via The Daily Whim:
Col. David Hunt: America Could Have Killed Usama bin Laden, But Didn’t — “We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty — which is huge in the world of intelligence — that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south from Tora Bora. We had his butt, on camera, on satellite … We had the world’s best hunters/killers — Seal Team 6 — nearby … We had unmanned drones overhead with missiles on their wings; we had the best Air Force on the planet, begging to drop one on the terrorist […] The United States of America’s political and military leadership has, on at least three separate occasions, chosen not capture or kill bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahri.”
[From America Could Have Killed Usama bin Laden, But Didn’t]
And this is from Faux News?
Seriously, with him dead, the war is over. Justice is done, and there is no further reason to keep troops in the oil patch. By contrast, there was no reason to keep Hussein around — and probably a lot of reasons to silence him — so he took the long drop.
If Osama bin Forgotten is still on the loose on 1/20/09, I wonder how long it will take for Commander Codpiece’s successor to track him down? I’m guessing something under 7 years.