You know I heard Mccain say that he knows how to get Bin Laden. Well, I wonder why he has never told anyone else. It may have saved lives.

I heard someone say today 9-11 -08 that we have not had an attack since 911-01 but, haven't over 4000 Americans been killed in an unnecessary fought war. Dead Americans here or there what's the difference. The Bush administration have not kept us safe. If we send all of our youg men off to die, who will protect us here if we need them later. And Mcain voted for this 90% of the time

I say bring these men home and let them protect our borders. Station them around the country at airports and in our fields. Lives will be spared and money will be saved. The money can be used for education and health care and to create jobs. Lets's get with the Obama program. God Bless All the Lives Lost on 911 and in war.

the fact that Osama bin Laden has not been captured or killed is a national disgrace. Unlike Saddam, he was the guiding force behind 9-11 and every month he is free gives him more opportunities to plot, finance and spew anti-US venom via video and the web. We spend $2 billion a week on the Iraq war, yet disbanded the CIA unit charged with tracking bin Laden. Why? In his part of the world, the ONLY justice is "eye for an eye". Taking him out will send a powerful message to the rest of Al Quaeda and those that support it.

IS THE CURRENT ADMINSTRATION EVEN LOOKING FOR BIN LADEN.YOU CAN PULL SADDAM OUT THE GROUND BUT CANT FIND BIN LADEN??????????

MARQUIS

We can't find a 6' 8" guy on dialysis in a cave.

Come on, we can do better than that (can't we...)

The US can't find their own 10 most wanted so how will they ever find a man 1.2 a world away?

Osama is dead already, I am sick and tired of hearing all this BS about how they are going to find him. The US government creates these phony tapes to justify the expense of this so called war on terror, while Cheney's company Halliburton gets rich off the US taxpayers. They use Osama to promote the fear factor so they can take away more rights. The US citizens need to revolt and throw them all out of office and put somebody in there that has some common sense and doesn't put Israel first.

George W. Bush betrayed the American people by dropping the ball on the hunt for bin Laden and spending the majority of his administration on fighting an unnecessary war in Iraq.

This war did wonders in creating far more people who hate the United States, and Americans, than existed prior to 9/11. The beneficiaries of this war are not the majority of people of the United States. The beneficiaries are the big corporate owners supplying the war effort, the same people that are behind Richard Cheney and George W. Bush.

Are we better off than we were in 2000? NO.
Are we safer than we were in 2001? NO.

In the last 7 years George W. Bush has managed to bring about the deaths and injuries of more than 3 times the number of americans than were killed or injured in the 9/11 attacks. So who REALLY is the worst terrorist? bin Laden? Or Bush?

bin Laden is dead. Having the myth of his being alive serves both the purposes of his followers and the 'just cause' trying to find him. Nothing he has released in tapes over past few years serve to indicate he is really alive. This is why AQ #2 al Zawahari continues releasing recordings.

I wonder how much time has to go by before more acknowledge that Bin Laden is dead? Why hasn't he ever done the one thing he could to prove he's alive – a video with today's newspaper in his hands. Crackling, barely audible tapes? Come on, the man is dead, buried under 50 tons of granite. Anyone else think so besides me?

Surely you wrote this piece in jest or with your tongue securely impaled on your cheek. Bush has no more intention of finding bin Laden than he has of reading the Constitution. Of course, I also don't believe the fiction of 9-11. Though I cannot say with definition that Buish masterminded 9-11 with bin Laden a voluntary (and well paid) fall guy, I am certain that the "official" story is bogus and a smokescreen for all of the other Bushian crimes. Bin Laden's paymasters in Riyadh, Islamabad and Washington have no interest in seeing their meal ticket bad guy eliminated from the fear-mongering scene. Dismiss me as aleft wing loon if you will., but don't make me laugh with these crocodile tear rants about finding Osama.

