[mnehring]

Actually, that is a complete myth. Read Tommy Frank's book and the military staffing reports. After the war started in Iraq, the number of troops hunting in Afghanistan went up. As Tommy Franks put it, we just ran out of things to bomb.

Now, unless Ron Paul thinks he knows more or better than Tommy Franks about the first hand situation in the fight, he really need to get a clue.

[WhiteGuy]

Actually, that is a complete myth.

What is a myth?

That they forgot about binladen?

Or that they went into "nation building"

While I'm sure saying that the CIC forgot about binladen was a figure of speech, (I'll bet someone brings his name up in meetings once or twice a week), capturing or killing the person responsible for 9-11 has really not been much of a priority.

The operation in iraq is clearly classical nation building, which was denounced roundly when the former CIC was doing it....

So the number of troops went up.....so what, 5 years later nothing.

A complete myth? Not a chance.