WTF?! we had BinLaden in August of 2007

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"Colonel David Hunt, U.S. Army (Ret.)

Because there is no shortage of things to yell about regarding the War on Terror, Iraq, Afghanistan, Homeland Security, and so on, deciding what to write about is always fun.

This week, I was going to yell about how the Bush administration leaked classified information ? again ? but we’ve been there before. Then, I thought I might write about Blackwater, but compared to so many things, Blackwater looks like back water.

I bet the few of you that read this stuff thought I would write about my short stint in the sights of those who complained or used my column last week for their own purposes. Nah, it ain’t going to happen. Those who were yelling or using me on their TV shows ? without bringing me on to comment ? are hardly worth the print space. I am not that big a deal. Besides, these things are of little consequence when you realize how we missed, squandered, screwed up, made a mess of and were massively risk adverse ? again ? when we did not kill Usama bin Laden in Afghanistan just two short months ago.

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.

We are in a war with terrorists. We are in a war with countries that support terrorists. We are in a war with people that fly planes into buildings and who never, ever hesitate to pull the trigger when given the chance to kill us. We cannot win and, I will tell you this now, we are losing this war every damn time we fail to take every single opportunity to kill murderers like Usama bin Laden. Less than two months ago, we lost again.

Our men and women are being blown up and killed every day in Iraq and Afghanistan. Every family who is separated from a loved one during this war is being insulted by our government when they fail to kill those who have already killed us and will not hesitate to do so again and again. Damn it guys, PULL THE DAMN TRIGGER

the war is bigger than one person. I don’t believe he is a priority target or he would be dead.

It does seem like they really don’t want him dead.
Maybe because all of the terrorists would go crazy on the US at once.(?)
Where did you get that quote. Just curious.

^^^ CNN

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^^^ CNN

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???

if his life was ended then what who is the president going to blame or target for justification for the war.

think about how far out of the loop we are. let me ask you. what is our goal? it sure as hell isn’t peace in the middle east

there is no way that a journalist wrote that.

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there is no way that a journalist wrote that.

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Colonel David Hunt, U.S. Army (Ret.) wrote it.

So therefore it’s true?

I call BS.

someone needs to buy that guy a new keyboard, i think his ‘?’ key randomly goes off

If we Kill Bin Laden, then the mission is over…the people will want the troops home more than ever. With all the high-tech shit the great US of A has, it is BS that we cannot locate a goat herder…WTF ever…The BS about "we are searching for Bin Laden is a false ploy to keep the war going. It has never been about 911 and most of us know it.

Any chance you could post a link to the article which explains this?

^ there is not article that explains this in plain common english…it’s common sense.

We could just kill him and not say that we killed him too. Think about it for a minute. Maybe we DID kill him and the entire convoy he was in. Nobody on the outside would ever know. Then we could tell the world when we see fit to.

CNN that liberal rag, must be made up… :wink:

To me, something like this doesn’t surprise me. This administration has an endless line of fuck ups. Even Magic Underwear Romney is better than who we have…

The ? are ? secret? codes? the CIA? uses? to ?communicate.:snky:

He cant be dead, he has to be hiding in Iran so we have even more reasons to attack…

I call BS on the article as well.