Get Osama before I leave office orders Bush

Wow...this only took seven years. Funny how an approaching deadline can "motivate" action.

The Sunday Times has a report up titled Get Osama Bin Laden before I leave office, orders George W Bush

Defence and intelligence sources in Washington and London confirmed that a renewed hunt was on for the leader of the September 11 attacks. "If he [Bush] can say he has killed Saddam Hussein and captured Bin Laden, he can claim to have left the world a safer place," said a US intelligence source.

If we are to believe the "sources" Pakistan seems to have given a green light to more and deeper incursions by special forces into the tribal areas.

Intelligence on the whereabouts of Bin Laden is sketchy, but some analysts believe he is in the Bajaur tribal zone in northwest Pakistan. He has evaded capture for nearly seven years. "Bush is swinging for the fences in the hope of scoring a home run," said an intelligence source, using a baseball metaphor.

A Pentagon source said US forces were rolling up Al-Qaeda’s network in Pakistan in the hope of pushing Bin Laden towards the Afghan border, where the US military and bombers with guided missiles were lying in wait. "They are prepping for a major battle," he said.

I have to say that I am astounded. It almost look like Bush has a "legacy thing" after all.

What worries me more is that he seems to have had a "personality transplant" of late. I don't know what the hell he has been drinking but...

First we have the "man of peace" babble.

   "I think that in retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric," Bush told the Wednesday edition of the Times of London, referring to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

   He acknowledged that phrases like "bring them on" and "dead or alive" had given the impression he was "not a man of peace."

Then he is all buddy buddy with the French

US President George Bush has complimented his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy for his taste in spouse on the latest leg of his European tour.

Mr Bush heaped praise on French first lady Carla Bruni, describing her as "a really smart, capable woman".

"I can see why you married her," he told the French president in Paris.

And then he is causing ripples in Rome - Bush 'may convert to Catholicism'

That's right, rumors are rife that Bush may convert!!!

President George Bush was given such a splendid welcome by Pope Benedict XVI yesterday that rumours started flying that the President, like Tony Blair before him, was on the verge of converting to Catholicism.

It was a Vatican visit such as no other head of state has ever enjoyed. Instead of greeting him, like all previous high-ranking visitors, in the papal library of the Apostolic Palace, the Pope took Mr Bush round the medieval St John's Tower then gave him a tour of the Vatican gardens, culminating in a brief open-air concert by the Sistine Chapel Choir

The notion was given extra mileage by the fact that the President's brother Jeb, the former governor of Florida, converted to Catholicism on marrying his wife Columba, a Mexican.

I'm not sure I can take another 7 months or so of this.