Posted on 02/04/2022 9:53:03 AM PST by Red Badger
The speed in which the announcement of mission success, and the venues in which the story was pushed was unusual. They knew they effed up and needed to get a narrative out there quickly. Probably some glory seeking bureaucrat decided to take an action that tipped off the bad guys and what should have been a quick and intense operation became a standoff with no good outcomes.
The children part is the screwed up thing. Special operators know what they're getting into, but they are people, not animals. Knowing some guy in the CIA or State or the Pentagon who took a hot shower and slept in a nice bed yesterday, and will take a hot shower and sleep in a nice bed today make some decision that resulted in children dying while they watched, just so that guy could get a promotion or brag at a cocktail dinner really burns them up.
With the press in their corner, they know they can get away with it.
If this had been Trump, there would have been demonstrations in the streets.
So let me get this straight.
We went in in super-secret stealth mode, landed, and then got on the megaphones and announced their presence?
Yep!.....................
Sure the ROE was meant to reduce collateral damage given what happened in Afghanistan. But giving the enemy warnings in the middle of the night in Syria is a recipe for disaster. And there was still collateral damage.
Two hour gun fights after insertion blows my mind. They did just the opposite of what was done to get OBL.
Our warriors spent months of training for this one OP. I’m sure this was a last-minute request from Brandon to stop and announce their presence to reduce civilian casualties.
Is this why the Whitehouse was lit up red, white and blue last night. All night.?
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”............
“...Interior of a building destroyed ...”
Uhmmmmm....It looks like a squaters palace but, the walls aren’t wrecked in anyway....
Fake news
There was one yesterday...it looked like it was a setup to be similar to the one Obama put out....with Hillary doing her OMG gesture.
I hope that Beijing Biden doesn’t give up our troops like Obama gave up ST6 in Afstan for killing OBL.
The building had 3 stories. The “bomb” that killed leader and family were all up there. Supposedly after that, a few remaining ISIS lieutenants started firing out the 2nd story and were taken out by special forces. TV footage showed the destroyed 3rd floor and how the 1st and 2nd stories were completely in tact. Guessing the photo is either in the 1st or 2nd story of the building.
I’ve seen rooms and hootches that were blown out, this doesn’t look like one of them!
“”Wasn’t the Osama copter hang up pilot error? “”
Could be! I think it was shown in the movie “Zero Dark Thirty” but don’t recall the exact situation. At this point, I don’t swear to anything but that seems accurate.
Nope. Olympics.
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