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Bush: Stopping Bin Laden 'Greatest Challenge' which, you know, is utterly fucking ridiculous.

The tragedy of 9/11 happened nearly three and a half years ago and now its time to go after bin Laden? Why? What's changed? Did he forget to send you his $100 million bribe this year? Did his family forget to send you that special barrel of super sweet crude?

"Bin Laden's message is a telling reminder that al Qaeda still hopes to attack us on our own soil," Bush said. "Stopping him is the greatest challenge of our day."

Yeah, it should have been the very first damned thing we did after 9/11. Or hey, how about detaining his family members in the US and questioning them before secretly flying them out home? Or how about not launching an illegal war on false premises in Iraq when the US was already in hot pursuit of bin Laden in Afghanistan?

Mr. Bush, your words, as usual, ring false and are hollow. You lie and say it is truth. You vilify your enemies and then play coy when they don't rush to congratulate you on your "victory". You say you'll reach out but the hand holds a knife, not an open promise of cooperation. You are a bad, bad president.

Notwithstanding all of the arguments that 9/11 was a response to the US's foreign policy in the Middle East and the subsequent pain and suffering our actions and inactions have caused. I'm not saying we deserved 9/11, nobody deserves what happened on that day. But calling it the first blow in the war is ludicrous. This wasn't an unprovoked attack, this was a response.

Bin Laden still deserves to be caught and tried for his crimes against our nation, that's not in question. But until we as a nation address the underlying reasons for the attack, we will always be at risk.