Posted on 05/03/2011 1:55:20 PM PDT by GreaterSwiss
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
FWIW, I’m no fan of BO. Look at my past posts of you need proof. But he did finally decide to do something.
If Bubba had only decided to act, 9/11 would have never happened!!
Out of Pakistan airspace to Jalalabad ASAP. Switch to waiting carrier capable fixed wing and off again pronto.
Out of Pakistan airspace to Jalalabad ASAP. Switch to waiting carrier capable fixed wing and off again pronto.
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After undergoing DNA verification in Afghanistan, bin Laden's remains were flown to the U.S.S. Carl Vinson aircraft carrier.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2069249,00.html#ixzz1LLYUJdLE
Gross. Someone had to ride with that stinking festering Muslim?
I mean a corpse is one thing....
They didn’t have to send Obama out to gloat during the wedding. Doing the action, they could have kept it secret for a while after the fact. In fact, I wonder why he had to speak late on a Sunday evening. It was bizarre. There was no need.
A really zippy one.
[full of terrified screaming passengers, no doubt]
I wonder why he had to speak late on a Sunday evening. It was bizarre. There was no need.
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Think about it. Obama interrupted prime time TV. The networks broke away from regularly scheduled programming.
And what one specific TV show did The Kenyan interrupt? None other than Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice.
After taking a terrible beating by Trump the last few days over Certifigate, and then having to release the long form; the petty vindictive Obama takes his revenge by pre-empting the Trump.
Crazy stuff, huh? And then of course - Obama was a no show with the OBL death news for another hour.
I didn’t think about fixed wing. I ... doubt it... but stranger thing have happened.
I’d hate to have been the pilot.
And real tempted to eject the MF.
Thanks. All the RINOs are out there saying what a brave and brilliant decision this was on Obama’s part. Turns out he slept on it and almost blew it. No credit to Obama. All to Bush and our magnificent military.
Obama did exactly what he said he would during the campaign. And if you’ll remember he got roundly attacked for it. The GOP candidate and most people here said it showed he didn’t understand how the world worked.
“If you think a leader ought to okay a world-changing action in a few minutes time, you havent ever been in those shoes.”
Depends which end of that action you are on. You are talking human lives at risk, here. But, then we already know what that spineless bastard’s attitude is toward the military, don’t we?
and you didn’t recognize the media was being used. No sweat.
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