Posted on 12/05/2006 4:34:12 PM PST by SandRat
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2006 -- While defense secretary nominee Robert M. Gates considers it important to continue searching for Osama bin Laden, he told senators today the al Qaeda leader has become more of a symbol for jihadist terrorists than an active planner and organizer of terrorist attacks.
Gates, responding to questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing, said he has no doubt that our forces have been trying their best to find Osama bin Laden, but that he isnt familiar with specific details of the effort. |
It would be nice to capture Bin Laden butI don't think he's really all that important in the grand scheme of things. We've got mullahs in this country who are saying the same as binny. The only difference is the fact that Bin Laden has the big bucks.
He's dead.
Exactly, worm eaten since November 2001, Halal meat. You hear the voice, but no pics, the man is dead Jim.
I think bin Laden is dead. Probably met his virgins after we bombed that "school" in Pakistan a few weeks ago.
Do these idiot Senators think that Rumsfeld just wasn't pushing the "Catch Bin Laden" button on his desk?
he died in 2001 you say? who was the guy on the tape before the 2004 elections then?
where are you getting that from?
Gates said the President didn't have the authority to attack Syria or Iran. Gates is crap. He shouldn't be secretary of Taco Bell.
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