Senate Report Revisits Osama bin Laden's Great Escape

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The Swift Boaters need to kick Kerry's rear end again!

Fed Up of IN 7:54PM December 08, 2009

美国的同志们，大家好，我不喜欢战争，但不知你们何时才会放下屠刀。

BUSHI 2:04AM December 08, 2009

The Bin Laden story is long and sorted and truely starts under Clinton's stint in office where Bin Laden was deemed to be "Not a threat". We all should review the events like the Cole that were ignored and the fact that the Bush/Cheney group had to start with the "gutted" intellegence community left behind.
I fully agree that mistakes were made in this WAR but to ignore the fact that WE ARE AT WAR is foolish and naive. The US must learn to fight differently and I hate to say, more brutally to defeat this kind of enemy. Announcing "withdrawal" dates and reading "rights" to OUR enemies on the battlefield AND giving them trials under US civilian LAW is naive.
I'm certain NONE of this was in Mr Kerry's "report".

Chris Petty of GA 11:31PM December 07, 2009

Last I looked, the United States spends more on "defense" than the rest of the world combined. Is it any wonder we have so little money for the kinds of domestic programs other countries in the West have? We've poured money into Iraq and Afghanistan with no real end in sight since terrorism looms large still.
Isn't it time we asked the question of our leaders: Would we remain the target of terrorism we obviously are now if we sat down to talk grievances with those who presently mean us harm? Shouldn't we be finding out WHY they mean us harm and be asking what it would take to make matters better?
I have a hunch about the answers to those questions, of course, but I'd prefer the answers from official sources first. We have multiple spy and security agencies. We have big defense contracts. We have foreign aid commitments connected with our national interests (read "security"). And we have the standing army and deployment expenses founding fathers feared. 57% of our national budget (a very BIG budget internationally compared) goes to "Defense" with who knows what more to related expenses like nation building.
In short, I appreciate John Kerry's efforts at uncovering past mistakes. I'd appreciate it more if attention were dedicated to present ones and to remedying them.

Ron W. Smith of UT 8:06PM December 07, 2009

Motive for the ongoing conflict "over there"? Read comments & accusations made against Dick Cheney's old co, Halliburton by
Bunny Greenhouse, former Chief Contracting Officer of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rory Mayberry, former Food Program Manager for Halliburton subsidiary, and Allan Waller, of the Lloyd-Owen International security and operations firm.

PJ Tomita of CA 7:50PM December 07, 2009

You all can't seem to think anyway but linear.OBL & Al Qaeda were prepositioned for our response after the WTC attack.Legendary Tajik Afghan guerilla fighter & CIA liason to the Norhtern Alliance Massoud ,was taken out 2 days before on the 9th of September.Patriotism and common sense prevents me from expressing publicly where the piece of s*#+ Bin Laden is likely to be SAFELY surveying our fruitless /desperate efforts.

D.Hertz of MO 6:52PM December 07, 2009

Bin Laden was there, he was trapped. Bin Laden's people asked for a truce for the weekend, American and Afgan allies agreed.
What was the American general thinking??? Ben Laden was as good as dead had there been no truce. How much did the allies get paid, who received the funds??? Ben Laden bought his way out. I remember the news casts at the time, and was incredulous at the agreement to the truce. Sad for our slaughtered defenseless citizens at the Twin towers.

Louis Ceci of NY 5:13PM December 07, 2009

The bloodiest religion ever in history has been that of Christianity... More slavery has been brought about by Christians and more deaths by Christians than any other religion ever on the face of the earth... Extermination and genocide of the Native Americans is the single greatest muderous rampage of all time... At the hands of Spanish, French, English, and later American Expansionists...
Islam is not anymore of an aggressive religion as Christianity is or Judahism is. All three religions were began as peaceful religions... To symbolize a community where people lived with respect with one another... In fact, their GOD in each is the same GOD... There is no difference... The only difference being their messengers (Moses vs. Jesus vs. Mohammed). But all three religions have been used and abused by leaders throughout the world in order to take advantage of political missions. This Afghan and Iraq vs. the US thing has turned into a Christian nation (which we are not, we are more Jewish than anything else) vs. Islam battle. But in fact what are we really fighting for... The same thing we have been fighting for for Centuries... Resources! Labor, Oil, Land, etc. That's what this is all about... Not BIN LADEN. He doesn't even exist, because if he did, we would've found him by now. Bin Laden and Hussein and Khomeini were at one time US puppets... Bin Laden still is...
This Afghan war is about Oil, about the spread Capitalism (Vietnam today consumes more Coca Cola per volume than any other country and Turkey is the number one buyer of Phillip Morris products)... All this religion garbage is still being used today in order to sell the idea of war and to keep the Defense Contractors happy...

THINK4YURSELF of RI 2:52PM December 07, 2009

If Islam is a religion. Than it must be treated like one. Facts and history teaches us that Islam is nothing but a bloodshed entertaining Cult. Islam is governed by too many primitive ideas. Meaningless ideas with no logic to understand. Because there is nothing to understand. The mythical theology of Islam is nothing but any common Muslim invent.
Indonesia is a potential Islamic state. Being the World's largest Muslim population were Poverty and despair drives young homeless Indonesians to get shelter in al-Mukim Pesantren Pondokan dormitories which are Islamic boarding school in central Java. Young Indonesians with nothing better to do than having themselves believe in the Koran that teaches the killing of non Muslims, one would win the eternal happiness. The last Jakarta hotels bombers are jihad academy graduates from Pondok Ngruki Academy under the Islamic master Jealani Syaefuddin and the Jihad bombers are Dani Permana 18 years and Nana Maulana 28 years both were used as mobile human bombs to revenge America in Jakarta, groomed in the Pondok Ngruki Islamic Institute by Jealini himself.
Jakarta Police have long time ago believing that such jihad attacks are the orchestration of Mohamed Noordin Top. For quite a number of years Osama Bin Laden is living undercover in the South of Jakarta well protected behind the holy walls of Pondok Ngruki Academy and Rahima of Jihad in Jakarta. That consists of simple white concrete structure and built around a small Mosque hardly looks like a school for terrorists. This boarding school offers young Indonesians a way out from poverty.
Why refuge in Jakarta? Indonesia is a country where anything is possible. One can buy any forged document from any market. Human trafficking is still in practice in Indonesia. Drugs sales from any market or any shop. With just little sum of Rupiah one can make any kind of deal with Government officials including Police.
The question in Jakarta who is the boss?

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Acidequal of 11:57AM December 05, 2009