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Official: Obama Admin Drafted Memo to Blame Military If Bin Laden Mission Failed
Fox News Nation ^ | May 07, 2012

Posted on 05/07/2012 8:53:26 AM PDT by US Navy Vet

Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Sean Hannity tonight that the Obama Administration drafted a memo to protect the president from blame if the mission to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden would have failed. That way Obama could blame the general instead of taking the blame himself. Mukasey wrote about it this week in The Wall Street Journal.

“That was a highly lawyered memo (designed to protect the president politically)… I think there’s going to be more that’s going to be tumbling out about that escapade but so far that memo is enough.“

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: frontpage; obama; scapegoat
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To: US Navy Vet
My profile would say, This account has been banned or suspended if I posted what I really think about this so I'll just save the moderators the trouble.
21 posted on 05/07/2012 9:04:06 AM PDT by TSgt (The only reason I have one in the chamber at all times, is because it is impossible to have two in.)
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To: US Navy Vet

And every moron, liberal and traitor who voted for this despicable Marxist filth should feel so proud to be an American.

I hope there is a special place in hell for Obama and his ilk.


22 posted on 05/07/2012 9:04:48 AM PDT by NoKoolAidforMe (I'm clinging to my God and my guns. You can keep the change.)
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To: US Navy Vet
Well, I learned something new today.

I did not think it was possible that I could have more contempt towards the man-child pretender in chief, and yet there it is.

President CYA = Cowardly Yellowbellied As$#@le.

23 posted on 05/07/2012 9:05:17 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (When we cease to be good we'll cease to be great. Be for Goode.)
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To: US Navy Vet

So, in reality, Obama just voted “Present” on the operation to kill bin Laden.

Really now . . . what else would we have expected from this slimy POS??


24 posted on 05/07/2012 9:06:53 AM PDT by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Typical F’n liberal. Take all the credit but none of the blame. What a POS!


25 posted on 05/07/2012 9:06:53 AM PDT by dragonblustar (PETA. President Eating Tasty Animals)
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To: Gaffer

Exactly, and then takes all the credit when it succeeds. And you know what’s interesting is I don’t even think he made the decision. If you look at that picture where he is supposedly watching it happen in that little room, what is he doing? He’s all but crouched in a corner while Hillary is front and center with the others on computers. I think he told them “I’lll leave it up to you. Do what you think is best.” I could just picture this putz covering his eyes when they transmitted the vid of OBLs body....”Oh good gosh! Shut it off! Michelle comfort me!”


26 posted on 05/07/2012 9:07:21 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Some day our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: US Navy Vet
Contrast with the memo drafted by Gen. Eisenhower anticipating the possibility that Overlord might fail:
“Our landings have failed and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.”

27 posted on 05/07/2012 9:08:39 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Hodar

Well, a friend of mine brought her adopted Russian children to visit me this past weekend. She adopted them when they were 3.

Birth mother had no prenatal care in Russia. No one knew birth mother was pregnant with twins. Second son was born while dr’s back was turned, landed on the filthy floor and suffered a traumatic brain injury.

He is a 6 ft 2 200 lb 14 yr old with the mentality of a 5 yr old.

He has a heart of gold and is kind and gentle and loving.

Retarded? Yes. BO should be so lucky to be called that.

Evil, hateful, envious, disgusting, vicious and vengeful.

But not anything near having the wonderful qualities that a ‘retarded’ child has.


28 posted on 05/07/2012 9:09:48 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

that picture does more to corroborate the ulsterman’s white house insider story about the raid than anything anyone could write. there is no way that obama, as shown in that picture, was participating in any process being handled by those people in that room at all.


29 posted on 05/07/2012 9:11:46 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: txrefugee
So that’s why the Chicken-in-Chief was so shrunken down in his chair

No, he was pissed that they dragged his sorry skinny ass off the golf course. This so-called man is a huge POS. If this kind of memo doesn't get rubbed in Obambi's homely face by Romney, then we're going to lose big time.

Especially after the little pencil necked coward said that Romney never would have gone after OBL.

30 posted on 05/07/2012 9:12:57 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: US Navy Vet

Is there no depth that he will not sink to?


31 posted on 05/07/2012 9:14:13 AM PDT by Freestate316
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To: US Navy Vet

This is what we have leading the country, and this is what ignorant Americans might put back in.
I am proud to be American, but ashamed of what our country is becoming under the rule of this dictatorial,d___Head.


32 posted on 05/07/2012 9:15:44 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: US Navy Vet

Obama’s a cowardly scumbag, among other things not worth saying.


33 posted on 05/07/2012 9:17:25 AM PDT by izzatzo (Just beat Obama.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Obama’s motto: The buck always stops somewhere else.


34 posted on 05/07/2012 9:17:55 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: US Navy Vet

IF this can be verified and the memo is released, that’s the election. It’s over. IF ....


35 posted on 05/07/2012 9:19:14 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: US Navy Vet

What scum unworthy to lead our military.


36 posted on 05/07/2012 9:19:24 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (Yuri Bezmenov (KGB Defector) - "Kick The Communists Out of Your Govt. & Don't Accept Their Goodies.")
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To: US Navy Vet

I said this last week, to refute all the stories claiming that his “decision” was so “gutsy.” Taking out bin Laden was a low-risk, high-reward scenario. If the mission failed, well hey, turns out the SEALs are mortal afterall. If we get there and bin Laden is gone, well, he’s been slippery in the past, so nothing’s changed.


37 posted on 05/07/2012 9:19:24 AM PDT by Lou L (The Senate without a filibuster is just a 100-member version of the House.)
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To: US Navy Vet

This flaming a*****e “spiked the ball” on Bin Laden for political gain, yet back in 2004, when Bush used some pictures of him that were taken on 9/11 in some campaign material, the entire Rat party went ballistic. To them, that was “politicizing” 9/11, but when Baraq Sheik Obomba did something far worse, they weren’t bothered at all.

The hypocrisy of these cowardly bastards is amazing to behold.

Buck Ofama.


38 posted on 05/07/2012 9:20:18 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: US Navy Vet

39 posted on 05/07/2012 9:22:36 AM PDT by twister881
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To: DuncanWaring

That was the first thing I thought when I saw the title. Before I read the article I thought that at least Obama did a “me too” ala Ike. Would have had slight kudos for him.

Obama, the buck stops there ( pointing his fingers in several directions ).


40 posted on 05/07/2012 9:23:55 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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