Posted on 12/01/2009 1:15:20 PM PST by jazusamo
President Obama unveils his new Afghanistan strategy today, and in the nick of time Senator John Kerry has arrived with a report claiming that none of this would be necessary if former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had only deployed more troops eight years ago. Yes, he really said more troops.
In a 43-page report issued yesterday by his Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Kerry says bin Laden and deputy Ayman Zawahiri were poised for capture at the Tora Bora cave complex in late 2001. But because of the "unwillingness" of Mr. Rumsfeld and his generals "to deploy the troops required to take advantage of solid intelligence and unique circumstances to kill or capture bin Laden," the al Qaeda leaders escaped.
This in turn "paved the way for exactly what we had hoped to avoid—a protracted insurgency that has cost more lives than anyone estimates would have been lost in a full-blown assault on Tora Bora."
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
?Tora Bora is seared into my memory.....Did you you know I was in Vietnam?”
Ugghh. Will Massachussetts EVER vote this twerp out of office?
“President Obama unveils his new Afghanistan strategy today, and in the nick of time Senator John Kerry has arrived with a report claiming that none of this would be necessary if former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had only deployed more troops eight years ago. Yes, he really said more troops.”
These feckless idiots will get more killed and THEN they will pull out - this is not a commitment TO troops, it is a commitment OF troops...bstrds.
“The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers”
I am still waiting to see his Military records he promised to show us.
John Kerry’s credibility is zero.
Every time he opens his mouth ,only crap comes from it.
The people of Massachusetts sur dont have anything to be proud of when they keep electing this Traitorous dog.
First he voted for it, before he voted against it, and now years later, he’s for it again..
This is a distraction...Ask Obama how he voted for money/troops for Afghanistan when he was PRESENT in the Senate.
just thinking about it probably earns Kerry another Purple Heart
I wonder if he remembers where he really was when he said he was in Cambodia? No way, I’d bet he can’t remember where he was last month.
At least if he just thought about it it wouldn’t waste another band aid.
The four Moonbats running for Kenney’s seat are against it.
Excellent question and as far as I know the answer is NEVER!
http://www.nationalreview.com/document/kerry200404231047.asp
Kerry’s rosy prognistications for a Vietnam from which the US simply and rapidly withdraws.
“2,000-3,000” South Vuetnamese seek asylum.... The mind shuts down over the reality of what actually occurred.
I marked your link, thanks.
Over the years I’ve read parts of it but never all of it, now I’m going to.
Yes, the mind does shut down thinking about the slaughter of nearly 2 million Southeast Asians by the commies.
Just like Kennedy, they’ll stop voting for him when he’s dead.
Taxxachusetts is the state that got to say; “I’m from Massachusetts, don’t blame me for Nixon.”
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