re: #172 austin_blue

Yes, but it was back-burnered in 2002. Iraq became the priority. The CIA was tasked with connecting Hussein to terrorism (It’s a slam dunk!). And the invasion was on.

Derp..

Not so much of a slam dunk, eh? And the idiot who made the statement was given a Presidential Medal of Freedom. ((Heckuva job, Brownie! in another context.)) Toss a trillion dollars down the memory hole along with the lives of our troops. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

I’m not happy with a lot that’s gone down since 9/11…but to hand all the credit to taking down OBL to BO is naive in the extreme…it’s not as complicated as you are trying to make it with this dropped the ball meme and resources spent…it probably took 10-20 CIA people to find and keep tabs on OBL and all the leads across almost ten years…it never stopped and even more money would not be needed…the CIA has all the money/firepower it wants