Bush and Bin Laden: Five Years Later

With the fifth anniversary of September 11th upon us, I really don't give a flying F about Mr. Bush laying wreaths and giving more of his tortured speeches. I want to know why the man he insisted was entirely responsible for September 11th has become such a non-issue for Bush and Cheney. And that's even temporarily laying aside how much the Bush and bin Laden family fortunes have been intertwined for a prolonged period of time (this isn't conspiracy theory: Bush himself was part of the same Carlisle Group as the bin Ladens for a period of time, as have several now former American presidents and British prime ministers, like Maggie Thatcher and John Major).

As ABC News tells us today, there is really little explanation why Osama bin Laden has not yet been caught. Meanwhile, Dana Priest in Sunday's Washington Post says the hunt for bin Laden has gone "stone cold".

Strange - the Bushies and Blair have whipped up such terror and fear and hate that "homeland (in)security has become a $130 Billion business for their political pals, yet we can't seem to catch a 6'4 Arab with questionably bad kidneys. Odd.

And what has Bush done? He disbanded the elite group charged with trying to find and take out Bin Laden. He palled up with the Pakistanis who this week signed an agreement NOT to operate in the park of Pakistan where bin Laden has been so frequently rumored to be hiding.