Comments on: With Bin Laden ‘Stronger Than Ever,’ U.S. Officials Concede Overestimating Damage Done To Al Qaeda http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:46:40 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Karim http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3793218 Karim Wed, 09 May 2007 03:25:41 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3793218 Bush=Bin Laden. Bush=Bin Laden.

]]> By: G W http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3792627 G W Tue, 08 May 2007 21:32:38 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3792627 Why hasn't Congress decided to seriously investigate this? The threat ever since 1992 has always been UBL and extremism. Bin Laden's first attacks might not have been at Khobar Towers, but his guilt and association with that and a successive wave of terror attacks was fairly well-known by most senior intel types, long before 9/11. That Dubya and Cheney could have deflected raw emotions to avenge 9/11 by lying to the public for 5 and 2/3 long years seems to have been an egregious abuse of power. Don't other republicans feel that way, too? Why hasn’t Congress decided to seriously investigate this?

The threat ever since 1992 has always been UBL and extremism. Bin Laden’s first attacks might not have been at Khobar Towers, but his guilt and association with that and a successive wave of terror attacks was fairly well-known by most senior intel types, long before 9/11. That Dubya and Cheney could have deflected raw emotions to avenge 9/11 by lying to the public for 5 and 2/3 long years seems to have been an egregious abuse of power. Don’t other republicans feel that way, too?

]]> By: me http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3791482 me Tue, 08 May 2007 15:02:08 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3791482 No surprise here. Bush has ALWAYS been wrong about EVERYTHING. What else can you expect from a religious fanatic? No surprise here. Bush has ALWAYS been wrong about EVERYTHING. What else can you expect from a religious fanatic?

]]> By: Perry Logan http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3791224 Perry Logan Tue, 08 May 2007 10:48:36 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3791224 Oddly, Republicans are symbiotic with terrorism. World terrorism has tripled under their watch. Oddly, Republicans are symbiotic with terrorism. World terrorism has tripled under their watch.

]]> By: JPark http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3790961 JPark Tue, 08 May 2007 03:40:38 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3790961 Hehe, Mr. President is still posting? Fool. Hehe, Mr. President is still posting? Fool.

]]> By: NatteringNabob http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3790926 NatteringNabob Tue, 08 May 2007 03:15:17 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3790926 <em>and the White House pressured Disney and ABC to spike the story.</em> <em>Whoever</em> is on that list, it is quite clear ABC was pressured to bury the story. You'd have to have your head up Republican ass to believe a sex scandal involving hookers and WH/Pentagon officials is suddenly "not interesting" enough for the MSM. and the White House pressured Disney and ABC to spike the story.

Whoever is on that list, it is quite clear ABC was pressured to bury the story. You’d have to have your head up Republican ass to believe a sex scandal involving hookers and WH/Pentagon officials is suddenly “not interesting” enough for the MSM.

]]> By: NatteringNabob http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3790909 NatteringNabob Tue, 08 May 2007 02:56:14 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3790909 To me, the most shocking, puzzling thing Bush has been able to get away with is not capturing Bin Laden--and for that matter, stating he <em>didn't care</em> if he ever did. Every time I read that quote, I boggle. That should have lost him 2004 (presuming fair elections). Losing Bin Laden in Tora Bora, or <em>letting</em> him escape, or whatever the hell happened, should have sparked an investigation into why and/or brought down the Bush Admin entirely. To me, the most shocking, puzzling thing Bush has been able to get away with is not capturing Bin Laden–and for that matter, stating he didn’t care if he ever did.

Every time I read that quote, I boggle.

That should have lost him 2004 (presuming fair elections). Losing Bin Laden in Tora Bora, or letting him escape, or whatever the hell happened, should have sparked an investigation into why and/or brought down the Bush Admin entirely.

]]> By: david http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3790906 david Tue, 08 May 2007 02:48:24 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3790906 Do you think jimbo dude forgot to undo his Caps Lock when he became Mr. President? Seems suspicious to me. Do you think jimbo dude forgot to undo his Caps Lock when he became Mr. President? Seems suspicious to me.

