Posted on 10/30/2004 5:49:10 AM PDT by xzins
Osama bin Laden fearfully stuck his head out of hiding with the release of a new tape. Is this tape important to the presidential campaign?
1. Kerry's positions will pretty much remain a "no policy litany of complaints”: "Why wasn't he captured?" and "Why did we not totally focus on bin Laden instead of diverting to Iraq?"
2. First, Tommie Franks says their intel showed that OBL was not necessarily in Tora Bora.
3. Second, Franks, et al, say that the "war lords" who were attacking Tora Bora caves already had American Special Forces imbeds within their units....so we were involved...far more than Kerry even realizes or would admit.
4. Capturing an American terrorist inside America, in a very confined region in North Caroline, took 5 years. And in North Carolina we speak the same language, have the population on our side, and have the police constantly in support of us,
February 22, 1998 TV Viewers Might Help Capture N.C. Man The Associated Press MURPHY, N.C. -- The main suspect in Alabama's fatal abortion clinic bombing could have fled this mountainous region where investigators have focused their search, federal agents say. "America's Most Wanted" was asked to air a segment Saturday on Eric Robert Rudolph to enlist millions of viewers in the manhunt.May 31, 2003 Eric Rudolph Captured By Henry Schuster / CNN.com Eric Robert Rudolph -- the man charged with the 1996 Olympics bombing, as well as the bombings of a "gay" nightclub and two women's clinics that performed abortions has been captured, an FBI source told CNN. Two people were killed and many were injured in the attacks. A sheriff's deputy in Murphy, North Carolina, arrested a man believed to be Rudolph early Saturday morning without a struggle after he was found behind a business, Cherokee County Sheriff Keith Lovin told CNN.
5. Given the difficulty of finding a terrorist in a land where: (1) we don't speak the languages, (2) the population is just now beginning an adaptation to democracy, (3) there is a Muslim religious custom requiring the protection any Islamic who appeals for sanctuary, (4) there is a new government, new police, and new military, and (5) the most mountainous, rugged area on the face of the earth (far more than Murphy, NC).....
Given all the above, the proper strategy is to remove Governments friendly to Al Qaeda, the larger organization. If we deny them locations to live, plan, train for combat, and organize their resources and opportunities, then we will deal a lethal blow to the organization. This is President Bush’s strategy, and it makes sense.
6. An appropriate force should be directed to continue searching for bin Laden. This has been done with the most elite American special operations forces in the world. Eventually, the head of the snake will appear and be cut off.
7. Finally, removing Saddam, who worked regularly with major terrorist groups, to INCLUDE Al Qaida, was not a diversion from bin Laden but was the proper step for President Bush to take. See below an excerpt from CNN in February 2001, 8 months BEFORE 9/11 and only 20 days after George Bush took office:
Anti-U.S., anti-Israeli groups meet in Beirut, U.S. says (http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/02/12/terror.meeting/)February 12, 2001
Web posted at: 5:23 p.m. EST (2223 GMT)
From CNN State Department Correspondent Andrea Koppel
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. officials are eyeing the January meeting of several anti-Israeli and anti-American militant groups in Beirut, U.S. sources told CNN.
A number of groups that U.S. officials consider the most dangerous were represented at the Beirut conference, including Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida organization; Hamas; Hezbollah; and the Islamic Jihad, U.S. officials said.
....All of the groups have claimed responsibility in the past for attacks on American and Israeli targets.
....Another reason for concern, officials say, was the presence of representatives from Iran and Iraq.
This nation fought two fronts in WWII -- Japan and Germany -- and it was not considered a diversion...nor an impossibility. Additionally, our military is SUPPOSED to be able to fight TWO SIMULTANEOUS WARS while controlling other local conflicts. This was the way the military was designed when the inappropriate drawdown from 18 divisions to 10 divisions took place under President Clinton. It was well within the capabilities of our military to simultaneously pursue their overwhelmingly victorious Iraq campaign and continue the mop up operation in Afghanistan.
In sum, the U.S. must continue to deny any safe sanctuary to Al Qaeda and their frightened, hiding leader, bin Laden. Destroy Al Qaeda and the capture of bin Laden is just a matter of time.
To do this, we must maintain President George Bush in office. While Kerry carps at the President's decisiveness and registers a complaint a minute as his "plan," the President continues forward with a well-conceived, well-based strategy that will enhance the security of our nation.
Don't be deceived. George Bush is the one who has succeeded at all of this. He must be returned for four more years.
Why doesn't big hero Kerry put on his goose hunting gear, grab his shotgun, fly over there and go get OBL if he is so fricking good. Sorry SOS!
Well said..May God watch over this nation and may we have President Bush reelected.
This may have nothing to do with this article but it has been in the back of my mind. Is it possible this is one of his "replicas" and he is dead? I had heard there were 2 or 3 people who went through extensive plastic surgery so as to look like him. Just a thought--I looked at previous pictures and yesterdays and he just didn't seem the same. Do they match up the audio on these things to verify it is the same person speaking?
Excellant post. thanks.
Claims "John Kerry Will Track Me Down & Kill Me!"
He won't have to git'em himself a huntin' license neither.
Yes
Right! He won't have to go in and ask, "Can I get me a hunting license here"? He is such a phony SOS.
Exactly. I'd read somewhere that he'd "changed his appearance", but he sure looks like the cowardly Kuslim scumbag I remember from earlier tapes.
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Losers hijack planes, winners have an Air Force.
PJ O'Rourke.
You're welcome.
Yeh! He could crawl on his belly with a double barrelled shotgun and hunt him down like a deer!
He's already got the cammies and the goose gun....they'd make a pair, wouldn't they?
I've been in favor of considering him dead until he proves he isn't.
Proves.
You could be right.
They are two of a kind all right.
Kerry sounds like a frightened little kid when he says things like this.
Yes. He had at least 10 "lookalikes" working for him.
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