Bush Outsources the Task of Catching bin Laden

Bush Outsources the Task of Catching bin Laden
By: SilentPatriot @ 2:01 PM - PDT

NBC's Jim Miklaszewski reports on how the Bush administration pays the Pakistani government $1 billion a year to hunt down Osama bin Laden, and demands zero accountability as to how that money is spent.

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So if I understand this correctly, we are paying Musharraf $1 billion a year to strike immunity deals with the warlords thought to be harboring this man we're paying him to catch? This is appalling on so many levels. Given the huge sum of money we're paying this man to implement policies that are counterproductive to our national security and yield few results, how can we possibly consider him our "strong friend and ally"?

Let's review the Bush administration's record for a second and how insane it is for them to suggest (and for his water carriers to defend) that they are "strong on terror": First, they ignored countless warnings pre-9/11. (more below the fold)

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