To: MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; TEXOKIE; Alamo-Girl; windchime; Grampa Dave; anniegetyourgun; ...
Prior to 9/11, these units were never used even once to hunt down terrorists who had taken American lives. Putting the units to their intended use proved impossible--even after al Qaeda bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, bombed two American embassies in East Africa in 1998, and nearly sank the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000. As a result of these and other attacks, operations were planned to capture or kill the ultimate perpetrators, Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, but each time the missions were blocked. A plethora of self-imposed constraints--I call them showstoppers--kept the counterterrorism units on the shelf. I first began to learn of this in the summer of 2001, after George W. Bush's election brought a changing of the guard to the Department of Defense. Joining the new team as principal deputy assistant secretary of defense forspecial operations and low-intensity conflict was Bob Andrews, an old hand at the black arts of unconventional warfare....
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Fyi.
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Thank you very much , I have some text about Iraq war (but It's use chinese write),I hope you can see it .
^_^
5 posted on
01/19/2004 7:40:09 AM PST by
serurier
(We come here for the freedom of the world)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
BUMP!!!
6 posted on
01/19/2004 7:41:19 AM PST by
OXENinFLA
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Bump!
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Old habits die hard.
I cringed on 9/11 when W said the perpetrators would be "brought to justice".
Fortunately, he later decided to bring justice to them, instead.
9 posted on
01/19/2004 7:49:12 AM PST by
Jim Noble
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
If only...
10 posted on
01/19/2004 7:55:43 AM PST by
MEG33
(We Got Him!)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Hmmm .. wondering what Dick Marchinko would have to say about this ...
18 posted on
01/19/2004 8:13:12 AM PST by
BlueNgold
(Feed the Tree .....)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
BTTT
20 posted on
01/19/2004 8:22:19 AM PST by
b4its2late
(Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
I read this late last night on the WS website. It is a great read.
POLITICS has kept the SOF out of the clandestine fight. Absolutely Amazing.
They were created FOR the clandestine fight.
We need a politician with cajones to fix this. Let's get the bad guys on their turf.
28 posted on
01/19/2004 9:09:11 AM PST by
xzins
(Retired Army and Proud of it!)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Most revealing! Great find for the FR forum.
32 posted on
01/19/2004 9:27:54 AM PST by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Nine reasons why we never sent our Special Operations Forces ~ Bump!
41 posted on
01/19/2004 10:36:40 AM PST by
blackie
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
As al Qaeda regroups and deploys to new battlefields in Iraq and elsewhere, our special mission units--the Delta boys, the SEALs, and the rest--remain on the shelf. It's time to take them off. If anyone can overcome the "showstopper" inertia, I believe Rumsfeld can.
Beautiful post, thanks.
51 posted on
01/19/2004 12:33:51 PM PST by
BOBTHENAILER
(One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do, but we're gonna getcha)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Bump!
68 posted on
01/20/2004 2:01:35 AM PST by
windchime
(Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Time to get the LAWYERS out of the Pentagon .......... I too go crazy when I hear 'bring to justice' in the same sentence as UBL. Once again the founding fathers' wisdom is proven correct. This WAR should be DECLARED BY CONGRESS......all this legal rangling would be decreased by 99%.
70 posted on
01/20/2004 2:04:50 PM PST by
PISANO
(God Bless our Troops........They will not TIRE - They will not FALTER - They will not FAIL!!!!!)
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