Senator John Kerry, in a blatant covering maneuver for President Barac Obama, asked the U.S. Senate to prepare a report stating that the U.S. military missed an opportunity to capture or kill Osama bin Laden in December 2001 when the military failed to put thousands of boots on the ground in Afghanistan. Instead, the military was forced to use hundreds of Special Forces working with Afghan warlords to take down the Taliban and track bin Laden in Tora Bora. The result was Osama bin Laden was able to escape to Pakistan on or about December 16, 2001.
The point of the study by the Democrat controlled Senate is to show that the Bush Administration had trouble getting troops where they needed them to be in Afghanistan at a time when President Obama is taking flak for ‘dithering’ on adding troops. The Senate report is a weak attempt to offer President Obama some sort of lame cover. The ‘blame Bush’ for everything approach to government is UNPRECENTED by previous administrations. All previous administrations moved forward taking charge of situations and making decisions, but this administration humiliates itself by pointing fingers at previous administration as justification for what is being done now.
There are glaring differences between 2001 and 2009, however, which are being spun or ignored. The military was never in doubt in 2001 they were going to get the troops there to fight the war from the Bush Administration. The military always knew what they needed was on the way. The logistics of moving thousands of troops and their equipment to the other side of the world, dropping them onto the battlefield and being ready to fight are staggering – something the Senate report leaves out. The troops in the field in 2001 were always confident their president had their backs – not so in 2009. Anyone who can read a calendar can see that there were troops in the mountains chasing after bin Laden within weeks of the attack on the United States. December 16, 2001, when bin Laden was supposedly on a donkey heading for Pakistan, was less than 100 days after September 11, 2001. In 2009 we have been over 100 days and counting since General McCrystal requested 40,000 more troops with no action from the Obama Administration.
Had the Obama Administration been in place in 2001 there are indications the Obama Administration would have followed the precedent of the Clinton Administration and have fired cruise missiles against the sides of the Tora Bora mountain ranges and crushed some rock – or worse, followed the Carter Administration example and hid in the Oval Office.
The decision was not difficult – except healthcare was on the table and the Left in Congress needed the support of their base to push for it. That meant leaving the decision for sending more troops to Afghanistan was on the shelf to push a domestic agenda while troop’s lives were on the line. The result is obvious – President Obama is willing to trade American lives, on the battlefield and by way of an abortion of a healthcare bill, for his Leftist agenda. Now THAT is unprecedented.
The point of the study by the Democrat controlled Senate is to show that the Bush Administration had trouble getting troops where they needed them to be in Afghanistan at a time when President Obama is taking flak for ‘dithering’ on adding troops. The Senate report is a weak attempt to offer President Obama some sort of lame cover. The ‘blame Bush’ for everything approach to government is UNPRECENTED by previous administrations. All previous administrations moved forward taking charge of situations and making decisions, but this administration humiliates itself by pointing fingers at previous administration as justification for what is being done now.
There are glaring differences between 2001 and 2009, however, which are being spun or ignored. The military was never in doubt in 2001 they were going to get the troops there to fight the war from the Bush Administration. The military always knew what they needed was on the way. The logistics of moving thousands of troops and their equipment to the other side of the world, dropping them onto the battlefield and being ready to fight are staggering – something the Senate report leaves out. The troops in the field in 2001 were always confident their president had their backs – not so in 2009. Anyone who can read a calendar can see that there were troops in the mountains chasing after bin Laden within weeks of the attack on the United States. December 16, 2001, when bin Laden was supposedly on a donkey heading for Pakistan, was less than 100 days after September 11, 2001. In 2009 we have been over 100 days and counting since General McCrystal requested 40,000 more troops with no action from the Obama Administration.
Had the Obama Administration been in place in 2001 there are indications the Obama Administration would have followed the precedent of the Clinton Administration and have fired cruise missiles against the sides of the Tora Bora mountain ranges and crushed some rock – or worse, followed the Carter Administration example and hid in the Oval Office.
The decision was not difficult – except healthcare was on the table and the Left in Congress needed the support of their base to push for it. That meant leaving the decision for sending more troops to Afghanistan was on the shelf to push a domestic agenda while troop’s lives were on the line. The result is obvious – President Obama is willing to trade American lives, on the battlefield and by way of an abortion of a healthcare bill, for his Leftist agenda. Now THAT is unprecedented.
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