I can't believe you guys actually think someone in the US would say no to
getting Bin Laden. Does that even make sense?

I can't believe you guys actually think someone in the US would say no to
getting Bin Laden. Does that even make sense? Scheuer writes this stuff so
people like you(and all the other libs) buy his books. Anyone in this
administration would do anything to get Bin Laden. If that was real Pelosi
and Reid would be all over it and apparently they are not. Yes and I know
Scheuer was a big CIA guy but that doesn't mean he is credible.

Mike

http://mtaricani.blogspot.com/

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December 29, 2007

Pakistan Totters as Bush's "Gift" to bin Laden Bears Fruit

by Ralph Lopez


Former CIA Al Qaeda Unit Chief Michael Scheuer's 2004 scenario came
that much closer to reality today, in which George Bush's bungled
invasion of Iraq gives Al Qaeda just the battleground it needs to
attract legions of recruits, the solid propaganda of an evil empire
stealing oil money from the mouths of hungry Muslim children, in a war
against a former ally who only became bad when he stepped out of line.

In December of 2001, Al Qaeda was a desperate remnant of fighters
willing to die alongside bin Laden, and U.S. Special Forces was about
to oblige them.

Then someone somewhere - the highest order we have now came from Tommy
Franks, but did it go higher? - refused the urgent request of the
ranking Special Forces commander on the ground to seal the mountain
passes out of Tora Bora with a battalion of U.S. Army Rangers.

That commander on the ground, Gary Bernsten, wrote in "Jawbreaker: The
Attack on bin Laden and Al Qaeda":


"The biggest and most important failure on the CENTCOM leadership came
at Tora Bora when they turned down my request for a battalion of U.S.
rangers to block bin Laden's escape."


Tommy Franks insists he didn't know if bin Laden was there, but
Bernsten is blunt:

"He was there, and could have been caught."

Bernsten is corroborated by former CIA official Hank Crumpton, who
personally briefed Bush and Cheney, as well as Franks, about the need
to go after bin Laden in Tora Bora.

With the assassination of Bhutto, Pakistan is closer than ever to
civil war.

And ultimately, Islamist forces marching into Islamabad in victory, us
tied down in Iraq and not able to do a damned thing about it.

This is the first of the many dominoes bin Laden had envisioned,
including the "apostate" regimes of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and UAE.

But most especially on bin Laden's list was Pakistan.

Writes Scheuer, in "Imperial Hubris," of bin Laden dreaming of a gift
from Allah like the invasion of Iraq:


"And then, dreamed bin Laden wildly, things would get bad for the
Americans. They would stay too long in Iraq, insist on installing a
democracy that would subordinate the long dominant Sunnis, vigorously
limit Islam's role in government, and act in ways that spotlighted
their interest in Iraq's massive oil reserves."


George Bush has much to answer for, for turning the American tragedy
of 9/11 into a spoiled rich boy's chance to get the guy who once
threatened his daddy.

He has subscribed to the Roman conception of power, in which the
battles of the prince do not need to conform to the battles of the
nation; they BECOME the battles of the nation.

As fights among royalty and its enemies play out, so does the history
of the nation.

George Bush listened to the senior White House aide quoted famously in
Ron Susskind's book, perhaps one of the tweedy, power-mad draft-dodger
intellectuals with whom Bush surrounds himself, one of "history's
actors":


"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And
while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will --
we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study
too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and
you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."


The "history's actors" theory of foreign policy may work well enough
if the emperor is skillful.

But if he is not, then that emperor's tantrums, and reality, turn and
bite the nation in the *****.

_______________________________________________

Harry

I can't believe you guys actually think someone in the US would say no to
getting Bin Laden. Does that even make sense?

"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:jclcn3dg480k47uiir7ko2n3qmut8p1sq6@4ax.com...

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ralph_lo_071227_pakistan_totters_as_.htm

I can't believe you guys actually think someone in the US would say no to
getting Bin Laden. Does that even make sense? Scheuer writes this stuff so
people like you(and all the other libs) buy his books. Anyone in this
administration would do anything to get Bin Laden. If that was real Pelosi
and Reid would be all over it and apparently they are not. Yes and I know
Scheuer was a big CIA guy but that doesn't mean he is credible.

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:11:37 -0500, Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

With the assassination of Bhutto, Pakistan is closer than ever to
civil war.

Spam away Harry. Another narcissistic IDIOT islamo-fascist has died
for your muslim cause by murdering Bhutto...