Admin Mod: The Left Caught Lying Again [was Bush on Osama, then and now.]

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[That Subliminal Kid]

[Moderator's note: From looking at some of the posts on the thread, it looks that once again the left has nothing on him and the left looks both foolish and dishonest.

Here are some highlights from this thread:

To: BrooklynGOP

You are right Brooklyn, I just did a LexisNexis search and no such quote on the 13th of September.

25 posted on 04/30/2003 3:22 PM EDT by ReaganRevolution (President Bush Rocks!)

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To: William McKinley

I know, I'm shocked as well.

The March 13, 2002 quote is:

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

41 posted on 04/30/2003 3:33 PM EDT by ReaganRevolution (President Bush Rocks!)

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To: That Subliminal Kid

Doing a search, that "quote" shows up ONLY on RAT web-sites.

HOWEVER, on the Official White House Page, this portion of the President's phone call to Guliani and Pataki and subsequent press conference on September 13, 2001 is recorded:

Q Mr. President, how confident are you that Osama bin Laden is behind these attacks? Do you know what his whereabouts are? And, secondly, what kind of support are you looking for from Congress, in terms of your willingness to act?

THE PRESIDENT: We are -- we will not discuss intelligence matters, how we gather intelligence and what we know -- about anybody. When our government acts, you'll be informed.

President Pledges Assistance for New York in Phone Call with Pataki, Giuliani

hmmmm.....Got Source?

44 posted on 04/30/2003 3:33 PM EDT by Corin Stormhands (Now taking applications for a new tagline.)

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Looking back over the news of that day, I don't see any news mention of Bush saying anything like that, September 13, 2001. It would have been in the news the next day, and as one can see in the articles posted the morning of the 14th, there are none having it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse?more=523250

73 posted on 04/30/2003 4:02 PM EDT by Admin Moderator

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To: William McKinley; That Subliminal Kid

FYI....these words:

On September 13, 2001, Bush said, "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him!" Six months later, on March 13, 2002, that aim was totally reversed when Bush said, "I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."

appear on the democRats online site, the DUmmies site, bigcrack.net, gratis.net, gatech.net site, huppi.com, existentialmoo.com, disinfotainmenttoday.com, and a host of other equally suspicious sites.

When clicking on the news tab on google, however, this appeared:

Your search - "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden" - did not match any documents.

There is no legitmate newsource to be found for these alleged quotes. I, personally, have no memory of Bush ever having said this....in fact, my memory is of quite the opposite; I recall Bush repeatedly saying something to the effect of "this is not about one man, it's not about going after just Bin Laden, it's about going after the terrorists and the terrorist network."

92 posted on 04/30/2003 4:19 PM EDT by nicmarlo

It really, really must suck being a leftist. The original 'article', as posted by the original poster, now follows.]

I was disturbed by this image.. Usually the leftists have nothing on Bush but he looks really foolish here.

Just for discussion, don't flame me and don't whine that I'm a Democrat... look at my post history.. I'm just bothered by this blatant duplicity on Bush's part.

[Post 112 is a must see. Thanks, AM]

[Cyber Liberty]

I agree with you. I think everybody should be held to every word they ever say. Especially the ones two days after being attacked.

The nerve of Bush...He should be impeached for his perfidy.

[JohnGalt]

Just ignore that skepticism and rejoice with the liberating of the Iraqi people.

[babaloo999]

Perhaps Osama is now irrelevant because he's dead.

[Warhead W-88]

I'm sick of people questioning Bush's patriotism.

[dighton]

"We now have higher priorities than moving tons of rock, looking for spots."

[sarasota]

What is the source of the 9.13.01 quote?

[JohnGalt]

Who is questioning his patriotism?

[Chi-townChief]

It's probably near-impossible to find any of Binnie's DNA let alone a match for it. All we know is that he's been gone since December, 2001.

[krb]

I think it's fine when you look at the context.

In the timeframe of the first quote, Bush knew he was going to have to lead a nation that is slow to war (i.e. US) into battle where we were basically going to have to invade Afghanistan to go after the perps of 9/11 and to start to process of making our nation safer. Remember the creeps he was up against, the "we need to open a dialog!" crowd. He had to use the simple focus of going after the leader of the bad guys to correctly focus the loosely-controlled democratic republic on the right goal.

But by the time of the second quote, we had already dismantled Al Queda, by and large, and the fact is that we may never realistically know if we got Bin Laden. Instead of letting the nation lose its terrorism focus by haggling on and on about Bin Laden, Bush is doing the right thing by making Bin Laden be the "last war" and moving our focus as a nation onto the appropriate phase of the battle plan.

It's just good leadership. It's not "duplicity."

[Ruth A.]

The second statement is a deflecting one. You can bet that resources are still being used to track OBL, but why open up a can of worm in the form of more questions: what is being done, how much money has been spent, why is it so difficult...

One thing I have come to believe is that when President Bush sounds like he is dragging his feet, lots is being done under the surface. Email me privately if you want more of my feelings on this.

[Trust but Verify]

I'm just bothered that you you would post such nonsense.

[BrooklynGOP]

Not so fast guys... Check out the transcripts from 9/11/2001 here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/

I don't see anything about Osama on the 13th...

[goodnesswins]

When you grow up, Kid, you'll learn, in life, PRIORITIES change. Get used to it.

[Lee'sGhost]

Assuming that the quotes are real . . .

I would argue that by March 2002 finding OBL WAS no longer the priority that it was in 2001. These quotes are taken out of the context of the events of the day.

Also, there is no doubt in my mind that if Dubya was still talking about finding OBL as the most important thing when the guy is either dead or totally out of the loop, the lib weenies would be calling him obsessive.

In the meantime lib losers find NOTHING contradictory about a biography written by a woman who can't recall anything.

[Warhead W-88]

People.

When people criticize Bush, they are attacking his patriotism and chilling debate.

[r9etb]

As if the dates themselves weren't important....

September 13, 2001. We must consider that the statement was made two days after the hijackings. Osama was responsible, and a valid target.

March 13, 2002. The destruction of the Taliban and Al Qaeda infrastructure is complete. Osama is no longer a significant player, and may well be dead. He is no longer important.

There's not a problem here. The problem would be if Bush remained fixated on Osama after he'd made him irrelevant.

[sarasota]

I don't recall GW saying that finding OBL was our #1 priority...?

[mtbrandon49]

That SOB got vaporized at Tora Bora. There isn't anything to find.

[warchild9]

He changed his tune because someone pulled a different string.