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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (147631)	11/18/2005 1:58:42 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

I suppose Osama figured that with Allah, peace be upon him, on his side and having ended the Soviet Union, he might as well end the USA too. That was precisely his objective. His attack on our embassies and on the USS Cole was a deliberate incitement to get us to attack him in Afghanistan. He lives in such a dream palace that he figured he could beat us there as he beat the Soviets. Then he could set up his Caliphate in the ME and run things. He was clueless about our ablility to turn that war into "the Jetsons vs the Flintstones." To be honest about it, our Central Command was just as surprised as he was at the outcome of that action. If they had run it their way, we would have had 50,000 troops wandering around there in June of 2002. Instead, Special Ops at McDill ran it, and we were in Kabul by Christmas. If they had remained in control, Osama would have had "flies on his eyeballs" by New Years.