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2008-07-10 Home Front: WoT

Frustrated Special Forces: Finding Bin Ladin

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Posted by Sherry 2008-07-10 13:31|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 And if they did slip the leash off SOCOM, the media would have a freaking field day criticizing the USA for violating Pakistan's sovereignty. To heck with any results they might get, the idea is to damage the USA.

Posted by gromky 2008-07-10 14:01|| 2008-07-10 14:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Unless, of course, President Obama orders it...

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-10 14:03|| 2008-07-10 14:03|| Front Page Top

#3 It looks like my amazing powers to determine the Headline of the Day are back.

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-10 14:06|| 2008-07-10 14:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Look, guys, you are worth over a million bucks each, on top of which, we like you. We want you to do your job, but at the same time, we'd like you to come back home okay.

I know it's frustrating now, but later you can thank us.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-07-10 14:10|| 2008-07-10 14:10|| Front Page Top

#5 I suspect that if they let them. They would bust a lot of heads, and still come home. Look at Great Britain, that's our future if we don't start acting like grownups and give this soft power thingy a rest.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-10 14:25|| 2008-07-10 14:25|| Front Page Top

#6 God forbid we capture him alive to only bring him back for all to see on Court TV.
I would only hope that the guys that catch him would have an accident with the gun going off, similar to Vincent and Jules in Pulp Fiction...

Posted by Jan 2008-07-10 14:57|| 2008-07-10 14:57|| Front Page Top

#7 First Juan Hernandez. now Armitrage. I'm having SERIOUS issues about McCain's judgment being no better than Obama's in terms of advisers.

Choice seems to be between dumb and dumber, and every time I think McCain has moved up, I find something else that puts hem back.

Posted by Glealing Wittlesbach8220 2008-07-10 15:05|| 2008-07-10 15:05|| Front Page Top

#8 I think they'd have better luck if they looked for Osama's DNA in worm turds in the caves of Tora Bora because I'm sure he's at least a sixth generation worm turd by now.

Posted by Bob 2008-07-10 15:55|| 2008-07-10 15:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Armitage is bad news. He definitely gets his power from the dark side of the force.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-07-10 16:01|| 2008-07-10 16:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Critics in the Pentagon of the failure to more aggressively use the 50,000-strong SOF force say it also is the result of a bias by intelligence officials against special forces, including Pentagon policy-makers such as former CIA officer Michael Vickers, currently assistant defense secretary for special operations;

Please say it isn't so.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-07-10 20:30|| 2008-07-10 20:30|| Front Page Top

#11 IOW, the Devil is in the Politics???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-07-10 23:17|| 2008-07-10 23:17|| Front Page Top

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