Announcing the New Bin Laden Clock

Remember back a bit...oh, just a few days after 9/11, our newly befuddled leader swaggered around New York and Washington DC will bull horns, while is approval rating was around 90%?

Our silver-spoon fed, Saudi connected, oil business failure of a President got all man-tough and made a few statements to the American Public:

"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him."
- G.W. Bush, 9/13/01 White House Press Conference

"I want justice...There's an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive,'"
- G.W. Bush, 9/17/01

"...Secondly, he is not escaping us. This is a guy, who, three months ago, was in control of a county [sic]. Now he's maybe in control of a cave. He's on the run. Listen, a while ago I said to the American people, our objective is more than bin Laden. But one of the things for certain is we're going to get him running and keep him running, and bring him to justice. And that's what's happening. He's on the run, if he's running at all. So we don't know whether he's in cave with the door shut, or a cave with the door open -- we just don't know...."
- Bush, in remarks in a Press Availability with the Press Travel Pool, The Prairie Chapel Ranch, Crawford TX, 12/28/01, as reported on official White House site

The red states went ape-shit with joy.

NASCAR fans were ready to finally share some bumper space with their Junior stickers, and slap aan "I support President Bush" sticker on the SUV they drive that increases dependence on Middle Eastern Oil.

Stay-at-home soccer moms baked the best goddamn American flag cookies their type-A personality husbands could share with the boys at the office after hitting the strip club for the third time that week.

We were going to get that A-Rab sonofabitch Bon Ladden or whateverthefuck his name was, and damnit to hell, I bet that Saddam character, Bill Clinton and the liberal media was behind this attack too.

Then something happened. No one knew where Bin Laden was. Couldn't find him. Afghanistan really wasn't the focus anymore. Iraq, the Bush administration said, was behind these attacks - which is fine because, someone as focused as Bush could pursue both Saddam, the orchestrater of 9/11, and his partner Bin Laden at the same time, right? What say you, Mr. Bush?

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

"I am truly not that concerned about him."
- G.W. Bush, responding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts, 3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)

Holy flip-flop bat man! What a reversal of priorities! Enter the RYDWBM (Republican Upside Down World Bullshit Machine) to accuse John Kerry of being the flip flopper.

To commemorate the 4-year anniversary (although a bit belated) of Bush announcing to the world that he'd track down and find Bin Laden, I've created a JavaScript Bin Laden clock, down at the bottom of the sidebar on the right hand side of the site. It will give you, in real time, the number of days since we've asked for Bin Laden's head on a stick.

If anyone reading this would like their own Bin Laden count-up clock, feel free to steal the code and just put a link to my site on your page somewhere as reciprocation.

When we finally capture him in '08 when Senator Biden is our president, I'll remove the clock.