Buffalo Boy's Blog

No matter what becomes of George W. Bushes legacy the fact that we still have to see messages and videos from this guy should sicken everyone regardless of their political affiliation.

This is the man responsible for the 9/11 attacks and despite that fact Bush and Dick threw the propaganda at us and convinced the majority of their party at least that it was Saddam or at the very least that Saddam had something to do with 9/11.

Today, we got another message from the fish that our last president let get away, telling Somali's to overthrow their new president.

I may be an Obama supporter and a democrat but that doesn't mean that I agree with everything the guy does and I think that he is so far ignoring the huge problems that are going on in Africa.

Bin Laden is no idiot, I highly doubt he is in the hills of Afghanistan or Pakistan anymore, why would he be? He knows US forces and NATO forces are there and will be there for the forseeable future. Obama is right by withdrawing troops from Iraq but don't beef up in Afghanistan, send them to Somalia and Darfur, that is where Al Qaeda and Bin Laden are concentrating on.

Africa is full of very poor countries. Poor countries equal weak countries and therefore easy to manipulate. Who better to manipulate those largely Muslim poor countries than Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

Yes we need to get out of Iraq, they are ready to be set free and its time to end the occupation of their country. But sending more troops to where this guy probably isn't is not wise.

What would be wrong with paring down all our forces out there, bringing say 80% of them home, refocusing and rethinking a totally new, intelligence based strategy instead of a military one.

The idea that our military was going to win the war on terror to begin with was an insane thought. The war on terror is not going to be fought with troops on the ground or air strikes. Its going to be fought with intelligence agencys like the CIA, FBI and making quick calculated pre-emptive yet highly thought out strikes. This mass troop build up is getting old and I hope that that line of thinking is changed before long.

Bin Laden is the guy we want, if Bush and Dick had spent half their time focusing on Bin Laden as they did on priming us up for the invasion of Iraq 7 years ago we might have had him already, instead we are a good 7 plus years status post 9/11 and the head of those attacks is still at large, it makes me sick.