Posted on 05/03/2011 1:06:01 PM PDT by traumer
President 'slept on it' as tense military chiefs awaited decision Action started the next morning when Obama declared 'it's a go' Mission delayed by one day after heavy cloud cover on Saturday night Navy seals dodged Pakistani security to reach Bin Laden's lair Outpouring of emotion on streets down to 'the same sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11' Obama told members of Congress
Barack Obama kept military commanders hanging by declaring he would 'sleep on it' before taking 16 hours to give the go-ahead to raid Bin Laden's compound.
Hit squads of specialist Navy Seals - who were not even told who they were preparing to capture - had practised the mission at two reconstructions of the terror chiefs sprawling compound. The mission looked set to be given the all clear last Thursday when analysts confirmed beyond doubt that Bin Laden was in busy town of Abbottabad in northern Pakistan.
But the president stunned officials when he told a national security meeting that he wanted more time to think - and disappeared out of the room. 'I'm not going to tell you what my decision is now - I'm going to go back and think about it some more,' said Obama, according to the New York Times. He then added 'I'm going to make a decision soon.' The head of the CIA and other senior intelligence officers who were keen to proceed were left tense as they waited for the president's decision. But the next morning after 16 hours, Obama summoned four top aides to the White House Diplomatic Room. Before they could speak, the president put his fist on the table and declared 'It's a go'.
With those three words, the greatest military operation in recent history began. Had it not been for heavy cloud cover
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Bush would have said “git ‘er done” on the spot.
Hey, it takes time to do a poll!
/sarc
What America President wouldn't have JUMPED at this opportunity?
“newsflavor” has the real story, it keeps getting banned here.
Had to get to the WHCD don’t you know.
But then leading from behind is the best he can do
No American would have hesitated.
Nope, not gonna say it...
obama is the only CIC that gets sentout golfing so peeps think nothing unusual is going on!
Let me sleep on it
Let me play a round of golf first
Lets have a beer about it
Let me go on Oprah first
Let me consult my spritual advisor (rev wright)
ummmm.......
ummmm.......
I cant watch.
Plugs, what do you think?
“I dunno kill him?”
OK, but dont screw it up or we’ll prosecute you for an unauthorized assassination atempt in a foreign country without clearance.
If that's true, why the reported hesitation under Bush, when it sounded like they knew where Bin Laden was near the Afgan-Pakistan border and could have captured/killed him but were prevented from doing do?
I would imagine the members of Team Six would take umbrage at being called a “Hit Squad”.
That’s getting on the same level as Bubba Clinton not wanting his golf game interrupted when OBL was in a sniper’s sights.
Chinese press is claiming the Paki’s did all the heavy lifting and that we swooped in @ the last minute simply to collect OBL’s body..! Nice huh? Oh! And they say that the helicopter that went down was Pakistani, and that the rebels SHOT IT DOWN.
hahahahh...yeah right....
LOL! “Leading from behind” is official military slang for “coward.” What a contemptable man; sleeping while our forces are in imminent danger. If the RNC has ANY brains it will make an ad about this, showing an Obama lookalike trying to push a rope while whining about the polls.
16 hours? I may not really care for Soros, but at least I always thought of him as being a little more decisive than that.
What a decisive decision maker this Ibama is!
/sarc.
“I would imagine the members of Team Six would take umbrage at being called a “Hit Squad”.”
Depending on the reports, they very well could have been. If Obama sent them to Pakistan to kill Bin Laden, they are a “Hit Squad.”
What happened to the concept of a free press?
The author of the articles there is banned from FR.
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