My Nomination for The World's Biggest Idiot, Ever.

That really just sums it up for me. If a Republican 'demands credit' for George W. Bush, show them this.

Bush is one of two things now:

Either the world's biggest idiot, or criminally complicit in harboring Bin Laden. Those are the two options.

K&R if you dig it.

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She was safe until the U.S. told her it was safe to go back to Pakistan.

http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/28/14487/

Animosity between the Bhutto family and the ISI have been ongoing for generations. I wouldn't be surprised if Junior signed off on it.

He's not competent enough to be complicit in anything. Look how fast the case for war in Iraq fell apart.

That said, we don't know if Musharraf had any idea that Bin Laden was where he was. Pakistani government is a lesson in factions. Certainly SOMEONE knew he was there, but who it was, and what position they were in, we don't know yet, at least not publicly.

NO. Bush is BOTH things now and always has been.

Thanks for posting, welcome.

Can you say "low hanging fruit"?

How long will we as a group (DU) be obsessed with a loser like George W. Bush? He's SO 2008.

I'm with President Obama... let's look forward.

Lots of bandwidth wasted at DU on the loser of the new century. The amount of time I spend on W is the amount of time I spend reading about him here on DU. Not a minute more.

You know. For war crimes.

Just that photo alone suddenly means more than it did a month ago.

first learned?

was an anti-Midas and turned everything he touched into shit and death. Left office (and America) in far worse shape then when he entered. Maybe the worst ever one record.

Ronald Wilson Reagan

I've ALWAYS said "Complicit". The whole damned LOT of them. Too bad the not-so-"secret" will go to their graves with them.

K & strong R.

i believe he is both.

Bush is BOTH an idiot and criminally complicit. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Recommended because I know you mean well. jk

Its obvious. Why do you think he couldn't go to Ground Zero? He borrowed from the Bin Laden family for his failed businesses and protected them after 9/11.

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I'm flabbergasted. One day on DU, and this post is spiked out right at the top of the 'greatest' threads.

Five stars - I can't believe it :)

Guess I hit a nerve ;)

Broadsword.

not all tho - thanks and welcome!!

Welcome!

for the excellent point made.

Or somewhere in between.

It appears that they knew early on more or less where Bin Laden was. And they made us impoverish ourselves and our country on their sham search to find him and root out Al Qaeda.

If this isn't true, or if there is another explanation for the lies and efforts they made to hold us in fear of terrorists all these years when what was needed was a decisive police/small military unit action is unforgivable.

How many lies? How many lives?

I'm willing to listen to honest explanations and apologies.

They're right here!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/53461/Daily-Mirror-on-George-Bushs-Reelection

figurehead for the brains of the outfit.

I'm 99.99% sure he in actuality lost both times but still.....over 40 million people each time voted for this bumbling, proper sentence challenged silver spooned dry drunk. If that isn't firm proof of the dumbing down of the US I don't know what is.

LIHOP or MIHOP?

and wealth.
It was Duhbya who let members of the bin Laden family fly out of the US when virtually all other non military flights were canceled after 911. (Maybe a little water boarding would have sped the capture of their kinsman by about 10 years.)
It was Duhbya as CIC who had our military fly Arabs out of Afghanistan over the border into Pakistan early in the invasion and occupation, without accounting for who exactly was being allowed to escape from one country into the other.
Presumably these were Pakistanis who were aiding the US. But who exactly did the list of evacuees include?

There is a strong probability that Bush allowed bin Laden to flee, in order for the Bush Mafia to remain on good terms with the wealthy and powerful of the Arab world.

It really is the only thing that makes sense after all the bluster he put out about capturing/killing him.