I read a piece over on Jammie Wearing Fools that suggests Valerie Jarrett wanted to hold off on the bin Laden raid until the end of October of 2012, just before the election, to get a bump for Obama. She reportedly was “furious” that Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, and Robert Gates went around Obama when they were as certain as possible they could get bin Laden. If this story is true, it is despicable at best, treasonous really, and should be investigated under oath. I personally don’t doubt it is true.
Everything this administration does is political. Everything.
The more that I hear and read about Jarrett the madder I get. Who vetted her a** anyway . . . oh whoops, sorry I forgot that vetting is not acceptable within the Odumbo administration, it wouldn’t be PC.
Good points.
My guesses at additional motivations -
Jarrett is a muslim and did not want to attack another muslim. Ditto for Zippy. They held off as long as possible.
I also suspect that Hillary needed the mission to be successful as soon as possible in order deflect the criticism that Bill let OBL get away when he was President. She needed to appear strong. (Though that posed picture in the situation room makes her look faint-hearted and bewildered. I suspect she was attempting to look concerned, yet not blood-thirsty. I think the attempt failed. She mostly looked posed.)
Gates and Panetta I’m not as sure about. I’m guessing that even though they are very liberal lefties and deluded about what the progressive policies are doing to destroy this country, they are not deliberately trying to bring down this country. I believe they had to take action because they saw the indecisiveness of Zippy and knew he would never give the operation the go-ahead. I agree with the opinion that Hillary, Panetta, and Gates maneuvered around him.
I believe that Zippy was either against the raid or refused to make a decision (still voting “present”) and when the raid was a done deal, he had to make the best of it by claiming credit. In the photos, he looks marginalized and disconnected - even if they were posed. He also looks displeased. Was that because his golf game was interrupted? Or because he really didn’t want to take out OBL, a fellow muslim?