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To: Road Walker who wrote (210136)	11/2/2004 2:05:24 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573988

Jeb Bush is predicting his brother will carry FLA by 4 percentage points.....just came flashing on the news. ted

To: Road Walker who wrote (210136)	11/2/2004 4:10:25 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573988

Special forces were used extensively in Afghanistan and against Al Qaeda. At Tora Bora. I don't think the information about special forces at Tora Bora is publicly available. They were in the country at the time (and still are) so it would have made sense to use them to coordinate the efforts with the local forces. If they were not used I don't understand why but it would have little to do with Iraq. We managed to find SH in a whole in the ground in all of Iraq. The same effort would have had bin Laden and his company. That isn't much of an argument. The challenge of finding bin Laden would be much harder, and even if it was only just as hard what worked in once case doesn't automatically work in another. There are many cases where high profile international fugitives didn't get caught for years, if at all. Its unknown if bin Laden was at Tora Bora by the time it was attacked in earnest, he may not been there at all, or have left (and possibly left the country) before Tora Bora was attacked and well before it could have possibly been fairly completely surrounded by American troops. Bush didn't care, and he said so. I don't think Bush really didn't care, he just downplayed the importance of bin Laden, and with some justification. It would be good to get bin Laden but he is one man. If we had gotten bin Laden but did little else we would be much worse off then we are now. He has importance as a target but he isn't who we are/should be going after. The whole organization (and its allies and helpers) including him is the real target. Just as finding Saddam didn't end fighting in Iraq, finding bin Laden would not end, or probably even significantly reduce terrorism from Al Qaeda. Tim