Best Friends
by digby
Bush said there was intense discussion inside his campaign when the 15-minute videotape was released, which he described as “an interesting entry by our enemy.”
“I thought it was going to help,” Bush told the author. “I thought it would help remind people that if bin Laden doesn’t want Bush to be the president, something must be right with Bush.”
That would, of course, explain this from March 13, 2002
Q: But don’t you believe that the threat that bin Laden posed won’t truly be eliminated until he is found either dead or alive?
BUSH: Well, as I say, we haven’t heard much from him. And I wouldn’t necessarily say he’s at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don’t know where he is. I — I’ll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him. I know he is on the run. I was concerned about him, when he had taken over a country. I was concerned about the fact that he was basically running Afghanistan and calling the shots for the Taliban.
Hey heartland, I bet you didn’t know that bin Laden worked for the Bush campaign did you? He stayed silent throughout the lead up to the Iraq invasion, never stepping on Junior’s “Saddam is Satan” storyline. And then he stepped in just before a very close election and helped his pal Bush over the finish line. He owed him. Bush had let him go at Tora Bora, after all, and allowed his good friend Musharref to turn a blind eye for four years. And no enemy of the US could ever hope to have someone more dumb and ineffectual than the Codpiece in charge. He completes him.
Now, of course, Bush is focusing on his pal again because it ups the boogeyman meter to neon pink. He dropped in on Afghanistan today for the photo op:
“It’s not a matter of if they’re captured and brought to justice, it’s when they’re brought to justice,” Bush said. “I am confident he will be brought to justice. What’s happening is that we’ve got U.S. forces on the hunt. … There are Afghan forces on the hunt, not only for bin Laden but also those who plot and plan with him. We’ve got Pakistan forces on the hunt.”
I’m sure Osama will appropriately go “boo” at just the right moment. These guys could be “Dancing With The Stars” champions, they are so in sync.
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