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On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:22:35 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

How is that going. The time last I looked BOTH wars are still going on
and Osama is no closer to being captured than he was on Sept 12 2001.

bush let bin laden escape. bush let him get to pakistan. unless you
think obama should start ANOTHER war, you go ahead and tell me how
obama should get him, OK?

and BOTH wars are going on because it would be criminal to abandon
iraq

At the time we were chasing Osama in Tora Bora we just had a small
contingent of CIA and special Ops people there calling in air strikes.
That was the way the plan was supposed to work. The special Ops people
were in trouble when the local war lords turned against them and there
is no guarantee 1000 or even 10,000 more troops hastily dropped in
there with no real plan, would have turned the tide up in those
mountains. It would have just sent a lot more American kids home in
body bags.

Your Iraq statement sounds like what Nixon said about Vietnam.
I suppose we could still be fighting that war too.

Well, you're certainly right, but the plan, devised by Rumsfeld et. al.,
overruled what the military recommended.