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Remember also that Condi Rice gave a plan to the President to take care of Bin Laden just a few days before 911.

Apparently. Might have been a special plan, might have been normal contingency planning. And the 6+2 confrontation with the Taliban in the summer of 2001 is intriguing. 9/11 a preemptive strike? Just a feint to ease elimination of the Northern Alliance and move into Central Asia?

Big chapters in this story haven't been fleshed out and certainly I might be impressed about pre-9/11 anti-Osama strategy in the future once the info ever comes out...if ever. The press is almost useless, I don't think they'll ever consider the assaination of Shah Massoud in the big picture of things.

It would be really great if the people demanding to know, "Well, what did Bush do?"would try to remember that for "6"solid months, pre-9/11, the Democrats, aided by Chris Matthews & Co, bogusly beat Bush up for "attempting to privitize Social Security" and "planning to rob the Lock Box". All the while Matthews, Gloria Borger and Margaret Carlson referred to Tom Delay and Bill Thomas as the "Taliban chapter of the GOP".

If Bush had even mentioned the name Osama bin Laden every media whore in the country would have screamed that he was trying to distract attention from the economy (which they claimed he was "Talking down".)

For you to try and get out of your ignorant statement by claiming he should have mentioned terrorism in his campaign, I'll remind you that Richard (can I call you Dick?) Lugar actually ran for President on the issue of Anti-terrorism. No one noticed. Did you support him? No? Looks like you're guilty of doing nothing, too.