Christiane Amanpour's 2 hour CNN special "In the Footsteps of Bin Laden" was very good. Fortunately she spent 5 minutes or so on the Dubya Administration's blunder of not sending the requested 800 Army Rangers to get Bin Laden in Tora Bora.
It's election time again, so if any of the media is reading this, let's remember to remind the voting public about blunder by the Bush Administration.
The CIA guy mentioned, and we've heard him before, how his group was listening to Bin Laden's communications @ Tora Bora, regarding the pounding air strikes in the area, and he requested of "Washington" 800 or so Army Rangers. Of which they never came. Instead we went after Bin Laden with 50 to 60 US soldiers, the ones that were already in place but weren't enough of to cut off bin laden from escaping through the mountains.
Why was such a blunder made in the first place? Is it because terror is good for the GOP? Or was it sheer stupidity? Or was the Administration too busy planning the Iraq War? In any of these three cases, let's make sure the voters are crystal clear about this fact now and two years from now. "Tough on Terror" my arse.
P.S. Bin Laden's organization has declared they would like to kill 10 million Americans with nukes. So when it's our turn to run the Country, let's make sure we get him.