Posted on 08/20/2012 4:55:42 PM PDT by lbryce
Full title of Article:EXCLUSIVE: Obama 'cancelled missions to kill bin Laden THREE TIMES after getting cold feet - until Hillary Clinton stepped in', claims explosive new book
Barack Obama cancelled three operations to kill Osama bin Laden before finally going ahead with the mission at the insistence of Hillary Clinton, according to a new book.
The explosive allegation is contained in an expose by journalist Rich Miniter, who argues that the White House’s carefully-crafted narrative of Obama as a decisive leader who dispatched the al-Qaeda leader despite the doubts of advisers is a myth.
The killing of bin Laden is at the centre of Obama’s re-election campaign and is likely to be highlighted yet again by his aides on the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks next month. Obama has already come under fire from former SEALs for trumpeting his role in the raid.
Until now, no one has claimed that he was reluctant even to launch it.
Miniter portrays Clinton as the main force behind killing bin Laden and contends that the prevaricating Obama has been in thrall to a number of dominant women – Clinton, top adviser Valerie Jarrett and his wife Michelle.
It was Jarrett, a long-time Chicago ally, he reports, who urged Obama to cancel the first three operations to kill bin Laden.
Miniter writes that Clinton’s alliances with Leon Panetta, then CIA director and now Pentagon chief, and David Petraeus, then head of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan and now at the helm at the CIA, were critical in bringing bin Laden to justice.
At the start of his presidency, Miniter writes, Obama was ‘studiously undecided’ about whether to kill the mastermind of 9/11.
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UPDATE!!! PANETA NOT OBAMA GAVE THE MISSION ORDER - PRESIDENT TRIED TO ABORT THE MISSION! (spelling error (Panetta) in original)appears to be born out to a degree.
wasn’t the photo a redo?
FTA:‘He refused to weigh in or commit himself on even small matters related to a possible strike on bin Laden.’ He continues: ‘Obama was often disengaged as the bin Laden operation took shape; he left critical decisions to the then-CIA Director Leon Panetta, then-Secretary of Defence Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
If he were more engaged, bin Laden would be safe in his house today, watching porno and movies of his speeches. Zero had to be tricked into wandering off on this one. I'm sure Jarrett was fuming at him for weeks over this event. I imagine Clinton was the ringleader, and I have to say it's the one good thing she's done (just the one).
the one in the Situation Room? that's my guess or photo shopped him in...
The best way to describe Hitlary is just imagine her in chaps and a whip in one hand and a revving chainsaw in the other.
The Ulsterman report is blistering
I can easily imagine her as a much more effective tyrant, cold-blooded tyrant at that. I think she is the bigger threat, when compared to the threat that Zero poses.
RICHARD MINITER wrote this.
Did he cancel the last mission, too? Because I’m still waiting for the photos. Just sayin’...
Wouldn't that imply that the OPSEC guys' sources on SEAL Team 6 either didn't recognize UBL, or lied about it? To me, that seems even harder to believe.
Living in communism is not only child abuse, but personal abuse on everyone, which makes us all victims. Since this is the Obamao plan that makes him the biggest abuser in America.
End the war on truth!
LOL: What are the odds that Hillary will deny having anything to do with going after Obama.
I meant Osama.
I meant Osama.
I’ve always said that if you looked at the picture of the command center in the white house during the Osama raid and were asked (if you did not know who any of these people were) which one of these people would you say was the President. Obama is the last person you would geuss was in charge.
Welcome to the new America.... a conspiracy behind every tree. I don’t see our service folks lying about this. I’ll play the game.....
I always suspected this might have been the real story behind the UBL raid. Many of us asked at the time why the President would wear golf clothing to what was possibly going to be the biggest photo-op of his administration. No way he dresses like that if he knows it is going down and he would not have been within a mile of a golf course!
This story is going to be a huge blow to the Obama campaign and it should be shared with everyone. It not only calls into question his crowning achievement.... it makes Obama look ineffectual, weak, and indecisive. That is damaging for any man, but it is potentially a mortal blow to someone campaigning for President.
This story has to be the #1 source of panic for the campaign team in Chicago (unless his transcripts are leaked). It’s a big stinker for Obama. Respond and it calls attention to the story. Don’t respond and it gains traction. Either way you lose.....
Now for my own conspiracy musings.... I wonder if Valerie Jarrett regrets the disdain she showed the Clintons in 2008? It was nothing but petty ugliness that has been paid back with dividends.... I am confident that a member of Team Clinton is the source of this story. The picture that day told a story for many of us.
Obama = Chicken Hawk?
I’m betting money that in the end it all came down to Panetta. Can’t stand him on alot of things, but he’s got the balls to make the call and stand by it.
I thought WikiLeaks would have those pictures by now.
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