Reply #49: It's very troubling to me that so many people in this country have fallen for the false

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propaganda that has always surrounded this invasion.

As for Afghanistan, I would have gone in as soon as Congress authorized it, without giving Bin Laden a 6-week jump-start the way Bush did.

And I would have sent our own troops into the caves in Tora Bora when Bin Laden was there instead of letting him sneak through to Pakistan, as Bush did.

In retrospect, it's clear Bush never wanted to capture/kill Bin Laden. He wanted him out there as a real live bogeyman to scare the American people into falling for whatever outrageous claptrap he was promoting in the name of fighting "terror", including his insane incursion into Iraq as part of the PNAC's mad-hatter scheme to take over the middle east and steal their oil.

And I never would have diverted our effort to get Bin Laden by sending troops from Afghanistan to Iraq, which posed absolutely no threat to us whatsoever, had absolutely no WMDs, and which had absolutely no ties to Al Queda (in fact, Saddam and Bin Laden were bitter enemies - Bin Laden was a muslim fundamentalist, Saddam was a secularist whose hero was Stalin - anathema to Bin Laden and his followers, who had fought the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 80's).