Joe Biden Calls Bin Laden Raid The Most ‘Audacious Plan’ In 500 Years

Yahoo News ^ | 3/20/12 | Oliver Knox

[Lmo56]

Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that the raid that killed Osama bin Laden was the most "audacious plan" of the past 500 years. Biden's comments, made at a Democratic fundraiser in Morris Township, NJ, ranked the May 2011 assault that ended the Al-Qaeda chief's life above the D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944, the surprise landing at Inchon in 1950 that turned the tide of the Korean War or, going back a bit further, George Washington's daring night-time crossing of the Delaware River before the Battle of Trenton in 1776.

[JewishRighter]

“Our first Negro Veep is actually Tardy Turtle.”

I think Turdy ReTardle is a better fit.

[Jabba the Nutt]

It's now obvious that the Obama campaign will use the killing of Bin Laden to show that Barry's not a wuss (like Carter).

I recall a story at the time, that was very detailed on how then CIA Director Panetta, Chief of Staff Bill Daly and SecState Hillary Clinton had to "work around" Obama to get the Bin Laden raid approved. Barry was dithering and couldn't make a decision.

Here's a link:Panetta, Clinton and Gates "worked around" Obama on the bin Laden mission?

This should be checked out and then pushed out there for people to consider.

[andy58-in-nh]

Our Navy Seals and pilots risk their lives to carry out the mission. Obama risk(ed) only his political future. If the mission had failed..he would have said it was all planned by the military.

Bears repeating - 100% correct.

[norwaypinesavage]

"Audacious" is George Washington returning from battle with bullet holes in his military coat.

"Cowardly" is Barack Obama covering his golf shirt with a military coat so he looks good in the pictures of him watching TV of heroes in a battle 12,000 miles away.

[Graybeard58]

There are literally hundreds of examples of more audacious and successful plans, battles and skirmishes in The U.S. history.

[Night Hides Not]

Sam Houston’s leadership during the Battle of San Jacinto was, dare I say it...AUDACIOUS!

[Seizethecarp]

The Pearl Harbor attack was #2, IMO. Although if you count the erdication of the US, UK and Dutch navies in Asia in the first three months of WWII, Yamamoto is unrivaled.

Idiot Biden is boasting about taking out sitting duck Bin Laden, defended with small arms, when it was Bin Laden who was behind what I consider to be the most audacious and innovative and consequential single attack ever executed. The 9/11 attack was asymmetric genius in converting non-weapons (civilian aircraft) into kinetic projectiles and applying the force of those projectiles exactly in places where maximum damage could be inflicted. And the damage was simultaneously military, economic and political.

Audacious, in my mind requires complete surprise thus ruling out Normandy and others where the attack was inevitable and only the date unknown.

To rank high on historical significance the audacious attack must be consequential. This would rule out the Doolittle Raid and Benedict Arnold’s slog through Maine to reach Quebec as they were not consequential.

[Lmo56]

There are literally hundreds of examples of more audacious and successful plans, battles and skirmishes in The U.S. history.

The 9/11 attacks were also audacious - but due to the iconceivability of them [from the American point of view], they had a reasonable chance of success [which they did] ...