Bush declines Obama invitation to ground zero

President Barack Obama delivers a statement in the East Room of the White House on the mission against Osama bin Laden, May 1, 2011. / White House/Pete Souza

Updated 10:32 a.m. Eastern Time

WASHINGTON - George W. Bush has declined an invitation from President Barack Obama to attend an observance at New York's ground zero.

A White House official confirmed that Mr. Bush was invited to join Mr. Obama at Ground Zero tomorrow "but is not able to come - which we of course understand."

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Bush spokesman David Sherzer says the former president appreciated the offer to attend.

"He appreciated the invite, but has chosen in his post-presidency to remain largely out of the spotlight," Sherzer said. "He continues to celebrate with all Americans this important victory in the war on terror."

The White House official told CBS News the invitation to Mr. Bush was communicated "on the staff level." Mr. Obama and Mr. Bush spoke on the phone Sunday night about the killing of bin Laden.

[noloyalisti]

The day of 911, the Bushoccio Crime Family hustled all of bin Laden's family out of the country on private jets. Bin Laden along with many other terrorists were and are a dream come true to the fascist Republicons. The Cons have successfully destroyed America using their buddies like bin Laden and they are determined to do the same thing to the rest of the world.

[WeHappyFew]

Of course Dubya was never going to kill Osama bin Laden. Let's face it,it would be in extremely poor taste seeing as his elder brother Salem had bankrolled Dubya's first business.
Of course let's not forget Salem's successor Pakistani( Oh theres a shocker) BCCI banker bin Mahfouz, brother in law of Osama bin Laden, famed for funding Osama bin laden, set up the Saudi deal to sell 17% of Dubya's failing company for three times the operation's entire value. Hows that for palling around with terrorists?

On another note, although it was undoubtedly used on Khalid Sheik Mohammed, waterboarding is unlikely to be the method used to illicit this particular type of information. My guess is sleep deprivation would be more likely. Waterboarding is not as reliable, not least because it can and on at least nine known occasions, internationally, has, killed the detainee.

[34sender]

The info that was viable from KSM came months AFTER he was water boarded.

The torture had nothing to do with getting usable and truthful information.

[1pheasant1]

by SaoPauloIsHere May 6, 2011 7:39 PM EDT
Moore is a lefTard with down syndrome.Only the braindead leftards pay attention to him.Normal people just ignore him.

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Yet you quoted him. Sarah just put crosshairs on you!

[retm-w]

What do you expect from someone whose hero's are limbaugh and beck.

[AlFranken]

Obama's achievements:
? Bringing an end to the Iraqi war by his diplomatic skills of keeping an environment to allow by acting in a way that doesn't shame key resources from working with us.
? Acting in Libya while understanding our state of economy is already in peril and knows our military is already stretched too thin --- at the rate the previous administration was leading us to war and financial ruin, our country was destined to history alongside the collapse of the Roman Empire.
? Not one American soldier was killed under his command during any military campaign that wasn't previously ordered by the Bush Administration.
? Finally bringing the main cause for us to be in Afghanistan to justice by the assassination of Osama Bin Ladin.
? Giving us the reminder of what our mission if Afghanistan really should have been: not to spend billions trying to change a culture and reinvent their government in either Afghanistan or Iraq but to bring the main culprits to justice. Killing nearly 3000 innocent Americans and finding justice for that was way over due.

Bush's achievements in 8 years:
? Giving tax breaks to the upper class
? Creating a Christian Crusade in the Middle East
? Building up our military resources

[AlFranken]

That's the reason why G.w. declined the invitation.

[1pheasant1]

by SaoPauloIsHere May 6, 2011 3:34 PM EDT ************************************

Michael Moore:Bin Laden "executed".There was no armed people in that house.

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He also tweeted the following:

"It is NOT partisan 2 point out Obama took 2 years 2 do what Bush couldn't do in over 7. It's the dif btwn stupid in charge or smart.

"STUPID pursues 2 reckless wars, let's OBL escape Tora Bora, keeps looking in caves. SMART sends in small strikeforce, no troops killed 2day."

[user000049586849302948603]

Michael Moore is only saying that because he knows it's going to undermine the Republicons hold on their redneck grass roots. Rednecks love the violent pornography of an "aerosol event" shooting.

[SaoPauloIsHere]

Moore is a lefTard with down syndrome.Only the braindead leftards pay attention to him.Normal people just ignore him.

[1pheasant1]

President Bush shared his intelligence with the Pakistanis! It's no wonder they knew nothing.

[user000049586849302948603]

by hakori May 6, 2011 4:08 PM EDT
I do love reading the post of you righties. You just absolutely hate the fact it took a democrat to actually catch Bin Laden, and it was Obama...Oh, my! Democrats are right about a lot of things, but righties will never admit it. They can't even accept that, so you know what we dems do, we put up and you still don't shut up. You huff and puff and blow up your chests, and in this case, expose your failings bare for us all see. Your guy couldn't, but ours did. Just face it!

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Yeah, especially since both Bush and Rummey said that they didn't care where OBL was and finding him wasn't a priority for them. Those dogs just didn't hunt.

[1pheasant1]

Cheney was a hell-of-a-shot, though!

[user000049586849302948603]

by 1pheasant1 May 6, 2011 5:02 PM EDT
Cheney was a hell-of-a-shot, though!

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Yeah, remember how they didn't tell anyone for over 24 hours while they tried to figure out how to cover it up?

[1pheasant1]

by SaoPauloIsHere May 6, 2011 4:12 PM EDT According to your buddy Michael More BS Obama didn't catch OBL(Obama Barrack lying),he "executed" him.

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Brazil nuts!

[nottblu]

Is Michael Moore from brazil?

[1pheasant1]

Flint! Close enough.

[noloyalisti]

No wonder Bushoccio the war criminal would not want to show up. This was literally the high point of his presidency: standing on a pile of rubble from 911 after failing to stop terrorists from causing the pile of rubble on 911.

[nottblu]

Just when you think that your false partisan blather couldn't be more idiotic you prove everyone wrong. Amazing!

[hakori]

I do love reading the post of you righties. You just absolutely hate the fact it took a democrat to actually catch Bin Laden, and it was Obama...Oh, my! Democrats are right about a lot of things, but righties will never admit it. They can't even accept that, so you know what we dems do, we put up and you still don't shut up. You huff and puff and blow up your chests, and in this case, expose your failings bare for us all see. Your guy couldn't, but ours did. Just face it!

[SaoPauloIsHere]

According to your buddy Michael More BS Obama didn't catch OBL(Obama Barrack lying),he "executed" him.

[1pheasant1]

That's not fair. Your guy had intelligence!