Following the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, the Pentagon and the downing of the of the passenger airliner in Shanks ville Pennsylvania the Bush administration turned its attention to Iraq and Saddam Hussein even though Al-Qaeda had proclaimed their restorability for the attacks which killed almost 3,000 people.
In October of that year the American military launched a campaign to oust the Taliban government of Afghanistan which had given shelter to Bin Laden on the run they were surrounded in caves at Tora-Bora but somehow manged to escape. In January of 2002 George W. Bush gave his infamous Axle of Evil State of the Union address which named Iraq among its members. 14 months later after a complete diet of fear mongering by the Bush administration the invasion of Iraq began in mid-March of 2003. Remember Iraq had nothing to due with the attacks of September 11th.
By 2004 Osama Bin Laden was no longer relevant so irrelevant that at the White House Corespondents dinner that year he joked about not knowing or caring where Osama Bin Laden might be after all Iraq had been invaded Saddam Hussein removed from power and Iraq had descended into civil war but that didn't matter to George W. Bush because the mission had been accomplished by May of 2003.
How many thousands of innocent people died because of George W. Bush's indifference to the perpetrators who really attacked America? So, today George W. Bush issued a statement saying that he had always wanted one of these two outcomes Osama Bin Laden's capture or his death.
The cost of untold thousands just so want to be Cowboy George could pursue his sick ideas.
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