today

you can say i'm trying to make political hay if you want. the people in power now, and their propaganda machine, are trying to re-write history.
never forget who was standing watch that day, five years ago. Bush failed, and has since tried to blame everyone else.

On the videotape obtained by the CIA, bin Laden is seen confidently instructing his party how to dig holes in the ground to lie in undetected at night. A bomb dropped by a U.S. aircraft can be seen exploding in the distance. "We were there last night," bin Laden says without much concern in his voice. He was in or headed toward Pakistan, counterterrorism officials think.

That was December 2001. Only two months later, Bush decided to pull out most of the special operations troops and their CIA counterparts in the paramilitary division that were leading the hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan to prepare for war in Iraq, said Flynt L. Leverett, then an expert on the Middle East at the National Security Council.

"I was appalled when I learned about it," said Leverett, who has become an outspoken critic of the administration's counterterrorism policy. "I don't know of anyone who thought it was a good idea. It's very likely that bin Laden would be dead or in American custody if we hadn't done that."

Several officers confirmed that the number of special operations troops was reduced in March 2002.

That's got nothing to do with soldiers, people killed on 9/11, afghanistan, iraq, whatever. there was a guy working that day, and the time leading up to it, who failed to do his job. and some indeterminate number of our countrymen decided he deserved four more years, out of stupidity or fear.

today i remember all the dead that came from this...all the dead. mountains of death. is this the kind of human race you want to be part of?