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Giving Obama credit for taking out OBL would be like giving Harry Truman credit for winning WWII. Yes, OBL death was on Obama’s watch. But Obama was president as intelligence came to light as to where he was. Are there any people who think this would not have happened if McCain was elected or Hillary was elected? It would have happened the same way it did. So Obama did what any president would have done. Nothing special here. No big contribution from Obama. He was simply in office when the intelligence came in.

Essentially Obama had two or three options when information came in as to where Osama was:

1)He could do nothing and let Osama get away. This would have leaked out eventually and would have destroyed his presidency. So this is not an option at all and Obama had to know this.

2) He could have leveled the building with an air strike thus killing Osama but also killing a lot of other people and possibly causing an international incident. These terrorists are famous for surrounding themselves with women and children. This option would involve the least risk for US personnel but would also have the negative of not having the body and we would not have the intelligence of the captured computers and disks. So this was ruled out.

3) Surgical Strike- This was the option taken and in retrospect the only viable option. It was a gamble and had the most risk to our special forces. It had the potential for a bad outcome. But it worked and Obama did the right thing.

But when you look at the options, there really wasn't much of a choice. So Obama doesn't get great credit for what he did. He did the right thing because there were few other options. That's not the spin the left leaning media is gonna put on it. They are gonna make him seem like the most courageous leader since Winston Churchill and the most courageous president since, Abraham Lincoln. Just wait and see.

I concur 100%, it was his only option. And apparently, he’s so “smart”, that he had to “sleep on it” overnight to “think” about it. Obviously to try to see if there was some way to not take him out, after the enormous multi-year operation to get the guy, and all the leadership is telling him it is go time, they’ve got him in there sights.

The other guess I have about him needing time to “think” (somewhere I read he just walked out) is to allow Jarrett & co. ( whoever his true advisor / backers / handlers are ) like union - commie bosses, etc., time to strategize and see how they want him to handle it.

If we only had the phone call lists and visitor lists from last week. Undoubtedly jarret is the chief go-between.

So I theorize that all those morons realized the obvious, he “spoke” with jarret the next morning who relayed the OK, then came in and said, ok, let’s go, banging his fist on the table. ?? That’s again what I read “somewhere”, sounded weird so it was probably true.

I think way too many in our government knew about all that practicing for the mission, the intel. Definitely hillary and State knew, and all her buddies. If binladin even gets away... if pakistanis are tipped - imagine that. Panetta, Hillary, etc., they would all be furious that they could have bagged him on their watch, but nobama calls it off ??? That would make A LOT of people in the gov’t and Navy / SEALS heirarchy very upset. I think it would have leaked out before the election. And that would give conservatives huge election fodder that - barry let him get away. WOW, he would look like a muslim in sheeps clothing.

I agree he could not say no just like you described.