Former Colin Powell Chief of Staff: Bush didn’t want to get bin Laden

[kpete]

Source: Raw Story

Former Colin Powell Chief of Staff: Bush didn’t want to get bin Laden

Former Colin Powell Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson told MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Wednesday that President George W. Bush wasn’t interested in bringing Osama bin Laden to justice.

“I don’t think they really wanted to get bin Laden,” Wilkerson said.

“You could be very cynical and say he didn’t want to get him because once they got him the war was over and that left all the political advantage gone,” he added. “Or you could say that they knew that it was almost an impossibility to get him given what they had done to the intelligence and other aspects of the government that you needed to get him. They just about ruined it.”


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/05/former-colin-powell-chief-of-staff-bush-didnt-want-to-get-bin-laden/

[skepticscott]

1. Poor Colin

He wants SO badly to get back in the good graces of sensible people in this country. And he never will.

[DURHAM D]

2. The comments are not from Powell. nt

[The Second Stone]

4. True, not from Powell, but there are Siamese twins

that are less attached than Powell and Wilkerson.

[Hippo_Tron]

14. He'd be the hero of sensible people if he'd resigned and spoken out against the war

Hell he probably could've been President if he wanted to.

[DeeJay]

3. Lots of modifiers between the article title and the actual quote

"didn't" = don't think
"want" = didn't really want

[Octafish]

5. Not as many as it took Bush to read 'My Pet Goat.'

It was like a for-ever slog for der Smirkelgrüber.

PS: Welcome to DU, DeeJay!

[NotThisTime]

6. Bush SAID he didn't care where he was, I totally believe he didn't care

[pa28]

8. Right. He said as much and his documented actions reflected that view.

The idea he did not care is probably too charitable. His foreign policy and domestic agenda relied on the ever present and scary Bin-Laden being alive.

Cracks me up how W's sulking about denied credit now. :eyes:

[sofa king]

7. Give it a week and someone will connect the dots to Valerie Plame....

In addition to Plame, there was another covert operation that was deliberately blown by the Bushies in Pakistan, but I cannot remember the year. Same deal: they casually mentioned an ongoing operation and dangerously exposed US operatives at work in Pakistan.

There's a Pulitzer at the bottom of that, so I hope some reporter cranks up the LEXIS NEXIS and verifies what I've just said.

[Ilsa]

11. Bush* needs to go down in history as a treasonous president.

I'd love for this evidence to get out there and destroy the chance for anyone else from the Bush Crime Family to run for president ever again.

[mimitabby]

9. well duh, wasn't that obvious?

[Hector Solon]

10. Resources pulled early 2006...

... after a 'significant' transfer of resources in 2005 to OIF, according to a friend that was on the 'UBL' team (since day one after 9-11, being one of only a few with Afghanistan experience). "What's the point?" he said (on leave from CENTCOM AO in summer of 2006). He quit the activity and moved on. Open sources are full of similar narratives from folks on the hunt in that time frame.

More will come on this, no doubt. This story is just getting started....

[rasputin1952]

12. I said that a couple of weeks after Afghanistan was invaded, and was more...

vociferous about it after Iraq was mentioned as a target.

bush and his minions used all they could to start and keep wars going. Considering that a lot of the money spent goes to Halliburton and other entities with close ties to bush/cheney/et al, it's no wonder that they pushed war.

You've got to add that bush wanted a grand "legacy"...the only thing his "legacy" will be, is what it already is...worst president ever.

As for Powell, dragging out that "anthrax" in the UN was the low point of his career...:(

[JuniperLea]

13. Yet so many of us were chastised for years...

For saying that exact thing.