Boy, even FOX News analysts are calling the Bush Administration (and the military generals–Watch out!) incompetent.
I have to admit that this story seemed completely buried until I heard it this morning on the Stephanie Miller Show. I only found one MSM story on it, which I don’t remember seeing at the time, and I get MSNBC news alerts constantly. Maybe the press should try doing their job and ask a few questions at the next presser??? I’d think that it would be in the public’s interest to know how well we are going after known enemies before they create even more in Iran, wouldn’t you?
Col. David Hunt (ret.) on FOXNews.com (I’m citing the relevant portion if you don’t want to give them the hits):
Besides, these things are of little consequence when you realize how we missed, squandered, screwed up, made a mess of and were massively risk adverse - again - when we did not kill Usama bin Laden in Afghanistan just two short months ago.
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.
The current “boneheads” in charge will tell you all day long that we are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan to stop terrorists there so they do not come here. Nice talk, how about - just for a moment - acting like you mean what you say? You know walk the walk. These incidents, where we displayed a total lack of guts, like the one in August, are just too prevalent. The United States of America’s political and military leadership has, on at least three separate occasions, chosen not capture or kill bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahri. We have allowed Pakistan to become a safe haven for Al Qaeda. We have allowed Al Qaeda to reconstitute, partially because of money they (Al Qaeda in Iraq) have been sending to Al Qaeda in Pakistan.
I’m waiting for Boehner to introduce a resolution censuring Col. Hunt now…
No Trackbacks To “Did The White House Miss A Chance To Catch OBL Again?“
If the MSM doesn’t report it, did it really happen?
So much for the “Path to 9-11″ BS.
Bush made the fictional Disney/ABC movie real, just with the wrong President, twice over.
Bush needs OBL to continue making boogieman video, like this latest one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUiNiB2yVCQ
Truly scary.
Incompetence my ass… deliberate is more like it.
for the love of God!!!! I might be able to cut these people a little slack if they just did things right every now and then! But damn!
As I stare into my crystal ball…I see…Faux nooz smearing Col. Hunt…
Given how control-freak this Administration is, trying to micromanage everything - except itself, of course - this just doesn’t make any sense. This is almost like that stupidity of Hitler’s general staff, for being pee-their-pants scared of waking der Fuhrer from his drug-induced slumber and telling him that D-Day was happening! In-effing-sane!
If this is true, then this is effing HUGE.
respectably asking, “What is or who is Hunt’s source???”
till we have credible source other than Hunt, I can’t believe anything but “Mike Hunt” Jokes on the Airport Public Address System.
Did The White House Miss A Chance To dig OBL Out of his grave Again? This absurd fantasy is getting very stale. Mr. Bin Laden passed away of natural causes over five and a half years ago in December, 2001. He was buried in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan. Check out www.whatreallyhappened.com and see the OBL fake lookalikes used by our honorable Administration in the last several videos…
They can’t kill their biggest payday. duh.
They 9current adimistration) need him (OBL) is to further their aims. This is the only reason I can up with for seemingly always letting him slip by.
Curious as to when they will trot out another tape….
Of course they didn’t kill him. The Republicans desperately need Osama bin Laden to be alive. Without him they lose the remaining 28-percenters. Sick fucks.
james k. sayre @ 9:
Did you hear? Paul is dead, too.
If this is confirmed they will probably find some way to blame it on FISA./Reid/Pelosi/Moveon
Wrong year for the October Surprise! Next year, this time to help the gooper meat puppet over the hump.
why would they catch him. he has the greatest and most timely video service of all time. It’s also a guaranteed fundraiser for war profiteers. As long as there’s profit in it, OBL will never be caught, at least not by the boosh crime syndicate.
Ol’ Raisin Brain is supported by those he calls his “Base”. And al Qaeda is Arabic for, ummm…. what, again!?!
duncanidho @ 8:
:lol: credible source? :lol:
If they want to catch him, they should set a trap at Christmas dinner at Kennebunkport
I used to live next to a marine (might’ve been army actually…can’t remember. I’m no military buff so I don’t remember those kinds of details) who served in Afghanistan in the early part of the war, pre-Iraq invasion. Our balconies connected and one time (this would be in the summer of 2004) he and I got drunk together and me told me that he personally witnessed a time when they could have killed him (I think he claimed to have seen him himself), but were commanded not to. He said they were never told why, but the general feeling he got around base was that it would hurt the case for war with Iraq.
Who knows if he was BSing me or not. He did serve there, I know that. Overall, I considered him to be a real straight talking no BS kinda guy and as two New Yorkers, we don’t usually joke about that kind of stuff. Anyway, it was a drunk conversation over 3 years ago so the details allude me, but the main point has always stuck with me. They coulda and they didn’t.
OBL is never going to be caught as long as the Bush regime grasps power. Bush has taken far too much money from the Bin Ladins. That money buys a lot of love.
It’ll probably turn out that OBL is a CIA asset.
BaScOmBe @ 18:
Has anybody seen Mike Hunt?
A sphincter says what?
Dhalgren @ 7:
true? :lol:
yesterday fux blamed the california fires on al kayda! :lol:
true? :lol:
duncanidho @ 8:
Well, first it’s Col David Hunt, and hardly a liberal dove.
Secondly, this is FOX’s military analyst.
Thirdly, I linked a separate report from MSNBC with the same details. It’s been virtually buried in all other media and the White House has not been asked to confirm it.
