Actually, no.
March 13 2002: President G W Bush says: “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.”
July 3 2006: CIA unit tasked with hunting bin Laden closed at the order of President G.W.Bush.
“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.”
Too bad Obama didn’t consider that. Chances are at least Bush did figure the only way to make Al Qaeda be the one taking the bait was to go to... what’s that place again... Iraq!
Actually, yes.
One of Ubama’s first acts as president were executive orders to close Gitmo.