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151 | Ret. General Dan Bolger: Why We Lost in Afghanistan and Iraq

The Realignment

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The Greatest Mistake That the Bush Administration Made Wasn't Throwing Everything at the Battle of Torabora

i think the greatest mistake that the bush administration made is not throwing everything we had at the battle of torabora and trying to kill ben laden. These are all wild decisions that were made, you know, within the concourse of 20 years. You're talking special forces, you're talking a dozen or so guys of you very small number of people. So great shooters, real smart men and women. But it's pretty darned hard to tell up 12 guys that we were working with in afghanistan. They don't even know wi were in afghanis an, its 20 11. I've been to torbor, the white mountains, tavented that area.

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