Posted on 05/08/2011 5:43:25 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Barack Obama's 'longest 40 minutes'
By: Carrie Budoff Brown May 8, 2011 07:58 PM EDT
President Obama described the daring nighttime raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani compound as one of the “longest 40 minutes of my life,” giving his first detailed account Sunday of the plot to capture the world’s most wanted terrorist.
The mood inside the Situation Room was “very tense,” and it only intensified when one of the helicopters went down early on in the operation, Obama said on CBS’s “60 Minutes.”
“There were big chunks of time in which all we were doing was just waiting,” Obama said. “And it was the longest 40 minutes of my life with the possible exception of when [daughter] Sasha got meningitis when she was three months old and I was waiting for the doctor to tell me that she was all right.”
Obama said he and his top aides, who were depicted in a powerful photo of the Situation Room, “had a sense of when gunfire and explosions took place” on the ground in Pakistan. But he said they “could not get information clearly about what was happening inside the compound.”
“We also knew when one of the helicopters went down in a way that wasn’t according to plan,” Obama said. “And, as you might imagine, that made us more tense.”
Obama approved the operation without knowing definitively whether bin Laden was inside the compound, calling it a “55/45 situation.” The first indication that the U.S. forces got bin Laden came when they reported back that “Geronimo … has been killed,” Obama said, using the code name for the terrorist.
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I me my
It musta bin Geronimo ‘cuz it shur wernt bin laden.
“We also knew when one of the helicopters went down in a way that wasn’t according to plan,” Obama said. “And, as you might imagine, that made us more tense.”
Not as tense as the folks in the chopper... but then
THEY had been trained to deal with it.
What goes around, comes around.
When he tries the “I,Me,I” campaign speeches he will be in for a surprise.
Whatever happened to the butthurt Indians, did Obama quietly tell them to put some ice on it?
Longer even than waiting for tee time, oh wait he’s the President so he gets to pre-empt all other golfers.
“Obama said he and his top aides, who were depicted in a powerful photo of the Situation Room, “had a sense of when gunfire and explosions took place”
But Hillary says she was only coughing with her hand to her face, and there was no tension.
>Obama said he and his top aides, who were depicted in a powerful photo of the Situation Room,
You mean photoshopped and scripted photo?
Bet they were thinking oh shoot, not another Jimmy Carteresque chopper crash. At least they still got OBL.
Just think when this all gets regurgitated at the convention next year. Instead of a Greek-columned portico, I suppose the backdrop will be will be some Roman coliseum and he’ll ride in in a chariot.
Did he ever get his fruit cup? That might have helped.
With no reservations....obviously.
“My me I my me.” G-d, what an asshole.
Spiking the football, yet again
Birthers mount counter offensive...Trump, Corsi, Orly...
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