Fact: Osama Escaped Tora Bora Because Bush's Guy Rumsfeld Was Incompetent

[KittyWampus]

The showdown at Tora Bora, a mountainous area dotted with caves in eastern Afghanistan, pitted a modest force of American Special Operations and C.I.A. officers, along with allied Afghan fighters, against a force of about 1,000 Qaeda fighters led by Mr. bin Laden.

The committee report, prepared at the request of Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, the committee’s Democratic chairman, concludes unequivocally that in mid-December 2001, Mr. bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, were at the cave complex, where Mr. bin Laden had operated previously during the fight against Soviet forces.

The new report suggests that a larger troop commitment to Afghanistan might have resulted in the demise not only of Mr. bin Laden and his deputy but also of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the leader of the Afghan Taliban. Mullah Omar, who also fled to Pakistan in 2001, has overseen the resurgence of the Taliban.

Like several previous accounts, the committee’s report blames Gen. Tommy R. Franks, then the top American commander, and Donald H. Rumsfeld, then the defense secretary, for not putting a large number of American troops there lest they fuel resentment among Afghans. General Franks, who declined to comment for the committee’s report, has at times questioned whether Mr. bin Laden was even at Tora Bora in late 2001.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/world/asia/29torabora.html

[Hawkowl]

1. Deliberate incompetence

I believe they let him escape on purpose. How else to prolong the wars? How else were they going to enrich the war profiteers? Bush is a traitor. Period.

[KittyWampus]

2. No doubt.

[dhill926]

3. and who will bring this up in the media.......

chirp....chirp......

[KittyWampus]

4. I'm making a point of repeating this as much as possible.

[Gamow]

6. Frontline reported this years ago. "Bush's War" is available online for free

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/view/

[cbdo2007]

5. He wasn't incompetent - did you see all that money he made off the bird flu??

Yes, he was an incompetent Defense secretary but he was an excellent con man.

[HopeHoops]

7. Oh BULLSHIT! They intentionally let him go because BushCo needed their Boogie Man.

They easily could have ended it right there if they'd sent in our finest, but that would have ended the political usefulness of the fear factor. That was an intentional fuck up.

[KittyWampus]

8. last bump.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. They were always lazy brains.

They thought they were going to get Hussein with that surprise attack, hitting the City an hour before the deadline was up. What a hero Bush would have been if it had worked since none of our boys would have been killed. But what a fuck up Bush was in reality.