]]> By: RUCerious http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3790903 RUCerious Tue, 08 May 2007 02:47:07 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3790903 I'm truly concerned about George W. Bush. He is truly mad. Not pissed off, phucking crazy. I’m truly concerned about George W. Bush.
He is truly mad.
Not pissed off, phucking crazy.

]]> By: david http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3790902 david Tue, 08 May 2007 02:46:50 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3790902 jimbo dude, don't call us. We'll call you. Even Ashton Kutcher does a better stoner than you do. Back to the Actor's Studio for you. jimbo dude, don’t call us. We’ll call you. Even Ashton Kutcher does a better stoner than you do. Back to the Actor’s Studio for you.

]]> By: jimbo dude http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3790895 jimbo dude Tue, 08 May 2007 02:41:05 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3790895 AND ALSO......... FOR ALL THESE WONDERFUL SERVICES WE ARE ALL SUPPOSE TO GET ALL FRIGGIN TOTALLY CORRUPT BUSH BABBLES ON ABOUT IS BIG OLE BAD TERRORISTS LISTEN.... THAT IS ONE SERVICE WE ARE SUPPOSE TO GET, UNFORTUNATELY DEPT OF DEFENSE IS TOTALLY CORRUPTED AND A ENTIRE CESSPOOL OF PARASITES PROFITEERING KNOW WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OTHER SERVICES WE ARE SUPPOSE TO GET.... NOW THAT IS A COMPLETE DISASTER AND FRIGGIN TOTALLY LOSER BUSH CAN'T EVEN ACCOMPBLISH KATRINA OR IN FACT THE MOST MINIMAL ESSENTIAL SERVICES THERE'S LOTS OF SERVICES WE ARE SUPPOSE TO GET... UNFORTUNATELY YOU WILL GET FAR SUPERIOR SERVICE AT MCDONALDS THAN ANY SO CALLED GOVERNMENT SERVICE TO SERVE THE PEOPLE ..... WHY DUDE WHY.......... BECAUSE LINDA KNOWS JAMIE KNOW WANDA KIND OF CRAP.... THEY SURE GET THE SERVICE LIKE A NICE JUICY GOVERNMENT CONTRACT PARASITES LEECHING OFF OUR 66%, YOUR LUCKY IF YOU GET ONE SINGLE PENNY OF SERVICE BY THE TIME $1 IS PAID FOR ALL THE SERVICES WE GET IT'S FRIGGIN DOGGONE DISGUSTING ENOUGH PUKE ALL THESE PARASITES OUT AND GET SOME REAL SERVICES THAT WILL SERVE US AND ALSO………

FOR ALL THESE WONDERFUL SERVICES WE ARE ALL SUPPOSE TO GET

ALL FRIGGIN TOTALLY CORRUPT BUSH BABBLES ON ABOUT IS BIG OLE
BAD TERRORISTS

LISTEN…. THAT IS ONE SERVICE WE ARE SUPPOSE TO GET, UNFORTUNATELY DEPT OF DEFENSE IS TOTALLY CORRUPTED
AND A ENTIRE CESSPOOL OF PARASITES PROFITEERING

KNOW WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OTHER SERVICES WE ARE SUPPOSE
TO GET…. NOW THAT IS A COMPLETE DISASTER AND FRIGGIN TOTALLY
LOSER BUSH CAN’T EVEN ACCOMPBLISH KATRINA OR IN FACT THE MOST
MINIMAL ESSENTIAL SERVICES

THERE’S LOTS OF SERVICES WE ARE SUPPOSE TO GET… UNFORTUNATELY
YOU WILL GET FAR SUPERIOR SERVICE AT MCDONALDS THAN ANY
SO CALLED GOVERNMENT SERVICE TO SERVE THE PEOPLE ….. WHY
DUDE WHY……….

