Posted on 11/06/2011 12:09:01 PM PST by PhilosopherStone1000
“There isn’t a politician in the world who could resist trying to take credit for getting Bin Laden but it devalued the ‘intel’ .......
...........and gave time for every other Al-Qaeda leader to scurry to another bolthole,” he said.”
We may never know how many lives will be lost due to Obama’s incompetence, arrogance and politically driven FAILURE to look at the big picture.
Even in the killing of Bin Laden, Obama is a lying FAILURE.
keep in mind... the announcement was meant to push something out of the news cycle
0bama’s forged birth certificate and the fact that it was the only ‘official’ document showing his fathers citizenship at the time of his birth.
by announcing this preplanned raid, they were able to cut any push for eligibility requirements or questions about the forgery
so yes, the Seals were used
Obama might have been getting nervous that he might be in for the same Pinochet treatment that the Democrats and ACLU have demanded for Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld where they can't travel to the EU without accepting the risk of being hauled into a Spanish court and charged with war crimes.
I would think he purposely shot her in the leg so she would fall and give a clear shot even though shooting through her would have been a sure thing.
Pretty quick thinking and excellent shooting.
One thing I'll never forget about working with Afghans and Arabs is that they have no idea how stupid, backwards, and incompetent they are.
Bin Laden was unarmed and a few feet from his weapon, with several of the best trained commandos in the world, with their fingers on their triggers, covering him.
The flippin' moron tries to make a leap for his AK so he can fight them off like the brave Arab warrior he thinks he is.
The SEALs score two instant kill shots, one in the head, the other in the chest.
And I would even go so far as to say that Obama--and his fawning sycophants in the media--are in large part responsible for the death of those SEALS killed in that horrific helicopter crash. NO--NADA--NOTHING--should have been revealed about who was responsible for bin Laden's death, much less the mention of the SEALS and especially the team number.
Watching the announcement of the "breaking news" of bin Laden's death, I became FURIOUS about all that info being given out, despite enjoying the moment of victory for our nation. And I think most men and women in the military felt the same way: their victory was being snatched from them and paraded before the jaws of those who hunger to defeat them by their own CIC!
Do you work for the alcu?
U are tho thmart. Were you a SEAL or in the Navy, or Army or Air Force, Coast Guard?
This time we are in, with this Gay Muslim pretender and hater of the United States in our White House, will eventually go down as the one of the darkest chapters in the history of the United States so far.
I can think of several high value targets our finest should be unleashed on. It would also be much more efficient and effective to wage covert actions, like the Mossad did once upon a time, than the wasteful and dangerous asymmetric wars we have waged with their no-win rules of engagement. We need to be strictly out of the “Nation Building” business and strictly in the business of protecting the safety of the interests of the citizens of the United States. Special Operations forces are the ticket IF we ever again have the right commander.
I think Barry announced the death....but it was Plugs who announced the exact unit which did the mission.
True to Muslim tradition to the end.
Jesse Ventura was a SEAL
seems to me they had to drag Obummer in off a golf course and that he wasn’t particularly enthused about the whole mission.
More likely 90 seconds from the “eyes on” geronimo call.
I agree - he looked ‘outside of the action’ in the situation room photo. Actually in a golf shirt, off to the side, no laptop open in front of him. No pad of paper...nothing but a spectator.
But he sure did a quick victory lap...I think he went to FT Campbell to congratulate himself in a speech, etc.
Are you assuming that he was standing?
If OB wins another term, he’ll travel the middle east and after bowing, he’ll tell the various dictators he instructed the military to not kill Bin laden, but the seals got too aggressive. He’ll apologize just like he does for everything else we’ve done he can’t stand.
BTTT!
“I’ve been a Seal for 30 years and I never heard the words ‘kill mission’.”
I believe the proper term is “Direct Action” mission.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. :)
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