US Marines 'itching' to track down Osama

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"Nobody really thinks Bin Laden is here in Afghanistan," said the soldier, whose job is to make friends with Afghan villagers in the hope of finding useful intelligence. "But a lot of people go to and fro across the border. Just maybe somebody who knows something we want to know will pick up a leaflet."

The soldier has been seconded to a deeply frustrated Marine unit.
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After six months in Afghanistan, Lima Company still hasn't been in a skirmish with the enemy, which is just over the Pakistan border - a border that they may not cross.
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'Pakistan says it is helping America but it is not'
A Marine officer spat a stream of brown saliva from chewing tobacco in the direction of Pakistan.

"We all know al-Qaeda and the Taliban are in there somewhere," he said. "Maybe that's where Bin Laden is hiding.

"We would dearly love to go in there, track them down, and end the war here and now. But for political reasons we can't."
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=vn20041129025411199C740898

[booksenkatz]

1. I think there's a cream you can get for that

All of that itching is a waste of time. OBL is just a straw man these days. (Maybe it's a straw allergy?)

[w13rd0]

2. funny

the Pakistanis say Ossama not there, and AQKhan is hero...some lovely allies

[The Zanti Regent]

3. Wake up fools, Osama is probably in a CIA safe house.

Until he's needed again so the Nazi Party can pass Patriot 2!

[donsu]

11. people joke Osama is hiding in the W.H. basement, bowling,

swimming, watching movies and playing pc games.

[BOSSHOG]

4. Vietnam all over again

"We could end the war right now, BUT FOR POLITICAL REASONS WE CAN'T" If the marines ended the war, the republican hold on the oil fields might just slip away.

[0007]

5. Wish the Marines would try and tract down the truth about

junior and his crime cabal and find out why and what policy the U.S. had with the Middle East that created 911.

[HawkerHurricane]

6. Of course they are.

They want the man who murdered 3,000 Americans, because they believe he'd do it again AND they want to make a example of him.

And they're being used.

[Skittles]

9. imagine if all our military resources

had been put into tracking down that evil f*** Osama. But no, our own evil f*** Bush had other plans - you are correct, he is using our soldiers for who knows what and it is sickening.

[Redleg]

12. Damn right you are.

I can see why these troops are frustrated.

[Skittles]

13. as a veteran and an American I very much resent that piece of shit Bush

and all conservatives who would imply that I don't support the troops because I don't support this phony war on terrorism. I am completely disgusted.

[Redleg]

14. Same here. Those people don't know what it means to "support the troops."

I get so damn mad when I hear that b.s. it makes me want to give someone a horizontal butt stroke to the throat.

[annabanana]

7. someone with a working accout

in freep land should post this link. I wonder if anyone over there is the least bit interested in getting the guy who attacked us?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

8. Are you kidding?

They would just blame liberals. It's part of their autonomous nervous system now.

[alexisfree]

10. People are so blind? Keep believing soldier boy. Don't accept reality

When will people see reality for what it is.