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To: Webster Groves who wrote (126379)	12/4/2009 9:57:53 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542757

It's absolute horseshit. Rumsfeld wanted to fight that war on a budget and outsource the fighting to Afghanis. We got failure as a result. Honor would demand that Rumsfeld and the GOP admit they screwed up. But they'll spin until the day they die. And here we are 8 years later paying the price.

To: Webster Groves who wrote (126379)	12/5/2009 2:38:26 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Respond to of 542757

To: Win Smith who wrote (126347) 12/4/2009 9:53:52 PM From: Webster Groves Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 126413 WS: With more forces, maybe the US could have worked in from the Pakistan border and trapped bin Laden and Omar, but it's a pretty long border> WG. Oh c'mon. Osama was walking. Allowing your enemy to sneak out through a "gap" when he could have been surrounded is extremely poor military V: I remember seeing an ABC Newsclip of the Taliban forces steaming up a pass out of AFghan into the Pakistan territory thinking "Where the bleep is our blocking force?"