America Could Have Killed Usama bin Laden — But Didn't - Col. David Hunt (on Faux!)

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How about that, and on FOX! Here's a Q&A with Col. Hunt

America Could Have Killed Usama bin Laden — But Didn't - Col. David Hunt

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Because there is no shortage of things to yell about regarding the War on Terror, Iraq, Afghanistan, Homeland Security, and so on, deciding what to write about is always fun.

This week, I was going to yell about how the Bush administration leaked classified information — again — but we've been there before. Then, I thought I might write about Blackwater, but compared to so many things, Blackwater looks like back water.

I bet the few of you that read this stuff thought I would write about my short stint in the sights of those who complained or used my column last week for their own purposes. Nah, it ain't going to happen. Those who were yelling or using me on their TV shows — without bringing me on to comment — are hardly worth the print space. I am not that big a deal. Besides, these things are of little consequence when you realize how we missed, squandered, screwed up, made a mess of and were massively risk adverse — again — when we did not kill Usama bin Laden in Afghanistan just two short months ago.

We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty — which is huge in the world of intelligence — that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south from Tora Bora. We had his butt, on camera, on satellite. We were listening to his conversations. We had the world’s best hunters/killers — Seal Team 6 — nearby. We had the world class Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating with the CIA and other agencies. We had unmanned drones overhead with missiles on their wings; we had the best Air Force on the planet, begging to drop one on the terrorist. We had him in our sights; we had done it. Nice job again guys — now, pull the damn trigger.

[Kagemusha]

1. There is not one thing in this universe I "know with 70% certainty".

And I don't believe anyone else knows anything with 70% certainty either. That's twisting the word "know" into pretzels.

[CJCRANE]

2. More "incompetance theory" BS /nt

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6. Accomplice theory...sound better;)

[spanone]

3. if you kill the bogeyman who do you fear?

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5. Really; and they'd owe him a severance package

[SeattleGirl]

4. Randi Rhodes was reading this on her show today, and she is

trying to get him on her show to talk about it.

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7. She should. Interesting that Fox allows it on their airwaves.