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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! OPERATION: ENDURING FREEDOM GOP senator questions war results Bunning blasts Gen. Franks for letting al-Qaida leaders flee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Posted: February 14, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Paul Sperry © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – Just moments after Gen. Tommy Franks bragged about prosecuting the most accurate war in U.S. history, a Republican senator blasted him for letting Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders escape from Afghanistan. The heated exchange, largely ignored by the mainstream media, took place Feb. 7 during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that featured a lot of back-patting over the Pentagon's accomplishments so far in the war on terror. But Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., punctured the hype with a sharp dose of reality. "If our mission was to seek out and destroy the Taliban and al-Qaida," he grilled Franks, "why were so many able to flee Afghanistan?" Bunning noted that only a small number – some 500 – of the thousands of terrorists are in custody at U.S. bases in Afghanistan and Cuba. Many, including leaders Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar, have escaped, and are "regrouping and preparing to launch additional attacks on the United States," he said. "I'm not pleased, and I don't think any Americans are pleased, that we haven't done a better job on al-Qaida," Bunning scolded Franks, who's running the war as commander in chief of U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla. His dressing-down came just moments after Franks appeared very pleased with himself and the administration's accomplishments. "One of the obvious characteristics of this campaign [in Afghanistan] has been the accuracy that I described – 18,000-plus weapons having been delivered, 10,000 of those precision munitions," Franks said. "By far and away the greatest application of precision munitions in the history of our country at any point at any place at any time." Of course, they weren't precise enough to hit their primary targets – bin Laden and Omar and most of their top henchmen, who are still at large and a threat to America. "I think we're half-way there," Bunning groused, to which Franks had to agree. "I wouldn't argue with you a bit," the general said. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