If we caught Bin Ladin the War on Terrorism would be over, or greatly diminished in importance. Do you think they are going to slay the goose laying their golden egg? Nobody ever talks about the fact that the U.S. trained and supplied Osama Bin Laden and al queada for years during the Soviet occupation. We created our own monster, and now are using him. Fear is a powerful motivator. With the technology available to the defense department we could find him within one week and kill him if we so desired.

This is one of the most shameful failures of The United States of America's government. Over 100,000 people have been killed in the War on Terror, yet the biggest terrorist of all remains free, the murderer of 3,000 Americans and George W. Bush continues to sleep well at night. How is this possible?

Sad to think all the Billions wasted when Clinton had Osama offered on a silver platter. Bubba was 'distracted' by a devil in a blue dress.

There are a couple of things you will never hear on TV - Mathematics, Philosophy, and History. The final capture of OBL will be a political act. If Oliver North just happens to be there, it will not be because this operation was timed, but because it was "God's Will."

Will never happen cause if it did then all your fake pretences of invading this and invading that wold be gone. Lets face it folks The arabs pakistanis afghans are our gunnie pigs, we will test our missle bombs drones marines army on these feeble people.

I think that bin-Laden was killed in the Tora Bora fight and that subsequent videos did not substantially prove that he was still alive. I also think that there is no substantial proof that he was killed or that for some reason (war profiteering??) the Bush administration is keeping it a secret.

Still chasing the Boogy man are we. There is a really good reason we
haven't found Osama Bin Laden. That would be becasue he died in 2001. His Obituary has been in both Pakistani and Egyptian newspapers. In Benizir Bhutto's last interview with David Frost (naturally not shown on American TV) she very matter of factly states that he died in Tora Bora in 2001. Pakistani intelligence would know this. Even Musharif said he was dead. How deliciously convenient for Bush to chase a boogy man who can never be found. What a perfect distraction to an honest investigation of who might really be
responsible for 9/11..... Think about it...

Fred54 in Boston

Just like with the war criminals of the Bosnian-Serb war, the international community is afraid to deal with the possible capture of Osama Bin Laden – who will get jurisdiction, where will he be tried, and the kind of revelations that will become public once he is put on trial. I am sure if the US "tried" to capture him, they would. After 9/11, the budget of the Department of Homeland Security is higher than what would be needed to run a small country. In 1962, U2 planes could point to the exact location of missiles and silos on Cuba. In 2008, and with infra-red technology, I am sure that the military could tell exactly who and how many people are hiding in the mountains of Pakistan. When it comes to justifying their big budgets, the military is very eager to show off their smart bombs and flawless technology, but when it comes to real action they say they dont have the capabilities to launch a full-scale manhunt for Bin Laden. I believe it suits the international community to keep Bin Laden where they want him – hiding from cave to cave, unable to surface for long enough to organise another large-scale attack, in contrast to having to deal with the revelations of incompetence, naivety and infant-like mistakes made by the West prior to 9/11.

You don't really believe the US does not know where this murderer is??? That is as ridiculous as the idea that we are fighting the war in Iraq because of 911.

I believe strongly that the reason we haven't found and eliminated Osama is that the Bin Laden family and the Bush family have been close friends for a long time. Oil, of course. Remember how the only planes flying right after the events of 9/11 were those carrying the American-based members of the Bin Laden family out of the US, without any prior (or subsequent) interrogation? No need to guess what degree of US government influence do you need to get that to happen.

It took the Mossad ten years to catch the Murderer Eichmann. Be patient people. Bin Laden will have his day on this planet!

Farting around in Iraq was brilliant. By allowing bin Laden to live in a cave on the Afghan-Pakistani border under the ostensible protection of the uncooperative Pakistan government and by angering youth across the middle east for our arrogance, destruction of their infrastructure, lives and disrespect of their cutlure and heritage, the Republicans have guaranteed themselves a fear platform for the next several decades. Kudos, you morons.

The lack of focus and
tenacity in the search for bin Laden in 2001-2002 foretold just how incompetent Bush/Cheney would be in the so-called"War onTerror".Has there ever been a more important pursuit of an enemy of the USA?
John Wilkes Booth was hunted down with
much more determination and vigor than bin Laden.