This is actually the most relevant part of the article:
I bet the few of you that read this stuff thought I would write about my short stint in the sights of those who complained or used my column last week for their own purposes. Nah, it ain’t going to happen. Those who were yelling or using me on their TV shows — without bringing me on to comment — are hardly worth the print space. I am not that big a deal.
Hunt is simply making up something in order to get back at someone who criticized him. I’m going to call bullshit on that “report” about bin Laden because none of it seems credible.
No way would he, bin Laden, be talking on a cellphone inside of a vehicle. There is absolutely no possible chance of that–it is suicide for any entity who doesn’t want to be killed outright to do that. For years, we were able to exploit this and take them out and they have definitely learned from that type of activity and changed the way they operate. I don’t know what axe Hunt has to grind, but he seems to think that the things that Bin Laden is suddenly engaged in doing things that he stopped doing almost a decade ago?
What clown fed him that report? What is the source of that report?
It’s far more likely that Bush would give OBL the Medal of Freedom before he would kill him. Other than Cheney, OLB has given Bush more power than he ever dreamed that he would have as president. Bush could well afford to kill
Saddam, but he can’t afford to kill OLB. He would lose his bogey man.
Paul @ 21:
Al Kida was founded by our current secretary of defense, Robert Gates. Fox is saying that Al Kida started the fires in San Diego.
A wave of hopelessnes evelopes me whenever I realize that some people actually believe there is a “war on terror” or a “war on drugs”. Fool me once shame on you, fool me 826,000 times, oh what’s the point.
skyreader7 @ 27:
OBL plays Santa Claus at the Bushes
Paul @ 21:
and the cia works for boosh. the math is too easy.
please stop making sense! I’m getting terrrrrrrrifffiiiiieeed! woooo!
It couldn’t be that Osama’s family is a member of the Carlyle group with very close ties to the Bush crime family could it?
nigel @ 14:
It’ll be the Clintons again. Somehow it’ll be Hillary’s fault.
Of course - if Colbert is the Democratic nominee, it’ll be Jon Stewart’s fault.
As has been said - Bush needs bin Laden to continue his power grab. Without the bearded asshole alive, Bush would have to summon up a new demon which is too much like work.
now why would bush/cheney want to kill OBL? bush/cheney are in bed with the
bin laden family. the bushco administration has never had any intention of killing
OBL. they would have to end their illigal war in iraq.
this administration is bent on destroying the United States.
it’s time to IMPEACH bush and cheney as terrorists and war criminals.
I wonder if someone will make a docudrama detailing this event?
Obviously Col. Hunt must be one of those “phony soldiers” about whom Rush Limbaugh is such an authority…
Killing Usama bin Laden, the greatest asset CIA has? You gotta be kidding. Just ask any informed person outside USA.
Al-Queda and the GOP are joined at the hip. They desperately need each other to recruit followers and wage their wars across the globe. If one goes, the other goes, and neither can let that happen. Bin Laden is as useful to Bush and Bush is to bin Laden. Don’t look for bin Laden’s head anytime soon.
Condi Liar is testilying before Waxman’s committee right now on C-Span.org. She is so busted . . the Rethuglicans are praising our current efforts in Iraq and stating that the Democrats hope that things don’t go well there.
Now Lynn Westmoreland is defending the Iraq policy . . . sins of the father continued by the son
They need their “boogyman.” Period.
They don’t want to kill him because he’s one of their best excuses for illegally occupying a foreign country and stealing it’s oil reserves, DUH.
And shouldn’t they be blaming bill clinton for this? Didn’t they get the memo? It’s all clinton’s fault.
moondancer @ 15:
They won’t do that either. I had it related to me, that early in 2006 SEAL Team 6 with adjucnt participation of the FBI knew exactly where OBL was in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They had him under constant surviellance and could have taken him out at any time (That from an FBI guy who was there and who, on returning, tossed that comment out over beers as a statment that was peripheral to his central theme, which was an awed general observation of what Real McCoy bad-asses the SEAL’s are). They never received orders to act, just gather information. I figured they’d use that as a trump card and play it just before the election in order to manipulate the weak-minded within the electorate. Never happened. There’s apparently deeper things afoot.
Paul @ 22:
Thom Hartman put it best: “The most boring story in the world would be Superman, if he had no Kryptonite and Lex Luthor.”
Bush and his Administration needs Osama “to remain relevant”.
MargeAggedon @ 40:
Clinton is on the memo writing committee. The clintons and the bushes are competing groups under the same umbrella organization.
E Ryno @ 43:
http://www.cfr.org/
Moments later, Col. Hunt issues a clarification:
“Oops, I meant ‘Obama’ .”
Constant Bill Bucknerism by the junta but they get “tough” billing by Matthewsian beltway types
dadams @ 33:
Your going to have to impeach or fire or recall Pelosi and Freinds first. She is going to use every trick in the book to make sure thatBush gets away with murder. These Californian Democrats are looking like they may well as be neocons.
IdahoMoe @ 4:
Exactly, BushCo will never kill or capture Osama and the reason they will not is not ‘incompetence’.
Nope, they need him alive to justify their assault on our nation’s freedom.
The entire cabal are traitors and should be tried as such.
Killing OBL is not in the military-industrial complex’s best interest…how the hell are they supposed to rape the taxpayers for BILLIONS of dollars if they kill themselves out a job?
Albatross @ 35:
:lol: I think his real name is “Mike”! :lol: