Bush: "If Osama's alive, we'll get him. If he's not alive, we got him."

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

REPORTER: On Iraq, can the American people expect that by the end of your first term you will have affected a regime change in Iraq, one way or another? And by the same token --
DUBYA: That's hypothetical.
REPORTER: But can the American people expect that? Should they expect that?
DUBYA: That's a hypothetical question. They can expect me not to answer hypothetical questions.
REPORTER:On Osama bin Laden does your promise still --
DUBYA: On sensitive subjects.
REPORTER: Sir, on Osama bin Laden, does your promise still hold that he will be caught, dead or alive, at some point?
DUBYA: What? Say that again?
REPORTER: Does your promise on -- or your goal of catching Osama bin Laden dead or alive, does that still stand?
DUBYA: I don't know if he is dead or alive, for starters -- so I'm going to answer your question with a hypothetical. Osama bin Laden, he may be alive. If he is, we'll get him. If he's not alive, we got him.

-- Clear evidence that Dubya's grasp on the meaning of the word "hypothetical" (other than being a means to deflect pesky reporters) is tenuous at best, White House, Jul. 8, 2002

http://www.dubyaspeak.com/puredubya.phtml?year=2002

[EFerrari]

1. What? Say that again?

[Gman]

2. If we have him, we really don't have him, if we don't have him

it could be that we have him but we don't have him... ad nauseum nonsense.

[koopie57]

3. we have a saying I delivered

and it is also here in tennesee maybe not I think and it goes like this, he be or he not be is not the question but if he doesn't be we got him but he is be he is still gettable and we'll get him on that I base my plan, see....in other words...next question.

[JohnnyRingo]

4. "If he's not alive, we got him".....

...Even if he died of kidney failure?
I guess I underestimated the adinistration's connection to God.

If he is still alive, what's Buxh doing to "get him"? Is he waiting for him to show up on the "central front"?

I'd like to play a game of Risk™ with Buxh.
Every time he went to the bathroom, I'd throw some of his pieces out the window, shrug my shoulders, and say "terrists". Then I could let him keep piling more on the Middle East while I fortified the rest of the world.

[splat@14]

5. That should about cover it.......nothin to see here.