Senate report: Bin Laden was ‘within our grasp’

Meth-NBC ^ | 11-29-09 | AP

[CommieCutter]

WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force, a Senate report says.

[CommieCutter]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34189238/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia

[Perdogg]

I guess they have to do something to boost 0bama’s ratings. This was already covered on 60 minutes.

[Sacajaweau]

Let's go back a little further....BEFORE 9-11....When Bubba turned down Osama on a platter.

I'll always blame Bubba's inaction for 9-11.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

So will I.

Yep - heard this report on radio news this morning....

Just the Dems trying to divert attention from their own Failures in National Defense - everyone who follows the news already knows this factoid - it is not news, or should not be.

[ops33]

“...unquestionably...”

Whenever I read something that uses phrases such as unquestionably, without a doubt, science is settled, etc., without any details or proof, I tend to think the opposite. Maybe it’s true but then maybe it’s not.

[onedoug]

“He’s dead, Jim.”

[paulycy]

They want this story to cover up the Globull Warming SCAM coverage.

Tiger Wood's puttering isn't helping either.

[thethirddegree]

The MSM and Democrats are doing everything they can to distract the public from Climategate.

[italianquaker]

I didnt see anywhere in this article about odumbo wanting to give this creep miranada protections?

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Yes and George Bush personally called those troops and told them not to grab OBL. sarc/

[Miss Didi]

The Friends report that this will be the theme of Barry’s big “photo op” speech on Tuesday. Gee, good thing Lurch released this just in time.

[wiggen]

“It says that a review of existing literature, unclassified government records and interviews with central participants “removes any lingering doubts and makes it clear that Osama bin Laden was within our grasp at Tora Bora.”
What a leap from within our grasp,maybe you catch him,maybe you don’t to unquestionably within our grasp. Just a little journalistic license.
The report also does not say Bush is to blame directly but indirectly as its people he chose made the wrong decision.
Whats not addressed in the article of course is at what cost? Going into those mountains and caves would have cost us how many men? Was that(most probably) part of the calculation?

[RetSignman]

[Bin Laden was ‘within our grasp’]

Killing or capturing Bin Laden is going to same success as the death of John Gotti.

[Right_in_Virginia]

This is just a transparent attempt to keep Zero’s luntatic base neck deep in BDS.

Look for Zero to use this in his speech Tuesday night to explain why he’s sending more troops.

Zero is such a little girl.

[mass55th]

Clinton had more opportunities to get bin Laden after the first World Trade Center bombing, whether it was by having him handed over by the Saudis, or launching cruise missiles at the sites they knew he was at. He passed on all of them. His failures led directly to September 11th.

[TexasCajun]

Indeed, Let's go back to when Slick turned down OBL from the Saudis, leading to the 9-11 terrorist attack!

Bill Clinton Turns Down Osama bin Laden

[ladyvet]

military leaders made the crucial and costly decision....

And Americans did the same when they elected Obama. Unfortunately, our time machine is broken so we need to deal with the present not the past.

[Brizick]

I'm serious (or series) about this: ASK GERALDO!  He was there when a cease fire was brokered between the Northern Alliance and the Taliban.  Geraldo always said this was a big mistake and the decision allowed bin Laden to walk across the mountains.  This is OLD news - politically motivated.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I do, too.

While the left blames Bush as a matter of political tactic, the plain fact is that 9/11 would not have been masterminded and funded by OBL had “Slick Willy” spent more time concerned with national security than having sex in the Oval Office.

Oh, but wait, sex in the Oval Office is a “private matter,” right?

[silverleaf]

I remember this at the time it happened

It seems a CENTCOM lawyer was involved in advising CINCCENT, who took the legal advice to call off the strike, to avoid killing osama’s family

It seems too many of our military spent too much time watching Tom Clancy’s “Clear and Present Danger”