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On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:19:36 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:41:33 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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The Bin Laden family was still a big player in Saudi Arabia and
Clinton was afraid to stir up anything that might have jiggled the
price of oil and crashed his rising economy.

They had disowned him, and even Bush was complicit in flying his family
out
after 9/11...

Make up your mind, either the family is part of the problem or they
were innocent


It's not my mind that is made or unmade. This was Bush's decision. I think
you'd need to ask him.

I do not have a problem with him helping the Bin Laden family to get
home. I had a problem with him stopping the other 50 million families
from getting home.
I think the whole post 9-11 policy is over-reaction.

Oh... like the shoe-bomber-take-my-shoes-off bs. I hate that. Who wants to
put your feet on God-knows what. Blech. I agree. We really over-reacted, and
we gave up too much. In that sense, he accomplished quite a bit.


In a more enlightened time we would have just had a foreign national,
working for the CIA, put a bullet in his ear.

Actually bin laden did get CIA (or other? US help) when fighting the
Soviets.

Exactly. They knew how to get at him.

Ok... but, they didn't. Your solution is....


Ignore the ******* until he gets comfortable and sticks his head up,
then shoot him. I guess you have never been squirrel hunting.

Never... ewww... how could you kill a furry little guy?? I have no doubt
that there is a plan for that if we can't get good ground intelligence to
drop a 500 lbs bomb on his head.


How many lives would that have saved? (Iraqi, Afghani and American)
200,000?

Total agreement there... but we really need to set a good example even
if
it's not expedient.


That was the point of using a foreign national and having plausible
deniability. I am old enough to remember when we were very good at
that and the world was actually a lot more peaceful place.


Fidel's cigars?

If Eisenhower was still president in 1961, Fidel would be a footnote
in the history books. No missile crisis, no embargo, no Angola war and
no Granada war.
That guy knew how to get things done covertly and efficiently.

If we hadn't had the Granada "war", we wouldn't have had that movie with
Clint Eastwood, old but cool hunk of hunks.