Excuse me, but they did not offewr to expell him. They decided to ask him to voluntarily depart. That's a conciliatory message. Bush is asking for conciliatory ACTS. Not messages. The reason this is necessary is because the situation is one in which the communication of those who have participated in the attacks, directly or indirectly, is demonstrably unvaluable, false, deceptive, treacherous, and useless in real terms. What has happened in real terms is savage action against humans. Only real-world acts count in this kind of a scenario. I am sorry if this seems extreme, but it is the ground truth of the situation.

"We will ask him to leave of his own free will" is a much pussier message than "We have kicked him out of Afghanistan". If they are serious, it will become "We are handing him over to the United States for trial tonight at 5:00 PM." This pussyfooting around with "He was a guest, a visitor, yadda yadda" is the kind of smoke and mirrors we no longer have time to entertain.

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