Yea what a Hypocrite and unconcerning President Bush is THousands killed on our home soil and he couldn't even focus in capturing Binladen, Now that was Truely a Slap in the American people's face and the living families of those lost, that His Presidency did not care to capture a Mass Murderer of America!!!!!!!!

I think it's quite a strange situation that Pakistan is supposed to be working with us against terrorists but we aren't allowed to go into the area where we know they are. And why do we need their permission?
There are things going on that we aren't privy to. I hope whatever it is, it's worth allowing this mass murderer to run free and continue to organise these fanatics.

On the anniversary of this horrific event in American history, when so much hangs in the balance, and the future of our country is at hand -

SHAME ON YOU, JOHN MCCAIN FOR MAKING THIS ELECTION ALL ABOUT LIPSTICK!

From, A Colorado Mom

One day, hopefully in my lifetime, we will learn the "real" story as to why the Bush administration cannot find one person in this whole world.
This administration has made us the laughing stock of the world.
I am so ashamed that I voted for him once.

i'm sorry, but i just don't believe we can't find this guy. In order to implement total war and a new global posturing, we need(ed) a Bad Guy. We need(ed) the face of A Constant Theat in order to scare all the little sheep into giving away their liberties in the name of security. Osama bin Laden–if still alive–serves that role perfectly, and my suspicious mind and heartbroken patriotic heart suspects that a few in our government know damn well where he is. Bush had him cornered, but wouldn't finish the job, outsourcing instead to tribal leaders. The Bin Laden unit: dismantled. Why? Because if we catch him, we lose the Symbol, we lose the Bad Guy, and our justification for Middle East presence would be less tolerable to Joe Taxpayer. It's called the "Theatre of War" for a reason. OBL is probably shaved and living somewhere in Tampa, laughing his ass off with members of AEI. Nothing has happened since that horrific day 7 years ago–why? Because of the diligent guard of the TSA? Please...we've all been hijacked, folks. And so here begins the buffalo fall and the decline of the American empire. God bless those thousands who perished on 9/11, for reasons that may be forever unclear and politicized. I pray today they did not die in vain. I pray for the healing of their families. They were murdered publicly, grotesquely, and methodically. We watched them choose to fall rather than burn. We heard of their heroism in Pennsylvania. It was a beautiful day. The sky was blue. Our country and lives about to change forever.

It is curious that the search for bin Laden ended as far back as Rumsfield. This would tend to indicate that he was already captured or he was not responsible for 9-11. If he is already in US custody, we would expect to see him appear deceased as an October Surprise.

If the Cheney/Bush Administration had gotten the "Scary Monster", then there wouldn't be a "Scary Monster" under the bed at election time. (See Tora Bora and the closing of the CIA bin Laden bureau.)

After 7 years of lies leading to unjustified war combined with constitutional breaches at home, the President failed to apprehend the man most commonly believed to be responsible for 9/11. A complete failure.

I agree, there have been audio and video tapes, however, audio tapes can easily be recorded by anyone. The videos that have been released in the last several years are old footage of Bin Laden: there has not been any current video of him in many years. This leads me to believe Osama Bin Laden is dead.

How is it possible the author of this article seems to know "definitively" that the US intelligence agencies have no details on Bin Laden's activities or whereabouts. What makes the media think any intelligence agency would provide specifc details to a bunch of blabber mouths regarding Osama's whereabouts? If I knew these kinds of things there is no way I would tell the media. How about reporting positive facts such as.....we have successfully interrupted Al Quida's activities and initiatives. As for the "Mog" 20,000 troops were NOT assigned to look for Aideed......though it's true there were at least that many deployed. There's a big difference between being deployed and being assigned to a specific mission. Yet another example of how the media reports irresponsibly.

They haven't found Bin Laden cause he's DEAD! The guy hasn't put out a video in ages, and while all his other lackies get their tv time he goes missing. The guy is buried in a cave or a mountain slope and probably only a few people know where that is.

