I wish I could find the article (I'm sure someone can) where when asked about Bin Laden Bush laughed him off.
I wish Bush had truly been chasing this guy for the past 4 1/2 years and not so Goddamned worried about Iraq and WMDs that never existed.
I wish Bush would do something to protect our borders from illegals, where the next terrorists are crossing over.... if they haven't already.
Ah, but nothing I wish for above came from this president, nor will it. And so when his numbers are down, now that Bin Laden has appeared again, I have a feeling he will use Bin Laden to boost his poll #'s.
I do wonder what the Bushies will say when the next terrorist attack happens and it proves that it came from an illegal who crossed the border unchecked. I wonder what they will say about the phone taps and the illegal detentions and the Pentagon spying and so on, when none of that will have stopped the next terrorist attack.
To say one isn't coming is foolish. To say that because I asked those questions, I want one to happen is idiotic and self serving because we all need to ask those questions.
We need to trust the president is doing the best job to protect ALL OF US and not just business interests. But I personally do not believe he gives a damn about the people.
So I will continue to ask...... and pray I will continue to ask in the future tense and not in the present or past for many many years to come.......
What scares me most is the Dems seem to be willing to rewrite laws for Bush now....... and claim to want to crack down in the war on terror......... and yet, I don't see a single one demanding our borders protected better. I expect that from the blindly folling GOP congressmen but I had hoped the Dems would at least demand better border protection before telling Bush they are willing to change laws to take away our rights..... all in the name of defending us against the terrorists they are allowing to come over our borders unchecked.
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Bush: Bin Laden Should Be Taken Seriously By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer
Wed Jan 25, 10:55 PM ET
President Bush, defending the government's secret surveillance program, said Wednesday that Americans should take Osama bin Laden seriously when he says he's going to attack again.
"When he says he's going to hurt the American people again, or try to, he means it," Bush told reporters after visiting the top-secret National Security Agency where the surveillance program is based. "I take it seriously, and the people of NSA take it seriously."
It was Bush's first comment about bin Laden since the al-Qaida leader warned in a tape aired last week that his fighters are preparing new attacks in the United States. Bin Laden offered a truce, without specifying the conditions, and the White House responded that the United States would never negotiate with the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Bush's NSA visit was part of an aggressive administration effort to defend the surveillance program. Experts and lawmakers from both parties have questioned whether it's legal for the government to listen to conversations in the United States without a warrant, which the administration could get through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Four leading Democratic senators wrote Bush Wednesday saying they support efforts to do everything possible within the law to combat terrorism, but that the NSA program is an "apparent violation of federal law."
"If you or officials in your administration believe that FISA, or any law, does not give you enough authority to combat terrorism, you should propose changes in the law to Congress," wrote Sens. Harry Reid, Edward Kennedy, Richard Durbin and Russ Feingold. "You may not simply disregard the law."
Reporters traveling with the president were only allowed to see a few minutes of Bush's NSA tour, as he walked through the high-tech Threat Operations Center where intelligence experts monitor Internet traffic. He spoke to reporters from a podium set up in a hallway after completing his tour, but did not take questions.
In keeping with the NSA's secrecy, reporters were required to leave their cell phones, pagers, laptops and wireless e-mail devices outside the complex. The White House negotiated so that the journalists could bring in cameras and video equipment, but they were allowed only to take photos of the president, not the inside or outside of the facility itself.
Bush said the NSA program is limited to communications between the United States and people overseas who are linked to al-Qaida. He said it has helped prevent terrorist attacks and save American lives, although the government has not given any specifics.
Bush urged that people "listen to the words of Osama bin Laden and take him seriously."
His critics say the law requires him to get permission from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to eavesdrop on communications involving Americans.
"Obviously, I support tracking down terrorists," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., said in a speech Wednesday. "I think that's our obligation. But I think it can be done in a lawful way."
Sen. Patrick Leahy (news, bio, voting record), D-Vt., said the administration should have asked Congress to change the law if it wanted additional surveillance powers.
"Instead, a top lawyer in the Bush administration did just the opposite," Leahy said Wednesday, circulating 2002 testimony from a Justice Department official who said the administration had no position on a bill that would have made it easier to get warrants from the FISA court.
Bush said he had the legal right to do whatever he could to prevent further attacks and that the NSA program "is fully consistent with our nation's laws and Constitution."
"I'll continue to reauthorize this program for so long as our country faces a continuing threat from al-Qaida and related groups," Bush said.
Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., said he's eager to learn more. Asked on NBC's "Today" show, if Bush broke the law, McCain replied: "I don't know. I want to be perfectly clear. I don't know the answer."
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link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060126/...E0BHNlYwN0bWE-