Posted on 11/02/2004 3:22:57 AM PST by Former Military Chick
And Bush is responsbible for this-how?
You are on a roll with negative posts..what's up?
This guy seems very ideological...
The libs are trying to spin this tape against Bush. There's no question about it.
With a name like Smucker, he has to be good (not!).
It's amazing that a so-called journalist and some third rate military people know the truth and tactics better than our military...NOT!
Do you purposely seek out all of the negative news stories?
Or does it just work out that way?
If Slick Willy had done his job, this would not now be an issue.
There's a big difference between knowing that Bin Ladin was in Tora Bora and thinking he might be there. Perhaps you might explain just how we were supposed to seal the border with Pakistan? Just exactly which troops were available for this and how were they to be inserted and supplied?
?From Canada to Britain?.....or,....From Britain to Canada?
(AQ loves the UK?)
/Sarcasm?
The problem with Afghanistan is that it was fought from Florida, not from the theater. These guys had to have permission to do anything and to get it they had to talk to someone still asleep in Florida. Lots of bad guys got away because of it. And not just at Tora Bora. i remember reports of convoys and the guys couldn't get permission to fire fast enough so they got away. There were lots of complaints about that. But that fault belongs with the pentagon, not the president. Presidents don't fight wars, generals do. They know they made mistakes in Afghanistan, and a lot of those were corrected for the war in Iraq. We learn our lesson and move on. Bin Laden looked pretty defeated to me.
Maybe they are negative, but does the article contain the truth? In reality, that's what matters. If it's bunk, then lets point out the holes. If it's factual, let's suck it up and live with it.
Whether bin Laden slipped the noose in Tora Bora, he is operationally spayed and neutered.
This is why his most recent video is just that, because he is incapable at this point of pulling off a Madrid.
FMC has a real knack for negativity.
Tomorrow
Ooooh, I'm ever so impressed...
NOT.
OBL didn't "slip through our fingers". 1.) We didn't know for sure he was at Tora Bora and we still don't regrardless of what the lefties try to spin. 2.) common sense should tell you that he probably left Afghanistan before the first bomb fell. He does not practice what he preaches..if he did he would have done a suicide bomb run by now...no, he talks gulible young men into doing it, telling them that they are dying for Allah and how they are going to be blessed after they die. If that is such a great way to go, why don't the leaders of Islam take that way out? Perhaps they don't want to be convered in glory in the after life...or maybe they are just CS.
The US lost a lot of battles at the beginning of WWII, especially in the Pacific, but the media at that time encouraged, not discouraged our military. Should we have brought our soldiers home when things weren't going the way the people or reporters thought they should? Politics be damned, let the military fight the war! Our soldiers over there don't have the same reaction as the media. That should say something!
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