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To: Road Walker who wrote (56309)	7/26/2004 6:21:22 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794366

Then I suppose that not getting OBL in Sudan was the State Departments fault, not Clinton's? I think you know that is "apples and oranges," John. The Sudan decision was made by the NSC Director, as was the decision not to get him in Afghanistan when Clinton was in power. In fact, I think Clinton was consulted in both cases. The "nitty gritty" of running the Taliban takedown didn't hit the oval office. Guessing at results by changing history is a fools game. I agree. But you brought it up. And it can be fun, as we both know. if we had had the guts to chase down the al Qaeda bunch, with everything we had, while they were still concentrated in Afghanistan We had plenty of guts, in spite of all the vapors from the left about how Afghanistan was going to be awful. We had a major failure at Central command in planning. If we had committed the Delta force in Hind Helicopters, with B-52's overhead for Arty support, we could have taken Osama down in Tora Bora, IMO. They made the mistake of leaving it to locals.