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Tell President Bush: Get Osama Bin Laden Now

Posted by Jesse Berney on June 27, 2005 at 12:06 PM

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Nearly four years after Osama bin Laden murdered almost 3,000 Americans in the September 11 attacks, President Bush has abandoned his promise to get the terrorist leader "dead or alive."

President Bush's hand-picked CIA chief Porter Goss told TIME that he has an "excellent idea" where to find bin Laden. So why isn't capturing him the Bush administration's top priority? Goss says that "international obligations" complicate matters, but what happened to the president who said countries were either "with us or against us" in the war on terror?

Why is bin Laden still free to send video messages to al Qaeda recruits and plan more attacks against American citizens?

Bush has let this murderer go free for far too long. If we know where he is, then it's time for bin Laden to feel the full brunt of America's military might.

It was all the way back on March 13, 2002 -- just six months after the attacks -- that Bush first told us he was no longer making Osama bin Laden a priority, saying, "I truly am not that concerned about him."

But the rest of America has never stopped being concerned about him. Instead, President Bush turned his attention to trumping up reasons to invade Iraq, a country that was not involved in 9/11, had no WMDs, and posed no imminent threat to the United States until Bush turned it into the world's most dangerous terrorist training camp.

It's time for President Bush to make capturing the man responsible for murdering 3,000 American citizens his top priority, Osama bin Laden has been free to plan more attacks for far too long.

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