Posted on 05/02/2011 3:57:18 PM PDT by Kaslin
I would add that there was a good measure of Divine Providence.
yes I was wondering about this as soon as I read that the name of Osama’s “trusted courier” was obtained in interrogations....... so all the vile libs who are preening about the Obama admin. today would have preferred that we never have the name that led us to this raid..... and if they’d had their way Osama would still be alive and hiding in plain sight in Pakistan.
Yes i was considering about 0.25 amps , and you’re right it’s not the voltage, it’s the amps that do you in, thanks I posted and figured a smarty was going to nail me for that one.
I absolutely agree. I had a heated discussion last night with a long-time, very close friend who, unfortunately, is an Obama worshipper. He hated, and still hates Bush, and hates Palin more.
He rarely misses an opportunity to talk about how Bush is stupid, and Palin is both lazy and stupid, but totally buys into the media creation of Obama as genius. He also has talked about how the military attracts people who ‘like to go around shooting guns’, basically putting them into a not too complimentary light. Last night he told me that Obama deserves the credit and that Obama was ‘at the apex’ of this operation that got bin Laden. When I told him that the people who ‘got’ bin Laden were the same ‘military types’ that he denigrated as people who just like to shoot guns, he started raising his voice and talking over me. There is clearly an element of hatred of the right that permeates the left, and it can be very ugly.
If Obama had invented waterboarding, there would be plenty on the left who would hail the technique as a ‘humane’ form of effective interrogation. To them, one of the biggest determinants of right and wrong is whether an action or thought is attributable to a Democrat or a Republican.
On the one hand it shows that waterboarding probably worked, since that info on Maulawi Abd al-Khaliq Jan came from 2 sources: Abu Faraj al-Libi and KSM, 2 of the three people known to have been waterboarded, both at "black sites" before being transferred to Gitmo.
Also it strongly suggests that last week's wikileaks data dump may have triggered an earlier decision by the White House to go ahead with the raid, since the info that the US knew the name of the courier (whom bin Laden was apparently living with) was there for anyone with the patience to read through the dump (of course bin Laden himself was without direct internet access).
Also interesting that they knew al-Libi had been hiding out in Abbottabad for the 2 years before his capture.
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