Reply #5: I saw the interview, too and it validated everything that [View All]

[chieftain]

the anti-war folks said from the beginning. Gary Schroen, a former CIA officer, has written a book about Afghanistan that says among other things that:
- Iraq has been a massive diversion from the war in against Al-Queda
- Bin Laden escaped at Tora Bora because of our dependence on war lords
- Iraq is probably creating new momentum for Anti American feeling in the Mid East
- We are hated among Arab nations, not for who we are, but for what we do.

Timmy went so far off reservation as to play a clip of Kerry making the Tora Bora charge and then asking Schroen whether JFK was correct. Schroen said he was and that Tommy Franks was wrong about it.
All in all, it was a bitter-sweet show. You have to wonder whether this type of information would have made an impact on the election had it been given wide spread distribution.