Senate report says Bin Laden was within our grasp
Osama bin Laden
I just read an article on Yahoo that a recent US Senate report states Osama bin Laden was within our grasps and the decision was made NOT to go after him. An excerpt from the article is below:
WASHINGTON – Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force, a Senate report says.
The report asserts that the failure to kill or capture bin Laden at his most vulnerable in December 2001 has had lasting consequences beyond the fate of one man. Bin Laden’s escape laid the foundation for today’s reinvigorated Afghan insurgency and inflamed the internal strife now endangering Pakistan, it says.
Staff members for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Democratic majority prepared the report at the request of the chairman, Sen. John Kerry, as President Barack Obama prepares to boost U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
The Massachusetts senator and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate has long argued the Bush administration missed a chance to get the al-Qaida leader and top deputies when they were holed up in the forbidding mountainous area of eastern Afghanistan only three months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
While I applaud John Kerry for pushing this into the hands of the senate and into the public eye. I have to ask, what the hell took you so long to stand up man? Certainly it not something NEW to you guys now is it? Anyone who thought our presence in Iraq was a bag of manure from the start has been saying this from the beginning. Hell, even 60 Minutes reported it last year.
I’ve said for a long time now that we were never allowed to ‘really’ go after Osama bin Laden. The PNAC needed him as a scape goat for 9/11 so they can justify the invasion of Iraq. For this belief me and others have been labeled ‘conspiracy theorist’ and dismissed by the masses. Well, as with anything, time will tell. This report from the Senate is the first step in revealing the REAL TRUTH behind it all.
