How Not To Deal With Terrorists -- It Isn't Bush That Fueled Terrorism -- It Is The Democrats!

The message was, "You had these opportunities, America. You didn't do anything," FBI agent George Crouch Jr. testified Friday at Salim Hamdan's war crimes trial.

The United States could have killed bin Laden in Khartoum, Sudan, before he moved to Afghanistan in 1996, Hamdan told his interrogators. They could have killed him after al Qaida's 1998 twin bombings at the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Or after the October 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole, at the port of Aden in Yemen, which left 17 U.S. sailors dead.

Instead, "Bin Laden was emboldened." So he struck with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, leaving nearly 3,000 dead.

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Gateway Pundit -- OBL's Driver: Clinton Administration Emboldened Bin Laden

Osama Free Vs Free And Able To Attack The US

Osama bin Laden is still free because of Republican "failed strategies." Perhaps. But that is no different than saying he was both free and able to attack the United States in 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2001 because of Democatic "failed strategies."

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Tigerhawk -- The partisan theory of Osama bin Laden's freedom

Obama Blames GOP Tactics For Failure To Catch Osama

Obama Blames GOP Tactics For Failure To Catch Osama according to an AP article.

Couple things:

• Osama is not the goal in the War on Terror -- that is a fallacy common among those who prefer using law enforcement to imprison terrorists rather then take the fight to them (which is a tactic that has worked so far).
• Iraq was not a distraction. Iraq was a major front in the War on Terror, one of many.
• It took 5 years to catch Eric Rudolph and he was here in America and everyone was looking for him!
• It took 18 years to catch the Unabomber, again here in America and as Obama is fond to point out about Osama he too continued to send messages to the media up just a few months before caught.

I really have to wonder if all of Obama's bluster is pure politics because it would really be hard to believe he missed or misinterpreted as much history as he seems to have.
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