Posted on 08/20/2012 11:03:00 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Barack Obama cancelled three operations to kill Osama bin Laden before finally going ahead with the mission at the insistence of Hillary Clinton, according to a new book.
The explosive allegation is contained in an expose by journalist Rich Miniter, who argues that the White Houses carefully-crafted narrative of Obama as a decisive leader who dispatched the al-Qaeda leader despite the doubts of advisers is a myth.
Leading from Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him will be published on Tuesday. Excerpts have been viewed by Mail Online.
Miniter, a former Wall Street Journal, Washington Times and Sunday Times of London journalist, cites an unnamed source within Joint Special Operations Command as revealing that three kill missions were cancelled by Obama in January, February and March 2011.
Bin Laden was eventually killed by US Navy SEALs inside his compound in Abbotobad, Pakistan in May 2011.
At the start of his presidency, Miniter writes, Obama was studiously undecided about whether to kill the mastermind of 9/11. He refused to weigh in or commit himself on even small matters related to a possible strike on bin Laden.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Once again, the queer-in-chief, confronted by a strong woman, had to do something, to show that he is not a queer!
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