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To: LindyBill who wrote (147633)	11/18/2005 2:34:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 793838

Letting Osama and Omar get away was a shame. <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.> It was funny how people, not just Osama, but plenty in SI too, thought Afghanistan and the COW would be a re-run of the 19th century British Empire failure and total defeat in Afghanistan. Good analogy, Flintstones vs Jetsons. Iraq too has gone about how I guessed. A rearguard Islamic Jihad urban guerilla war with something like 3000 Americans killed following a high speed military collapse of Saddam's pathetic army of brutalized conscripts. It was bad enough for the poor guys to fight against Iran. Lining up against the USA onslaught was not their cup of tea. I think the success in Afghanistan was largely due to the excellent services of New Zealand's SAS which was high in the hills hunting Osama. The USA was helpful too of course, though prone to friendly fire. It's annoying for the NZ troops to have to keep one eye on the trigger-happy USA troops too. They even killed Tillman, who heroically cast caution to the wind and went in to do his duty. Then they compounded their blunder by lying about it. Military intelligence?!! Go Team!!! Mqurice