Tweety should have asked Franks..."Why did you F*ck Up in Tora Bora!

[AmerDem]

Instead of taking his load thru out that "SOFTBALL" episode!

[KC21304]

1. George Stephanapoulas did ask just that

on Sunday. Franks said the Pakistanis had thousands of troops on their border keeping US troops out. Murshariff could not let us pursue al Qaeda into Pakistan or he would have been gone. So I guess that tells us that bin Ladin was probably in Pakistan before the second plane hit. I'm not saying he was telling the truth, but that is what he said.

[AmerDem]

2. What a bunch or rehearsed nonsense.

Like the backwater country of Pakistan had news networks combing those deep vast treacherous hills. The fact is, he FUCKED up and FUCKED up bad. He failed to get the scumbag that caused this country so much grief.

Damn these corrupt bastards want it all!

[Minstrel Boy]

3. That was no fuck up. That was another stand down.

The special forces were forced to watch bin Laden airlifted to the safety of Pakistan.

From The Fayetteville Observer, August 2, 2002:

A Special Forces soldier says that troops had Osama bin Laden pinpointed in Afghanistan in November, but leaders took too long to decide to go after him and he slipped away.

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The soldier, who said he was on the ground at Tora Bora when bin Laden was located, agreed to talk about the incident on condition that his name not be used.

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...a Special Forces team captain on the ground would not give approval to go after bin Laden because there was no specific mission order to do so, the soldier said.

While the Army was deciding what to do, Special Forces soldiers saw two Russian-made helicopters fly into the area where bin Laden was believed to be, load up passengers and fly toward Pakistan.

"I said, 'There he goes,'" the soldier said.
http://www.fayettevillenc.com/story-archive.php?Template=terrorism&Story=37935

Know what happened after the troops returned to Fort Bragg?

Rash of slayings shocks Army post
4 spouses, 2 soldiers killed in 6 weeks

The wives of four Army soldiers at Fort Bragg, N.C., have been murdered in the past six weeks, allegedly by their spouses, in a rash of violence that has shocked the Special Operations Command and left Army commanders deeply concerned, officers at the base said Friday.

Three of the servicemen involved were members of Special Operations units and had recently returned from Afghanistan. Two of the soldiers died in what authorities thought were murder-suicides, while the other two are being held in the Cumberland County Jail in Fayetteville, N.C.
More here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1536576#1536694

So, I wonder: What caused so many to go on a suicidal rampage so soon after returning from Tora Bora? Or another possibility: had they seen too much, some were talking about it, and needed silencing?

[Old and In the Way]

4. Whoa...makes one wonder, no?

Yet another coincidence?

For more on this, I recommend Paul Thompson's essay, "Escape from Afghanistan" at www.cooperativeresearch.org. Something really stunk in the massive airlift of AQ/Pakistani fighters from Tora Bora.....I don't think the American public realizes what went down there.

[AmerDem]

5. WoW that was the first time I heard of the Russian helicopters going in.

Thanks for the links. It still doesn't take Franks off the hook, he was commander in charge and we had Bin Laden.

The loss is on Franks's watch. I love the way the media doesn't even mention it considering it was one of the most significant battles during the war!