Bush Aide Taunts Bin Laden: He Is "Virtually Impotent"

New York Times:

Seemingly taunting Osama bin Laden, President Bush's homeland security adviser said Sunday the fugitive al-Qaida leader is ''virtually impotent'' beyond his ability to hide away and spread anti-American propaganda.

The provocative characterization came just days after bin Laden attracted international attention with the release of a video in which he ridicules President Bush about the Iraq war and reminds the world that he not been captured.

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Comments

[VictorLudorum]

06:07 AM on 09/11/2007

last fifty years the movies made a impression of allied forces vs nazis ..today the allied world is watching the good guys online live .....

[leatherneck]

11:12 AM on 09/10/2007

This female white house propagandist is doing what she is paid too do, preach the right wing rhetoric, pander too the right wing zealots, who eat this propaganda up like a well fed dung dinner, with zeal..! Reality is if this terrorist leader is so "impotent" why is he still uncaptured/alive, reality is he is still out there, plotting and planning, possibly something on the apocalytic scale with nuclear, biological, etc, imagine folks some terrorist genius educated in europe/united kingdom/usa, with genetic/biological training, mutating some virus into a bio-weapon, infecting one or several human carriers, smuggling them into a target nation "USA", imagine no cure, no vaccines, pure terror panic unlike anything experienced since the "Black Death/Bubonic Plague" of the middle ages which killed 2/3 of mankind at the time! Read how historically populations became insane with panic, parents abandoned their sick children, siblings, family etc, to die, uninfected cities put up barriers, killed anyone who tried too enter who were fleeing the infected areas, and great irony was the disease was already there in rats infected with the fleas who carried the germ..! One might think only the insane or suicidal would do such, but imagine we live in a world with 1 billion plus moslems, and we have aligned ourselves with 2 million of their enemies the jews, whom they on average hate with a venom, so we are not immune too attack no matter what anyone says, all it takes is one islamic genius with the capacity and hatred too cause something alluded too in the bible book of revelations, when it said these times would be so horrible mankind would wish for death..

[kilnwmn]

11:05 AM on 09/10/2007

Why didn't the advisor just repeat Bush's threat to "bring it on"...shorter, but so much more eloquent!

[spitar1]

11:02 AM on 09/10/2007

Get that man some Viagra! HIIIOOOOOHHH!!!!

[WilliamWallace]

10:54 AM on 09/10/2007

It's really Bush, projecting. His missile is out of fuel, and he knows it.

TROOPS HOME NOW!

[Grannysue]

10:49 AM on 09/10/2007

But Bush said when he saw the latest tape that just shows why we have to stay in IRAQ????
And now his latest mouthpiece says, not to worry the guys obsolete! If any of these people had a clue it would be amazing.

[HeadScratcher]

10:45 AM on 09/10/2007

IF Bin Laden is on dialysis for diabetes as has been reported, he might actually BE impotent.

[MAC2]

10:43 AM on 09/10/2007

Well Fred says Ladden is symbolic only no threat, Bush says he virtually impotent. If this guy who KILLED 3500 American citizens is all they say it make you wonder why Bushman can't catch the murder.

Maybe as with Sadam if you go after Bushmans Pop that is a death penalty. If you kill 3500 hundred just plan citizens you only rate as a symbol. This make about as much sense as the reason we invaded Iraq. Crazy little fuzzy footed hobbit from Texas...................

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[royjeffries]

10:30 AM on 09/10/2007

OBL is going to come up with something, but it will be hard to spot.

[jungpatawan]

10:18 AM on 09/10/2007

If bin Laden would care to respond to Bush' aide calling him "virtually impotent," the "I'm rubber and your glue..." taunt would be particularly apt.

Bush's relevancy is so 2004, that even the AFLAC duck is limping.

Apparently, irony is as elusive to BushCo as bin Laden is.

JP

[LorettaSingbiel]

10:10 AM on 09/10/2007

"This tape appears to be nothing more than threats. It's propaganda on their part."

This "Petreaus" Report appears to be nothing more than LIES. It's PRO-WAR propaganda on their part!

"The president responded to bin Laden's tape last week by saying it was a reminder that the world is dangerous and that IRAQ IS PART OF THE WAR AGAINST EXTREMISTS."

WHAT A DUMBFUCK!!! So America is to ATTACK EVERY Mid-Eastern Country...

...EXCEPT SAUDI ARABIA (homeland of the MAJORITY of our 911 ATTACKERS)...

...AND PAKISTAN (homeland of the MASTERMIND of our 911 ATTACK (Bin Laden), and headquarters of his new & improved Al-Qaida recruitment & training grounds)...

...BECAUSE THEY are our "FRIENDS"!?

"Terrorism experts say THE NETWORK IS REGROUPING IN THE LAWLESS PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN BORDER REGION. The latest National Intelligence Estimate says al-Qaida is growing in strength, intensifying its efforts to put operatives in the United States and plotting against U.S. targets that will cause massive casualties. The U.S. is in a heightened threat environment, and AL-QAIDA IS THE MOST SERIOUS THREAT."

And our dirty, nasty, bad, naughty BOY PRESIDENT has attacked IRAQ...while Republican Presidential Candidate, McCain, merrily sings "BOMB, BOMB, BOMB...BOMB, BOMB IRAN"!!! UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!!!

600+ THOUSAND Iraqi men, women & children DEAD, since WE marched our mighty army, and unleashed our mighty shock-&-awe WMD upon them & their country. We have HUNG their leader...and WHAT are we up to NOW? ...

...NOW we are fighting WITH Saddam's LOYALISTS...TAKING UP WHERE HE LEFT OFF...

...NOW we are AIDING & ABETTING SADDAM'S SUNNIS in their "SURGE IS WORKING" ETHNIC CLEANSING...

...NOW our troops are TERRORISTS, but they'd better watch their backs, because they are also TARGET PRACTICE!

Only TYRANT leaders of AMERICA can be TRUSTED to use Weapons of Mass Destruction on innocent men, women & children "to SAVE lives" (Hiroshima & Nagasaki 62 years ago)!!! We "KICKED ASS"!!!

"We are safer than we were in 2001". YEAH RIGHT! UNLIKE DUMBFUCK, Bin Laden's "strategy of attacks involves LENGTHY PLANNING"!!!

SEE YOU ALL IN HELL!!!

Stay safe, healthy and happy,
Love, Loretta

[DELICIOUS]

09:41 AM on 09/10/2007

BU$H IS IMPOTENT AS A LEADER, VOTER FRAUD PRESIDENT, NATIONAL GUARD MEMBER AND CHRISTIAN.

[theswan]

09:16 AM on 09/10/2007

What a come on.
The only way for the republicans to reap credibility and win the next election is for someone to attack us. And seeing that Osama has out smarted this administration untold times makes it somewhat likely something will happen. And if they can't taunt Osama they could pull some sort of inside job. They just need the job accomplished.
War and conflict is the only generator of the Bush economy and without it they are total failures.

[tomcat27834]

09:15 AM on 09/10/2007

GWBUSH fulfilled OBL's prophecy....percepton of the U.S. "great satan" perched in the arab world.

"Mission Accomplished" George.

[TotobiAyokoh23]

09:15 AM on 09/10/2007

If he is virtually impotent, then, we are spending billions of $ and the lives of innocent people fighting a phantom war. What about that?