Posted on 05/03/2011 5:30:17 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
WASHINGTON – Killing Osama bin Laden was a big victory for the U.S., but how exactly the raid went down is another story — and another, and another.
Over two days, the White House has offered contradictory versions of events, including misidentifying which of bin Laden's sons was killed and wrongly saying bin Laden's wife died in gunfire, as it tries to sort through what the president's press secretary called the "fog of combat" and produce an accurate account.
Press Secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday that officials were trying to get information out as quickly as possible about the complex event witnessed by just a handful of people, and the story line was being corrected.
"We provided a great deal of information with great haste in order to inform you. ... And obviously some of the information was, came in piece by piece and is being reviewed and updated and elaborated on," Carney said.
The contradictions and misstatements reflect the fact that even in the case of a highly successful and popular mission, the confusion inherent in a fast-paced, unpredictable military raid conducted under intense pressure in a foreign country does not lend itself immediately to a tidy story line, some experts said.
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The way they have dealt with this whole story has been consistent with everything else they have done so far. I’m not all too surprised.
Like my grandma used to say....Know your lie before you tell it...
He's justr looking for a bump....he may get one. This was an assassination.
They can only run their insider polls so fast.
Obama supporters don’t like the idea of shooting Bin Ladin’s wife? OK. Let’s change that.
Now, let’s poll the new story, and see how that goes down.
Hmm, that didn’t work very well. How about changing the name of his son, so we don’t offend anyone named Mohammed. . . .
Send out the pollsters again!
The one and only thing he has done right, and he is changing the facts.
Fail is strong with this one.
I’m having a hard time understanding the confusion. Didn’t they make a big deal of posting the photo of the dumbo and others in the Situation Room watching the events unfold live?
How about they quit with the stories and just deal in the facts.
Making decisions and being responsible for those decisions is tough, Barack.
I know Barack has never dealt in truth, so he ought to give the truth a try.
Another example of their incompetence or is it Hillary’s game plan, I can’t decide.
It will be hard to throw the Seals under the bus when Obama went on TV claiming all the credit. I, I , I, me, me, me may come back to bite him in the buttocks.
2. 2004: Enhanced Interrogation of al-Qahtani Confirms the Nom De Geure of bin Ladin’s Courier.
3. 2006: Enhanced Interrogation of an Al Qaeda Captured in Iraq, Hassan Ghul, produces the Real Name of the Courier.
They have to focus group the various responses first to see where their left wing is.... Is obama a war criminal, does Bush get credit? Were we for this before we were against it?
Just tell the truth and tell it once and there won’t be any questions but after all these are Obama’s idiots running his regime.
“This was an assassination.”
Maybe, but so were the 3000 innocent victims on 9-11. I’m thrilled the sob is dead.
The Keystone (Cops) Administration...
The scripts just write themselves.
I’m sorry that your hero, Osama bin Laden, was killed in a manner so upsetting you.
In Carney's case, the 'fog of stupidity' is far more accurate.
Given the confusion, can we even be certain that Osama is dead? First he was armed, then he wasn’t, his wife got killed, then she didn’t, they’re going to release an image, they might not. Then, when they have the chance to give us the body, they drop it overboard into the ocean. And, as for not giving Bin Laden’s followers a body to enshrine—the administration gave them the site where he died to venerate by identifying it. That will probably be good enough for many of them.
I’m glad that Osama is supposed to be dead. I’d just like to see undeniable proof.
Indeed, if you have the truth then there is no NEED to struggle!
Buncha morons!
And the problem with lying is that when you do tell the truth no one believes you.
Indeed. I don’t think there is a problem with this bunch.
They’ve never tested the “truth” thing to find out. LOL!
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