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Las Vegas Mixx Donating Member (57 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:07 AM
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Did George W. Bush avoid killing Bin Laden in order to invade Iraq?
Edited on Mon May-02-11 03:11 AM by Las Vegas Mixx
"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."

- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

Did George Bush really want to capture/kill Bin Laden? Would that action interfere with his intent to invade Iraq under false pretenses at the cost of hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars and thousands of American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives?
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Paradoxical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:08 AM
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1. I'm pretty sure he would have loved to catch OBL on his time and dime.
So no, I doubt he avoided killing him.

It would have been politically expedient to kill him and plaster photos of his body all over the news.
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:12 AM
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4. He pulled the bulk of troops out of Afghanistan to send them to Iraq.
I think he didn't care about getting Bin Laden; that he felt Bin Laden had been neutered, and that being on the loose he was useful as a boogeyman.
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Paradoxical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:17 AM
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7. Could be true. But I don't believe the conspiracy that he intentionally avoided him.
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KeepItReal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:25 AM
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10. You need to read up about a fight in a place called Tora Bora
When Bush pulled the Army Rangers out of Afghanistan I knew he wasn't serious about killing or catching Bin Laden.
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 04:50 AM
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17. Uh oh, a person paying attention
That seems to be a rare creature these days.
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robinlynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 05:10 AM
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20. They let him go. in plain sight. There was more than one accounting of the story at the time.
he left Afghanistan in front of the US military whowere ordered to block two out fo three roads to pakistan and a group of 200 vehicles went down the third road.
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quinnox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:08 AM
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2. Maybe he was even a partner in some way with
bin Laden. There is a lot of speculation out there about it.
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:11 AM
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3. The Bushes and Bin Ladens are BFF.
Plus Jr. was in a hurry to invade Iraq.
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StarsInHerHair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:13 AM
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5. I was about to say that, the Bush family is friends with Binny's family
I think he purposely did not catch/kill him. The whole point was to use 'war' as a cover to siphon hundreds of billions of dollars from the public coffers into their private bank accounts.
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:14 AM
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6. He pulled most of the troops out of Afghanistan when he was close to getting Bin Laden
and sent them to Iraq instead.

That said a lot about his priorities.
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KeepItReal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:26 AM
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11. +1
Word.
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canetoad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:23 AM
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8. Bush 'invented' Bin Laden
Or rather re-badged him.

Now he's gone and Americans are dancing in the streets.
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LVZ Donating Member (632 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:24 AM
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9. The old story with George Bush - incompetent or malevolant - who could tell the difference?
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:27 AM
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12. It's not polite to kill family friends.
Especially when that family backed your first failed oil company.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:36 AM
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13. Yes.
Next Question.
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LVZ Donating Member (632 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:38 AM
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14. internet delay - duplicate post deleted
Edited on Mon May-02-11 03:40 AM by LVZ
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LVZ Donating Member (632 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 03:38 AM
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15. Bin Laden was useful at election time just like Castro in Florida


Boogeymen are the Republican's favored "go to" tool.
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 04:49 AM
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16. Is water wet?
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pacalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 05:02 AM
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18. Or to *continue* Halliburton, Bechtel, Brown&Root, & Blackwater operations? Probably.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 07:21 AM
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23. The raison d'etre of our ENTIRE series of military operations since Reagan.
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barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 05:07 AM
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19. yes.
imo. he wanted his war. and he got it. we all got it and have it still.
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Las Vegas Mixx Donating Member (57 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 07:05 AM
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21. sorry it took so long ...
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 07:20 AM
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22. Why would Bush want to kill a family business partner?
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JoePhilly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 07:22 AM
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24. Bush was too happy to have an excuse to invade Iraq than to care about Bin Laden.
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jp11 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 07:28 AM
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25. I just saw a 'timeline' of Obama giving the order to put a plan together to get Bin Laden
then a month or so later we got him so....
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LVZ Donating Member (632 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 08:21 AM
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26. the comparison ...
"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."

- George W. Bush, 3/13/2002

versus

"Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body."

- Barrack Obama, 05/01/2011


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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-02-11 08:26 AM
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27. Which is why the WMD smokescreen was invented.




Shit-for-Brains had to get Saddam for Poppy and he had to get Iraq's oil for Cheney & Halliburton.
His own advisors told him Saddam was not responsible for the events of 09/11 but he ignored them all.








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