I don’t know what to think about this article especially because it was written by not just some flaming liberal. Comments please.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/11/paul-craig-roberts/another-fake-bin-laden-story/
O’Neil was certainly a SEAL
I believe him , not the pundit types
He does make some good points.
“especially because it was written by not just some flaming liberal”
Yeah, it was written by a 9/11 troofer, which may be worse.
Now, I don’t subscribe to the conspiracy theories that he seems to have absolute certainty in, absent any evidence. However, I still don’t believe Obama’s story about the Bin Laden raid, without some evidence to back it up either. The man is a known liar, and when he says “just trust me”, that throws up a big red flag.
Also, if you have the location of possibly the biggest intelligence coup in decades, you don’t go in shooting to kill. It’s possible he might have been killed unavoidably while they were trying to capture him, I suppose, but the top priority in any such operation would be to capture him alive, and I think the SEALs could accomplish that if they wanted to. If they did, it wouldn’t serve much purpose to tell the world that he was still alive, in U.S. custody. I think I would expect them to come up with a story pretty much exactly like the one we’ve been told.
I agree with this author. I don’t know who this here Seal killed, but I do not believe it was OBL. There was just too much talk of his demise back 13 years ago. Most people were not paying attention, and were just grateful we made it through the preceeding month without yet another terrorist attack. If you’re old enough to remember “9/11 Month” in real time, you have to remember how tense we all were, never knowing what the next day, the next hour would bring. Thrilled when ‘nothing happened’.
As I said before, if OBL did die back in 2001, and Bush was lying to us all those years, with Obama continuing the lie years later, I forgive Bush for the deception. Sometimes, machavalian measures are necessary to produce a needed reaction.
If OBL really was killed just a few years ago, and by this Seal, why was that heliocopter full of U.S. Marines brought down almost immediately afterward? Why was the body supposedly ‘thrown into the water’? I never believed that (water burial) made any sense at all. We are talking about Americans here, the same kind of people who saved chunks of JFK brain ‘for research purposes’ they called it.