Why did the Bush Administration budget $12 million to “get Tommy Chong”, yet only $25 million for Bin Laden?
In 2003, the Bush Administration budgeted $12 million dollars for “Operation Pipe Dreams” but only prosecuted one man, Tommy Chong. Yet put a bounty on Osoma Bin Laden (“the person responsible for the 9/11 attacks”) of only $25 million.
Why would “that” be?
Update:The Bush Administration paid $12 million to get one man “that” equates to being a “bounty” in my book.
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"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02
"I am truly not that concerned about him."
- G.W. Bush, repsonding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts,
3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)
First of all your facts are entirely wrong. The Bush administration doesn't "budget" money for specific criminal operations. You are talking about funds through the DOJ, the FBI, and the US attorneys office. The funds given to them are by Congress, not the President. The bounty on bin Laden is a bounty, a prize, not a budget. The actual cost of going after him is in the billions, not 25 million. It is ok not to like Bush and try to tie him into all kinds of stuff. But this is ridiculous. Is each President responsible for ever Fed case while in office? Think about what you are saying. Put down the blunt. And why is "that" in quotation marks? And there were 55 arrests and prosecutions in Operation Pipe dreams!
I'm pretty sure the operations to get Bin Laden have cost just a little more than $25 mill. Last number I saw was around $622 bill.
Apples to oranges comparison:
You are calling the total cost a bounty on the one hand, but only considering the reward offered on the other.
We have spent a hundred billion trying to get Osama and we spent 12 million in a dragnet that got only one pothead.
Tommy Chong was the only one to get a prison sentence, the other 54 people charged were either fined or sentenced to home detention. It wasn't just about him.
Actually, Bush has spent Hundreds of Billions and thousands of American lives pretending to try to get bin Laden (invasion of Afghanistan)...I just wish he didn't pretend just so he could invade Iraq after 9/11.
Your equation is incorrect. You are comparing the $12M that was aimed at a group and movement with one person in particular. So I guess your book needs to be edited.
you are mixing rewards with overall budgets.
The total budget involved with hunting Bin Laden down is basically all of the Afganistan war money for the 1st few years. (i.e. Billions)
0bama is in charge now...whats he doing to get OBL?
btw a 25M bounty is a reward, the whole war is to get OBL and it cost much more. do the math and learn the definitions of the words you use. Ask your teachers if you need help.
Bush never wanted to catch his business partner Osama.