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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Machaon who wrote (439072)8/7/2003 10:56:12 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (2) of 769669
 
Letting Up On Osama
time.com

<font color=brown> The Administration was warned by skeptics inside the government that the switch-out would take some of the pressure off al-Qaeda, but the impending war with Iraq — which emphasized special forces as no war plan ever did before — took precedence over all other issues last winter at the Pentagon. Now some have come to believe that the change in emphasis allowed bin Laden to disperse to other parts of the world operatives who survived the initial months on the run. "The reason these guys were able to get away," says a former Bush official, "was because we let up."<font color=blue>

It's been<font color=red> 689 <font color=blue>days since Bush said he'd catch Osama bin Laden 'Dead or Alive!' <font color=black>

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