More Bad News for Bush

By Larry Johnson | bio
From: Foreign Affairs
The CIA field commander for the agency's Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, has finally got approval to publish his book, which will hit the streets on December 27, 2005. The CIA has sat on the book for more than a year and tried to stop its publication. Although the book is not intended as a criticism of President Bush, it will land another body blow to the beleaguered Bush Presidency. Bernsten's key point in the book is his testimony that he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Al Qaeda and Taliban members. According to NEWSWEEK, "Berntsen says he had definitive intelligence that bin Laden was holed up at Tora Bora--intelligence operatives had tracked him--and could have been caught. He was there."
Look for General Tommy Franks image as the great commander to be further tarnished. This book will have the unintended effect of reminding all Americans that George Bush did not finish the job of tracking down bin Laden. Instead, he shifted key military and intelligence resources and started a war of choice in Iraq. At the current fatality rate more than 2100 Americans will have died in Iraq when this book is available in bookstores. Put it on your list for belated Christmas and Hanukkah shopping. Happy Holidays.

http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/10/22/221011/01

This will show people once and for all that Kerry was right. He's been right about a lot of things but of course the "liberal media" doesn't have it come to light. :eyes:

http://www.debates.org/pages/trans2004a.html
Search term: Tora Bora

KERRY: Jim, the president just said something extraordinarily revealing and frankly very important in this debate. In answer to your question about Iraq and sending people into Iraq, he just said, "The enemy attacked us."

Saddam Hussein didn't attack us. Osama bin Laden attacked us. Al Qaida attacked us. And when we had Osama bin Laden cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, 1,000 of his cohorts with him in those mountains. With the American military forces nearby and in the field, we didn't use the best trained troops in the world to go kill the world's number one criminal and terrorist.

They outsourced the job to Afghan warlords, who only a week earlier had been on the other side fighting against us, neither of whom trusted each other.

That's the enemy that attacked us. That's the enemy that was allowed to walk out of those mountains. That's the enemy that is now in 60 countries, with stronger recruits.

He also said Saddam Hussein would have been stronger. That is just factually incorrect. Two-thirds of the country was a no-fly zone when we started this war. We would have had sanctions. We would have had the U.N. inspectors. Saddam Hussein would have been continually weakening.

If the president had shown the patience to go through another round of resolution, to sit down with those leaders, say, "What do you need, what do you need now, how much more will it take to get you to join us?" we'd be in a stronger place today.

The cost of the war, privitization of Social Security, Tora Bora. But everybody believed *'s rebuttal saying it wasn't true. I wonder how many freepers remember that?

When it rains, it pours -- and who better to 'pour' on than this administration!

Great graphic I saw at firedoglake

point because he wanted to be able to continue to use his "war on terror" to pursue his plans for Iraq that he had wanted to do all along (even before 9/11). If bin Laden had already been caught, he wouldn't have had the support that he had for attacking Iraq. (i.e., He couldn't have "sold" the Iraq invasion nearly as easily as he was able to do with bin Laden still loose.)

Catching Bin Laden would have effectively finished the war on terror as most Americans saw him as enemy number one. Bush needed his boogey man and the ability to "create" a relationship between Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.

imho

and can push through more insane laws. As long as that threat is their he can keep the country in fear and the publics attention on terror rather than hacked voting machines and Patriot Acts. Most likely the way Bush sees it, why end your source of power?

Yep, that sick!

OBL knows too much.

that they truly are. There will be no escaping the harsh reality of that. Period.

Peace.

Cheney; their Pearl Harbor that the PNAC folk talked about. Osama was more useful on the lose but now he is no longer relevant. The Neo Fascists have a new guy, al Zargawi.