# What pisses me off, 5 years later

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**Created:** [September 13, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pisses-me-off-5-years-later/372597 "2006-09-13T20:52:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pisses-me-off-5-years-later/372597/81 "2006-09-16T17:47:03Z")

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[QUOTE=yojimbo]  
Let’s just move on and deal with what the fuck actually said.  
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Yes. But just one last note: I saw a clip on the news last night where Nancy Pelosi said something similar. She also implied what I said earlier-- we might be safer as a coutnry if we just keep him on the run. Of course, Bush’s comments were in 2002, which was awfully early in the process to start backpeddling, and he was obviously trying to justify his not having caught the guy in the first place.

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> [Republicans, Dems trade jabs on war](http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/091306/jabs.html)
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> Over the weekend, Pelosi appeared at a press conference that was supposed to be devoted to taking the administration to task for not doing more in the war against terrorism.
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> “And if [bin Laden] is caught tomorrow, it is five years too late. He has done more damage the longer he has been out there,” she told reporters. “But, in fact, the damage that he has done is done. And even to capture him now I don’t think makes us any safer.”

But having said that, it’s absolutely clear to me that Bush dropped the ball on cathcing him early on. That would’ve been the right time to do it. We can’t know if he would’ve caught him in Tora Bora, for instance, but he certainly would’ve had a better chance of doing so if he hadn’t been distracted by Iraq.

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