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Seriously, where are you going to go when you or if you choose to leave this internet community. I've searched high and low across the internat and Free Republic has always had people of different opinions yet we all tend to agree in a lot of foundational aspects for America and the International community and even religion. That says a lot.

Never knew you were so close to the Twin Towers going down. My daughter knew a few folks that died that day but or me no, however I was intears and anger, incredible anger and were it not for my age I would have re-uped that very day if the 82nd then JSOC( won't say where, who,as was told I can't until five years after I'm dead; gonna be hard to keepa secret from God) would have taken me back.

My own view on yesterday is the cynicism in which a lot of MSM stations were talking about Osama being dead and how Obama has a second term wrapped up. I personally( and you can look) stuck with what Obama did, he signed the Ex order generally one signature on a long list a long list when needing presidential approval for an op this size and scope and was OVERJOYED Osama was misted, overjoyed my old JSOC( I first became a part of the Joint Special Ops Command in 1982 merely 2 years since it opened it's doors) and was remembering how hard it was to get the marines on oard and how hard it was at times to get special teams all on the same page. I thought of how hard it was to get financing and we had a LOT of "dog robbers" Lt Commander Marcinko's(never met him)SEAL Team six being one of if not THEE best, so we learned and now thirty years later they are so danged good, and we were good back then( sorry but it's true) but I have NO IDEA we could have pulled off a better op.

With mixed forces all on the same page, in a sovereign nation, a couple LOUD helos pulling the infil and exfil, 40 SEAL's( or maybe some army and marines, plus Army chopper pilots0 this was an exceptional A-ONE op . I mean 40 minute firefight, taking fire from the get go, scaling the walls, cutting the electronics, room to room clearing, getting the civilians out, then finding Osama and killing him, then grabbing the SOB and tossing him and ALL other hunters onto the helo's( oh and grabbing all intel...that's as valuable as can get), blowing the downed copter, and all within an area where a full brigade was sleeping a few klik's down the road, burying him at sea( hopefully with a few porkrinds or a cloth with names of ALL fallen on 9/11 and ALL fallen and wounded in ALL countries since this asswipe started his terror including Somalia, the Tanzania( where I had one friend dead ond one friend traumatized for life)and Kenya, so much and so many, damn I hope someone slipped something on his piece of sh** body. But he was droped immdiately at the feet of our Advocate Jesus, and the very throne of God to answer for his actions

I focused and prayed on my cousing( whom I constantly add in my posts for prayer of his safety) an officer in the SEAL's, prayed for all in country warriors no matter where they tread, thanked God for the safety of not a single man wounded or killed, this was truly a GREAT op.

Someone mentioned it was comparable to Israel's Entebbe rescue. It was no where near Entebbe's scope though the two missions were similar in that they both invaded a sovereign nation but Israel had to deal with getting their people out safely( a LOT of people) and going in cold, where there just wasn't all that great of intel however they did it with some civilians and Bibi's brother killed. We cannot compare this op to that one. This op was to kill a bad guy and back to Free republic I think( I cannot say) a lot of people were (from what I read) discounting Obama's speech and the,"He now has the election in the bag," statements. That sir is a scary thought, way more scary than osama being alive, but alas, that's FReeperville

It would be nice if you stayed. I had one(1, one, ONE) incident in which a person wanted some details on some jobs I had done which as stated in the top of this post I cannot speak about. i can give a vague perspective but no details and this person wanted details for his blog. I told him I could not do that as per oath and he called me some faker that never worked for the CIA.( I must laugh at this, I was in the pentagon ONCE and it was as a visitor and I had a "lead spook" always within arms distance of me, that's it).

I have had some interesting incidents of folks correcting me on history or getting the facts wrong. i think I've been 100% hthank ful as per Proverbs 15:32,33, and my favorite for humbleness when I'm wrong, Proverbs 9:8" Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, rebuke a wise man and he will love thee." It's hard to swallow pride( Obama never does and that part and parcel of yesterdays negativity but not all of it because it hits closer to home for you, more personal)but I learned a long time ago i am not the brightest bulb on the tree nor am i the dullest knife in the drawer so I defer, thankk the person for the correction or critique and hope they know I am here to learn, and DO NOT know it all. Hope this makes sense.

I NEVER did work for them but he made me out to confuse orders from the pentagon etc for me to be bigger than I was or more knowledable than I am just a lot of hot air. That I know ( though have not met him in years nor his family) Leon Panetta doesn't mean he shares intel with me( He does not never has, except a soup recipe he gleaned from his wife LOL but that was 25 years ago!). Quite the contrary; I generally speak with his wife or small talk, but it's fun for me to brag I know him and can call him. I also brag about being sparring partners with a Mighty Morphin Ranger and a Mutant Ninja Turtle!( Old personal joke as I trained an instructed in martial arts for years) Fine with me. but I had to tell him I never WORKED ever( God's truth) for Christians In Action I only worked with them and only sometimes when Intel came from them.

Heck I'm not that smart, not an analyst, and never was a spook, just a knuckledragging ground pounder (Any soldier in darned near any unit is going to come across CIA reports, it's inevitable). I never heard from him since and still no matter what he thinks or others think big deal. So, at that time I felt a bit weird about Free republic but putting it in perspective, he was one person, he had read into what I wrote too much and it was only one person. All i am saying is please, get over it. As Free Republic grows so grows the folks and their opinions. I have seen a lot of divisive threads but there's been serious attacks from other liberal sites and downright evil sites and people but it's bound to happen.

I figure this being the same as when satan decided to join the church and divide from within, like what Obama is doing, but again has nothing to do with how great that operation went down to kill a very evil man. We still have to get Obama out of that danged WH seat and find a candidate who can lead,; and from what I've read in your articulate yet depressing outlook you can be a leader a good one in life and one this board; just don't as stated before let the "chaff' get you down.

God bless you in your decision.Thus endeth my psuedo-sermon

CK karliner