The GOP - Really Tough on Terror
"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." - G.W. Bush, 9/13/01
"I want justice...There's an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive,'" - G.W. Bush, 9/17/01, UPI
So yeah, how's the hunt for Osama bin Laden going, anyway? After all, he was supposedly our number one priority, we weren't going to rest until we found him and he was wanted dead or alive, right? I mean, bin Laden was the one responsible for the deaths of more than 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001, wasn't he?
According to former CIA officer Gary Bernsten, in his book Jawbreaker we first had a chance to snag bin Laden in December 2001 in the mountains of Tora Bora in Afghanistan. US Central Command refused to commit the troops and as a result, bin Laden slipped out of Tora Bora and across the border into Pakistan. This account has been confirmed by fellow CIA officer Gary Schroen and also by Pentagon documentation of the battle of Tora Bora. Strike one.
Now, we learn that in August 2007, US command had yet another chance to kill Osama bin Laden and failed to pull the trigger. It's yet another story that the infamously "liberal media" has failed to cover with any depth. Gee, I wonder why that is. The most play this story has seen has been on... of all places... Faux News. If you can believe it.
Retired Colonel David Hunt on Foxnews.com had this to say...
Besides, these things are of little consequence when you realize how we missed, squandered, screwed up, made a mess of and were massively risk adverse - again - when we did not kill Usama bin Laden in Afghanistan just two short months ago.
We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty - which is huge in the world of intelligence - that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south from Tora Bora. We had his butt, on camera, on satellite. We were listening to his conversations. We had the world’s best hunters/killers - Seal Team 6 - nearby. We had the world class Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating with the CIA and other agencies. We had unmanned drones overhead with missiles on their wings; we had the best Air Force on the planet, begging to drop one on the terrorist. We had him in our sights; we had done it. Nice job again guys - now, pull the damn trigger.
Unbelievably, and in my opinion, criminally, we did not kill Usama bin Laden.
You cannot make this crap up; truth is always stranger and more telling than fiction. Our government, the current administration and yes, our military leaders included, failed to kill bin Laden for no other reason than incompetence.
The current “boneheads” in charge will tell you all day long that we are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan to stop terrorists there so they do not come here. Nice talk, how about - just for a moment - acting like you mean what you say? You know walk the walk. These incidents, where we displayed a total lack of guts, like the one in August, are just too prevalent. The United States of America’s political and military leadership has, on at least three separate occasions, chosen not capture or kill bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahri. We have allowed Pakistan to become a safe haven for Al Qaeda. We have allowed Al Qaeda to reconstitute, partially because of money they (Al Qaeda in Iraq) have been sending to Al Qaeda in Pakistan.
I'm pretty sure Colonel Hunt has been permanently blacklisted from coming near any Fox News entity ever again.
I do disagree with the Colonel however. It's not incompetence. Not in the least. Making sure Osama bin Laden stays alive is a very deliberate and very purposeful act by the Bush Administration. When Bush was spewing out all of that swaggering bravado and jingoistic rhetoric, he knew full well that they had no intentions of ever making a serious run at bin Laden. Because whe they need to ramp up the fear, bin Laden is their go-to guy. How many times have we seen the Republicans embattled and on the ropes, in need of a distraction and VOILA! out comes another tape or message from bin Laden. If they actually took this guy out, who would they turn to? How would they ratchet up the fear? bin Laden is their ultimate bogeyman. Bush and the Neo-Cons NEED bin Laden. And there are idiots among us who still fall for it every single time.
Those folks out there who still think Bush's "War on Terror" has anything to do with wiping out terrorism and the bin Laden's of the world need a serious beating with the clue stick. The "War on Terror" has never been about that. bin Laden merely gave Bush and the Neo-Cons the excuse they needed to wage their wars for nothing more than corporate profit. And if you doubt that, ask yourself why bin Laden is still alive and walking around when we've had the opportunity to drop the hammer on him two times that we know of.
And if you just can't force yourself to be intellectually honest enough to answer that question, then simply ask yourself what your president meant by this:
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." - G.W. Bush, 3/13/02
~Kevin S.
