade iraq then?

Idiot son. God in heaven he talks to us like we are children.

[killbotfactory]

23. You think he really means it?

No foolin'?

Hey, why hasn't he been caught dead or alive, yet?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

24. "Everything I can within my legal authority" and more...

Up to, but not including, actually CAPTURING or KILLING bin Laden.

Because then he'd have to find a new monster in the closet to make periodic, fear-inducing audio & video tapes.

[liveoaktx]

25. Straw man- WHO SAYS "there can't be people still willing to attack"?

Anyone, Anyone? I hate these straw men that he knocks down that are based on bullshit.

[nookiemonster]

26. This shit really is a macabre comedy.

Now, all of a sudden, the smirkmeister has in interest in Bin Laden.

:silly:



edited for spelling

[mzmolly]

27. Gee, and just 6 months after 911 he said "I truly am not that concerned

about him."

Huh?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html

[pinniped]

33. That's around the time they were negotiating his recording contract.

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[mzmolly]

42. Heh

Likely the case.

[savemefromdumbya]

39. Why doesn't any Dem make this a big thing (that W is not concerned)

the links between the Bush and bin Ladins


http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,583869,00.html

[wordpix]

53. why don't Dems talk about * outsourcing job to nab OBL at Tora Bora?

[savemefromdumbya]

64. MAYBE DEMOCRATS WILL HAVE TO CAPTURE OBL THEMSELVES

well if Bush won't?

[mzmolly]

60. Kerry attempted to during the campaign -

unfortunately too little too late, me thinks?

I also called Reids office the other day with much the same info - after the dreaded "Osama tape." I said why are we ceding the issue of terrorism when 1. Bush was in office on 9/11 and 2. He said he wasn't concerned about Osama?

Yikes!

What we need is organization.

[savemefromdumbya]

63. Kerry did bring it up

and there have been various jokes about the video on TV and in cartoons but our leaders need to do something. Why didn't our 'big guns' go after Bush over Bin Ladin. There is still time

[mzmolly]

29. Oh, and if he is so determined to hurt Americans, why did we send our

resources to Iraq again? I thought this was a problem that uhm (that was bigger than one man) and as such required the entire remaking of the middle east?

[RJRoss]

30. My favorite Bushism:

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

[CJCRANE]

31. Bush says bin Laden means to hurt Americans and so does he

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -—Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

[ChrisK]

32. Thanks Captain Obvious!

Too bad when the President says he is "going to continue to do everything I can within my legal authority to stop them" he seems to think we Americans are the enemies.

[pauldp]

34. OK Mr President, which one of these Osamas are you talking about?

A thru D, the Osama we all know, or E the Heavier Osama with the short nose and large
cheekbones who confessed on that tape that you told us was authentic?


The guy on the left (from the confession video) with the short nose and big hairy upper lip
and lower cheekbones or the Osama we all know on the right with the long beak nose that
almost touches his upper lip?

This trash is still up on cnn.com and NPR as the official confession video released by the administration.
Mr Magoo could see they are two different people. When the f*ck are people going to wake up?

Un-freakin-believable.



edit:typo

[pinniped]

40. Just the fact they claimed to have found that tape in some...

house in Afghanistan is suspect.

What, did the terra dude who allegedly made the tape put its coordinates on some geocache website?

Dear fellow geocachers, Please kindly retrieve Osama confession tape at 34° 35' N 69° 12' E.

Remember how fast that fake tape disappeared off the airwaves?

It was faaaaaaast.

Note how there has reportedly been only one copy of that tape found. Was it a master tape? Are there any doubles of it, triples, anything? No other house in Afghanistan appeared to have a copy of this confession tape.

Did they allegely find it in the al-Qaeda clubhouse?

[pauldp]

43. Yep. They just happened to find it in Jalabad.

Which has a population of 200000.

EVERYTHING about that tape is suspect.

[maxrandb]

35. Translation: Be afraid America...be VERY, VERY AFRAID

that way you will continue to vote for Republicans to "lord over you".

Here in a nutshell is the Republican campaign strategy:

"America, You bunch of spineless little weasles!!! If it weren't for Bush, you'd all be dead right now!"

they really do have such high esteem for the courage and strength of the American people, don't they?

[bullimiami]

36. no shit you dumbfuck. and you are going to let it happen and exploit it

JUST LIKE LAST TIME.

[Sadie5]

37. First he doesn't care about Bin Laden

now he does. What about his remarks a few years ago when he was excited about maiming and killing in Iraq. If memory serves me correctly Bush said Bin Laden was the least of his worries.

