Jim Elbrecht wrote:
"HeyBub" wrote:

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False as to facts. Osama ben Laden has not eluded American searchers
for the simple reason that we've not been looking for him! This
notion is a canard promulgated by the critics of the Bush
administration. Beginning the second week in September, 2001, it has
NEVER been the avowed policy of the United States to kill, capture,
or bring to justice Osama ben Laden. You cannot find a single
sincere quote from a member of the Bush administration supporting
such a conjecture.

C'mon- we just went through this in July. I gave you 'W' quotes from
2004 & 2005- McCrystal in 2009, Porter Goss in 2005.

McCain used capturing bin laden in his campaign- "I will follow him to
the gates of hell. . . "

Here's the latest I heard on our desire to capture BinLaden by someone
in the know- under both administrations-
mid August, 2010 on meet the Press-

Politicians lie.

It's not reasonable to publically say "We're not really looking for OBL. We
don't care whether he's hiding or teaching grammer school classes in
Scotland."