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So Much For Campaign Finance Laws
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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
okay. but i'll need your help.
you say "he couldn't have taken out OBL or the Afghan camps as they trained 20k jihadis because it would have hurt his poll numbers."
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Sorry, that's not why he didn't take out OBL or the Afghan camps. We had no good way to attack those camps. We lacked decent intelligence about where OBL was at any given time. Even our efforts to hit OBL with cruise missiles were frustrated by the Taliban-sympathetic elements in Pakistan's military and intelligence service. Without bases in a neighboring country, we had no way to project other forces there.
Wait -- are you talking about Clinton's poll numbers or Bush's? Because what you said applies equally between 1/01 and 9/01.
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