Kill Bin Laden! Ooops!
The Bush regime failed to get bin-Laden again, in August, 2007 when intelligence had a bead on him. No one would apparently give the order to “go”. Has the failure to get bin-Laden gone from mere incompetence to a developing pattern of refusing opportunities to snag him?
Evidently the Bush Administration isn’t interested in killing Bin Laden. Hey, and this is according to FoxNews! This is from Colonel David Hunt, not a liberal guy, by a long shot. From Foxnews:
We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty — which is huge in the world of intelligence — that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south from Tora Bora. We had his butt, on camera, on satellite. We were listening to his conversations. We had the world’s best hunters/killers — Seal Team 6 — nearby. We had the world class Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating with the CIA and other agencies. We had unmanned drones overhead with missiles on their wings; we had the best Air Force on the planet, begging to drop one on the terrorist. We had him in our sights; we had done it. Nice job again guys — now, pull the damn trigger.
Unbelievably, and in my opinion, criminally, we did not kill Usama bin Laden.
You cannot make this crap up; truth is always stranger and more telling than fiction. Our government, the current administration and yes, our military leaders included, failed to kill bin Laden for no other reason than incompetence.
The current “boneheads” in charge will tell you all day long that we are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan to stop terrorists there so they do not come here. Nice talk, how about — just for a moment — acting like you mean what you say? You know walk the walk. These incidents, where we displayed a total lack of guts, like the one in August, are just too prevalent. The United States of America’s political and military leadership has, on at least three separate occasions, chosen not capture or kill bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahri. We have allowed Pakistan to become a safe haven for Al Qaeda. We have allowed Al Qaeda to reconstitute, partially because of money they (Al Qaeda in Iraq) have been sending to Al Qaeda in Pakistan.
I want competent folks handling our foreign policy, but I have no confidence that it is the case. With this kind of stuff, I gotta think that my default is that anything coming from these folks will be faulty.
But then again, if it’s Bush, it’s faulty, right?