BECAUSE LINDA KNOWS JAMIE KNOW WANDA KIND OF CRAP…. THEY
SURE GET THE SERVICE LIKE A NICE JUICY GOVERNMENT CONTRACT
PARASITES LEECHING OFF OUR 66%, YOUR LUCKY IF YOU GET ONE
SINGLE PENNY OF SERVICE BY THE TIME $1 IS PAID FOR ALL THE
SERVICES WE GET

IT’S FRIGGIN DOGGONE DISGUSTING ENOUGH PUKE ALL THESE PARASITES
OUT AND GET SOME REAL SERVICES THAT WILL SERVE US

]]> By: Mr. President http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3790891 Mr. President Tue, 08 May 2007 02:35:51 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3790891 AHH! ITS TOO MUCH PRESSURE... TWEAK AHH! ITS TOO MUCH PRESSURE… TWEAK

]]> By: Mr. President http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3790888 Mr. President Tue, 08 May 2007 02:33:43 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3790888 Actually, low blows and cheap shots are what philosophy of the ground. Read Philostratus' "Lives of Sophists" and Diogenes Laertius' "Lives and Opinions of Emminent Philosophers" for ancient low blows. In for Modern philosophy, see what Descartes thought of the Scholastics, what Hume thought of Descartes, what Schopenhauer thought of Hegel, what Nietzsche thought of Schopenhauer/Hegel/Plato/Christianity. If it's Postmodern you like, see what Carnap thought of Heidegger, what Merleau-Ponty thought Analytic, what Sartre thought of Camus/Merleau-Ponty after they criticized his politics. And yes, I'm gay. What of it? Actually, low blows and cheap shots are what philosophy of the ground. Read Philostratus’ “Lives of Sophists” and Diogenes Laertius’ “Lives and Opinions of Emminent Philosophers” for ancient low blows. In for Modern philosophy, see what Descartes thought of the Scholastics, what Hume thought of Descartes, what Schopenhauer thought of Hegel, what Nietzsche thought of Schopenhauer/Hegel/Plato/Christianity. If it’s Postmodern you like, see what Carnap thought of Heidegger, what Merleau-Ponty thought Analytic, what Sartre thought of Camus/Merleau-Ponty after they criticized his politics.

And yes, I’m gay. What of it?

]]> By: jimbo dude http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3790887 jimbo dude Tue, 08 May 2007 02:31:27 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3790887 HERE WE GO AGAIN...... ALL TOTALLY CORRUPT BUSH CAN TALK ABOUT IS THE BIG BAD TERRORISTS........... DUDE....... WHAT ABOUT THE ECONOMY, WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE NEEDING HEALTH CARE JOBS, SERVICES.... OH NO NO NO, COULDN'T HAVE THAT SEE.. JACKIE KNOW LINDA WHO KNOWS ALL THE TOTALLY CORRUPT CESSPOOL OF PARASITES AND LEECHES TO OUTSOURCE AND TO LINE THEIR POCKETS FOR HEALTH INSURANCE AND LOOSENING OF CLEAN AIR/WATER IT IS SO DOG GONE CORRUPT, IT'S ENOUGH TO............... I'M GOING TO SAY THAT THIS "THING" BABBLES ON ABOUT NOTHING ELSE THAN TERRORISTS FOR WHAT 6 FRIGGIN YEARS WHILE A CESSPOOL OF PARASITES CONTINUE TO INFEST YOU AND ME WITH TOTAL CORRUPTION. WONDERFUL SERVICES WE ALL GET, FOR OVER 50%... FOR $1 IN EARNINGS, YOU GET 33% AND WE GET 66%... FINE.. ALL THESE WONDERFUL SERVICES, TOO BAD YOU CAN'T FRIGGIN GET THEM.... DOESN'T MATTER, YOU GET 1/3 AND WE GET 2/3 CORRUPT I SAY, TOTALLY CORRUPT ENOUGH TO MAKE EVERYONE P U K E HERE WE GO AGAIN……

ALL TOTALLY CORRUPT BUSH CAN TALK ABOUT IS
THE BIG BAD TERRORISTS………..

