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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 06:27 PM
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BUSH HAS NOT BEEN TOUGH - HE HAS BEEN STUPID!!!
Edited on Wed Apr-25-07 06:29 PM by kpete
So who told the Taliban that Cheney was staying at Bagram? The photo reproduced here was taken in October of 2006, and it may provide a subtle clue regarding the feelings of some of the personnel stationed there.



Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Is someone out to get Dick?

It says much about the administration's current status that the radio rightists won't be able to get much mileage out of the recent revelation, or claim, that Osama Bin Laden planned the suicide attack on Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan while Dick Cheney was staying there.

As Josh Marshall notes, Dems can counter that we wouldn't have a continuing Osama problem if Bush hadn't let the guy go at Tora Bora.

President Bush decided to let bin Laden get away so he could get ready to attack Saddam Hussein. So pretty much anything bin Laden does from here on out is on President Bush. And how about Iraq? President Bush has screwed things up so badly that he's created a whole new generation of recruits for bin Laden. He's created a whole new army for bin Laden. Not by being tough but by being stupid.

Marshall gives only part of the story. Not only did Bin Laden escape, so did dozens of his men -- in flights that were obviously "protected" by the Americans. See the film 9/11: Press for Truth.


There remains the question of just how Osama (or whoever) knew that Cheney was staying at Bagram Air Base, when few Americans had that knowledge.

Alternative thought: Since I am in a mood, these days, to speculate about infighting within the administration, it occurs to me that someone close to Bush might have liked the idea of Cheney falling to an Al Qaeda attack. Such an incident would have elevated approval ratings for both Bush and his war, while ridding him of an unpopular Veep.


more at:
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2007/04/osama-cheney-and-bush.html
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-25-07 07:58 PM
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1. Hey I thought Osama was Been Forgotten?
Get ready folks....Be afraid....Be Very Afraid...cause big bad Osama is going to get you....
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