Posted on 05/03/2011 12:28:40 PM PDT by ken5050
Hard to do after he went on TV saying he planned it and he ordered it.
I always read WI with interest, but the more I read it, the more it sounds like 95% of it is made up. I’ll wait for Gates to write a book, then we should learn a lot, depending on what he can write about it.
I shudder to think that even THIS administration was SO unprepared for the outcome — success OR failure — of this operation before, during and after taking on this mission.
A professional staff would have scripted every eventuality and had a prepared response for every conceivable occurrence. It’s NOT that they failed to respond to events, but that they so thoroughly failed to ‘anticipate’ even the most obvious alternatives to their intended results.
These clowns are beyond pathetic. They don’t HAVE a prepared and critiqued narrative going in; they can’t seem to stick to the narrative they started with; they don’t even seem to try to be objectively ‘reasonable’ with whatever narrative they’re parading around at the moment.
Notice how thoroughly they ‘burned’ the Pakistanis ? It’s a damn fine thing we no longer need ports, bases or overland routes into Afghanistan to support continuing operations by our forces or allies still on the ground there ...
Of course, the ONLY reason we happened to burn ‘em was the peculiar coincidence of OBL’s presence in that humble hut secluded in the most exclusive, upscale retirement community for civil and military retirees of the Pakistani ruling class. Damn shame what he put over on ‘em all this time ...
Oh, I’m sorry. Notice how the Pakistanis hung themselves out to dry, housing their most honored guest so lavishly in almost the worst neighborhood for any hope of ‘plausible deniability’ concerning their complicity in his escape and evasion over that past decade ? It’s a damn fine thing they have no further need of aid, support or just plain amicable relations with us any time soon ...
Sorry, I almost neglected to mention how thoroughly brilliant Imam Hussein was to come up with T.H.E. only conceivable strategy to so pollute this operation and its outcome that it will likely go down in history as his most profound foreign policy and national security cock-up — no matter what else happens during the remainder of his term ...
But I’m sure Imam Hussein will forever treasure the brownie points he racked up with all the Ummah by making sure OBL was fittingly and reverently buried at sea with all the proper Islamic rituals to give him the most expedient entry to Paradise commensurate with his lifetime of excellent good works and deeds. Gotta take care to stay on the sunny side of the ol’ Arab Street, y’know ...
This whole thing actually gives me hope that even the Stupidest Ol’ Party can find a way to ‘profit’ from this performance.
But, then again ...
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21stCenturion
Well, yeah, but that's entirely unrelated and for purely budget reasons. It has nothing to do with them being liars and enemies of the United States and of freedom, or even with the fact that they are probably using whatever portion of the money their leaders don't pocket for themselves as a source of funding for terrorists.
That article rings true to me. Particularly regarding that little marxist worm, Valerie Jarret.
The Marines stationed up there would probably consider that to be the highlight of an otherwise boring duty assignment at Camp David.
THen we sure don’t want Obama to have control of those documents, don’t let him come anywhere near them.
Lt Hamid Al' Kain, and CSI:Karachi are on the case. They'll make an arrest within the hour (unless this episode is a multi-parter)...
the infowarrior
Including a lot of our so-called "friends" in the region.
“Self destruct mechanism is set and counting”
It surely is... good call.
LLS
Hopefully one of those SEALs had a throw down on him. LOL!
Of all the people in the world that needed killin it was Osama Bin Laden. Judge Napolitano needs to get some perspective.
Okay, looks like Drudge has removed the tweet that stated the WH said it did NOT give the kill order, the Seals did it on their own “on the ground”...I’m going to see if I can find the original story...
This administration is starting to look more and more like the fictional administrations in the last 3 seasons of 24. totally disfunctional.
Which will indeed be a disaster for this President, as he currently is trying to imprison SEALS from DevGru for giving an unarmed terrorist a bloody lip (a freaking bloody lip!). So now the same President sends the SEALS to shoot in the head an unarmed man.
I personally have no problem with tapping bin laden, but I don't subscribe to the crap that terrorists have a RIGHT to be accorded Geneva Convention protections. They absolutely do not. And now the President finally agrees with us, though I am sure he is not big enough to apologize for calling us criminals. Obama doesn't do apologies---except to people who hate the USA.
It's the rank Hypocrisy that is going to backfire on this WH, and is why many on the right today are happy that bin Laden is gone, but unwilling to praise the President much, since he loudly berated and scorned us for advocating the very acts he has now ordered....
obama will reap what he has sown... his white hut will fall... he will leave office in disgrace... either by election or impeachment... he has brought upon himself all that will come in the future. His future is black and his eventual destination is an evil place that ALL Christians want to avoid.
LLS
Considering that the price per gallon of gasoline is going to continue to go up, there may well be more to that than most of us imagine...
the infowarrior
CNN reported Osama used a cane to walk.
So Obama had a old man, unarmed, allegedly killed in front of his child/children.
None of this botching happens if the Pentagon makes the announcement. LTGEN Eric Olson, the top SpecWar general should havee taken the briefings from the operators on the way back, correlated them, prepared the slides, and given the brief.
There would have been zero doubts.
Now?
They are 24 hours away from people wondering what the hell actually happened.
Here’s the thing - do the birthers look all that silly if they can’t get a story this big straight?
How much credibility does this man have left?
It's not about "gratification," it's about pre-empting the inevitable charge that the whole think was a fake, and that Osama lives.
There will always be some nuts who will STILL say it was a charade, even if they saw the corpse with their own eyes, but I would prefer the number of those nuts to UNDER 10 million.
Remember, these are people who killed 17 OF THEIR OWN SYMPATHIZERS when they heard the rumor printed in a 3rd rate so-called American newsmagazine that Gitmo guards were flushing Korans down the toilet.
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