Dishonest MSNBC Shows Edited Clips of Bush's "Not Concerned About bin Laden" Comment Since Osama's Death

To my point of why or what former president George W. Bush meant when he said, "...you know, I don’t know where he is. I -- I repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him."
I've said in previous arguments that Bush said what he said about "not being all that concerned" about Osama bin Laden simply meant that he knew bin Laden was on the run, he has faith in the U.S. military and knew bin Laden would eventually be caught or captured. If anyone in their right mind thinks Bush simply gave up on finding or killing bin Laden is either a liar or a fool. Seriously.

So of course, the dishonest "journalists" at A Mess NBC trotted out their highly edited hit piece on Bush for the umpteenth time to further show (I guess) that-somehow-Barack Obama is more of a hunter/killer than Bush was. In fact, the way the left is carrying on, you would think Obama is more of some kind of super assassin along the lines of The Terminator. Maybe retired Colonel, Dale Dye can step down and President Obama can step in and "train" all these wanna-be celebrities about boot camp when they are getting ready to make a war film.

Here's what Chris Matthews did to Bush exactly what they claim Andrew Brietbart does to the left, use highly edited video and obscurred context to lie about their re-written history:


Compare this to the actual quote that came in a form of an almost four-minute answer.

QUESTION: Mr. President, in your speeches now, you rarely talk or mention Osama bin Laden. Why is that?

Also, can you can tell the American people if you have any more information -- if you know if he is dead or alive. Deep in your heart, don't you truly believe that until you find out if he is dead or alive, you won't really want to make...

BUSH: Well, deep in my heart, I know the man's on the run if he's alive at all. And I -- you know, who knows if he's hiding in some cave or not? We hadn't heard from him in a long time.

And the idea of focusing on one person is really -- indicates to me people don't understand the scope of the mission. Terror's bigger than one person. And he's just -- he's a person who has now been marginalized. His network is -- his host government has been destroyed. He's the ultimate parasite who found weakness, exploited it, and met his match.

He is -- you know, as I mention in my speeches -- I do mention the fact that this is a fellow who is willing to commit youngsters to their death. And he, himself, tries to hide, if, in fact, he's hiding at all.

So I don't know where he is. Nor -- you know, I just don't spend that much time on him really, to be honest with you. I'm more worried about making sure that our soldiers are well supplied, that the strategy is clear, that the coalition is strong, that when we find enemy bunched up, like we did in Shah-e-Kot mountains, that the military has all the support it needs to go in and do the job, which they did.
And there will be other battles in Afghanistan. There's going to be other struggles like Shah-e-Kot. And I'm just as confident about the outcome of those future battles as I was about Shah-e-kot, where our soldiers are performing brilliantly; we're tough, we're strong, they're well-equipped, we have a good strategy. We are showing the world we know how to fight a guerrilla war with conventional means.

QUESTION: Do you believe the threat that bin Laden posed won't truly be eliminated until he is found either dead of alive?

BUSH: As I say, we hadn't heard much from him. And I wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center of any command structure. And, you know, again, I don't know where he is.
I'll repeat what I said: I truly am not that concerned about him. I know he is on the run. I was concerned about him when he had taken over a country. I was concerned about the fact that he was basically running Afghanistan and calling the shots for the Taliban.
But, you know, once we set out the policy and started executing the plan, he became -- we shoved him out more and more on the margins.

He has no place to train his al Qaeda killers anymore. And if we find a training camp, we'll take care of it -- either we will or our friends will. That's one of the things that's part of the new phase that's becoming apparent to the American people is that we're working closely with other governments to deny sanctuary or training or a place to hide or a place to raise money. And we got more work to do.

See, that's the thing the American people have got to understand -- that we've only been at this six months. This is going to be a long struggle. I keep saying that. I don't know whether you all believe me or not. But time will show you that it's going to take a long time to achieve this objective.

And I can assure you I am not going to blink, and I'm not going to get tired, because I know what is at stake. And history has called us to action and I am going to seize this moment for the good of the world, for peace in the world and for freedom.

That last paragraph kind of shoots that "Bush doesn't care about bin Laden" crap all to hell now doesn't it? Bush didn't care about bin Laden at all. Nope, not at all. He cared so little in fact, that he risked his reputation, America's reputation and his presidential legacy acquiring information from Gitmo detainees just so Obama can find bin Laden, kill him and take all the credit. Yep. That's what he had planned.

Of course, this shouldn't be anything new to the left. Remember Hurricane Katrina? George Bush doesn't care about black people either.