This week President Bush told CNN that one of the moments he most regretted during his time as President was when in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on our nation, he said of Osama bin Laden: "I want justice. There's an old poster out West that said: 'Wanted, dead or alive.'"
 

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I don't understand why President bush regrets saying that. In my opinion, that was one of the greatest moments of Bush's Presidency. What is regrettable is the fact that President Bush didn't follow up that tought talk with tough action. President Bush shouldn't regret saying what he said; but he should regret the fact that seven years later it remains a sad fact that during the span of two Presidential terms, George W. Bush never caught Osama Bin Laden: dead or alive. That should be his biggest regret! I was in NYC on 9/11. That day changed my life forever. It also changed the world. And it moved and united a nation; our nation. I remember in the weeks that followed, a tribute concernt was held at Madison Square Garden, to honor the victims of 9/11 and raise money for their families. The rock band Bon Jovi played their famous 80's hit, "Wanted Dead or Alive." The band played it because Bush said it. The crowd went crazy. The country was united, patriotic, and wanted Bin Laden brought to justice. President Bush should regret the fact that he didn't take advantage of that opportunity when the country and the world supported him and the United States. Instead, he took his eye off the ball, and shifted the country's focus, money, power, resources, and military might toward Saddam Hussein and Iraq. And Osama Bin Laden has remained free, despite the fact that he's responsible for killing 3,000 Americans on U.S. soil, in the worst attack on our homeland either ever, or since Pearl Harbor. Shame on President Bush. He should regret that he never brought Osama Bin Laden to justice; not the fact that he said he would.