Has anyone been monitoring his bank accounts? I'm sure they have and I doubt there have been any withdraws in quite some time.

The dude is DEAD!

The Bush Administration does NOT want to capture Osama Bin Laden. If he were dead there would be a need for another boogieman to frighten the childish American electorate into electing more Republicans and yielding more of our basic freedoms in the name of security. If he were captured and put on trial, the complicity of successive administrations from Reagan to Bush Sr. to Clinton and to Bush Jr. would be revealed.

7 years later, Osama is still free and the Taliban in Afganistan, whose government gave him his base to work from, is resurging. Amazingly most Americans still don't get it! It took Roosevelt, Truman and the rest of our country less than 4 years to totaly defeat the combined Axis powers after the attack at Pearl Harbor. Not only that, but the key instigaters of WWI had all paid the ulimate price by the wars end or shortly thereafter. Republicans feel it is more important to gain new business for its friends in the oil industry and defeat Democrats than to pursue those that attacked our country.

History does not repeat but it does rhyme.
A critical review of our actions related to the hunt for Pancho Villa may help in getting Osama.

Even when the hunt for Bin Laden began, I realized that the percentage of success for locating him was very low, if not impossible. To get a true grasp of the vast area we are searching boggles the imagination. For the time being we may not be successful, but time is on our side. To live in the rat holes that represent the small villages where Bin Laden is hiding is to give ones life to an existence of moving at night and hiding during the day.

It serves him well to be a devout, fanatical follower of Islam, because when death comes to Bin Laden it will be swift and it will come unannounced and it will come from above.

Osama Bin Laden = World Hide-and-Seek Champion

Nice article but this raises more questions than leaves us with answers:

1. We were supposedly so close to capturing/killing Bin Laden. The conjecture is that he escaped into Pakistan. If Pakistan and Gen. Musharraf in particular, was an ally in the "War against Terror", then why did we not go into Pakistan's tribal territories and hunt him down? Why did we stop our troops from pursuing Bin Laden into Pakistan?
2. How much has the War in Iraq helped Bin Laden, Al Qaeda and the Taliban to reassert themselves in Pakistan's Northwest and Afghanistan?
3. Now that Musharraf is gone and the administration in Pak is showing no inclination to support the "War on Terror", what is our plan to capture/kill Bin Laden?
4. Why was the dedicated Bin Laden unit disbanded? That is, as you mention, just bizarre and mind-boggling.

I really think bush is not looking for Bin Laden. With al the intelligence the US has he should have been found by now

I have always been shocked about journalists inability to fathom that the US knows EXACTLY where he is and has for some time. Why kill him? As mentioned - he would just be replaced by the unknown. Keep him alive and in place. Monitor to him. Keep him regulated to crappy audio messages once or twice a year - exactly as they have done for the last seven years.

It would be nice if our military caught bin Laden. It would be even nicer to know if it would make any real difference. In the end it might be that a leader who continues to be in hiding may be less of a threat to us than one who has been killed and whose followers regard as a martyr to the cause. Like you, I'm not holding my breath.

Annie Kate
Birmingham AL

Let's watch and see the trickery of the Bush administration. Just as they drew us into the illegal Iraq war by slowly beginning a conversation about it in the spring/summer of 2002...predictable.

Although I do believe it is far-fetched, I don't believe that it is outside the realm of possibility that the current administration "finds" Bin Laden before the election. The neo-cons know that the last 4 years have derailed their brand in the minds of mainstream americans; only such an enormous accomplishment could put them back on track. If this happens, we should all assume it's been set-up.

Fear no longer works, and the mainstream must stand up to the religious fanatics that are bringing this country down.

There have been only two men capable of attack sucessfully american continental soil. one of them was never caught, and was phisically involved in the attack for revenge his name was "Francisco Villa or Pancho Villa" a mexican. The other is still alive Osama Bin Laden a saudi. Let's see if the government is able to catch him before he becomes legend. After that, you cannot kill a legend.

