Didn’t JF’nK serve in VietNam?
General Tommy Franks was right. In his book he described how the Mujahadeen used Tora Bora several times to trap Russian soldiers in a killing zone. This was the same trap. Proof? The Afghanistans themselves were recalcitrant to move on Tora Bora; waiting 12 hours for the Al Queda & Taliban there to realize the trap was known, and to pull out.
Wonder how the left would be spinning it today if we had charged into a historically known trap and lost hundreds of soldiers.
I’m just wondering does he have a report on how his treasonous activities and meetings with the communist North Vietnamese in Paris prolonged the Vietnam war...
And then how his party’s cut off of aid to our ally allowed the North Vietnamese to break the peace and destroy South Vietnam?
Taking advice from this leftist idiot is the last thing we should do.
I bet a lot of fools hearing this report think we have always had the current situation in Afghanistan. Not realizing GWB took that country from the Taliban with minimal US casualties.
So then based on this report, when is Obama launching an all out, no holds barred final offensive against Al Queda in Pakistan, Iran and Somalia?
Just in time for Obama’s speech on Tuesday. It was Bush’s fault. Obama inherited the Afghan war from Bush.
This is the same Cut&Run Kerry who got out of Nam after 90 days? Great military genius.
Pray for America and Our Troops
Furthermore the notion that sending/dropping in a few thousand soldiers as blocking forces would have cut off the trails off Tora Bora is laughable.
I hate John Kerry. The release is nothing more than a blame game that Obama can use as his big speech highlight. In my mind, Kerry is angling to be the next SECDEF. It makes me sick to think of that but I’m worried that Gates will step down soon and that this buffoon will be nominated. It would be in keeping with the epic fail moves already foisted upon us by this, the worst presidency in the history of the United States.
“Instead of using U.S. forces to capture Osama bin Laden… the President outsourced the job to Afghan warlords, who let bin Laden slip away.” John Kerry.
http://www.presidentialrhetoric.com/campaign/speeches/kerry_sept24.print.html
Is this what this idiot is now saying in this report?
It’s so funny in this report: that they depend on “intelligence” that tells them “Bin Laden was there” i.e. the same methods used to confirm WMD.
Imagine getting him BEFORE 9-11. It might never have been a day we’ll never forget..
Tora Bora should have been nuked. PERIOD. We blew it!
Oh, so Kerry has downgraded Bin Laden and the rest to "extremists". They are no longer terrorists.
Isn't it funny how the Democrats want to have it both ways? They want to be seen as gung ho about getting Bin Laden, yet they're too squeemish to use the strongest words when speaking of him.
What a joke, I just read through the report. It reads like a political novel. Guess I’m not surprised.
Because those who make an HONEST evaluation realize that 1993 was the point of "inaction"... after the original WTC bombing.
Where were you, John Kerry(we know you were in Vietnam)before/during/after 93?
Democraps are so good at revisionist history...to pacify their failures.
“On July 12, Tenet went to Capitol Hill to provide a top-secret briefing for senators about the rising threat of an imminent attack. Only a handful of senators turned up in S-407, the secure conference room in the Capitol, to hear the
CIA director warn that he was extremely worried that bin Laden and Al Qaeda were preparing an attack on U.S. soil.”
Which Senators showed John?
At any rate, contrary to Kerry’s BS rhetoric on this, capturing or killing bin Laden would not make any difference as it relates to ongoing acts of Islamic oriented fundamentalist terrorism....not a damn bit of difference.
This is Obama’s “if we fail in Afghanistan it was all Bush’s fault” strategy.