text: why would bush say this? http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/14/barnes-osama/  is it because what bush caused to happen is much worse? because you can't terrorize america if the boogeyman is dead.  the fear card has been bush's best play since 9-11.  without it, much of his rollbacks on civil liberties, detainments, and war-mongering would have been met with too much opposition.  odds are good that osama is tilling out a quiet life in crawford, texas, helping laura plant flowers and keeping the barbecue pit cleaned out.