"I want justice...There's an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive,'" - G.W. Bush, 9/17/01, UPI
So yeah, how's the hunt for Osama bin Laden going, anyway? After all, he was supposedly our number one priority, we weren't going to rest until we found him and he was wanted dead or alive, right? I mean, bin Laden was the one responsible for the deaths of more than 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001, wasn't he?
According to former CIA officer Gary Bernsten, in his book Jawbreaker we first had a chance to snag bin Laden in December 2001 in the mountains of Tora Bora in Afghanistan. US Central Command refused to commit the troops and as a result, bin Laden slipped out of Tora Bora and across the border into Pakistan. This account has been confirmed by fellow CIA officer Gary Schroen and also by Pentagon documentation of the battle of Tora Bora. Strike one.
Now, we learn that in August 2007, US command had yet another chance to kill Osama bin Laden and failed to pull the trigger. It's yet another story that the infamously "liberal media" has failed to cover with any depth. Gee, I wonder why that is. The most play this story has seen has been on... of all places... Faux News. If you can believe it.
Retired Colonel David Hunt on Foxnews.com had this to say...
Besides, these things are of little consequence when you realize how we missed, squandered, screwed up, made a mess of and were massively risk adverse - again - when we did not kill Usama bin Laden in Afghanistan just two short months ago.
We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty - which is huge in the world of intelligence - that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south from Tora Bora. We had his butt, on camera, on satellite. We were listening to his conversations. We had the world’s best hunters/killers - Seal Team 6 - nearby. We had the world class Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating with the CIA and other agencies. We had unmanned drones overhead with missiles on their wings; we had the best Air Force on the planet, begging to drop one on the terrorist. We had him in our sights; we had done it. Nice job again guys - now, pull the damn trigger.
Unbelievably, and in my opinion, criminally, we did not kill Usama bin Laden.
You cannot make this crap up; truth is always stranger and more telling than fiction. Our government, the current administration and yes, our military leaders included, failed to kill bin Laden for no other reason than incompetence.
The current “boneheads” in charge will tell you all day long that we are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan to stop terrorists there so they do not come here. Nice talk, how about - just for a moment - acting like you mean what you say? You know walk the walk. These incidents, where we displayed a total lack of guts, like the one in August, are just too prevalent. The United States of America’s political and military leadership has, on at least three separate occasions, chosen not capture or kill bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahri. We have allowed Pakistan to become a safe haven for Al Qaeda. We have allowed Al Qaeda to reconstitute, partially because of money they (Al Qaeda in Iraq) have been sending to Al Qaeda in Pakistan.
I'm pretty sure Colonel Hunt has been permanently blacklisted from coming near any Fox News entity ever again.
I do disagree with the Colonel however. It's not incompetence. Not in the least. Making sure Osama bin Laden stays alive is a very deliberate and very purposeful act by the Bush Administration. When Bush was spewing out all of that swaggering bravado and jingoistic rhetoric, he knew full well that they had no intentions of ever making a serious run at bin Laden. Because whe they need to ramp up the fear, bin Laden is their go-to guy. How many times have we seen the Republicans embattled and on the ropes, in need of a distraction and VOILA! out comes another tape or message from bin Laden. If they actually took this guy out, who would they turn to? How would they ratchet up the fear? bin Laden is their ultimate bogeyman. Bush and the Neo-Cons NEED bin Laden. And there are idiots among us who still fall for it every single time.
Those folks out there who still think Bush's "War on Terror" has anything to do with wiping out terrorism and the bin Laden's of the world need a serious beating with the clue stick. The "War on Terror" has never been about that. bin Laden merely gave Bush and the Neo-Cons the excuse they needed to wage their wars for nothing more than corporate profit. And if you doubt that, ask yourself why bin Laden is still alive and walking around when we've had the opportunity to drop the hammer on him two times that we know of.
And if you just can't force yourself to be intellectually honest enough to answer that question, then simply ask yourself what your president meant by this:
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." - G.W. Bush, 3/13/02
~Kevin S.
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