Al-Qaeda “On The Run” Says CIA Chief
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Wait, so Obama’s strategy to hit them in Pakistan and wherever they are seems to be working?
Relentless attacks against al-Qaeda in the Pakistan tribal region appear to have driven Osama bin Laden and other top leaders deeper into hiding, leaving the organization rudderless and incapable of planning sophisticated operations, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Wednesday.
So profound is al-Qaeda’s disarray that one of its lieutenants, in a recently intercepted message, pleaded to bin Laden to come to the group’s rescue and provide some leadership, Panetta told The Washington Post in an interview.
Panetta credited an increasingly aggressive campaign against al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies, including more frequent strikes and better coordination with Pakistan. He called it ‘the most aggressive operation that CIA has been involved in in our history.’
So. A president actually interested in disrupting and fighting Al Qaeda is having some effect? Who would have known?
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It’s been a while since a number two guy has been killed. Now that Obama’s getting number one guys, i bet the number twos feel a lot better
Obama is invading Pakistan!!! AIIIEE#EEE~!
Yeah, Quaker! Who’da thunk it? Now, who wants to pretend that if Pres Bush had done the same thing, the Left would not have been screaming bloody murder?
One thing I am sure of – the Left will never run out of sides of their mouths to say things out of .
Now, who wants to pretend that if Pres Bush had done the same thing, the Left would not have been screaming bloody murder?
So your bitch is that Bush was so terrified of a liberal backlash he was afraid to pursue a more aggressive strategy against al-Qaeda?
Really? That’s what you’re going with here?
One thing I am sure of – the Left will never run out of sides of their mouths to say things out of .
That is one of the single most retarded statements I have ever read on this site. Congratulations, Frankie!
Oh Frank! If Bush had done ANYTHING competently I think we on the left wouldn’t have screamed anything.
We would have thought he’d been body snatched by one of the previously intelligent dead presidents.
No?
One thing I am sure of – the Left will never run out of sides of their mouths to say things out of .
And the Right will never run out of ass to pull things out of.
Short-term memory loss, Frank?
Chasing al-Qaeda in Pakistan is exactly what Obama said he would do during the campaign. Conservatives all went, “hawhawhaw” and declared it would amount to an invasion of an ally.
So when’s the Republican peace rally?
In 2008, the right wet its pants and created all sorts of distortions because Obama said he would get tough on Pakistan.
Incursions into “where they are” in contrast to invasions of “where they weren’t”. And using law enforcement approach. And not strutting around on aircraft carriers.
Indeed, this is a good day.
he Left will never run out of sides of their mouths to say things out of .
It is still better than talking out of your ass.
I will not waste my time finding all the times the Left objected to even searching for bin Laden in Pakistan, let alone sending troops in there.
And mambochicken, you are still a dope with a big mouth.
Frank, what with the advent of teh Google, and the sheer volume of posts you dump here on a daily basis:
Nobody’s buying this whole “valuable time” schtick.
finding all the times the Left objected to even searching for bin Laden in Pakistan
Because it doesn’t exist. Even Ralph Nader said we should get Bin Laden. Differed on how to do it, but still. You’re so full of it.
Exactly. It was THE RIGHT that went berserk with cries of “YOU CAN’T INVADE PAKISTAN”. But of course that’s reality, where Frank doesn’t live.
Of course I would like to know how much the political changes in Pakistan have changed things. Bush playing nice with Musharraf(misspelled?)allowed us to not put pressure on an ally to work with us instead of against us.
I will not waste my time finding all the times the Left objected to even searching for bin Laden in Pakistan,
OK then, how about wasting just a little time pulling just one or two specific examples outta….there.
And mambochicken, you are still a dope with a big mouth.
And what does that make you, Frank? You’re clearly much dumber than me, and you don’t seem to know when you should shut up.
Frank would long for the good ole days when conservatives were patriots and liberals were dhimmis and debate over cost effective military action was treasonous behavior – if he could just hold more than two thoughts in his head at the same time.
Frank DiS: I will not waste my time finding all the times the Left objected to even searching for bin Laden in Pakistan, let alone sending troops in there.
And mambochicken, you are still a dope with a big mouth.
How is this at all any different than a three-year-old crying ” Because I said so! And you’re a doody-head!”?
Oh, right. It isn’t any different than that at all!
Frank’s just pissed because it really is quite amazing that you can achieve positive results by pursuing the terrorists WHERE THEY ACTUALLY ARE instead of ramming our collective schvantzes into some other unrelated country because there are fortunes in blood-money to be made.