Ask Jessica Lynch. Ask the brass who spat upon every Silver Star winner by awarding one to Pat Tillman for his heroism in a firefight that they knew never happened.
And how could they "recognize UBL"????
Tillman gave up a lot to serve, let him rest in peace!
Many men put it all on the line to get that little girl home, what should we ask of Jessica Lynch?
Ask Jessica Lynch. Ask the brass who spat upon every Silver Star winner by awarding one to Pat Tillman for his heroism in a firefight that they knew never happened.
And how could they "recognize UBL"????
I'm not saying one should trust every Pentagon flack who is pushed out onto the stage, but that the simplest explanation for the facts is the best place to start. I don't start with the official story of killing Obama; I start with the fact that the SEALs and the intelligence veterans were furious enough to make a video about it. Since the video makes Zippy look like a posturing loser, I doubt his administration put them up to it. If there was no raid, they wouldn't be mad; if it wasn't UBL, they'd have no reason to say it was. Woo-hoo! Revealing the truth about that would the the ultimate payback to Zippy. And a false target ID was not one of the SEALs' objections.
How could they recognize UBL? I don't see why not. They had pictures, videos, and physical descriptions of the guy, including accounts by local spies who knew he was there. And unlike the SEALs, UBL was in his PJs instead of battle-rattle. In every other raid I've read or heard about, training every team member to recognize the target, other threats, known family members, and likely innocent bystanders is as much a part of the preparation as memorizing the layout of the compound. I don't see why—unless shown otherwise—the basic rules wouldn't apply here as well.
In the Lynch and Tillman cases, there was an obvious motive for the initial false accounts: The truth made the Pentagon look incompetent. Jessica Lynch's actual experience makes it clear why girl soldiers are a farcical idea. Tillman's death was one in a long history of friendly-fire disasters that have been fibbed about since the cave men.