Bush Tells Barnes Capturing Bin Laden Is "Not A Top Priority"

Why is Bush letting the 9/11 mastermind get away?

It's nice to see that President Bush feels that nabbing Osama isn't so important anymore. Tell that to the families of those who died on 9/11 and to the soldiers in Afghanistan probably on the world's most expensive snipe hunt.

A few theories as to why he had a current change of heart:

1. The Bush family/Carlyse Royal family connection is still alive and well. The Saudi king tells Bush to jump, and he replies, "How high, sir"?

2. With all of the "we can't catch all the bad guys" rhetoric going around, maybe the White House is finally ready to admit Bin Laden is dead. I guess you can't really catch a dead man.

3. If Osama is alive, catching him puts a short, sweet end to this whole neo-conic "war on terror". The GOP have to have someone to blame for everything.

What's even sadder in all of this is the fact that the so-called "mastermind" of 9/11 hasn't even been charged yet for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. You would think a guy who has caused billions in damages and is responsible for thousands of murders would be charged with something by now.

Unless of course, he's a long-time Bush family friend.

Ah, I'm starting to see the corrupt connection a bit clearer right now.

Video here via Think Progress.

Transcript here:

HOST: Alright Fred, you and a few other journalists were in the Oval Office with the President, right? And he says catching Osama bin Laden is not job number one?

BARNES: Well, he said, look, you can send 100,000 special forces, that's the figure he used, to the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan and hunt him down, but he just said that's not a top priority use of American resources. His vision of a war on terror is one that involves intelligence to find out from people, to get tips, to follow them up and break up plots to kill Americans before they occur. That's what happened recently in that case of the planes that were to be blown up by terrorists, we think coming from England, and that's the top priority. He says, you know, getting Osama bin Laden is a low priority compared to that.