09/17/01: Bush responds to the question "Do you want bin Laden dead?"

Guard and Reserves "Define Spirit of America"

Remarks by the President to Employees at the Pentagon

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-3.html

Q Do you want bin Laden dead?

THE PRESIDENT: I want justice. There's an old poster out west, as I recall, that said, "Wanted: Dead or Alive."

Q Do you see this being long-term? You were saying it's long-term, do you see an end, at all?

THE PRESIDENT: I think that this is a long-term battle, war. There will be battles. But this is long-term. After all, our mission is not just Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda organization. Our mission is to battle terrorism and to join with freedom loving people.

We are putting together a coalition that is a coalition dedicated to declaring to the world we will do what it takes to find the terrorists, to rout them out and to hold them accountable. And the United States is proud to lead the coalition.

Q Are you saying you want him dead or alive, sir? Can I interpret --

THE PRESIDENT: I just remember, all I'm doing is remembering when I was a kid I remember that they used to put out there in the old west, a wanted poster. It said: "Wanted, Dead or Alive." All I want and America wants him brought to justice. That's what we want.

to keep Bin Laden out there as the boogey man. Zarqawi (sp?) is the other. Why would they want to catch him? It would be a victory in the short term but a blow to their agenda in the long term....

"all I'm doing is remembering when I was a kid I remember that they used to put out there in the old west, a wanted poster"

Yeah, I'm sure you remember all those wanted posters from when you were a kid, out there in the old west.

:evilgrin:

:toast:

relatively easy to bear..What stings is justice"..

"I want him dead, no wait that might piss some folks off, I want him dear or alive *snicker* fool me once, thinking of them night moves, hehehehe."

me and Wyatt 'n' Billy The Kid was russlin' pigs - Ah mean brandin' hosses (shudder) -- jes' a ropin' and a ridin' . . . an' clearin' brush . . .



He must mean when he watched it on TV - that IS hard work, ya know . . .

That ought to scare the Bush Shit out of George.