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Not all all, Obama knew where he was since 2010.
But I thought he was assasinated, not captured. Do you have informantion that the military took custody of a live person?
Obama's "yes" carried with it massive responsibility for anything that could have gone wrong. Bush was too coward to say, "yes."
A recently disclosed memorandum from then-CIA Director Leon Panetta shows that the president's celebrated derring-do in authorizing the operation included a responsibility-escape clause: "The timing, operational decision making and control are in Admiral McRaven's hands. The approval is provided on the risk profile presented to the President. Any additional risks are to be brought back to the President for his consideration. The direction is to go in and get bin Laden and if he is not there, to get out." Which is to say, if the mission went wrong, the fault would be Adm. McRaven's, not the president's.
It is obvious you don't understand military tactics.
When you have initiated a program to go after someone you try to down play it so the person you are after will feel more secure and may slip up.
If you tout all the time that we are after you, you take more measures to say hidden.
Bush, by sounding as if he didn't care gave OSB a false sense of security, when all the while the CIA and others were working full time in trying to locate him.
It worked.
LOL!!! This is such a spin on this that I am so dizzy I think I could throw up!
All it did was give Pakistan a sense of security while they hid Osama and took our money.
My heavens where are you getting your information? I have not heard a sole, on TV, in the paper or any other media trying to do this. The only issue and even Juan Williams seems to be, should Obama turn this into a political campaign issue? I will say,there are a handful that believe the taking of his life was an assination and we, as, Americans do not believe in Assinations, but that is more a few on the left than the right.
don't know what is true, and what isn't true for sure, but i certainly still don't understand why we would not have kept bin laden's wives under surveillance after 9-11-which would have led us right to bin laden if he was still alive.
all those lives lost and all that money wasted.
not to mention the fact that both sides stopped talking about bin laden, and shifted focus to mullah omar, which would lead you to logically think that they thought he was dead:
An Al Qaeda suspect who was subjected to harsh interrogation techniques at a secret CIA prison in early 2004 provided a clue, the nom de guerre of a mysterious courier, that ultimately proved crucial to finding Osama bin Laden, officials said Wednesday.
Saying that “our ideals give us the strength and moral high ground” to combat terrorism, President Obama signed executive orders Thursday ending the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret overseas prisons, banning coercive interrogation methods and closing the Guantánamo Bay detention camp within a year.
But the Obama administration appears to have determined that the rendition program was one component of the Bush administration's war on terrorism that it could not afford to discard. The decision underscores the fact that the battle with Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups is far from over and that even if the United States is shutting down the prisons, it is not done taking prisoners.
CIA gets pieces of the puzzle from Bush's secret CIA prison in Poland. Obama closes these secret prisons in Poland and Romania claiming moral hazards. Information gleaned from prisoners at these prisons leads to the location of OBL. Obama takes full chest-thumping credit for the operation which would have never been possible if his policies were in effect years ago. Obama Administration continues policy of rendition because EIT are OK as long we don't do it ourselves.
Do think there is an Obama supporter anywhere capable of even understanding this, much less accepting its implications i.e. that Obama was merely along for the ride on a vehicle he ordered out of production, and then claimed credit for his safe arrival.
give them a little credit. a few of them are bright enough to see obama ordered navy seals to kill pirates and several individuals he perceives as terrorists. he has completely bypassed the judicial system.
that is bek our judicial system stinks. if bin laden had stood trial in NYC he would have walked away a free man.
Thanks. From your link, Obama has a perfect right to outline the differences between him and his opponent, Romney. After all, we want to know what distinguishes these two presidential candidates.
Well, I'm glad you think that way, so when Romney starts to talk about obama's record, then we should not hear a peep out of you.
Because, after all we want to know what distinguishes these two presidential candidates.
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