The Morning Meeting: Frozen Country, Bin Laden’s Message, Whither Geithner & A U.S. Official Says “Torture”

I fail to understand it. After 7 years of attack, this fugitive(Osama bin Laden) is still alive!!!! Can Pres. Bush clarify on this why this man is still at large!

“I fail to understand it. After 7 years of attack, this fugitive(Osama bin Laden) is still alive!!!!”
REMEMBER, BILL CLINTON could not kill OSAMA when whe was walking around in the open. :)
But, I did some Googling and here is my opinion of what I have been reading.
During the Russian war with Afghanistan, we had quite a few CIA operatives trained in the Afghan life and inside the right circles of the “Future” Al Queda. But, after the Soviet Union lost their rear and due to Serious Cut backs in defense spending (people do not understand that this just doesn’t mean the Military, this also means cuts to paying operatives), we lost all of these operatives. By what I read right after 911 and our theatre of operations was only in Afhanistan, WE DID NOT have ENOUGH people to even be able to read their language to disect all the intercepts we had. SO, by the time we were able to read most of this, Osama was gone. Plus, as I said a little ways up, WE DID NOT HAVE THE OPERATIVES to give us the INTEL we needed to find him and what I understand, we still DO NOT. You have to understand that about all the Warlords in Southern Iraq are mostly STRICT ISLAM and have been living under the Taliban Law for years. Those Warlords that have been allies to the West in the past, now want payment and favors for their help which I don’t think the New Afghan Government wants to give them.
I could GO ON AND ON if you would like.
Plus, I truly believe with Osama hiding like the COWARD that he truly is better off for us then killing or capturing him. Either of these will CAUSE a SERIOUS resurgent of Islamic backlash in my opinion. It is proven, he can’t do anything. We have cut off about all of his communications.
But, hey, like I said. The info as to the whys are out there if you want to search for it.

Rita – Yep, but remember our sanctions on Iraq, as admitted by Albright on national TV, killed 500,000 Iraqis during Clinton’s administration. That is a whole lot more than 3,000, and it helps to explain at least one reason that Muslims continue to protect this guy.

Ajax,
(I think you meant to write “the Warlords in Southern Afghanistan”, but apart from that..)
I disagree that Bin Laden should be left alone. Al Qaeda are still bombing embassies and planning new mass murders. And every time Bin Laden manage to post a message it is a slap in the face of his enemies that emboldens his followers.
And don’t underestimate the power of words. These messages are heard by his followers and by youngsters in jeopardy of sliding into extremism.

El_Pajaro:
(I think you meant to write “the Warlords in Southern Afghanistan”, but apart from that..)
You are correct, that is what I meant. Sorry about that.