[xxqqqzme]

41. "Our enemies are innovative

and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways
to harm our country and our people, and NEITHER DO WE." - Commander
Cuckoo Bananas, Aug. 5, 2004 (emphasis added

[sakabatou]

44. 6 years to late asshat...

BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO STRIKE IN THE U.S.

[driver8]

45. Fear! Fear! Fear! Terra! Terra! Terra!

Keep the peasants afraid for their lives so the King can do whatever he wishes.

Jeez...it only took Shrubby five fucking years to figure this out? Try reading some of the documents they hand you, numbnuts. You just might learn something the easy way!

[alcibiades_mystery]

46. Can this guy say anything that's not complete bullshit

I particularly love this desperate and transparent straw-man:

I understand there are some in America who say 'well this can't be true, there aren't still people willing to attack.'

Actually, there are probably NO Americans who would say that. None. Zero. This guy can't even use the vaguest existential quantifier and be correct. He is a congenital and despicable liar.

[CJCRANE]

54. I understand there are some in America who say

'well this can't be true, there aren't still people willing to attack.'
Well, don't worry, we won't be hearing from them again. Those folks are now in a secure facility in Eastern Europe where they'll learn to keep their purty mouths shut.

[Rex]

48. legal authority? Like warrentless wiretaps and torture chambers

in other countries? Whatever. Bush sucks ass sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad.

[tjwash]

51. Good morning. Everything that guy just said was bullshit. Thank you.

[wordpix]

52. * has already hurt America and it will take decades for us to recover, if

we ever do.

Bin Laden is a threat, yes, but * is the worst preznit ever

[NYC]

55. So, why didn't Bush smoke him out dead or alive?

Instead of not thinking about him much anymore.

Has Bush explained that?

[jpak]

56. Two words you won't hear the Chimp say: "Tora Bora"

n/t

[truthisfreedom]

57. spying on innocent American citizens without a warrant hurts freedom and

hurts Americans, mr. bush.

[President Kerry]

58. nice going.. Can you get more condescending Mr. Bush?

Don't act like terrorism, which was there before you, and will be there after you, gives you any right to chip away at the Constitution.

[DemGa]

59. No one said "well this can't be true.."

They've made arguing against lies they make up into some kind of sick art form.

[truth2power]

61. There's a childlike quality to Bush's speech..

Drives me nuts! "Hurt" Americans"? Those people jumping from the WTC were "hurt" alright.

Some sort of organic brain syndrome, I'm tellin' ya. :eyes:

[arewenotdemo]

89. It's GED-speak.

Like the "folks that knocked down these buildings".

Good Gawd.

[truth2power]

96. Yeah, "folks". That's another one.

You call your relatives, "folks". And lesse..."knocked down"...um..destroyed?"

I tell ya..it's a neurological disability. Probably from all that coke!

edit: typo

[tinfoilinfor2005]

62. bush has allowed bin laden to play this country like a fiddle

and his second inauguration is proof of that.

[hatrack]

65. Thanks for the news flash, President Shit-for-brains

We could NEVER have figured out that one without your bold leadership!!

:puke:

[LynnTheDem]

66. Yes and bush did SO WELL protecting us the first time.

Didn't he, RICHARD CLARK.

"he ran around like his hair was on fire, telling everyone who would listen al Qaeda was planning an imminent attack." said a buncha bush admin people about Richard Clark's behaviour prior to 911, the same Richard Clark bush IGNORED...the same Richard Clark bush called "a disgruntled former employee".

With bush "in charge", OF COURSE bin Laden is planning another major terrorist attack on the USA; his first was a spectacular success for his & bush's causes, and OBL is STILL FREE FIVE YEARS LATER.

bush ain't interested or concerned about OBL. And that's direct from bush himself.

[Fire Walk With Me]

68. Think this is an inside jest about the next approaching attack?

Better vote Republican in 2006 or we'll allow the bad guy to hit America again.

[WinkyDink]

69. There are "some in America" (that's otherwise known as HERE, you

treasonous MORON) who say" YOU ARE A PSYCHOPATH, and we KNOW IT!

[hadrons]

70. Bush: Bin Laden Should Be Taken Seriously

FORT MEADE, Md. - President Bush, defending the government's secret surveillance program, said Wednesday that Americans should take Osama bin Laden seriously when he says he's going to attack again.

"When he says he's going to hurt the American people again, or try to, he means it," Bush told reporters after visiting the top-secret National Security Agency where the surveillance program is based. "I take it seriously, and the people of NSA take it seriously."