Something is very wrong and it does not take a "rocket scientist", no pun intended, to figure this out. With all the technology available and the ability to just about read license plates from outer space it is disturbing to think this man can't be located. I struggle with this on a daily basis trying to determine if our government is fearful of a major attack that may be set in place upon his capture or death. This would not be out of the realm of possibility since the government is somewhat stifled in it's ability to track al Queda and terrorist cells within our borders. The political atmosphere that inhibits the government from using all possible avenues of tracking the movement of these groups sets a dangerous precedent and therefore does not permit the government to "insure domestic tranquility". In addition, the thought that Pakistan is a strong ally in the fight against al Queda is absurd. They have shown little to no cooperation in the hunt for bin Laden. Can anyone seriously defend the fact that they have not been able to find bin Laden in their own country? It is quite clear that they have not been interested in the past, currently, or in the future. Why is this pushed under the rug??

Perhaps the reason why the hunt for Bin Laden has been so fruitless is because the Bush family has a personal/business connection to this individual. I feel that Bush and the VP know exactly where Bin Laden is but they do not want to compromise their own personal interest.

President Bush in trying to shore up his future "legacy" in response to his perpetually low approval ratings has less control over his own legacy than the still alive bin Laden. When bin Laden strikes again, especially in an atomic or even nuclear act that after 9/11 would be a next greater attack, President Bush's legacy will be confirmed.

Once our government contracted the search for Bin Laden instead of allowing our military to perform their jobs and get out of the way, America lost the initiative, drive and advantage of a superior force. By switching focus from Bin Laden to Iraq, the administration accomplished a great injustice to the 9/11 victims, their families, our military, and our nation. Part of America died the morning of 9/11 but the spirit of America has died in the 7 years afterward. Never in America's history have so many been sacrificed by a deed left unanswered. May our nation one day recover from the careless disregard of our leaders!!!

I could be wrong,but I believe bin laden is dead, and bothe sides are keeping him alive in fantasy only. the "mystiq' is worth too much for continuing the war.

Isn't it amazing how our government has spent billions of dollars over seven years to locate just one simple-minded criminal from the third-world.

Kinda makes you wonder how much it's going to cost to round up and deport 20 million undocumented aliens living within our borders. I'm guessing it's cheaper to build the fences then open the amnesty program.

The failure to find this murderer rests squarely on the shoulders of our current president. He had the chance to apprehend him in Tora Bora yet chose to pursue other adventures. This is an unforgivable travesty.

At this point, it appears Osama bin Laden will meet a natural demise. He is a hero to like-minded extremists having spit in the eye of the only remaining superpower. I struggle for words to try to explain to my eight-year-old son why 9/11 happened and why this mighty and rich country, supremely endowed with cutting-edge technology, can't bring a mass-murderer to justice.

Well, truth is, he's dead. But you watch them say they killed him sometime soon.

Look at the detail of the tapes that are released…..you telling me that with all the technology out now, obl couldn’t afford a better quality camera by now? Think about it people……

Shelley: Shame on you. on a day, when you are supposed to be remembering all those lives lost, you are thinking of Obama, and McCain, and lipstick. It's people like you who give decent people a bad name.Grow-up.

OK.. Let us pray U.S Govt. will do its best to capture this idiot.
What else can be done to stop spreading the virus in this country...

A. All religious schools in U.S needs to be aduited – what they are teaching/what the kids are reading.
B. Most of them were not taught how to live in hormany with other religions, we should explain them what is correct and and what is wrong ..atleast get good teacher who is good at their religion and explain them these acts will hurt people ... first we should behave like human beings before aspiring for heaven...

Let's not worry so much about one guy who's getting on in years and may or may not be alive.

Let's worry about the tens of thousands of young men in that area of the world who have no jobs, no education, and lots of anger that can easily be directed towards us by the next generation of lunatics like Bin Laden.

Finding Bin Laden isn't going to solve our problems. Finding Sadam did nothing to solve the Iraq situation.

We need to deal with the root causes of terrorism – desperation, extremist teachings, gender inequity, poverty, and hopelessness.

