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Originally posted by Rick Lee
John Kerry's talking points from 2004. I'm surprised you didn't use the term "outsource" too. Why would we "let" him get away? Shirley, you can't be serious.
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First of all, I'm not Shirley....
We "let" him get away by depending on the Afghans to actually do the capture. Whether he bought his way out or they just let him go is really irrelevant.
Unfortunately I can't recall where the article was written but the CIA operative who was one of those in charge of the Tora Bora operation stated that he did not trust the Afghans and before the final assault began he asked for some number (around 800 IIRC) of US rangers, delta types, etc. be rushed in to supplement the Afghans. He never received a response, the final assualt began, Osama escaped and the rest is history. There were actually very few US ground troops involved in the Tora Bora assault.
There is no guarantee the extra US troops would have prevented his escape . The point is, any chance we had to capture or kill him was lost.