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Palin thanks former President Bush for bin Laden's death
KDVR-TV ^ | May 2, 2011

Posted on 05/02/2011 8:37:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- Former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke at a military appreciation rally in Lakewood Monday evening.

Palin took the stage and thanked the members of the crowd for their service.

“Freedom is not free but a god given right” said Palin. “I thank you for being part of the solution.”

She then addressed the death of Osama bin Laden, who was killed by US forces.

“One of the evil leaders of the Islamic extremists..has met justice at the hands of America’s finest.” She said. “We thank our president, we thank President Bush.”

Palin also mentioned that America’s war on terror is still not over.

“Those who would kill in the name of religion must be sought,” added Palin. “We are still at war with a brutal enemy.”

The program included a former Pentagon official who disparaged Islam while he was a senior military intelligence official.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; obama; osama; osamabinladenkilled; palin
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Sounds to me like she thanked both Mr. Obama and President Bush, but what do I know?
1 posted on 05/02/2011 8:37:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She is giving credit where it’s due. the military still considers Pres Bush as the C-I-C


2 posted on 05/02/2011 8:40:09 PM PDT by SarahPalinForPresident2012 (She's runnin')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That is exactly what she did, and what she should have done. They both get kudos. I can’t stand bambi but for once in his life he did the right thing.


3 posted on 05/02/2011 8:40:21 PM PDT by HerrBlucher ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." G.K. Chesterton)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

disparaged Islam -—
Yeah that worse than having special Obama assassination teams, murder a Muslim, while violating another countries Sovereignty, eh?


4 posted on 05/02/2011 8:41:16 PM PDT by Freddd (NoPA ngineers.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She did thank them both, she is all class.


5 posted on 05/02/2011 8:42:56 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lower-case “g” in “God.” Now the liberal msm wan’t to diminish God in standard journalistic style.


6 posted on 05/02/2011 8:44:17 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. /P. J. O'Rourke, 1991)
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To: freedumb2003
Yahweh/Jesus/The Holy Spirit is the same as Zeus, Thor or Vishnu to them. The only true deities to them are Gaia(Mother Earth) and Allah.
7 posted on 05/02/2011 8:54:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. TR)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
horsepower
8 posted on 05/02/2011 8:56:56 PM PDT by FrankR (A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We can make you room temperature any place, any time, any where!

Eight Deuce on the loose!

9 posted on 05/02/2011 9:10:00 PM PDT by paratrooper82 (We are kicking Ass in Afghanistan, soon we will be home to kick some more Asses in Congress!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

>> The only true deities to them are Gaia(Mother Earth) and Allah.<<

You forget their newest deity: teh one!


10 posted on 05/02/2011 9:10:56 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. /P. J. O'Rourke, 1991)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; RedMDer; Bigtigermike; Al B.; WVNan; sarah fan UK; Virginia Ridgerunner; ...
LIVE STREAM WAS NOT VERY GOOD. QUICK SNAP SHOT BY RedMder!



11 posted on 05/02/2011 9:14:30 PM PDT by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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Does ANYONE really think Obama would have set up anything to actually capture or kill Muslim terrorists? Totally laughable. Thanks President Bush.

Get off the golf course and do your job, Pres__ent Obama.


12 posted on 05/02/2011 9:17:14 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Pollutico's headline tomorrow:

"PALIN POLITICIZES BIN LADEN'S DEATH IN FRONT OF TROOPS..."

13 posted on 05/02/2011 9:20:43 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2012)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

(from the movie Troy) Odysseus: [to Achilles] “War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.”


14 posted on 05/02/2011 9:29:24 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: SarahPalinForPresident2012

ping


15 posted on 05/02/2011 9:34:03 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: Hoosier-Daddy; 2ndDivisionVet

Does ANYONE really think Obama would have set up anything to actually capture or kill Muslim terrorists? Totally laughable. Thanks President Bush.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This is not quite over yet. NATO is pi$$ed.Can’t say as I blame them much. They spent millions hunting for Osama Bin Laden, and didn’t even get so much as a wiff of the body.One cannot help but ask WHY.

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A feast of fools Posted by Richard Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Nothing could have been further from my mind as I scanned the morning’s news yesterday than spending the best part of the day exploring the recent history of Osama Bin Laden’s many deaths.

If, as increasingly seems likely, but not yet proven to any satisfactory degree, Bin Laden has finally been despatched, then all the previous commentators – including heads of state and senior government officials – who confidently asserted that the man had already been killed, were wrong. Further, the journalists who wrote the stories publicising these views were portraying falsehoods. They too were wrong.

