Does this man look gloomy? Would this man give up?
Posted on 10/14/2004 5:50:29 AM PDT by OESY
As John Kerry tells it, Tora Bora is the place where President Bush let Osama bin Laden get away....
Well, that's not the way the battle's commanders remember it. The Afghanistan war was led by Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of U.S. Central Command, and his deputy, Lt. Gen. Michael "Rifle" DeLong.... To them, Mr. Kerry's version of the battle of Tora Bora is revisionist history.
...Gen. Franks, on the campaign... for George W. Bush,... said it's wrong to assume that bin Laden was hiding out in Tora Bora. Some intelligence reports put him there, he says, but others placed him in Pakistan, Kashmir or Iran....
[A]l Qaeda leaders had fled to Tora Bora, where they holed up in the mountains' vast network of caves. The cave complex was built in the 1980s as a sanctuary for the mujahedeen fighting the Soviets and was equipped with food, water, weapons, electricity and a ventilation system. Bin Laden used it as his headquarters in the mid-1990s. There were hundreds of tunnels, some many miles long, with exits over the border in Pakistan.
Afghanistan is full of rough country, and the jagged peaks of the Tora Bora area are about as rough as it gets -- up to 13,000 feet and covered in snow and ice. "Surrounding" the area... was impossible....
The U.S. commanders made the decision to embed a team of U.S. special forces and CIA agents into every Afghan unit. Like the Afghans, the Americans rode horses or, in the higher altitudes, walked. The special forces carried communications equipment that allowed them to talk to their commanders and to call in air power. Which they did with stunning effect -- demolishing cave-openings and skipping bombs with delayed fuses deep inside. Hundreds of al Qaeda fighters died. No American life was lost....
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I'm sick of that lying bastard's nonsense. After November 3rd, he's going to be relegated to the trash heap of American politics where he belongs.
I agree but have a bad feeling about the scumbag maybe pulling it off. The shear level of lies, BS, negative doom & gloom, outside groups and celebrities, MSM, Minorities, Unions, scared seniors, scared draft age kids....
I think I stayed up to late last night, the doom & gloom campaign is starting to affect me.
Can you imagine living in Rome in the last days before it fell? I can't.
I like that. It rings of truth. ;^)
.Is life so dear and peace so sweet as to be bought at the price of delusion, demagoguery and God-knows-what agenda?"
Does this man look gloomy? Would this man give up?
Oh, gosh, I hate it when I get three or four graphs into a genuinely exciting story and then it cuts off because it's for WSJ subscribers only. Guess I'm going to have to go out and actually BUY a paper, something I hardly ever do anymore.
Alexander Hamilton said, "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one."
It better just be a hair's breadth and nothing more. We joke that he's sKerry, but the situation really is. How did he get this far? I'm trying not to lose sleep over the possibilities, but my brain won't quite cooperate. Someone please tell me he won't be able to pull it off.
The Wall Street Journal is one of those papers worth buying (though I would stay away from its weekly corproate cousin, Barron's). If you don't mind getting little more than an editorial page (2 pages in the Monday/Tuesday editions), financial tidbits and the more-than-occassional technology story, Investor's Business Daily might also be worth the cash. Britain's Financial Times tends to have a decent view of things from the far side of the Pond. Beyond that, I can't really recommend any national dailies (I wish I could get the Washington Times out of the Beltway).
"...how, on a scale of 0-100, a loser (albeit a rich one) can come within a hair's breadth of becoming the leader of the greatest country on earth."
We discuss it all the time: The MSM holds him to no standard to speak of. Niether Clinton or J lying K could EVER have gotten anywhere NEAR the presidency if they were Republicans.
A nation without a free press CANNOT survive. If the press had no bias Algore's suing to be president never could have happened (hell, he probably would never have been VP)and the resultant destruction to the process would never have occured and the possible nightmare we are facing (if Nov is close)wouldn't happen and on and on and on...
I mean start extrapolating the possibilities in the poltisphere with a more or less fair press against what YOU KNOW to have happened. The differences in History are immense!
We have treason everywhere. The question is: how do we survive with a nation populated by a large percentage of traitors?
It's also available at the free OpinionJournal companion site (though since it is the featured article today, you do need to register with an e-mail address).
In any case, think about Michael Moore saying that we'd all be doomed if Bush were elected. Let's turn that around. Are we going to stop struggling to protect the Republic if Kerry wins? No. Are we going to be doomed? Not if I can help it. Join with me in stating here and now that we will stand up for freedom no matter what the odds, no matter who is in charge. Think about the days of Carter and Clinton. We may have to endure it again. True patriotism requires us to keep the faith and fight the good fight.
Time to make my secret wish for the 2008 GOP Presidential ticket public:
Franks/Guiliani 08
I like Rice better. She's a second amendment supporter.
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