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**sbgctsa** · 05-12-2010, 09:26 PM

You are kidding, right? Do you really believe GW did either?

No, of course not. W was trapped - 09/11 happened on his watch, he had to do something. Military, historians & scholars could have - probably did - tell him that a conventional war on the Talibs & Al Queda was a lost cause before we ever started.

No matter. The public expected W to act. & so he did. The Talibs & Al Queda simiply faded away - after being rudely surprised that we could drop bombs, missles, gunfire @ will, & accurately. The pity is that we never questioned our "allies" - warlords & opium traffickers - who exactly we were rounding up, "renditioning", & hauling off to Guantanamo.

Did the $ & men & private contractors simply disappear into the abyss? No prob, steam a CVN around off the CA coast until the golden hour before sunlight, drape the Mission Accomplished banner, fly the mensch in for his photo op, deliver a rousing speech amid a storm of banners. Gotta work, right? Too bad the Talibs & Al Queda didn't get the memo. Or maybe we just couldn't offer them the vigorish they wanted?

05-12-2010, 09:26 PM	#24
sbgctsa Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 554 Senior Member	You are kidding, right? Do you really believe GW did either? No, of course not. W was trapped - 09/11 happened on his watch, he had to do something. Military, historians & scholars could have - probably did - tell him that a conventional war on the *Talibs & Al Queda* was a lost cause before we ever started. No matter. The public expected W to act. & so he did. The Talibs & Al Queda simiply faded away - after being rudely surprised that we could drop bombs, missles, gunfire @ will, & accurately. The pity is that we never questioned our *"allies"* - warlords & opium traffickers - who exactly we were rounding up, *"renditioning",* & hauling off to Guantanamo. Did the $ & men & private contractors simply disappear into the abyss? No prob, steam a CVN around off the CA coast until the golden hour before sunlight, drape the Mission Accomplished banner, fly the *mensch* in for his photo op, deliver a rousing speech amid a storm of banners. Gotta work, right? Too bad the Talibs & Al Queda didn't get the memo. Or maybe we just couldn't offer them the *vigorish* they wanted?
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