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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Obama has now caught both of the men responsible for both September 11ths.
http://americablog.com/2014/06/obama-captures-benghazi-ringleader.htmlsnip
Youll recall that George Bush never caught Osama bin Laden, and in fact let Osama get away at Tora Bora:
In a forthcoming book, the CIA field commander for the agencys Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members. Berntsen says he had definitive intelligence that bin Laden was holed up at Tora Boraintelligence operatives had tracked himand could have been caught. He was there, Berntsen tells NEWSWEEK.
This was only months after September 11, and it was only a few months before Bush basically gave up on trying to catch Osama all together:
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Tell me again who's weak on terror?
Takket
(21,620 posts)The group of people responsible for the murder of 5000 soldiers is still running around.
Bush
Cheney
C. Rice
Wolfowitz
Bremmer
Rumsfeld
none of them are in prison.
tridim
(45,358 posts)Underestimating Obama is a mistake that is made over and over again by people who should know better.
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Simultaneously.
Uh, I think that contradicts the laws of physics.
But, if you watch U.S. mass media, you'll have nothing but kvetches to talk about. "Yes, but. Yes, but."
doc03
(35,363 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,855 posts)We had to put that money into the right pockets -- people like Cheney. When will the press get to the real reason behind the WOT? Judging by their past actions, not anytime soon. Wake up, everybody! Time for school!
Fla Dem
(23,736 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)and George and his father had a kissing relationship to that family.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)If only...
Botany
(70,567 posts).... have their Iraq war. People need to be in jail.
packman
(16,296 posts)telling a group of reporters several months after 9/11 that he and his administration just wasn't interested in capturing Osama. This absolutely stunned me.
Orrex
(63,220 posts)He'd be impeached before the end of the press conference.
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Whatever are the insane Repukes to do now? HOW will they continue to screech that his goal is to wipe out all non-Muslims? What about the black army massing even now to round up rednecks into Fema camps? What about this, what about that? Eventually, most of even the ignorati will see through their charade.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,355 posts)Washington, D.C., September 11, 2013 Henry Kissinger urged President Richard Nixon to overthrow the democratically elected Allende government in Chile because his "'model' effect can be insidious," according to documents posted today by the National Security Archive. The coup against Allende occurred on this date 40 years ago. The posted records spotlight Kissinger's role as the principal policy architect of U.S. efforts to oust the Chilean leader, and assist in the consolidation of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.
The documents, which include transcripts of Kissinger's "telcons" telephone conversations that were never shown to the special Senate Committee chaired by Senator Frank Church in the mid 1970s, provide key details about the arguments, decisions, and operations Kissinger made and supervised during his tenure as national security adviser and secretary of state.
"These documents provide the verdict of history on Kissinger's singular contribution to the denouement of democracy and rise of dictatorship in Chile," said Peter Kornbluh who directs the Chile Documentation Project at the National Security Archive. "They are the evidence of his accountability for the events of forty years ago."
Today's posting includes a Kissinger "telcon" with Nixon that records their first conversation after the coup. During the conversation Kissinger tells Nixon that the U.S. had "helped" the coup. " Word omitted) created the conditions as best as possible." When Nixon complained about the "liberal crap" in the media about Allende's overthrow, Kissinger advised him: "In the Eisenhower period, we would be heroes."
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB437/
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)1000words
(7,051 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)...to grab a couple of nobodies.