Less money for weapons and more money for schools that teach our values, not extremist values. Real efforts to improve the status of women in that part of the world – (microcredit, programs like "Heifer" that loan farm animals to the needy). Establishment of a viable economic system, with constraints on corruption, so that a business owner or farmer can be reasonably assured that if they work hard, their business or farm will not be bombed or taken from them by a corrupt official.

Jimmy Carter may not have done the best job in his tenure as President, but over the years, the man has done much to solve some of these issues in developing nations. Let's take our best and brightest former leaders and get them working on solving this problem so we aren't raising another generation of Baby Osamas in that part of the world.

If you think these ideas cost too much money, look at what we're spending out there with our military presence.

I would like to comment that the only reason that we have not been attacked here in the US since 2001 is due to the diligence of our intelligence agencies. I also would like to point out that if our Military was not engaging terrorism overseas they certainly would be doing so here. I for one would rather have our brave men and women of the armed forces engaging the enemy in his backyard rather than ours. Remember that we are a volunteer force and that many of our Fathers,Brothers,Mothers and Sisters have gone over seas not once but numerous times knowing full well the sacrifices they make in order for their loved ones and fellow Americans not to know what true terror is all about.

We have failed to even find Osama last location because we have been to concern with the wrong war. We have allowed our country to be consumed by this war based on lies we did his job for him .With bush as a leader Bin Laden can take a rest and all our new people think we are children who need to be entertained. We need to demand discussion of real issues or turn them off.

Just call up McCain! He knows how to find him. He said so at his convention... so it must be true.

While it would certainly be emotionally satisfying to see Osama bin Laden's head on a stick, in the overall scheme of things he's now pretty inconsequential. That's why comments like the one from Ken ("After 7 years of lies leading to unjustified war combined with constitutional breaches at home, the President failed to apprehend the man most commonly believed to be responsible for 9/11. A complete failure.") just totally and absolutely miss the mark.

The reason bin Laden is pretty much inconsequential these days is that his worldwide network has been seriously degraded and the appeal of his movement among the world's muslims is now at al all-time low. As for Bin Laden himself, he's been reduced to moving from safe house to safe house, sleeping with one eye open, never knowing who might be the one to betray him. His ability to serve as the lightning rod for worldwide jihad is gone.

"A complete failure", Ken? Hardly. As much as you and the rest of the infantile left might not like to admit it, the US is decisively winning the war on terror and Americans are considerably safer today than they were on 9/11/01 as a result. While I have my differences with President Bush, on that score he deserves a lot of credit.

On 9/11/01, how many people would have been willing to bet that today, a full seven years later, we still wouldn't have experienced another terrorist attack on American soil? If we're going to rip Bush when his administration does something wrong, we have to give him credit when they do something right.

Credit hasn't been given to Bush for the history that didn't happen. The British and Russians before us proved it a mistake to go into the mountains to fight in a country miles from the nearest body of water. Your air assaults are limited, no ships can assist you and tanks are worthless. How many men would have died if John Kerry had been CiC and would have tried to get Bin Laden in Tora Bora–thankfully we'll never know. Bush's mistake was initially naming Bin Laden as public enemy #1–getting him is simply not worth the death of one single US fighter. Bin Laden being alive and living in a cave; out of sight for seven years is NOT a good recruiting tool for young Muslim men.

Look at a map and consider what you learned about military history. The good commander always tries to fight on the ground of his choosing. Bin Laden was most likely ready to cause us some real damage in those mountains–ground of his choosing. So the smart minds said where can we fight the bad guys where we can inflict the most kills and limit our own casualties? The killing fields were in Iraq. Close to naval support, maximum use of tanks and air power close to existing bases in Kuwait. The flypaper approach attracted the bad guys to Iraq and there we killed them. Bin Laden didn't come but lots of his lieutenants did and they are all now wishing they had stayed in the caves.

Now you have an Arab country with 25 million population, who having been through hell now has an opportunity at liberty for the masses. One swamp drained and perhaps Syria and Iran inhabitants will lust for Iraqi freedom very soon. That means mothers will encourage their sons to make something of themselves; no longer dead-enders agreeing with these sons to blow themselves up.

