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Old 06-22-2013, 08:15 AM
 
Location: LEAVING CD
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Ok, GM is alive and Bin Laden is dead. We've heard that over and over again since the victory lap(s) were taken.
Unfortunately it seems not only did Obama kill Bin Laden but by taking the victory laps and exposing every detail of the operation he's also created a whole bunch of collateral damage.

Will his supporters raise a ruckus over all this new blood on his hands?

Pakistan aid workers pay the ultimate price for the killing of Osama bin Laden

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – When U.S. Navy SEALs stormed a compound in Abbottabad to kill Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, two young female polio workers - Sharafat Bibi and Sunbal Bibi - had no idea it would one day be a justification for their murder.
Pakistan aid workers say their woes began when it emerged that Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani physician, ran a fake vaccination campaign in the garrison city of Abbottabad to collect DNA samples from bin Laden and his family to prove his presence there to the CIA


Pakistan aid workers pay the ultimate price for the killing of Osama bin Laden - World News
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Old 06-22-2013, 08:18 AM
 
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Ok, GM is alive and Bin Laden is dead. We've heard that over and over again since the victory lap(s) were taken.
Don't forget that Obama's victory lap also included Al-Quaeda is on the run / decimated. Then that little inconvenient thing happened called Benghazi and Obama and Clinton thought we were so stupid we would believe it was because of a video.

Remember Chris Matthews who also tried covering Obama's and Hillary's ass "it was the video! read the newspaper"
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Old 06-22-2013, 08:20 AM
 
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I somehow doubt the aid workers would be alive today, if Bin Laden wasnt killed. They would have just blamed something else..

haters hate, and killers kill..
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Old 06-22-2013, 08:21 AM
 
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I remember thinking that any Pakistani that helped us would move to the US just because of the danger.
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Old 06-22-2013, 08:21 AM
 
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Default Bin Laden is dead, now comes the unintended consequences

You're right.

The Bush strategy of discontinuing the hunt for Bin Laden was the right thing to do.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/wa...n/04intel.html

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Old 06-22-2013, 08:22 AM
 
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I remember thinking that any Pakistani that helped us would move to the US just because of the danger.
Dr Afridi sits in jail (being tortured). He and his family asked for our help but the Obama administration ignores him. And the black community still believes in quid pro quo
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Old 06-22-2013, 08:25 AM
 
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You're right.

The Bush strategy of discontinuing the hunt for Bin Laden was the right thing to do.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/wa...n/04intel.html

It's like the Panama Canal. The Republicans were the French who totally botched the project. The Democrats were the Americans who solved all the problems and got the ships moving on schedule.

Bin Laden dead. Justice is served.

But they should have protected those Pakistani's.
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Old 06-22-2013, 08:34 AM
 
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It's like the Panama Canal. The Republicans were the French who totally botched the project. The Democrats were the Americans who solved all the problems and got the ships moving on schedule.

Bin Laden dead. Justice is served.

But they should have protected those Pakistani's.
Uh, it was Clinton who decided several times not strike Bin Laden when he had the chance before 9/11. It was Clinton who repeatedly talked about WMDs in Iraq. Bush and his team of merry bandits set up virtually the entire infrastructure that led to the capture of Bin Laden and Obama walked into office at the right place and time.

Those are the facts so your analogy of the Panama Canal is fatally flawed not to mention stupid because it was a Republican that went down there and man-handled the canal into existence.

Please don't quit your day job.
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Old 06-22-2013, 08:40 AM
 
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Dr Afridi sits in jail (being tortured). He and his family asked for our help but the Obama administration ignores him. And the black community still believes in quid pro quo
Maybe he said the "N" word?

What they should have done is A. Get anyone who helped out of the country before announcing the killing. B. Leaked that Bin Laden was killed and then SHUT UP. Not go on a victory lap, not scream it from the rooftops and certainly not outing the team responsible (which many say got 'em killed later on) or allowing his buddies in Hollywood unfettered access to CIA information make a movie.
Politics pure and simple, the problem is those politics directly and needlessly are killing people.
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Old 06-22-2013, 08:54 AM
 
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Uh, it was Clinton who decided several times not strike Bin Laden when he had the chance before 9/11. It was Clinton who repeatedly talked about WMDs in Iraq. Bush and his team of merry bandits set up virtually the entire infrastructure that led to the capture of Bin Laden and Obama walked into office at the right place and time.
Bush closed the CIA office tracking OBL in 2005.

Six years before Obama nailed him.

That really sticks in the craw of the dittoheads.

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Those are the facts so your analogy of the Panama Canal is fatally flawed not to mention stupid because it was a Republican that went down there and man-handled the canal into existence.
Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive Republican who fought hard against corporate interests instead of being a lapdog, like today's sad mutation of the GOP.

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Please don't quit your day job.
I won't if you won't.

Deal?
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