As it stands, however – and certainly as it stood yesterday – those, including those in the US government, who were asserting that Bin Laden had now been killed were offering no more or better evidence than those who went before them.

Further, the source of the claim was the US government. And like all or any governments, it is prone to error, to deception and even outright lying. No such organisation has any right to expect trust, and anyone who unconditionally trusts any government is a fool.

Thus, as of yesterday and still, until the US government has proven its assertions, we reserve our position. We do not disbelieve the US government, but nor do we believe it. We simply expect a reasonable level of evidence which translates acceptance of its claim from one of unsupported belief to one of reasoned conclusion, thus also enabling us to reject previous claims as wrong.

Anyone with a modicum of intelligence and sense would, on reading my piece, readily have divined that this was my position. Two, however, did not – one was Tim Montgomerie who used his fool machine to label me an “OBL denier” and the other Tom Harris MP, who on the basis of Montgomerie’s jolly little intervention, decided on the label “nutter”. That Harris is an MP and should know better does not surprise me in the least. We expect very little from our elected representatives these days.

Subsequently, however. we see reported that White House is weighing whether to release photographs of Osama bin Laden’s corpse “amid calls from some key lawmakers to do so to prove the Al-Qaeda chief is truly dead”.

John Brennan Obama’s anti-terror adviser responds by saying: “We are going to do everything we can to make sure that nobody has any basis to try to deny that we got Osama bin Laden.” And that now includes determining whether to release photograph claimed to have been taken.

“It may be necessary to release the pictures - as gruesome as they undoubtedly will be, because he’s been shot in the head - to quell any doubts that this somehow is a ruse that the American government has carried out”, says Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman.

Senator Susan Collins, the most senior Republican on Lieberman’s committee, declares she has “absolutely no doubt” Bin Laden has been killed, but adds: “... I recognize that there will be those who will try to generate this myth that he’s alive, and that we missed him somehow, and in order to put that to rest it may be necessary to release some of the pictures, or video, or the DNA test.”

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, a Republican, says US officials are working through whether to release photos of bin Laden’s corpse. “We want to make sure that we maintain dignity - if there was any - in Osama bin Laden, so that we don’t inflame problems other places in the world and still provide enough evidence that people are confident that it was Osama bin Laden,” he adds.

None of them have precisely got the point, but they are closer to it than either Montgomerie or Harris. It is no part of the duty of a responsible and alert citizen to believe unsupported assertions made by governments – and every bit a duty to exercise sensible scepticism. Neither governments nor anyone in authority should ever be given an easy ride. If they make claims, they should be required to support them.

Interestingly, the White House’s original plan had been to bomb the house, but Obama ultimately decided against that. “The helicopter raid was riskier. It was more daring”, an official said. “But he wanted proof. He didn’t want to just leave a pile of rubble”. The president wanted proof – which is deemed reasonable. When we ask for the same, Montgomerie and Harris would have us as “deniers” and “nutters”.

The very fact that clever sophisticates like Montgomerie and Harris could not see this inconsistency, and resorted to their silly comments, tells us we have a problem. For all their cleverness, they are too gullible, too trusting. They are fools at large – dangerous to themselves and the rest of us. And there are far too many like them.

The meaning of the picture, incidentally, may be obscure, but the title of the website from which it comes makes the point. You may chose who is who.

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/05/feast-of-fools.html


16 posted on 05/02/2011 9:52:02 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: freedumb2003

Thanks for noticing that. If this is not just a clerical error , but is another a new piece of politically correct terminology for “journalists”, it could be Sunstein driven, to the effect that humans have no more rights than animals, or for that matter, bacteria. Western civilization is based on the idea of idea of transcending principles that come from one all powerful “God”, which no man or government can violate. Without this concept, there are no moral limits to the power of people in government.


17 posted on 05/02/2011 9:52:02 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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Sounds to me like she thanked both Mr. Obama and President Bush, but what do I know?

That's obviously what she did but as it's quoted, “We thank our president, we thank President Bush.” it could mean she believes Bush is 'president in exile' and she doesn't recognize Obama. The comma leaves ambiguity.

That'll be the spin as implied by the article title.

18 posted on 05/02/2011 10:32:39 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

It’s like having a grandmaster play a game of chess for you, letting you make the last move to checkmate and everyone thinks you are a genius.


19 posted on 05/02/2011 10:46:38 PM PDT by ari-freedom (All we are saying....is give the military a chance)
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To: HerrBlucher
I can’t stand bambi but for once in his life he did the right thing.

Sure... he signed off on a plan formulated and executed by much better men.

20 posted on 05/02/2011 10:55:33 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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