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Senate report: Bin Laden was ‘within our grasp’
Meth-NBC ^ | 11-29-09 | AP

Posted on 11/29/2009 5:54:33 AM PST by CommieCutter

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1 posted on 11/29/2009 5:54:34 AM PST by CommieCutter
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To: CommieCutter

I guess they have to do something to boost 0bama’s ratings. This was already covered on 60 minutes.


2 posted on 11/29/2009 5:59:37 AM PST by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: CommieCutter
Let's go back a little further....BEFORE 9-11....When Bubba turned down Osama on a platter.

I'll always blame Bubba's inaction for 9-11.

3 posted on 11/29/2009 6:00:06 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

So will I.

Yep - heard this report on radio news this morning....

Just the Dems trying to divert attention from their own Failures in National Defense - everyone who follows the news already knows this factoid - it is not news, or should not be.


4 posted on 11/29/2009 6:04:36 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Obama's Deathcare ---- many will suffer and/or die unnecessarily.)
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To: CommieCutter

“...unquestionably...”

Whenever I read something that uses phrases such as unquestionably, without a doubt, science is settled, etc., without any details or proof, I tend to think the opposite. Maybe it’s true but then maybe it’s not.


5 posted on 11/29/2009 6:05:25 AM PST by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: CommieCutter

“He’s dead, Jim.”


6 posted on 11/29/2009 6:07:08 AM PST by onedoug
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To: CommieCutter
They want this story to cover up the Globull Warming SCAM coverage.

Tiger Wood's puttering isn't helping either.

7 posted on 11/29/2009 6:07:34 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: CommieCutter

The MSM and Democrats are doing everything they can to distract the public from Climategate.


8 posted on 11/29/2009 6:07:51 AM PST by thethirddegree
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To: ops33

I didnt see anywhere in this article about odumbo wanting to give this creep miranada protections?


9 posted on 11/29/2009 6:08:21 AM PST by italianquaker (“Every inch of this Administration is rife with corruption and cronyism.” --- Michelle Malkin)
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To: CommieCutter

Yes and George Bush personally called those troops and told them not to grab OBL. sarc/


10 posted on 11/29/2009 6:08:57 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Audit the FED NOW!)
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To: CommieCutter

The Friends report that this will be the theme of Barry’s big “photo op” speech on Tuesday. Gee, good thing Lurch released this just in time.


11 posted on 11/29/2009 6:10:27 AM PST by Miss Didi ( "After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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“It says that a review of existing literature, unclassified government records and interviews with central participants “removes any lingering doubts and makes it clear that Osama bin Laden was within our grasp at Tora Bora.”
What a leap from within our grasp,maybe you catch him,maybe you don’t to unquestionably within our grasp. Just a little journalistic license.
The report also does not say Bush is to blame directly but indirectly as its people he chose made the wrong decision.
Whats not addressed in the article of course is at what cost? Going into those mountains and caves would have cost us how many men? Was that(most probably) part of the calculation?


12 posted on 11/29/2009 6:12:30 AM PST by wiggen (Never in the history of our great country have the people had less representation than they do today)
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To: CommieCutter

[Bin Laden was ‘within our grasp’]

Killing or capturing Bin Laden is going to same success as the death of John Gotti.


13 posted on 11/29/2009 6:14:17 AM PST by RetSignman (Townhalls ..."We have seen the Patriots and they are us")
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To: CommieCutter

This is just a transparent attempt to keep Zero’s luntatic base neck deep in BDS.

Look for Zero to use this in his speech Tuesday night to explain why he’s sending more troops.

Zero is such a little girl.


14 posted on 11/29/2009 6:18:28 AM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: wiggen

Clinton had more opportunities to get bin Laden after the first World Trade Center bombing, whether it was by having him handed over by the Saudis, or launching cruise missiles at the sites they knew he was at. He passed on all of them. His failures led directly to September 11th.


15 posted on 11/29/2009 6:27:16 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Sacajaweau
Indeed, Let's go back to when Slick turned down OBL from the Saudis, leading to the 9-11 terrorist attack!

Bill Clinton Turns Down Osama bin Laden

16 posted on 11/29/2009 6:27:23 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: CommieCutter
military leaders made the crucial and costly decision....

And Americans did the same when they elected Obama. Unfortunately, our time machine is broken so we need to deal with the present not the past.

17 posted on 11/29/2009 6:38:09 AM PST by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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I'm serious (or series) about this: ASK GERALDO!  He was there when a cease fire was brokered between the Northern Alliance and the Taliban.  Geraldo always said this was a big mistake and the decision allowed bin Laden to walk across the mountains.  This is OLD news - politically motivated.
18 posted on 11/29/2009 6:40:15 AM PST by Brizick (Repeal the 17th Amendment)
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To: Sacajaweau

I do, too.

While the left blames Bush as a matter of political tactic, the plain fact is that 9/11 would not have been masterminded and funded by OBL had “Slick Willy” spent more time concerned with national security than having sex in the Oval Office.

Oh, but wait, sex in the Oval Office is a “private matter,” right?


19 posted on 11/29/2009 6:42:38 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: CommieCutter

I remember this at the time it happened

It seems a CENTCOM lawyer was involved in advising CINCCENT, who took the legal advice to call off the strike, to avoid killing osama’s family

It seems too many of our military spent too much time watching Tom Clancy’s “Clear and Present Danger”


20 posted on 11/29/2009 6:48:55 AM PST by silverleaf (Ours is the only country on earth with a ventriloquist dummy for President)
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