Obama: "At<i> My</i> Direction" U.S. Carried Out Operation Against Bin Laden

Real Clear Politics ^ | 5/1/11 | staff

[Nachum]

PRESIDENT OBAMA: "Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. a small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability."

[Seaplaner]

Congratulations to the United States Military, the United States Intelligence agencies, and George W. Bush.

(Did I leave anyone out?)

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[Publius6961]

Credit where credit is due.
Whether out of desperation or for whatever other reason. It got done.

I despair at others who shall remain nameless who were so pilitically correct, scared to death of what other countries might think, specially sandmaggot countries, that they were reduced to total paralysis; and total FAIL where it came to Bin Laden.

There is something to be said for the otherwise incompetent with access to unlimited power.

The balance for me, is still overwhelmingly on the negative side.

I certainly hope the non-RINOs are taking notes.

[sten]

people have asked me if i thought we knew where osama was.

i said of course we do.

they’d ask, “then why haven’t we killed him?”

i’d explain we would... once we have demolished enough of AQ. until then, we will watch and listen to everything coming and going from osama, then intercept and take out more and more of the AQ network. it’s always better to work with the devil you know... then deal with one you never see coming.

my guess... 0bama has been getting crushed by the BC issue and people were really souring on him. and by that i mean his base. so... he went for the one thing that was red meat to Americans. well, Americans from the center...right. those on the left would have (should have if consistent) mixed/outraged feelings about him being assassinated.

meanwhile, i’m trying to remember the last noble peace prized winner that said “at my direction, we killed him.”

[NewJerseyJoe]

By the time the liberal media gets done with this, not only will Obama be the “hero who killed Bin Laden” — but he will have built the plane, designed the radar, manufactured the bullet and personally pulled the trigger.

[Seaplaner]

"Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. a small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability."

Incredibly, he does not credit our "military" in the opening statement.

[Zakeet]

So...does this make OBL a victim of a hate crime? Was he Mirandized? Where’s the ACLU?

There's also gonna be hell to pay if he was waterboarded before they took him out.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Pokeestan.

Isn’t that how Muslims say it?

[sten]

a week ago? i missed something. what’s this?

[GOPsterinMA]

You bet! The waterboarder will suffer, no doubt about it.

[varina davis]

“Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan...”

That sentence particularly caught my undivided attention!

[sigzero]

Wouldn’t you?

[funfan]

Why did he say “today at my direction” it happened last week if not longer ago if it happened at all.What evidence do we get that he is dead Obamas word

[driftless2]

I’m just happy as heck that monster is dead, and I don’t care who takes credit for it. But obviously if it was left to Dems, they’d still be trying to send FBI agents into the area instead of the military. They stated many times that this should be a criminal operation and not a military matter. Without Bush sending the military in, we never would have gotten Bin Laden.

[comebacknewt]

Obammy gave a campaign speech tonight.

Pathetic to say the least. It may play well with the Sheeple though.

[dhs12345]

Agreed. Bin Laden is dead.

Thank you to our military, Obama and Bush.

And apparently we have his lifeless body if we were able to do DNA testing.

[NELSON111]

I thought this happened a week ago, and the U.S. has been doing DNA tests on his remains?

There are fast field DNA tests that can give you results in less than 12 hours. They compared OBL's DNA to that of his relatives (which they already had on file). So...it's not that unusual. They did the same thing to Saddam Hussein back in 2003.

[Revolting cat!]

Was he given his Miranda rights?

[JDoutrider]

But I have to say, Obama's credit grabbing was pathetic. "I first learned of the intel...I ordered a team on a mission...I analyzed the data...I gave the order...I smelted the lead that was used to make the bullets... I placed the sun into position to assure daylight hours."

Spot on dead!!!

[Alberta's Child]

All the initial media reports (before Obama's announcement) indicated that bin Laden had been killed a week ago.

I suspect -- along with others -- that what was presented as a "live" media address to the nation tonight was actually recorded some time ago.

[scbison]

Short run, he will have bump in polls. but in a couple weeks we will be back at debt limit, rising gas prices, budget, more unrest in middle east and his poll numbers will drop.... Remember GHWB had 90% after gulf war and still lost... GWB had 70% after 9-11 and had caught Sadam in December 2003 and still barely won in 2004...