Re: Call Me A Liberal

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From: trebor
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 19:46

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SEE_BELOW_TO_REPLY@bizaveNOSPAM.com (Andrew) wrote:

>: It wasn't?  Didn't Bush say something about getting bin Laden 'dead or
>: alive'?
>
>No, it wasn't.  Go back and re-read the official statements made at
>the time, not rhetoric made by Bush for a TV news soundbite.

If words right out of the President's mouth aren't "official," then
nothing is. That we have the most inarticulate president in history is
another issue.

>Obviously Bin Laden, as the so-called "mastermind" of the attacks
>(whether this is true or not is still debatable) was a big target of
>the Americans moving into Afghanistan, but he was not himself *the*
>reason for going there.  That is - if the US had "gotten" Bin Laden on
>the 2nd day of the war, we wouldn't have packed up and gone home
>we'd still be there doing about the same thing, trying to root out the
>rest of Al Qaeda.  Bin Laden didn't fly the airplanes into those
>buildings; a whole lot of people who hate America were involved, and
>Bin Laden is far from the only leader involved.  It's foolish to think
>we are after only one guy over there.

Yea, but we didn't get ANYBODY of any consequence.

Nobody from the Taliban, nobody from Al Qaeda.

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