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Accountability
By John
It's important.
Particularly when you make a statement as silly as "..we had Bin Laden just where we wanted him, Tora Bora. We took troops away from there and sent them to Iraq."
That's what Senator Harry Reid said on Face the Nation this morning.
“There appears to be a real disconnect between what the US military was engaged in trying to do during the battle for Tora Bora - which was to destroy Al Qaeda and the Taliban - and the earlier rhetoric of President Bush, which had focused on getting bin Laden,” says Charles Heyman, editor of Jane’s World Armies. “There are citizens all over the Middle East now saying that the US military couldn’t do it - couldn’t catch Osama - while ignoring the fact that the US military campaign, apart from not capturing Mr. bin Laden was, up the that point, staggeringly effective.”
Why do I have to listen to a million iterations of "Bush lied, people died!" from the nutroots when they obviously have no discernible ability to separate military fact from military fiction?
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Mustang is absolutely correct. I do have to correct John though...it is not 'Face the Nation', it is 'Deface the Nation'....:)
Harry Reid is a disgrace and a moron...if the American people don't realize this, then we're incorrigible. People like reid are not only the most dangerous people in the US, but the most dangerous people in the world. If you want to sign up our nation and your children for a conflict that makes Iraq look like a walk in the park, then follow Harry Reid.
I think Harry Reid was, firstly, a very poor choice for Senate majority leader. He's not very well-spoken and, in a world where impression is everything, he looks weak, old, and tired. Is it really true he used to be an amateur fighter back in the day? Hard to believe.
That being said, I think there IS an argument to be made that Iraq diverted our resources and attention from the greater war on terror. While I may not agree with it, the argument has a LOT of credence.
The problem with the Democrats is that you get their far-left mixing in the conspiracy theories and other crap, which drowns out the meat of their argument and dilutes the real facts that buttress their argument with hyperbole and lies.
Of course, with the way the Republicans are running their show, the Democrats really don't have to try that hard.
Dissension is a good thing, even in a war. It's how you conduct that dissension that is so important.
i think that the general idea was to get into iraq and then out again in a relatively short period of time and let "someone, preferably friendly neighbors" do the nation building later.
well the neighbors aren't frendly and congress (those military experts) started telling the troops how to do their work and things went down hill from there.
congress managed to make "Quagmire" a self fullfilling phrophesy and so here we are.
C
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Reid and others are invested in the defeat of the United States for their own selfish political gains. I dont think there has been anything like this in the history of the Republic.
What ever happened to "politics stops at the waters edge"??
I dont recall off hand the name of the general that said that Hillery and others comments are aiding Al Quaida in recruiting and propaganda, it is about time these Quisilings and Benidict Arnolds are called out onto the carpet.