posted on February 26, 2007 10:30:21 AM
Army chief of staff shares views on finding bin LadenBy CHRIS VAUGHN
STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER
STAR-TELEGRAM/STEWART F. HOUSE
Gen. Peter Schoomaker greets a volunteer who was at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport on Friday to welcome troops returning home on leave. Schoomaker also spoke to the Rotary Club of Fort Worth.
More photosFORT WORTH -- The Army's highest-ranking officer and the former leader of the secretive world of Special Operations offered his thoughts on the importance of capturing or killing Osama bin Laden during a luncheon Friday.
They're probably not what anyone expected.
"I don't know whether we'll find him," said Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff. "I don't know that it's all that important, frankly."
(So WHAT have all those troops DIED FOR ??????? What an asphole ! He obviously doesn't give a damn about getting the perpetrator of 9/11 !!! TRAITOR!!
I wonder what those who lost loved ones in the Twin Towers think of THAT!!)
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Schoomaker, pulled out of retirement in 2003 to lead the Army, pointed to the capture of Saddam Hussein, the killings of his sons, Uday and Qusay, and the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as evidence that bin Laden's capture or death would have little effect on the threats to the United States.
"So we get him, and then what?" Schoomaker said. "There's a temporary feeling of goodness, but in the long run, we may make him bigger than he is today. He's hiding, and he knows we're looking for him. We know he's not particularly effective. I'm not sure there's that great of a return" on capturing or killing bin Laden.
posted on February 26, 2007 01:11:49 PM
At this point Bin laden, isnt important. He is either dead or has become SO impotent that no credence can be given to him.
But as we ALL know, had klinton taken more time to address the demise of bin laden than undressing monica, there wouldnt have been an attack on the WTC.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.George S. Patton
[ edited by Bear1949 on Feb 26, 2007 01:13 PM ]
