Catching bin Laden not a top priority -- Bush

From ThinkProgress (which also has video):

Weekly Standard editor Fred Barnes appeared on Fox this morning to discuss his recent meeting with President Bush in the Oval Office. The key takeaway for Barnes was that "bin Laden doesn’t fit with the administration’s strategy for combating terrorism." Barnes said that Bush told him capturing bin Laden is "not a top priority use of American resources."

Bush’s priorities have always been skewed. Just months after declaring he wanted bin Laden “dead or alive,” Bush said, “I truly am not that concerned about him.” Turning his attention away from bin Laden, Bush trained his focus on Iraq — a country he now admits had “nothing” to do with 9/11.

Capturing bin Laden, as Rep. Nancy Pelosi recently pointed out, will not necessarily make America safer because it would come five years too late. Yet, capturing or killing the man responsible for 9/11 should remain a high priority.

In light of the scare tactics being used by BushCo in hyping the threat as being equivalent to WWIII, Digby comments:

This is unbelievable. We are facing a threat that dwarfs the threat of fascism, but Bush doesn't think it's important to remove Hitler.