If this story is true, it is pathetic, and shows just how screwed up the current political situation is in Washington, and how little our current situation is understood by everyone from George Bush on down. For crying out loud, we have madmen who want to kill us, and we’re sending a generation of brave men and women out to fight, yet we’re tying their hands with lawyers and pansy assed politicians…
We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty — which is huge in the world of intelligence — that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south from Tora Bora. We had his butt, on camera, on satellite. We were listening to his conversations. We had the world’s best hunters/killers — Seal Team 6 — nearby. We had the world class Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating with the CIA and other agencies. We had unmanned drones overhead with missiles on their wings; we had the best Air Force on the planet, begging to drop one on the terrorist. We had him in our sights; we had done it. Nice job again guys — now, pull the damn trigger.
Unbelievably, and in my opinion, criminally, we did not kill Usama bin Laden.
What, another funeral? An Islamic holy day? Perhaps his birthday party? Whatever it was, they passed it up again. Do you think we’ll ever get an administration with a spine? Over at Hot Air Bryan wonders
Are we overlawyering the war to the point that our troops won’t even kill bin Laden himself without worrying what the legal eagles may accuse them of after the fact? I hate to think that that may be true, but after so many cases of overzealousness on the part of the military against its own, it sure is possible.
In this condition, we could never have won WWII, and that is a frightening thought… no wonder every lunatic in the world wants to have a go at us.
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