Capt. JG wrote:
All correct... where's Bin Ladin? Ooops.

Well they let jarheads, and ground pounders go after him. They should
have sent the Navy. The battle of tora bora would have been named to
birth of the glass canyon had the Navy been asked to take out Ossama
there.


Bush invaded Iraq instead of
dealing with the real threat.


I thought we were doing both.

Saddam was a dictator who brutalized his
people, but he wasn't a threat to the US or his neighbors at that time. He
might have become a threat, but there was no need to split our effort.

Yes he was. He was a threat to the whole region.

You could argue that since Ossama was hiding is a rat hole out in the
middle of bum**** no-where he is not as much a treat as Saddam was at
the time. Face it Saddam and his FN physco family was a loose cannon
that had to be dealt with.

Did I
mention poppy/heroin production is back on track in Afganistan? I guess we
don't have enough troops to deal with that either.


WTF should we?

Joe




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"Joe" wrote in message
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I found this interesting read from Michael G. Leventhal over the
dojgov.net. It gives an interesting historical perspective on our
current war on terror. It appears that dealing with the Muslim fanatics
has a long history in our Republic: