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Amid policy disputes, Qaeda grows in Pakistan

Posted by "Pat Buchanan, Jr." on June 29, 2008 at 10:16 PM

Nearly 7 years after 9/11, the Bush Administration has failed on it promise to capture and/or kill the top leaders of Al Qaeda. LINK

Our government is too busy infighting, or at least it seems this way. What is really going on at the White House? Who’s in charge anyway? Isn’t Bush the Commander in Chief? Why did he not take his change to take out the Taliban leadership at a funeral in 2006?

“Intelligence reports for more than a year had been streaming in about Osama bin Laden’s terror network rebuilding in the Pakistani tribal areas, a problem that had been exacerbated by years of missteps in Washington and the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, sharp policy disagreements, and turf battles between American counterterrorism agencies.”

”...Special Operations forces are still waiting for the green light. The plan has been held up in Washington by the very disagreements it was meant to eliminate.”

“Just as it had on the day before 9/11, Al Qaeda now has a band of terror camps from which to plan and train for attacks against Western targets, including the United States. Officials say the new camps are smaller than the ones the group used prior to 2001. However, despite dozens of American missile strikes in Pakistan since 2002, one retired CIA officer estimated that the makeshift training compounds now have as many as 2,000 Arab and Pakistani militants, up from several hundred three years ago.”

“American intelligence officials say that the Qaeda hunt in Pakistan, code-named Operation Cannonball by the CIA in 2006, was often undermined by bitter disagreements within the Bush administration and within the intelligence agency, including about whether American commandos should launch ground raids inside the tribal areas.”

Who is running this dog and pony show? I thought Bush was serious about stopping terrorism? Why do we have open borders? Why is there no military presence on the US/Mexican border? Why are Taliban funerals attended by terrorist leaders and haters of America allowed to take place with US Intelligence knowledge and nothing is being done about it? I’m sick of all the talk and posturing, I want action!

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