The good side of Osama

[paul]

Just for you Johan 8-)

Dubya 3/2002 press conference:


Q Mr. President, in your speeches now you rarely talk or mention Osama bin Laden. Why is that? Also, can you tell the American people if you have any more information, if you know if he is dead or alive? Final part -- deep in your heart, don't you truly believe that until you find out if he is dead or alive, you won't really eliminate the threat of --


THE PRESIDENT: Deep in my heart I know the man is on the run, if he's alive at all. Who knows if he's hiding in some cave or not; we haven't heard from him in a long time. And the idea of focusing on one person is -- really indicates to me people don't understand the scope of the mission.
Terror is bigger than one person. And he's just -- he's a person who's now been marginalized. His network, his host government has been destroyed. He's the ultimate parasite who found weakness, exploited it, and met his match. He is -- as I mentioned in my speech, I do mention the fact that this is a fellow who is willing to commit youngsters to their death and he, himself, tries to hide -- if, in fact, he's hiding at all.
So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you. I'm more worried about making sure that our soldiers are well-supplied; that the strategy is clear; that the coalition is strong; that when we find enemy bunched up like we did in Shahikot Mountains, that the military has all the support it needs to go in and do the job, which they did. And there will be other battles in Afghanistan. There's going to be other struggles like Shahikot, and I'm just as confident about the outcome of those future battles as I was about Shahikot, where our soldiers are performing brilliantly. We're tough, we're strong, they're well-equipped. We have a good strategy. We are showing the world we know how to fight a guerrilla war with conventional means.

[Videoskooter]

Paul, I think you better stop this coz' you are getting yourself in trouble 8)

[paul]

You're probably right Johan. Reprinting what bush said might land me in Guantanamo 8)

[DiscoMan]

Turn 'em all loose. That's what people like Paul want - let 'em kill whoever as long as they don't disrupt my comfort zone. You people are so corrupt.:evil:

[paul]

This is what separates those who actually believe what our nation is suppose to stand for from those who don't. We have a Constitution and Bill of Rights that we rightly trumpet as the model that the rest of the world seeking freedom should use. Why is it then that at moment when we can display to the rest of the world that we practice what we preach, we use the tactics of every despot nation on the planet! We have have rules of evidence, we allow those accused to see the evidence against them, and so on. Do you realize we locked up American citizen Jose Padilla and violated every right!
What's to stop King George from grabbing political enemies! Do you know that he and this right-wing cabal are working hard to make retroactively legal what the bush crime family did that was illegal. Bush/Cheney were saying that they are doing is legal. They know damn well that if they lose this rubber stamp congress or possibly later down the road, bush/cheney and the rest of this cabal could face prison time!