Why did the Republicans Surrender to Osama? Why did we cut and run

from Tora Bora?

It isn't exactly our "finest hour".

the vast Al-Quaeda bunker complex detailed by Donald Rumsfeld on network news shows with diagrams and blueprints never existed. When the Brits sent their mountain fighting troops up there they found a few caves and a few boxes of ammo. Tora Bora was like the floating castle of folklore that disappears in when a magic spell of illusion is broken. Like Al-Quaeda itself it was mostly a vastly inflated legend used to scare people. Our military didn't go in there itself because if it had, we would have expected trophies and graphically documented accounts of what was found to be shown on television. The British commander interviewed in the BBC documentary The Power of Nightmares was very clear and firm that they found no Al-Quaeda in the area of the supposed bunker strongholds or in the surrounding region, nor any good evidence that there had been any Al-Quaeda or underground complexes there. To hear him tell it, it was basically a snipe hunt; except that in snipe hunts, there really is a species of birds called "snipes", but you can't see them because it's dark out at nighttime when snipehunts are held, and there aren't any snipe where you're told to go look for them.

B: Because Osama Bin Laden (if indeed he was even in the area of Tora Bora during the invasion of Afghanistan) is far more valuable to Bush and the NeoCons alive and free wherever he is now. So much more valuable is he that one begins to suspect that the Bush Administration knows right where he is currently and probably exchange greeting cards with him during Christmas and Ramadan.

(It occurs to me that not every region of the country or world has snipe hunts. It may be just a southern U.S. thing. Basically kids are led into the woods at night armed with pillow cases and flashlights and told to catch a flightless bird called a snipe. The adults disappear leaving the kids to wonder and disagree among themselves about what a snipe looks like, how to catch it, and what else may be out there in the dark.)