I have little dought that given his current approval ratings bush would have bin laden killed, whatever their family ties. They were to busy planning a war with iraq to put much time, effort, or troops into afganistan. So he escaped to a country with a couple hundred nucleur weapons and not a drop of oil which has no intention of finding him. Sending snipers into pakistan would get them killed long before they got anywhere near bin laden and possibly start a war even bush isn't stupid enough to believe a good idea. If pakistan had oil that might be a different story, but it doesn't. It doesn't much matter anyway, I'm sure they could find someone else to read their statements easily enough.