Remember when Bush said "I don't know where OBL is and I don't really spend a lot of time thinking about him"

Fred goes one better "Osama Bin Laden?, more symbolism than anything else"

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/11/04/meet-the-press-thompson-on-osama-bin-laden-more-symbolism-than-anything-else/

Here is Fred saying a bunch of kids are responsible for 3,000+ dead soldiers in Iraq.

Fred: … "I said the US could not be perceived as having been run out of Iraq with our tail between our legs because a bunch of kids on the border there making improvised explosive devices…"

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/11/04/fred-thompson-put-me-back-to-sleep-tries-to-explain-his-bunch-of-kids-with-ieds-comment/