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Bin Laden Was "within Reach" of U.S.-Led Forces in Afghan. Several Times, Top French Gen. Says
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| 6/2/04
Posted on 06/02/2004 11:06:39 AM PDT by areafiftyone
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Um why is this guy reciting old news to the media? Didn't the French say this a while back?
To: areafiftyone
You mean France has a general?
To: areafiftyone
Oh yeah -- a "French general" speaks. Whoopee-do.
I wouldn't trust a modern-day French general to be able to find his arse with both hands in his back pockets.
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posted on
06/02/2004 11:08:26 AM PDT
by
Joe Brower
(The Constitution defines Conservatism.)
To: Joe Brower
we have 20,000 there, they have 200, so it's highly likely they had OBL cornered several times. Not.
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posted on
06/02/2004 11:10:42 AM PDT
by
Williams
To: areafiftyone; CSM
"...refused to comment on whether French special forces operating in southern Afghanistan were involved."
Involved in what? Helping Bin-Laden escape, perhaps?
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posted on
06/02/2004 11:11:45 AM PDT
by
wmichgrad
To: Sunshine Sister
You mean France has a general? somebody has to do the formal surrender
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posted on
06/02/2004 11:12:33 AM PDT
by
SF Republican
(You know what I like about John Kerry? Nothing)
To: Sunshine Sister
I didn't even know they had an army. I did know they had an air force that likes to try to wreck Israeli airliners.
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posted on
06/02/2004 11:13:46 AM PDT
by
sharktrager
(Insanity: To continue repeating the same act, each time expecting a different result.)
To: areafiftyone; Sunshine Sister
Armee Levee, Grunt: Why, Marshal Petain, we have not even discharged our rifles! Why are we surrendering?
Henri Phillipe Petain:
As I told my colleague Mr. Churchill on the shoals of Dunkirk: "We have not yet begun to surrender!"
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posted on
06/02/2004 11:13:55 AM PDT
by
The Scourge of Yazid
( "Is that Nazamuddin 'Pretty Boy' Shamzai?" "Well, he ain't pretty no more, that's for damn sure!")
To: areafiftyone
U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan had Osama bin Laden "within reach" on at least two occasions, but were unable to prevent him slipping away, France's top general said Wednesday. Must have heard this from Geraldo.
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posted on
06/02/2004 11:14:09 AM PDT
by
narby
(Abu Ghraib - It's just about sex)
To: SF Republican
This reminds me of DeGaulle criticizing Ike's invasion of Normandy.
"...Charles, once you're gone we'll discuss your suggestions..."
To: areafiftyone
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posted on
06/02/2004 11:16:26 AM PDT
by
WestCoastGal
(Better stand tall when they're calling you out ~ Don't bend ,don't break, baby, don't back down ~)
To: areafiftyone
Did he say this before or after he wet his pants and dropped his rifle? Screw the frogs, bunch of worthless, gutless bastards.
To: areafiftyone
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posted on
06/02/2004 11:18:18 AM PDT
by
PISANO
(NEVER FORGET 911 !!!!)
To: areafiftyone
Has anyone checked under the general's desk?
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posted on
06/02/2004 11:18:32 AM PDT
by
Freemeorkillme
(Strike at the heart of the enemy! Support your conservative media now by picking up the pen!)
To: areafiftyone
"At least two times they managed to escape," he said. "That's absolutely inevitable, normal in the conditions in which these kind of operations are carried out. Yes, these intolerable conditions! No joint pastry support; no Chardonnay re-supply; no crepes or Grey Poupon; how can any modern, civilized army possibly succeed under these... conditions!
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posted on
06/02/2004 11:19:54 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(It's not Bush's fault - It's THE MEDIA'S fault!)
To: areafiftyone
Leave it to the French to make utterly worthless comments about utterly worthless information. Leave it to AP to publish it as though it had significance. [Of course, AP publishes it to make US look bad.]
To: areafiftyone
The French know so much because they probably helped Osama get away.
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posted on
06/02/2004 11:23:50 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: areafiftyone
French general = end of story.
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posted on
06/02/2004 11:24:22 AM PDT
by
G.Mason
(A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride…Max Lerner)
To: Joe Brower
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posted on
06/02/2004 11:24:29 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: narby
Let me tell you something Jack. If that punk-assed phony mullah UBL had been within my grasp as I plunged ahead into a thicket of untenable Taliban grapeshot; why, I would have strangled him to death with my bare, muscular-yet incredibly soft and delicate-hands!That s.o.b. would have been cryin' for his mama. I wasn't scout reporter for "The Young Lords" for nothing, ya' know.
That creep Bin Laden ain't nuthin' to me, you hear me sonny? I've thrashed Charlie Manson, for f***k sake! Yeah, so he's only 5'3, so what? You got a problem with that?
You think those KKK bastards, or those malicious retard-bashers over at Willow-brook want to tango with the G Man again? Thought not!
If Osama thinks he take me, he better just check himself. Al Capone knows what it's like to feel the cold, steely wrath of Geraldo Rivera.
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posted on
06/02/2004 11:24:29 AM PDT
by
The Scourge of Yazid
( "Is that Nazamuddin 'Pretty Boy' Shamzai?" "Well, he ain't pretty no more, that's for damn sure!")
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