Bush and our hero that you call General Betrayus, years from now will be remembered much differently than how you are portraying them now. If only General P had been the brains in 2003 perhaps things would have went more smoothly. Proud to be an American.

OBL is dead. Otherwise his PR department wouldn't have to rely on remixes, compilations, re-issues and greatest hits to keep his image out there. The real outrage is that Ground Zero is still a hole in the ground and not the site of a rebuilt WTC. And Hardy Campbell – you're dismissed.

Bush doesn't want to capture bin Laden.

No wait, he is in league with him.

No, hold on, bin Laden is dead but the US media doesn't care to let you know because it hates Pakistani and Egyptian media.

Wow. 9-11-08 certainly unleashed all the conspiracy theorists and lunatics as evidenced by this comment thread.

You mean we had him dead to rights in Tora Bora? We knew the exact patch of ground he was standing on. But somehow he slipped down a spider hole and disappeared and we haven't caught a trace of him since?

Hmmmmmmmmmm? What's wrong with the first part of that story? Do you suppose the quality of our intelligence on him then (7-years ago) is similar to what it is now?

When you juxtapose the unhinged comments on this thread with the somber reality of 9/11/01, you see just how crazy the left is.

They can't even identify the enemy.

Sad.

With all these comments deflecting blame on our current administration:

1) What presidential campaign is robust with bloggers?
2) We don’t want to be in Iraq, but let’s invade Pakistan?
3) What are the demographics of CNN’s viewers?

There are so many absurd statements on this blog... I cannot believe most of them are serious comments. For example: "I believe strongly that the reason we haven’t found and eliminated Osama is that the Bin Laden family and the Bush family have been close friends for a long time." Are you serious?

I mean, nobody is pretending that George Bush is a great president... but statements like this, if meant seriously, only signal the insanity of the author.

The only thing worse than the attacks is that this murderer is still free. The world changed that day forever. We saw the horrible ugly side of humanity. We will never forget.

The reason we don't have Bin Laden is because we have not gone into Pakistan to get him. The Bush administration has failed on the "War on Terror" in almost every way imaginable. Over time he will mess up, and if he attacks again we would go in and finally find him. However, the political parties would be at fault for their failures if such an event occurred.

It would be satisfying to catch Bin Laden but I have thought that many thought he was dead already and al Queda releasing audio tapes in his name to keep up the farce that he still lives. If he is dead it would be nice to know that; if he's not then we need to hunt him down.

Annie Kate
Birmingham AL

Does anyone find it unusual that we haven't captured Osama when the Bush Administraion let his family fly home right after the attacks! When the rest of the aircraft in America was grounded, the people who may have had info as to his whereabouts were allowed to leave without any questioning by American authorities. Bush and his cronies are responsible for this charade. Let's not be naive!
Speaking of mysteries, can someone tell me what is growing out of the left side of John McCain's face? Just wondering.
Dwayne Burns - Redding, CA

Seems to me that once we went there to "look for bin Laden" someone forgot he existed and we went astray. The war confused our current administration as to why we went over there in the first place. If we realy want to find him, I believe we could. Just like we found the other rat...in a hole.

The American people are a victim of their own selfishness, as am I. If we cared about finding Bin Laden as much as we care about our obsession with reality tv, or whether Jessica Simpson is dating Tony Romo, than our country would listen to its constitiuents and find this man. Our fast food society along has the attention span of a gnat sometimes. These atrocities occured for whatever reason, and god bless those heroes and there families, but if we really cared as much as we say we do, and started to trust people we feel are in capable or deserving that trust, and not caring about the worlds opinion, this war on terror would have ended 4 years ago.

