On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:08:00 -0400
"WAYNE CHIRNSIDE -> ED HULETT"  wrote:

 -=>> ED HULETT wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 EH>> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:58:00 -0400
 EH>> "WAYNE CHIRNSIDE -> STAN HARDEGREE"  wrote:

 -=>>> STAN HARDEGREE wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC>>> It wasn't Democrats who pulled our dogs off the hunt for
 WC>>> Osama bin Laden and sent them to Iraq.

 SH>>> I am surprised that a War College graduate such as yourself
 SH>>> missed this little tidbit from a June USA Today:
 SH>>> ......
 SH>>> Four and a half years after they overthrew the Islamic militia
 SH>>> that had controlled much of Afghanistan, U.S.-led forces have
 SH>>> been forced to ramp up the battle to stabilize this
 SH>>> impoverished, shattered country. More than 10,000 U.S.,
 SH>>> Canadian, British and Afghan government troops are scouring
 SH>>> southern and eastern Afghanistan in a campaign called Operation
 SH>>> Mountain Thrust.

 WC>> Non sequitur.

 EH>> You obviously don't have a clue what a non sequitur is.

 WC> You obviously have no clue what sarcasm is.

Of course I do. That's why I found your idiotic "non sequitur" comment
out of place.

 WC> I used it in EXACTLY the same context Stan the individual to whom
 WC> I was responding to did.

No, you did not.

 WC> But you "obviously" consider one of your own above such petty
 WC> criticism.

My own what?

 WC>> Half the reports I've seen puts Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

 EH>> The border between southern and eastern Afghanistan and
 EH>> Pakistan is not well defined. The reason bin Laden hasn't been
 EH>> captured is that our troops have to get Pakistan's permission
 EH>> to operate within their borders.

 WC> And routinely get it or don't bother asking.

You have no clue.

 WC> Unless that's changed since the last time we killed a bunch of
 WC> Pakistani national civilians recently.

I see you believe everything you hear and read in the MSM.

Ed

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