Wow...KERRY WAS RIGHT AGAIN>>> whod a thunk it

[greenbriar]

Aug. 15, 2005 issue - During the 2004 presidential campaign, George W. Bush and John Kerry battled about whether Osama bin Laden had escaped from Tora Bora in the final days of the war in Afghanistan. Bush, Kerry charged, "didn't choose to use American forces to hunt down and kill" the leader of Al Qaeda. The president called his opponent's allegation "the worst kind of Monday-morning quarterbacking." Bush asserted that U.S. commanders on the ground did not know if bin Laden was at the mountain hideaway along the Afghan border.

But in a forthcoming book, the CIA field commander for the agency's 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 Bora—intelligence operatives had tracked him—and could have been caught. "He was there," Berntsen tells NEWSWEEK. Asked to comment on Berntsen's remarks, National Security Council spokesman Frederick Jones passed on 2004 statements from former CENTCOM commander Gen. Tommy Franks. "We don't know to this day whether Mr. bin Laden was at Tora Bora in December 2001," Franks wrote in an Oct. 19 New York Times op-ed. "Bin Laden was never within our grasp." Berntsen says Franks is "a great American. But he was not on the ground out there. I was."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8853000/site/newsweek/

[Incitatus]

1. Why do you hate America?

:sarcasm:

[jillan]

2. Yeah, that Kerry knows what he's talking about! On this and just about

everything!

That's why I have to believe that he knew what he was doing when he conceded when he did.

Alot of what Kerry said was the truth;(

[The Magistrate]

3. Indeed, Ma'am

This one was a particularly wretched lie by the criminals of the '00 Coup....

[kerrygoddess]

4. Kerry Was Right — CIA Commander: We Let bin Laden Slip Away

A Newsweek exclusive gives us yet another instance of “Kerry Was Right.” In an new book by Gary Berntsen, a CIA field commander for the agency’s Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Berntsen discloses that the CIA did know where bin Laden was. Contrary to the Bush administration’s assertions that they did not, Kerry the “worst-kind of Monday-morning quarterback” as Bush called him, obviously knew the plays better than Bush…

MORE - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=173

[greenbriar]

5. Thanks

interesting

[liberalpragmatist]

6. What are you talking about? Bush totally refuted that at the debates!

Oh, wait.

[marbuc]

10. the cartoon is hysterical!

Do you have a link?

[liberalpragmatist]

11. Just do right-click, properties and copy the url

I have no idea where it originally came from - i got it from DU way, last november or december or something. i emailed it to my friends and rediscovered it in my outbox a month back and decided to put it in my DU sigline.

Feel free to copy it or put it in your sigline - it's yours for the taking! it's great, isn't it?

[gratuitous]

7. And Tommy Frank lied too, huh?

Guess he's all set for his Medal of Honor now.

[Catherine Vincent]

8. Yet you only hear about Bin Laden being handed to us on a silver platter

but declined by Clinton.....if you listen to freepers.

[orleans]

9. Gary Berntsen better not be flying in small aircraft in the future ....

there might be a bad accident.

y'all know how that goes.:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: