Posted on 09/08/2006 10:31:15 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
US Senate sets 200 million dollars to fund hunt for bin Laden
Thu Sep 7, 6:51 PM ET
The US Senate unanimously approved an additional 200 million dollars to this year's defense budget to fund an intelligence unit that would seek to hunt down top Al-Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden.
The measure, approved by a vote of 96 to 0, would also require the US Defense Department to report to Congress every three months about progress made toward apprehending bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
The legislation was authored by Democrats Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan as an amendment to the 2007 Defense Appropriations Bill being debated in the Senate this week.
"Osama bin Laden, the head of al-Qaeda, planned, financed and organized a terrorist operation that killed thousands of Americans. It has now been more than 1,800 days since those attacks, and this man is still on the loose," Conrad said.
"The Senate agrees that it is chief among our priorities in the war on terror to bring the mastermind behind September 11 to the justice that a mass murderer deserves," he said.
Said Dorgan: "Our amendment makes certain that bringing Osama bin Laden to justice will be one of our country's most important priorities, and that he is pursued with real energy and with focus, clarity and a specific set of goals."
Republican Senator Ted Stevens, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee which manages federal spending, on Thursday called the amendment "a slap in the face of the intelligence community," already hot on trail of the terror leader.
But Stevens conceded that it would be all but impossible for lawmakers to vote against the measure during an election year and just days before the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
And ashes. :-)
Smoke is worse!
True......very true. LOL
Coming of election season stimulates Rat's imagination to come up with cheap tricks.
He's dead, Jim.
ROFLMAO!!!!!
The 'rats can't even get their talking points right. BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
It would have more meaning if they gave the US armed forces free reign and backing to go wherever he may be. Invade Pakistan? OK.
Jihadis will slink out of every snakepit to rescue him or kill the Great Satan. If they have access to nukes (NK), they will use them.
BUMP
Added keyword grandstanding.
"Then when I read it, this jumped out at me..."...would also require the US Defense Department to report to Congress every three months about progress made toward apprehending bin Laden..."
Have you ever heard something so damned beauracratic and stupid?"
Especially when the Rats are going to leak everything not stated in open session to the media, which in turn gives tactical information to bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Once again, what they are doing is politicizing this war and Sept. 11.
"and spending $ 200 MILLION ( have you ever heard of such a thing as this ? 200 MILLION )."
Can you imagine how this plays out in the ME? The propaganda value this has for bin Laden?
So how do they know that $200 million will do it? What if it's too little? What if they can do it for $20 million? This is nonsense, a cheap political ploy. One would think from this that the U.S. intelligence community wasn't looking for bin Ladin at all due to lack of funds. Republicans and Democrats both will jump on this boondogle just so they can go home and wave it around for the voters.
Actually, it would be great to have him captured right before the fall election, just to see the sputtering, spittle-lipped democratic dunderheads explode in outrage over the obvious Rovian ploy...:)
Just for the sheer entertainment value of it all.
That's easy, it's not their money,
I thought that catching Usama was no longer a big deal to the Dems??
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