after ignoring bin Laden for almost 7 years, it is suddenly time to look for him

Get Osama Bin Laden before I leave office, orders George W Bush
(Times Online)
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Gee, I can't imagine what would bring this up in June of an election year...
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Seven years after 3,000 died on September 11, Bush finally decides it's time to catch Osama

I'm speechless. Bush has suddenly decided that it's time to catch Osama bin Laden. Conveniently in time for the presidential campaign. Last year, and the 5 years before that, it wasn't very high up on Bush's agenda, avenging the deaths of 3,000 people in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. But now that John McCain's presidential race, and Bush's legacy, are at stake, suddenly Bush is "ordering" his administration to catch Osama.

Why didn't he give that order six years ago?

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