I'd like to know what Bush** did to stop UBL before 9/11, wouldn't you?

[magellan]

This is in reference to Rice's jab at Clinton yesterday for failing to deal with bin Laden "when things were different back in the 90s."

It's common knowledge on DU that BushCo were completely dismissive of the threat bin Laden posed before 9/11, despite their insistence that they were on top of things. So here's their chance to prove us wrong.

What were they doing about UBL from January to September 2001?

What specifically did Bush** do to deal with bin Laden during his first 8 months in office?

Even though it wasn't the 90s anymore, UBL was still sitting in Afghanistan during that time. It was just as Rice describes, "with training camps there, able to carry out operations, able to use the territory of Afghanistan as a base for his operations".

One of those operations was 9/11.

So if BushCo were actively hunting bin Laden before 9/11, they knew where to look. Why haven't they ever told us anything about what they were doing to find him?

I'd really like someone in the Administration to finally explain in detail what steps they took to catch UBL over those 8 months, instead of trying to distract us with their usual lame scapegoating of Clinton. I won't hold my breath, but that's my challenge to them.

[peace frog]

1. What do you mean, "stop UBL"?

The Bush family and the bin Laden family have a decades-long, highly lucrative business relationship which Junior would never, under any circumstances (including 9/11) disrupt by capturing and imprisoning one of their own. It could never happen under Junior's watch, and never will while he is pResident, period.

[madmark]

2. Well its easy to answer: Bush didn't do a fucking thing

[magellan]

3. I know that

I pose the question only because THEY keep insisting they've been tough on terror from the start and are always deflecting attention from their inaction by blaming Clinton for failing to do away with bin Laden earlier.

I'm calling them out on it...for the benefit of any readers who still haven't figured out what liars BushCo are when it comes to who missed an opportunity to off bin Laden.

[rooboy]

4. Bush made Dick Cheney chariman of an anti-terrorism task force...

to make sure they could contain threats from Al Qaeda.

It never met once.

[magellan]

6. Yes, Cheney was too busy with his energy meetings

But that's something else they didn't do.

Come on, BushCo and Bushbots! You keep slamming Clinton for taking a shot and missing UBL. You keep telling us Bush** knew of the threat before 9/11 and was on the job. So please tell us precisely what Bush** did to hunt UBL down before 9/11. We'd love to know!

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. Energy meetings and hunting apparently

It is now known that Cheney is an avide gun freak, who goes to the range as much as possible. I get the feeling Cheney isn't as sick as he clams he is.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Shh! It's a secret and if Bush were to tell us now what they

were doing 5 years ago to catch Bin Laden, it might jeopardize some secret program he has going on. Besides, Bin Laden might have forgotten that we are looking for him, so we have to be careful not to remind him. Don't worry, Bush will declassify that information and tell us about it when he's in a big enough jam, and always remember that Bush knows what's best to keep you safe.

[magellan]

11. LOL, *thank you* for getting it!

Of course you realize that if what they did to stop UBL is a secret, we'd then have to wonder WHY. Because whatever it was, it wasn't effective. Unless THAT'S the secret.

:)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. This is part of what he did..... read at your own risk.....

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=103&row=1


Officials told to 'back off' on Saudis before September 11
by Greg Palast and David Pallister

FBI and military intelligence officials in Washington say they were prevented for political reasons from carrying out full investigations into members of the Bin Laden family in the US before the terrorist attacks of September 11.

US intelligence agencies have come under criticism for their wholesale failure to predict the catastrophe at the World Trade Centre. But some are complaining that their hands were tied.

FBI documents shown on BBC Newsnight last night and obtained by the Guardian show that they had earlier sought to investigate two of Osama bin Laden's relatives in Washington and a Muslim organisation, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), with which they were linked.

[magellan]

8. Hmm...

And here's the backup article from the Washington Post: Spreading Saudi Fundamentalism in U.S.

I appreciate you sharing this. But again, it shows Bush** enabling 9/11, not doing anything to stop it. I'm looking for what they did regarding UBL that was so much better than Clinton. I know the details must be around somewhere...(Checking under my desk)...Nope, not there either!

;)

[liberal N proud]

9. 0 - ZIP - NADA - Nothing

He needed 9/11 to happen to make his agenda possible.
There was no way the public or Congress were going to buy an attack on Iraq with out a significant event - a modern Pearle Harbor. 9/11 was that event for bu$h and his regime.

[magellan]

10. Again, I KNOW

I'm familiar with PNAC and all the rest.

Cheesh, I didn't think my original post was the least bit SUBTLE....

[liberal N proud]

12. We just can't resist throwing our comments on these posts

It is a way for us to vent

[magellan]

18. I hear ya

:)

[CJCRANE]

13. Isn't this the same Condi who said

Bush was "tired of swatting at flies" so took no action against the USS Cole bombers?

[zbdent]

15. Had a consultant in working on our network 9/11/2001, and he started

fuming.

I found out what he was freaking out about - the attacks on the towers. Well before the first tower fell, he was saying "It's Osama bin Laden! It has to be . . ."

Of course, Clinton and co. were pursuing ObL after the USS Cole attack 10/12/2000 . . . was a blurb in the local paper about how it was suspected ObL was in on that - and W (and Rush, Drudge, Hannity, etc.) were intent on finding missing "W" keys on keyboards and whose bottom was on all the sheets on the copy machines . . .

[HughBeaumont]

16. Well to be fair, the US government DID do something:

A CIA agent met with him in Dubai to see how them pesky kidneys were doing.

[sinkingfeeling]

17. Bush had successfully ignored all Clinton administration work on

'terrorism' until 9/11 happened. Bin Laden will remain a free man as long as the GOP is in power and influenced by the neo-cons. I personally believe that Bin Laden is still receiving info about Pakistan's efforts to capture him and money from our own CIA.

[EndElectoral]

19. He went on vacation!