Now, if they watched it live, you know it was also recorded. When will those tapes be released?
Posted on 05/03/2011 12:28:40 PM PDT by ken5050
I turned FOX on at 2PM..caught the WH press briefing, and then the first few minutes of Shep Smith's program. The presser was a disaster. Unmitigated. Here's a fearless predicition..within one or two more news cycles, we will hear that the SEALS killed an unarmed Bin Laden who was trying to surrender. Several journalists tiptoed around the question, and Shep actually "wondered" aloud how an "old man" could have resisted SEALS. And as I type, he actually asked if this operation was "illegal."
However, there's lots for people to care about here. There was an assassination (let's not pretend otherwise). It occurred within the borders of a sovereign nation. What are the ground rules here?
That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.Osama's status falls under the jurisdiction of the above law. He is a declared enemy of the US, and was treated as a combatant.
As usual, the SEALs show a helluva lot more competence than the politicians.
Thanks for that...I forgot to mention it..the true story is NOT getting worse and worse...what are our SEALs supposed to do..ket OBL take the first shot..how do we know if he’s armed or not, or if one of those kids has a grenade in his pocket..the problem is the way the WH is handling this..
Now, if they watched it live, you know it was also recorded. When will those tapes be released?
There is no way that its legal, under Pakistani law, for American troops to enter their country without a visa and shoot some old unarmed douchebag right in the face.
Now its up to the Pakistani police to arrest somebody.
It wasn't for Osama that we sent in the SEALs. We sent them in to secure all the data, hard drives, flash drives, paper docs, etc that could be found in the compound.
A lot of people in the Muslim world are very nervous right now.
“If Holder/Obama went after a SEAL who shot OBL”
You know, it’s just never a good idea to go after people whose friends excel at killing people in their sleep in heavily guarded mansions.
OBL would have had time to prepare, to put on a suicide bomb vest.
Buraq is intentionally stringing us along and muddying the waters. It’s his favorite MO.
Thanks! I wasn’t sure about the authenticity.
Well, needless to say, I hope you’re right.
I’ll be having dinner with my ultra-lib inlaws in a few days. I’m curious to see what they make of all this.
Yes, an old man can resist even a Navy SEAL; all he has to do is reach for a firearm. How well can he do that? Even before the news, my answer would have been "not very well", and the report is that OBL proved my answer to be right.
There is nothing unlawful in that, except for the detail of our military invading a sovereign "allied" country. I don't think anyone wants to fuss about that. We should allow the Pakistani government to save face and pretend they didn't know OBL was hiding in the same neighborhood as half their senior officers, and they should allow us to save face and ignore the detail that we invaded them. At least in public, we forgive them for their error, and they forgive us for our rudeness.
That trial balloon is already being floated - probably in case this starts to bite them. have seen multiple stories now about Obama 'stalling' or 'hemming and hawing' before making his decision along with a couple intimating that Panetta may have decided to order the strike after waiting for Obama to make a decision.
Of course that could also be being floated to make Panetta look strong and decisive to furthur pave his way to SecDef.
It’s not the actions of our heroes that gets worse, it’s the telling that changes every five minutes that makes the situation worse. Lies and misrepresentations do no one any good.
Pakistan is already announcing internally that the copters staged from a PAKISTANI AFB....
The thread got pulled, but an article stating that Panetta was actually the one who issued the kill order was up.
If this is true, Obama is probably looking for a way to not make himself seem ineffective. Best way to do that is throw the SEALs under the bus and make it seem like a rogue mission by a band of vigilante troops, that went without his approval.
Islamic special forces dropping into Camp David for a retaliatory strike?
White House Insider: Obama Hesitated – Panetta Issued Order to Kill Osama Bin Laden
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