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Joe Biden Calls Bin Laden Raid The Most ‘Audacious Plan’ In 500 Years
Yahoo News ^ | 3/20/12 | Oliver Knox

Posted on 03/19/2012 10:21:49 PM PDT by Lmo56

Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that the raid that killed Osama bin Laden was the most "audacious plan" of the past 500 years. Biden's comments, made at a Democratic fundraiser in Morris Township, NJ, ranked the May 2011 assault that ended the Al-Qaeda chief's life above the D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944, the surprise landing at Inchon in 1950 that turned the tide of the Korean War or, going back a bit further, George Washington's daring night-time crossing of the Delaware River before the Battle of Trenton in 1776.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; binladen; raid
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To: rawcatslyentist

“Our first Negro Veep is actually Tardy Turtle.”

I think Turdy ReTardle is a better fit.


61 posted on 03/20/2012 6:10:11 AM PDT by JewishRighter (Anybody but Hussein)
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To: Lmo56
It's now obvious that the Obama campaign will use the killing of Bin Laden to show that Barry's not a wuss (like Carter).

I recall a story at the time, that was very detailed on how then CIA Director Panetta, Chief of Staff Bill Daly and SecState Hillary Clinton had to "work around" Obama to get the Bin Laden raid approved. Barry was dithering and couldn't make a decision.

Here's a link:Panetta, Clinton and Gates "worked around" Obama on the bin Laden mission?

This should be checked out and then pushed out there for people to consider.

62 posted on 03/20/2012 6:20:10 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (.Are they stupid, malicious or evil?)
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To: Oldexpat
Our Navy Seals and pilots risk their lives to carry out the mission. Obama risk(ed) only his political future. If the mission had failed..he would have said it was all planned by the military.

Bears repeating - 100% correct.

63 posted on 03/20/2012 6:29:21 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Lmo56
"Audacious" is George Washington returning from battle with bullet holes in his military coat.

"Cowardly" is Barack Obama covering his golf shirt with a military coat so he looks good in the pictures of him watching TV of heroes in a battle 12,000 miles away.

64 posted on 03/20/2012 6:33:08 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: Lmo56

There are literally hundreds of examples of more audacious and successful plans, battles and skirmishes in The U.S. history.


65 posted on 03/20/2012 6:52:30 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Eccl 10 v. 19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.)
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To: Graybeard58

Sam Houston’s leadership during the Battle of San Jacinto was, dare I say it...AUDACIOUS!


66 posted on 03/20/2012 6:59:50 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
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To: Lmo56

The Pearl Harbor attack was #2, IMO. Although if you count the erdication of the US, UK and Dutch navies in Asia in the first three months of WWII, Yamamoto is unrivaled.

Idiot Biden is boasting about taking out sitting duck Bin Laden, defended with small arms, when it was Bin Laden who was behind what I consider to be the most audacious and innovative and consequential single attack ever executed. The 9/11 attack was asymmetric genius in converting non-weapons (civilian aircraft) into kinetic projectiles and applying the force of those projectiles exactly in places where maximum damage could be inflicted. And the damage was simultaneously military, economic and political.

Audacious, in my mind requires complete surprise thus ruling out Normandy and others where the attack was inevitable and only the date unknown.

To rank high on historical significance the audacious attack must be consequential. This would rule out the Doolittle Raid and Benedict Arnold’s slog through Maine to reach Quebec as they were not consequential.


67 posted on 03/20/2012 8:14:47 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
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To: Graybeard58
There are literally hundreds of examples of more audacious and successful plans, battles and skirmishes in The U.S. history.

The 9/11 attacks were also audacious - but due to the iconceivability of them [from the American point of view], they had a reasonable chance of success [which they did] ...

68 posted on 03/20/2012 11:00:03 AM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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