I followed a link to this blog and had no idea what site I was on until I looked at the link. Are all your posters on crack?
Osama has been running like the frightened coward he is for the last 7 years. He has to have somebody else carry his feces out of the cave in a plastic bag so that he isn't blown to bits by an unarmed drone.
Bin Laden escaped because of the same people posting to this website: Don’t bomb – you’ll hit civilians, no racial profiling, no wiretapping, don’t bomb in another sovereign country without asking, constitutional rights for terrorists, less bombs more schools, etc…
You aggravate the problem and then blame Bush (alone with the other half of the country that agrees with him)
If we actually do kill this loser, you’ll all cry like you did for Saddam.

They haven't found bin Laden because they don't want to. It would take too much hot air out of their global war on "terror" and make Iraq seem unnecessary.

They're probably sending all of the rockets over there now less to give Bush a dubious legacy than to be sure b-L doesn't say something derisive in the November tape that would give dems the edge. Maybe something about how easy the republicans are to bait, as he was reported to have joked to his cronies.

The comments on this story would be amusing if not for the fact that the people who posted them apparently believe them. Do any of the posters have any real-world understanding of the situation? Thirty-odd posts and not one sane idea on how to catch Bin Laden, just pointless criticism, conspiracy theories, and meaningless partisan rhetoric.

Are Americans incapable of being serious about anything anymore?

77 out of 100 Senators voted for the war. Many were Democrats, including Kerry, Biden, etc., so please quit with the simplistic rants and shrill laments about "...Bush lied to us..", "...We were tricked...", yabadayabadayabada. All the major players in that decision, Repubs and Dems alike, SAW THE SAME INTELLIGENCE, a fact that you Lefties have quite conveniently forgotten. What's more, if we had been hit again at any point during the seven years since 9/11, you folks would have been the first to blame Bush for not protecting you. As of this moment, you have nothing to complain about. As to the "broken-record" postings that blogs of this ilk (Consistently Negative News) are typically rife with regarding Bin Laden's elusiveness: There are criminal fugitives in our OWN country who've managed to elude capture for decades, so how 'bout give it a rest? Or put your money where your mouth is. Go down to your nearest Army recruiter and volunteer for infantry training and we'll pay for you to go over there and look for him yourself. Not much chance of that happening, though, is there my lovelies? Because you talk the talk, but you don't walk the walk. Posters like you never DO.

I love the insane people who want blame 9/11 on Bush and the Republicans. Maybe I am missing something, and maybe when 9/11 was being planned and trained for, Al Qaeda was clairvoyant and knew Bush would be elected. Maybe your buddy Clinton should have done something after the first attack in 93.... Guess he was busy. You think because you watch CNN and blog that you have the whole thing figured out? I am sure Bush killed Mary Jo Kopechne too.

Dead or alive, he has been rendered ineffective. I doubt Osama bin Laden's visions and dreams were to launch a single attack in 2001, and then do nothing on U.S. soil for another 7 years (and counting).

I think the first comment made by Brenda Harris says it all. We Americans forget that Iran had nothing to do with 9/11. Bin Laden is still out plotting his next attack on the U.S. while we're sitting back letting him. Voting for McCain is voting four more years of the last eight, and we Americans can't afford it. Wake up people!!!!!

Once again we are reminded of the tragic day and the lost lives that have not been answered for by the failures of George W Bush. President Bush Once again shows his inability to follow through and provide real accomplishment rather then failure. His failure to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice is typical of his lack luster performance, first swearing to track him to the ends of the earth, then discounting him as not important. What a huge slap in the face to the thousands who died on that tragic day. Poor judgment and irresponsible leadership buy the Bush administration is responsible for the decision to place political agendas over the importance of tracking down and the real culprits responsible for this tragedy. The decision by the neocon designers of the Iraq war and their agenda to promote a proactive military agenda of US involvement in the Middle East have left the real enemy of our country still at large. Distracting this country from the real enemy and providing a venue to push those who were willing to hate and distrust the US (but still stay out of the fight) to see Iraq as the final straw, and giving them the urban battle ground that any military commander with one ounce of sense would reject as a logistic nightmare. I’m sure many other less realistic and informed people would reject this truth, and will. It makes me sad that they would still willing prop up the person who has left this country it tatters with his poor leadership.