DUDE……. WHAT ABOUT THE ECONOMY, WHAT ABOUT
PEOPLE NEEDING HEALTH CARE JOBS, SERVICES…. OH
NO NO NO, COULDN’T HAVE THAT

SEE.. JACKIE KNOW LINDA WHO KNOWS ALL THE TOTALLY
CORRUPT CESSPOOL OF PARASITES AND LEECHES TO OUTSOURCE
AND TO LINE THEIR POCKETS FOR HEALTH INSURANCE AND LOOSENING
OF CLEAN AIR/WATER

IT IS SO DOG GONE CORRUPT, IT’S ENOUGH TO……………

I’M GOING TO SAY THAT THIS “THING” BABBLES ON ABOUT
NOTHING ELSE THAN TERRORISTS FOR WHAT 6 FRIGGIN
YEARS WHILE A CESSPOOL OF PARASITES CONTINUE TO
INFEST YOU AND ME WITH TOTAL CORRUPTION.

WONDERFUL SERVICES WE ALL GET, FOR OVER 50%… FOR
$1 IN EARNINGS, YOU GET 33% AND WE GET 66%… FINE..
ALL THESE WONDERFUL SERVICES, TOO BAD YOU CAN’T
FRIGGIN GET THEM…. DOESN’T MATTER, YOU GET 1/3 AND
WE GET 2/3

CORRUPT I SAY, TOTALLY CORRUPT

ENOUGH TO MAKE EVERYONE

P
U
K
E

]]> By: Democrat Soldier http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3790867 Democrat Soldier Tue, 08 May 2007 02:02:41 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3790867 #102 - "I would say the fact that Clinton let him attack at will probably puts that reprobate as top OBL friend." Comment by Patrick1 — May 7, 2007 @ 6:31 pm <strong>I would say that Pres. Bush was his best friend. Pres. Bush did nothing to stop the Sept. 11th attacks, despite the warnings from the out-going Clinton Administration. There were no foreign attacks on US soil after the 1993 Feb attempt on the WTC. It wasn't until AFTER Pres. Clinton left office that foreign terrorists were able to exploit the failure that was the Bush Administrations concept of national defense. Pres. Bush has flip-flopped more often than a neo-con on if he'll ever consider following up on his "promise " of hunting Usama bin Laden down. Let me guess, you're going to give Pres. Bush 3-6 more months for success on that failed adventure as well, right?</strong> #102 – “I would say the fact that Clinton let him attack at will probably puts that reprobate as top OBL friend.” Comment by Patrick1 — May 7, 2007 @ 6:31 pm

I would say that Pres. Bush was his best friend.

Pres. Bush did nothing to stop the Sept. 11th attacks, despite the warnings from the out-going Clinton Administration.

There were no foreign attacks on US soil after the 1993 Feb attempt on the WTC. It wasn’t until AFTER Pres. Clinton left office that foreign terrorists were able to exploit the failure that was the Bush Administrations concept of national defense.

Pres. Bush has flip-flopped more often than a neo-con on if he’ll ever consider following up on his “promise ” of hunting Usama bin Laden down. Let me guess, you’re going to give Pres. Bush 3-6 more months for success on that failed adventure as well, right?

]]> By: buck turgidson http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3790861 buck turgidson Tue, 08 May 2007 01:58:27 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3790861 No reason to be upset by a wee little troll. Personally, I think, he exemplifies his kind quite well--a bizarre mixture of penis envy and complete lack of original thought. I actually admire his zeal to respond that drove him to read most of my post--in that capacity, he is a step ahead of the President (or should I refer to him as PINO?). It was probably the greatest intellectual effort he's made in a month. No reason to be upset by a wee little troll. Personally, I think, he exemplifies his kind quite well–a bizarre mixture of penis envy and complete lack of original thought. I actually admire his zeal to respond that drove him to read most of my post–in that capacity, he is a step ahead of the President (or should I refer to him as PINO?). It was probably the greatest intellectual effort he’s made in a month.

