The Post: Why do you think [Osama] bin Laden has not been caught? <\/p>\n
Bush: Because he’s hiding.<\/p>\n
The Post: Our allies have done all they can do to help catch him? <\/p>\n
Bush: We’re on the hunt.<\/p>\n
The Post: Do you think others are on the hunt, too? Are you happy, content with what other countries are doing in that hunt? <\/p>\n
Bush: Yes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The amazing thing is Bush’s unwillingness to elaborate. In response to almost every question, in almost every interview, Bush uses a question to filibuster and repeat carefully-crafted talking points ad neaseum. The more he goes on, the fewer questions he has to endure. It’s a clever little technique his handlers have come up with. <\/p>\n
But when the discussion turns to the terrorist who orchestrated the murder of 3,000 Americans, Bush, all of a sudden, has very little to say.<\/p>\n
It’s too bad our “accountability moment” has passed, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At least Bush is consistent. At a White House press briefing, March 13, 2002: “As I say, we haven’t heard much from [bin Laden]. And I wouldn’t necessarily say he’s at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don’t know where he is. I — I’ll repeat what I said. I truly am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}