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Dumb and Dumber ride again
From a press briefing last week by White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, who announced that President Bush would visit American soldiers wounded in Afghanistan:
Q Ari, as the president heads over to the hospital to visit these wounded soldiers, what is the status of one of the big reasons they were sent to Afghanistan in the first place, the search for Osama bin Laden?
A. Well, actually, if you take a look at what the president said on Oct. 6 or Oct. 7 when the United States defended itself against the attack that took place on Sept. 11, I don't think the president said that one of the reasons we're going over there is to get or to find Osama bin Laden. He said we were going over there to protect the United States from the people who perpetrated this crime against us.
From a question-and-answer session President Bush held at the Pentagon on Sept. 17, 2001:
Q.Do you want Bin Laden dead?
A.I want justice. And there's an old poster out West, as I recall, that said: "Wanted: Dead or Alive."
Q Ari, as the president heads over to the hospital to visit these wounded soldiers, what is the status of one of the big reasons they were sent to Afghanistan in the first place, the search for Osama bin Laden?
A. Well, actually, if you take a look at what the president said on Oct. 6 or Oct. 7 when the United States defended itself against the attack that took place on Sept. 11, I don't think the president said that one of the reasons we're going over there is to get or to find Osama bin Laden. He said we were going over there to protect the United States from the people who perpetrated this crime against us.
From a question-and-answer session President Bush held at the Pentagon on Sept. 17, 2001:
Q.Do you want Bin Laden dead?
A.I want justice. And there's an old poster out West, as I recall, that said: "Wanted: Dead or Alive."