]]> By: JTitor http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3790857 JTitor Tue, 08 May 2007 01:49:19 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3790857 Mr. President, no NASCAR today? You've been trolling the blogs all day. Why don't you get a job loser? You and your little cornhole buddies need to go back to listening to Rush and leave the thinking to real men and women. I'm so tired of inbreed wannabe's that make no sense and have no point come in here and say stupid shit such as your self. If you want to debate issues that's one thing, but you never do, never will, and don't have the aptitude to pull your head out of your ass long enough to realize that your a fool. Mr. President, no NASCAR today? You’ve been trolling the blogs all day. Why don’t you get a job loser? You and your little cornhole buddies need to go back to listening to Rush and leave the thinking to real men and women. I’m so tired of inbreed wannabe’s that make no sense and have no point come in here and say stupid shit such as your self. If you want to debate issues that’s one thing, but you never do, never will, and don’t have the aptitude to pull your head out of your ass long enough to realize that your a fool.

]]> By: david http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3790854 david Tue, 08 May 2007 01:44:50 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3790854 I wholeheartedly endorse Buch Turgidson's critique. A beautifully written essay. And I'm sorry, Mr. President, but you are hopelessly out of touch with reality. Oh, and that line about being a poor philosophy student and independent, you can drop it after that low brow "Ob/sama" crack. No one in philosophy would make such a boneheaded comment. You must be an MBA. I wholeheartedly endorse Buch Turgidson’s critique. A beautifully written essay. And I’m sorry, Mr. President, but you are hopelessly out of touch with reality.

Oh, and that line about being a poor philosophy student and independent, you can drop it after that low brow “Ob/sama” crack. No one in philosophy would make such a boneheaded comment. You must be an MBA.

]]> By: david http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3790849 david Tue, 08 May 2007 01:34:41 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3790849 Ah, poor Mr. President Jackass, you have met your match in the very scholarly essay by buck turgidson. I second his conclusion. You can check out the essay by Canadian military analyst Gwynne Dyer who says about the same thing. BTW, how's your own essay coming? What was it on? Triumph of the Will? Or Machiavelli for Dummies? Your idiotic "Ob/sama" line reveals you as the troll we all suspected. Independent, my ass. Philosophy student? Sophistry student more like it. "How to make the weaker argument defeat the stronger?" LOL. Saddam was getting close to what Kingdom? DisneyWorld? Don't make me laugh. Saddam was not a military threat in 2003. The US and Britain had been bombing Iraq every couple of months for the past decade. And the UN weapons inspectors should have been allowed to do their job instead of sending 3300+ American soldiers to their deaths because Bush wasn't a patient man. Blood is on your hands Mr. President. You can't wash it off. It will drag you down in history as the Worst President EVER. Ah, poor Mr. President Jackass, you have met your match in the very scholarly essay by buck turgidson. I second his conclusion. You can check out the essay by Canadian military analyst Gwynne Dyer who says about the same thing.

BTW, how’s your own essay coming? What was it on? Triumph of the Will? Or Machiavelli for Dummies? Your idiotic “Ob/sama” line reveals you as the troll we all suspected. Independent, my ass. Philosophy student? Sophistry student more like it. “How to make the weaker argument defeat the stronger?” LOL.

Saddam was getting close to what Kingdom? DisneyWorld? Don’t make me laugh. Saddam was not a military threat in 2003. The US and Britain had been bombing Iraq every couple of months for the past decade. And the UN weapons inspectors should have been allowed to do their job instead of sending 3300+ American soldiers to their deaths because Bush wasn’t a patient man.

Blood is on your hands Mr. President. You can’t wash it off. It will drag you down in history as the Worst President EVER.

]]> By: Merlin http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/comment-page-3/#comment-3790846 Merlin Tue, 08 May 2007 01:31:18 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/bin-laden-resurgence/#comment-3790846 Mr. President, Aren't you a nasty little troll!? Do you meet with all the other little trollies in the troll locker room at the “West Hollywood All Male Nude Gym?” Maybe you know VV (he goes there regularly) and Patrick1. How about Jake? You know Jake? Well no matter. I guess it is enough to know that you are the real "dumbass" on this thread today. Congratulations! Toooodles... Mr. President,
Aren’t you a nasty little troll!? Do you meet with all the other little trollies in the troll locker room at the “West Hollywood All Male Nude Gym?” Maybe you know VV (he goes there regularly) and Patrick1. How about Jake? You know Jake? Well no matter.

I guess it is enough to know that you are the real “dumbass” on this thread today. Congratulations!

Toooodles…

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