Tora Bora - Dem's need to start banging that missed opportunity

[Pirate Smile]

drum.

When we could have got Osama, we paid the locals who AQ paid off better.

Great CIC, my ass. That was what the men and women who signed up for the military after 9/11 did it for. That was the enemy that the US would have accepted high casualties fighting to capture and kill and Chimpy blew it.

[renotyme]

1. but if we got him then, there would be no october surprise

surprise surprise surprise

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[krkaufman]

4. No, if we'd gotten Osama then, Dec01-Feb02,...

... then they (BFEE) would have lost their leverage to go into Iraq.

They were planning the Iraq war down in Crawford in Dec'01, at the time we supposedly had Osama cornered in Tora Bora. Osama had to remain free to keep the sheeple afraid.

[Merlin]

2. I'll second that! One of history's most astonishing fuck-ups. n/t

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[kentuck]

3. We need to save that as a hole card - one or two days before election..

Where's Osama? Don't play it too early. He may yet still be captured?