Only 50-60 US personnel at Tora Bora??

[Rosemary2205]

Via CNN presents on Sat Sept 10, 2006. -- is that accurate?

So we had broken bin Laden and Al Queda to the point his own family told him to kiss off, and the Taliban was dead. All that was left was to capture the head terrorist himself and wipe out what little was left.

We could have been done with it right then.

Instead Bush decided to shift his attention to Saddam and Iraq -- an act that has created more terrorists than Osama could on his own.




(and forgive me if this is all too obvious to you -- it's all new to me -- I really WAS in a coma at the time (no kidding).

[kentuck]

1. We're fighting for our freedom and our "way of life" but....

it 's not worth putting enough troops on the ground in Afghanistan or Iraq? They are a threat to our "civilization" and the only strategy they can think of is a "taxcut"? Somebody's lying their asses off...

[FloridaPat]

2. Another version I read years ago was yes we had bin Ladin at

Tora Bora. US forces were ready to go in. They were told to hold still. Pakistan sent in tons of airplanes and flew them back out. When the US soldiers were allowed to go in, there was no one in the mountains. The soldiers were really mad they weren't allowed to be the ones to go after bin Ladin.

[TomInTib]

3. 50 guys can get a lot done.

if they are the right guys.

In Special Forces Ops, more is not necessarily better.

Too many guys just get in each other's way.

There were enough feet on the ground to get the job done, but the will was not there.

Now, about that coma deal, Rosemary, I am glad that you are back amongst us. I was in one, once, myself (drowned).

[Rosemary2205]

4. Drunken driver

Husband and I got rearended. They said the drunk was going about 90mph in the school zone (middle of the day). He died. We are both disabled. Or I should say "challenged" as both of us feel quite "able" -- and grateful to be alive. :)

Thanks Tom.


On Tora Bora -- I don't mean to imply special forces troops aren't great guys. Just that the accounts I'm reading and hearing are saying if we had more of them embedded with the Northern alliance and Paki troops all around Tora Bora it would have been so much less likely that Osama could have slipped through.

This bothers me greatly.

[TomInTib]

5. We dropped the ball all the way around

Actually, I don't think they wanted the mission to succeed. They needed a boogey-man for future use.

Ain't it great to be alive? When I came out, I did not even recognize my Mother.

[lonestarnot]

6. Again... just part of the grand 9/11 plan. His freedom is part of the

deal.