As I posted elsewhere:
I can't back up all of these claims, but I talked to a soldier (lived in same house over a year) and shortly after he returned from Afgan in early 2008, he told me that they had bin Laden located in late 2007, as reported here. BUT they were not allowed to move in the get him because all the 3-letters (FBI, CIA, NASA, etc) wanted in on the capture, so the 82nd Airborne WAS NOT ALLOWED TO PROCEED. By the time the CIA etc got there, Osama was gone.

Why would you, besides each group wanting to lay claim for a capture, delay the army? Because you see a way to make money at home. Guns, bullets, missiles, drones, IR gear, etc etc etc.

SO – I know that my soldier contact was telling the truth; if the report about 2001 is also true, then it comes down to only one thing – Bush/Cheney went to war to get “high on power” and to make them and their friends rich.

The Iraq War was planned BEFORE 9/11 not after it. Once 9/11 occurred Cheney and Libby tried to shape intel to point towards Sadam Hussein, even as it became more and more evident that the Saudis were behind it. They knew that there was not enough hard evidence for the March invasion. In the meantime they tried to tie OSB to Iraq, so that Iraq's oil reserves could be developed by the multinationals that Cheney was so chummy with.

No doubt that was part of the motivation for writing the report, and for releasing it. Another cheap shot.

It's also handy (as just about anything is handy right now) as cover for Obama's sending more troops to Afghanistan. The timing couldn't have been better.

The more interesting or substantial stuff, like the question asked on this thread already, why didn't we get him when we had the chance, is still worth thinking about. (Rumsfeld — clean, remote, low-cost, push-button warfare like the Iraq occupation?)

That kind of temper doesnt change, in fact, becomes deeper as an obsessive person in power becomes older.”

But Cheney, at least, was so good at it that it was a form of entertainment in and of itself. All that was missing was a way to bet on his next appearance date (on or before XX/YY/ZZZZ) by Los Vegas oddsmakers.

Those who want to read the report can find it here:

http://foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Tora_Bo…

It is odd to many isnt it, that so few people seemed to question whether the latest 'bin laden' mocked up tape recording is real or not. No doubt his kith and kin carry on, but I think it's pretty sure Bin is gone.

For one thing, he was obsessed with being filmed and being on camera. He loved to play 'you cant find me, here i am, now I disappear, ha ha.'

That kind of temper doesnt change in fact, becomes deeper as an obsessive person in power becomes older. I know, I know, not mentioning any other names. lol

Meanwhile we still have the curious coincidence that the Bin Laden's are longtime friends and business associates of the Bush Empire. Interesting that this white T-Rex in the living room barely gets a passing mention in conjunction with “surprising” articles like this one..

There is also this as well as this.

Democrats will say: see this shows how the Bush administration did a shabby job on terrorism.

So all that happened in the past 6 or so years is that the two parties switched places and a different president is now blamed?