![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Oct. 23rd, 2004
From The Left Coaster:
Bush And Rummy DID Let Bin Laden Get Away At Tora Bora
In recent days John Kerry has been drawing blood by attacking the White House with the claim that Bush, Rummy, and Tommy Franks let Bin Laden get away when he was surrounded in Tora Bora in December 2001 by outsourcing the job of capturing him to local warlord forces. In his usual manner, Dick Cheney has jumped in to defend the administration by simply telling bald-faced lies about Tora Bora, saying that Bin Laden wasn’t at Tora Bora, even though the Pentagon admitted he was.
Yet Cheney and the rest of the liars in the administration assume that no one reads the internet or has Google. We already know that the administration made a big mistake and is responsible for letting Bin Laden get away at Tora Bora. How do we know that?
Because it was the administration itself that admitted as much back in April 2002.The Bush administration has concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the battle for Tora Bora late last year and that failure to commit U.S. ground troops to hunt him was its gravest error in the war against al Qaeda, according to civilian and military officials with first-hand knowledge.Now Cheney is saying that this wasn’t true, as is retired General Tommy Franks, who would have reason to cover his butt here. But what is really going on here is nothing more than the usual spat between the intelligence community, which has been sure for a while that we let Bin Laden get away at Tora Bora, and the Defense Department which is just as certain that it isn’t true, because they and Franks cannot admit they made the mistake. And whenever the dispute comes down to one between the Pentagon and the Agency, Cheney always sides with the know-nothings at the Pentagon.
After-action reviews, conducted privately inside and outside the military chain of command, describe the episode as a significant defeat for the United States. A common view among those interviewed outside the U.S. Central Command is that Army Gen. Tommy R. Franks, the war's operational commander, misjudged the interests of putative Afghan allies and let pass the best chance to capture or kill al Qaeda's leader.
Al Qaeda expert, author, and CNN contributor Peter Bergen says that Kerry is correct here. So just remember that it is true that Bush, Rummy, and Franks let Bin Laden get away at Tora Bora, and the Agency confirms it. Kerry is telling the truth once again, and Cheney is lying.
...where is this going?
Oct. 23rd, 2004 11:04 amU.S. fire killed two Iraqi children friday in Fallujah.
The mother of the two girls and the driver of the vehicle were both wounded. Airstrikes continue to destroy the city. A carbomb attack on a U.S. convoy in Ishaqi wounded two Iraqi policemen. Fighting flared in Baquba, and four civilians were wounded. A U.S. marine based suffered a car bomb attack. 20 Iraqi police killed, fourty wounded. Two turkish truck drivers killed in Mosul. Six U.S. soldiers were wounded when their armored vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb on a highway leading to Baghdad airport. Likely this car bomb wounding five soliders story is the same report.
Fighting continued in Ramadi:
And this is what I saw on Today In Iraq:
Blueblooded Flight Suit Frat Boy should have to live in Baghdad for the rest of his useless & pitiful existance.
The mother of the two girls and the driver of the vehicle were both wounded. Airstrikes continue to destroy the city. A carbomb attack on a U.S. convoy in Ishaqi wounded two Iraqi policemen. Fighting flared in Baquba, and four civilians were wounded. A U.S. marine based suffered a car bomb attack. 20 Iraqi police killed, fourty wounded. Two turkish truck drivers killed in Mosul. Six U.S. soldiers were wounded when their armored vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb on a highway leading to Baghdad airport. Likely this car bomb wounding five soliders story is the same report.
Fighting continued in Ramadi:
And this is what I saw on Today In Iraq:
Bring ‘em on: Ten Iraqi policemen killed, 40 wounded in car bomb attack near Ramadi.I wonder, where is this going?
Bring ‘em on: Four Iraqis killed in roadside bomb ambush of US convoy near Latifiyah.
Bring ‘em on: Two Iraqi children killed, four wounded by tank fire near Fallujah.
Bring ‘em on: Heavy fighting reported near Baquba after US patrol ambush.
Bring ‘em on: Five US soldiers wounded by car bomb in Mosul.
Bring ‘em on: Two US soldiers, one Iraqi civilian wounded in fighting in Mosul.
Bring ‘em on: Six US soldiers wounded by car bomb in Baghdad.
Bring ‘em on: Three Danish soldiers wounded in two patrol ambushes near Basra.
Bring ‘em on: Two Iraqi policemen wounded by car bomb at police station near Ishaqi.
Bring ‘em on: Iraqi police break up pro-Sadr demonstration in Kufa.
Bring ‘em on: Two US soldiers wounded by roadside bomb near Fallujah.
Bring ‘em on: US air strikes, ground fighting continues in Fallujah.
Bring ‘em on: Green Zone mortared in Baghdad.
Bring ‘em on: Two Turkish truck drivers killed, two wounded in convoy ambush near Mosul.
Bring ‘em on: Three Macedonian hostages executed by insurgents in Iraq.
Bring ‘em on: Two oil pipelines ablaze near Baghdad.
Blueblooded Flight Suit Frat Boy should have to live in Baghdad for the rest of his useless & pitiful existance.
