United States Senate Debate....Troops Home Now...

 

The Senate is doing what the Senate is meant for...doing the 'Will' of the people. When the Dictator made a statement the other day, as to what the Senate - Congress is for....I saw another example of corrupt power of this administration, dripping in arrogance. The Senate was not created to be the presidential lap dog, ever. Shame on the ones who have reduced themselves to the role of protecting this administration, they are of course the embodiment of what a good NeoCon is.....one of the many nestlings intent on feeding and feeding and feeding.......

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CIA Closed Osama Bin Laden Unit The CIA unit dedicated to hunting Osama Bin Laden.....was closed late last year. “Michael Scheuer, a former senior C.I.A. official who was the first head of the unit, said the move reflected a view within the agency that Mr. bin Laden was no longer the threat he once was. Mr. Scheuer said that view was mistaken.” July 4, 2006

Crooks and Liars
Bush Outsources the Task of Catching bin Laden
"So if I understand this correctly, we are paying Musharraf $1 billion a year to strike immunity deals with the warlords thought to be harboring this man we're paying him to catch?" By SilentPatriot on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007


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September 2006
FLASHBACK: Conservative Lawmakers Decried Clinton’s Attacks Against Osama As ‘Wag the Dog’ ... Clinton said: The people on my political right who say I didn’t do enough spent the whole time I was president saying, Why is he so obsessed with bin Laden? /2006/09/25/wag-the-dog/

ThinkFast: April 2, 2007
... “As Al Qaeda rebuilds in Pakistan’s tribal areas, a new generation of leaders has emerged under Osama bin Laden to cement control over the network’s operations, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials.” /2007/04/02/thinkfast-april-2-2007/

March 2007
Tony Snow: ‘I Don’t Know’ If Bin Laden Is The Leader Of Al Qaeda
On Sunday, it will have been 2,000 days since the 9/11 terror attacks — 2,000 days that Osama bin Laden has spent on the loose, living in freedom. /2007/03/01/snow-bin-laden/

February 2007
Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda regaining power.
... “American officials said there was mounting evidence that Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, had been steadily building an operations hub in the mountainous Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan. /2007/02/18/osama-bin-laden-and-al-qaeda-regaining-power/

ThinkFast: December 29, 2006
... The capture of Osama bin Laden is “a success that hasn’t occurred yet,” according to White House Homeland Security Adviser Frances Frago Townsend. /2006/12/29/thinkfast-december-29-2006/

September 2006
“The CIA’S top counterterrorism officials felt they could have killed Osama Bin Laden in the months before 9/11, but got the ‘brushoff’ when they went to the Bush White House seeking the money and authorization,” Bob Woodward reports in his new book. /2006/09/29/the-cias-top-counterterrorism-officials/

September 2006
Bush Administration’s Pre-9/11 Focus Was Missile Defense, Not Terrorism
... … The address was designed to promote missile defense as the cornerstone of a new national security strategy, and contained no mention of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden or Islamic extremist groups, according to former U.S. officials who have seen the text.” /2006/09/26/not-focused/ Filed under: Terrorism, Missile Defense

September 2006
President Bush is more to blame than former President Bill Clinton for the fact that Osama bin Laden has not been captured, according to a new Gallup poll. /2006/09/27/president-bush-is-more-to-blame/