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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 11:58 AM
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2 Months Ago-Bin Laden's Butt Was On Camera-But Bushco Chose NOT To Pull The Damn Trigger
FOXNEWS.COM HOME > FOX FAN CENTRAL


America Could Have Killed Usama bin Laden — But Didn't
By Col. David Hunt


.............

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.

You cannot make this crap up; truth is always stranger and more telling than fiction. Our government, the current administration and yes, our military leaders included, failed to kill bin Laden for no other reason than incompetence.

more at:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,304306,00.html
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 11:59 AM
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1. welcome back kpete - hope all is well
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atreides1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 12:00 PM
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2. Col. Hunt didn't get the memo
Bin Laden is worth more alive then dead.
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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 12:01 PM
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3. This guy is on FOX?!
Will wonders never cease...
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OwnedByFerrets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 04:32 PM
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16. Its my understanding that since he said this......
he hasnt been invited back. I have no proof, since I dont want faux, but that is the information I have.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 12:07 PM
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4. As was posted before ...
... he is worth more alive then dead.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 12:14 PM
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5. this * crew has to have and need very badly a boogie man
on the face of what they're doing nothing they're doing would get done. Actually
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rateyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 12:28 PM
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6. Well, this is one helluva news story...
which is why we won't hear it from the TV talking heads. I wonder if Olbermann is aware of this?
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 01:32 PM
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7. Osama bin Laden died December 2001
FOX news? :eyes:
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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 02:13 PM
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8. You can't kill Osama!
Who would replace him as our nation's Emmanuel Goldstein?

It's so hard to shove fascism down the country's throat without Two Minutes Hate...
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 02:38 PM
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9. God forbid * should offend the family friends, the BinLadens
Osama must have been on his way to Aspen for the Winter. I didn't know Tora Bora was in Colorado.
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TornadoTN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 02:40 PM
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10. How the hell did that get on Fox?
I'm scratching my head - the guy makes sense and is outraged - yet he's on Fox?
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 02:40 PM
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11. Fox fan central? What in the hell is that? Is that Col. Hunt criticizing the military?
or Bush? Does Hunt know who he works for?
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Froward69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 02:56 PM
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12. Gotta keep
the bogey man alive! to rule with fear.
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OwnedByFerrets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 03:01 PM
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13. Uhhhhh, its not incompetence....in order to have a
"super-hero":puke:, the super hero must have a super villain. Without Bin Laden, the boogie man is gone.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 03:03 PM
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14. So we keep him alive just to scare us
Greeeeaaaaaat... :eyes:
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OwnedByFerrets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 04:31 PM
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15. Not "WE" my friend, this illegal administration. nt
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 04:32 PM
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17. Grrrecommended.
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Land Shark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 06:24 PM
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18. Pull the Trigger? Or, setting up calls for further loosening rules of engagement?
We need a hair trigger, we need a hair trigger, is what this article will likely lead to (if it goes anywhere)
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 06:35 PM
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19. Didn't Busholini say: "Osama bin Laden Dead of Alive"?
Either this a BS story from Col. Hunt or Busholini wants Osama alive. Oh, wait, maybe Busholini was not informed about this. He is often kept out of the loop on important events. It is hard to believe that Cheney wasn't informed though.
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Land Shark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 08:02 PM
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20. Yes, I believe he did utter the following linked quote you allude to:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/18/wbush18.xml

PRESIDENT Bush said yesterday that he wanted Osama bin Laden, the Saudi exile, "dead or alive" in some of the most bellicose language used by a White House occupant in recent years.

"I want justice," he said after a meeting at the Pentagon, where 188 people were killed last Tuesday when an airliner crashed into the building. "And there's an old poster out West that says, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive.' "

He then seemed to temper his remarks by adding: "All I want and America wants is to see them brought to justice. That's what we want."

The blunt, Texas-style rhetoric, delivered off the cuff, came a day after Vice-President Dick Cheney said he would willingly accept bin Laden's "head on a platter". Some advisers said that although the comments might be popular in America, they would not be welcomed by European or Arab allies.
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OwnedByFerrets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 10:13 PM
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21. He also said that he didnt spend any of his time thinking about
bin laden either.
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