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Obama: I Was 'As Active in Planning OBL Mission As Any Other Project During My Presidency'
Business Insider ^
| May 8, 2011
| Noah Davis
Posted on 05/08/2011 6:56:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
60 Minutes aired the interview Steve Kroft conducted with President Obama on Wednesday at the White House in which the Commander-in-Chief discussed the successful mission to kill Osama bin Laden.
"I felt very strongly there was a strategic imperative to go after him," the President said even though he admitted they had no photograph and no direct evidence of bin Laden's presence.
The President also said he was "about as active as any project that I've been involved with since I've been President... I was not involved with designing the initial plan but each iteration they'd bring to me, make a full presentation, we would ask questions. We had multiple meetings in the Situation Room where we actually had a model of the compound and we would discuss how this operation might proceed and what various options there were."
Later, Kroft asked for the President's thoughts about the compound in Pakistan.
"I think we were surprised when we learned this compound had been there for five or six years, and it was in an area in which you would think that potentially he would attract some attention. So yes, the answer is that we were surprised that he could maintain a compound for that long without there being a tip off."
Kroft also asked about the concerns Obama before the mission....
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; 72versions; enemedia; gutsyganda; narcissism; narcissist; narcissistinchief; obama; obamaganda; obltermination; osama; pakistan; wot
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Can you imagine any other US president having to explain that he was in the loop for his "biggest" triumph? Anotherwords he was on the golf course or eating some Wagyu steak and lobster surf & turf.
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posted on
05/08/2011 6:58:01 PM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
You forgot the barf alert.
He really wants to play the role of the warrior, doesn’t he?
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posted on
05/08/2011 6:59:07 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(It's not eat drink and be merry because tommow we die, but do so because yesterday we were dead.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obama: One Wicked bastard.
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posted on
05/08/2011 6:59:11 PM PDT
by
unkus
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
05/08/2011 6:59:38 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(Navy SEALs: They'll shoot your eyes out.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
And if it had backfired, he’d be blaming some general, the SEALS, Republicans, anyone but himself.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He’s not really lying, he spent zero time on this just like every other project.
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posted on
05/08/2011 7:01:39 PM PDT
by
culpeper
(He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people,)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"I felt very strongly there was a strategic imperative to go after him,"
Interesting comment. Makes me wonder if there haven't been times when it wasn't a strategic imperative to go after him.
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posted on
05/08/2011 7:02:07 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Travis McGee
"about as active as any project that I've been involved with since I've been President..Travis, that was a brilliant answer. And it is absolutely true. He had nothing to do with the project.
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posted on
05/08/2011 7:02:33 PM PDT
by
Kenny Bunk
(We live in America's "Awkward" Era. Too late to fix the country. To early to start shooting.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Suddenly, cowboy is good.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The most self-absorbed, self congratulatory, narcissistic, metrosexual president EVER.
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posted on
05/08/2011 7:04:02 PM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
To: Gamecock
To: 2ndDivisionVet
There are a-holes and there are a-holes, but this guy is the absolute *King of the A-Holes*, bar none.
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posted on
05/08/2011 7:04:30 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Palin, Bachmann, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hahahahahahahahahahaha! hahahahahahahahahahaha!
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posted on
05/08/2011 7:04:36 PM PDT
by
Calm_Cool_and_Elected
("The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." --Flannery O'Connor)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What a friggin bald faced liar.
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posted on
05/08/2011 7:04:40 PM PDT
by
Cyman
To: culpeper
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posted on
05/08/2011 7:04:40 PM PDT
by
Ronin
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves" -- Bertrand de Jouve)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
sounds about right. congress wrote the flaccid stimulus, and obamacare. other than getting elected, he has pretty outsourced all of the “projects” in his presidency.
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posted on
05/08/2011 7:04:43 PM PDT
by
JohnBrowdie
(http://forum.stink-eye.net)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
So think maybe his ‘brains’ in the White House, Valarie and Axle sent the appropriate questions to be ask. And was he able to speak freely without his teleprompter?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obama is actively trying to convict the CIA ops that found Osama.
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posted on
05/08/2011 7:05:03 PM PDT
by
NoLibZone
(Unless Reagan rises from the dead, we can easily find at least one reason to skip a leading GOPer.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Damn, that is probably true. In other words, he didn’t have a friggin’ clue.
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posted on
05/08/2011 7:05:23 PM PDT
by
MileHi
( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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