I'm looking for the exact date and source for when Chimpy said

[stop the bleeding]

"Osama is really not my concern right now" or it was something like that.

Anyone can help on this?

[Catch22Dem]

1. Here ya go...

"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him."
- G.W. Bush, 9/13/01

"I want justice...There's an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive,'"
- G.W. Bush, 9/17/01, UPI

"...Secondly, he is not escaping us. This is a guy, who, three months ago, was in control of a county . Now he's maybe in control of a cave. He's on the run. Listen, a while ago I said to the American people, our objective is more than bin Laden. But one of the things for certain is we're going to get him running and keep him running, and bring him to justice. And that's what's happening. He's on the run, if he's running at all. So we don't know whether he's in cave with the door shut, or a cave with the door open -- we just don't know...."
- Bush, in remarks in a Press Availablity with the Press Travel Pool,
The Prairie Chapel Ranch, Crawford TX, 12/28/01, as reported on
official White House site

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

"I am truly not that concerned about him."
- G.W. Bush, repsonding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts,
3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)

[justiceischeap]

2. Here you go

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:RE7tP2yYgvYJ:www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html+I%27m+not+really+concerned+Bush&hl=en&client=firefox-a
March 13, 2002

[Lancer]

3. Someone will have the exact date,

but I know John Kerry referenced it in the debates. And all the networks dredged up clips of Dubya saying that in a cabinet meeting some months before.

(I know, thanks for nothing.) Anytime!