If Osama Is Hitler, Why Is He Still Alive?

"So I don't know where he (Osama bin Laden) is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him. And, again, I don't know where he is. I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him."
--President George W. Bush, March 13, 2002

The newest round of Republican talking points states that Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda are the contemporary equivalent of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

If they feel this way, why has the administration taken such a laissez-faire approach to finding Osama bin Laden, even going so far as to shut down the CIA unit charged specifically with finding bin Laden?

During World War II, it took the United States and its allies less than 5 years to destroy a genocidal psychopath who had one of the most powerful military forces on the planet at his disposal, but a terrorist coward with a bad kidney and the blood of 3,000+ Americans on his hands still walks free a full five years after committing the most horrific atrocity ever seen on US soil.

Bush and the Republican party seem far more interested in keeping bin Laden around as an election-year bogeyman than actually bringing him and his ilk to justice, and the weird thing is that nobody really seems to be bothered by this...

P.S. I can only imagine the furor that would rise up from the 30+ percent of Americans that still view George W. Bush as a competent President if it was discovered that Bill Clinton said he wasn't "that concerned" about bin Laden, even before 9/11.

Similarly, I doubt that Franklin Roosevelt ever stated that he wasn't "that concerned" about Hitler...

UPDATE: Remember when Bush said there was "no question" that Saddam Hussein had ties to al-Qaeda during the rush to war in Iraq?

That was bullshit...
- posted by Brian @ 2:59 PM