It was Bush's first comment about bin Laden since the al-Qaida leader warned in a tape aired last week that his fighters are preparing new attacks in the United States. Bin Laden offered a truce, without specifying the conditions, and the White House responded that the United States would never negotiate with the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.

....

Bush urged that people "listen to the words of Osama bin Laden and take him seriously."

....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060126/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_domestic_spying

[buddysmellgood]

71. What changed his mind? Flip flopper.

[rodeodance]

72. Bush is flopping over himself. I dare the media to show that clip of him

saing that obl was not his worry.

[PATRICK]

87. HE dares

because they absolutely will not capitalize on that completely brazen gaffe. These muzzled dogs can't even whimper. Totally broken. Bush must think he can get away with anything.

A word of warning to his go-along enablers. That is the fast and sure path to power insanity. They are not helping Bush nor themselves nor anyone or anything.

[tularetom]

73. But...but....but....I remember when he said

he didn't know where bin Laden was or didn't spend that much time thinking about him. (After he told us he was gonna bring him back dead or alive). And now he says we should take him seriously. I wish he'd make up his fuckin mind.

[drfresh]

85. Someone should make a video montage of all the Bush flips/lies

Bin Laden, "A Wiretap requires a court order", "i dont think anybody thought the levees would break", "America is not about nation building"....

[movonne]

74. Then why did we let him go....and how about he doesn't think about

him anymore...

[BlueEyedSon]

75. I just don't spend that much time on him

[MatrixEscape]

76. The big, real, stunning question is:

Just how does HE know this to be a fact?

Why should we consider the word of a big-time liar to be meaningful or influenctial? Did he talk to OBL? Does he have information that is solid and we can all verify?

Bullshit, Mr. W.

[leesa]

77. The stupid Republicans will suck it up. Attention span of gnats.

5 years in jail for breaking federal wiretapping laws MoFo. Get the cuffs.

[bettyellen]

78. 4 1/2 years later, it's an idiotic farce. you stopped thinking about him..

but now it's time again?

[truthisfreedom]

79. "we are not too worried about him...He is the one who needs to be worried"

"There are only so many caves he (bin Laden) can hide in," said Bush in arrival remarks at Yeager Airport in Charleston, W.Va. The United States, he said, is winning the war on terrorism, even if the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks is still at large.

"He's the one who needs to be worried. But I want to assure you the objective is not bin Laden. We'll get bin Laden.

"We want him dead or alive ... but we are not too worried about him. ... He is the one who needs to be worried," Bush said.


from a UPI article, 1/22/2002.

http://www.upi.com/inc/view.php?StoryID=22012002-034743-1472r

so now we should be worried? take him seriously? come on, now, bushie... we know you're just trying to justify your illegal wiretaps.

[Dunvegan]

80. Tinfoil time...

...worst case weirdness...Bush knows because...well the acronym "MIHOP" comes to mind...:tinfoilhat:

I just can't totally rule out even the most fantastic possibilities anymore.

[Whoa_Nelly]

81. Really...taken seriously...since when?

What an asswipe of a puppet.

[dysfunctional press]

82. It sounds like Operation Nortwoods II is underway...

heads up, amerika.

[TomInTib]

83. So why aren't we recommending this?

I mean,really.
A perfect example of their hypocrisy.

[arcane1]

84. arcane1: Bush should NOT be taken seriously

I guess UBL is a "priority" again?

[Crunchy Frog]

86. Sounds like a threat.

"Let me git away with the domestic spying, and I won't let this guy git yah.

[PATRICK]

88. It is a Bush threat

either by foreknowledge that he will capitalize on or by the inference as was posted above.

[springhill]

90. You mean the same Bin Laden........

Who he really just doesn't think about anymore?

[harpo]

104. yeah like this one...

http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/2004/notconcerned.asx

[hangloose]

91. His words have no meaning, there cancerous and deceptive

[Mind_your_head]

92. What the h*ll does that tell you when our 'leader' says to take our

'arch-enemy' seriously?????

Who's in ca-hoots with who?

Geez - how stoopid can people be?!?!?! Apparently *very* stupid! :eyes:

[BreweryYardRat]

94. No shit. So why the hell hasn't he been caught yet?

And yes, I'm aware that's a rhetorical question. ;)

[hyphenate]

95. *ho hum*

Yeah, yeah, yeah:


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[Nathyn]

99. BE AFRAID!

BE VERRRRY AFRAAAAAID!!!!

And he'll do everything in his ILLEGAL authority too!

[SurfRidem]

105. Brilliant observation.