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Obama took SIXTEEN HOURS to make up his mind about Bin Laden mission
Daily Mail ^ | Last updated at 7:20 PM on 3rd May 2011 | By Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 05/03/2011 6:26:29 PM PDT by Niuhuru

Barack Obama kept military commanders hanging by declaring he would 'sleep on it' before taking 16 hours to give the go-ahead to raid Bin Laden's compound.

Hit squads of specialist Navy Seals - who were not even told who they were preparing to capture - had practised the mission at two reconstructions of the terror chiefs sprawling compound.

The mission looked set to be given the all clear last Thursday when analysts confirmed beyond doubt that Bin Laden was in busy town of Abbottabad in northern Pakistan.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; analysts; binladen; capture; celebration; chiefs; citizens; commanders; committee; compound; decision; hamas; jihadist; meeting; military; mission; national; navyseals; newyorktimes; obama; pakistan; president; security; specialist; sympathisers; terror; unemployment; whitehouse
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To: saltus

“How many hours did Bush “think” before he said:”

Hey Sport,

In case you haven’t noticed, GWB is no longer POTUS, your CREEP is currently the big guy.

AND he has formed CREEP 2, the Committee to re-elect the CREEP.


41 posted on 05/03/2011 8:27:50 PM PDT by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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To: bigbob

Just read on another thread which someone posted a link to info saying that Valerie Jarrett was the one telling him what to do and that she was against it.


42 posted on 05/03/2011 8:29:16 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: Niuhuru

16 hours? Our Muslim president has been ambivalent for months about this operation. He has known about Bin Laden for months. Obama knew the Seals had been training for months. And this mo-ron was still up in the air about it all. I am going to omit all the cuss words I have for this idiot child


43 posted on 05/03/2011 8:32:38 PM PDT by dennisw (NZT - "works better if you're already smart")
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To: Niuhuru

Evidentally Valerie Jarret was basically directing the President as to what to do/not to do.


44 posted on 05/03/2011 8:34:13 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: Niuhuru

Well, it was the weekend. Union rules state that presidents don’t have to work on weekends.


45 posted on 05/03/2011 8:36:26 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: saltus
Bush in July 2006 disbanded the CIA group that had the mission of hunting down bin Laden:
“The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants...”

Yeah and you are dumb enough to believe that. The CIA/Seals just lead this mission that killed him. In one form or another the CIA and our other Intel agencies have been patiently gathering Osama intel for years and it all paid off a few days ago

46 posted on 05/03/2011 8:38:55 PM PDT by dennisw (NZT - "works better if you're already smart")
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To: Niuhuru

C’mon cut him some slack!

It was NFL draft weekend, and the labor dispute could be resolved


47 posted on 05/03/2011 8:39:28 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Niuhuru

Let’s just hope he doesn’t take this long if a missile is in bound.

16 hours....come on!


48 posted on 05/03/2011 8:55:58 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Niuhuru

He had to consult someone with the proper pay grade. It was above his.


49 posted on 05/03/2011 9:01:30 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: fso301

Like Carter’s Iran rescue?


50 posted on 05/03/2011 9:35:22 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: Niuhuru
Golly, Daley and Soros had to check polls and contact the Seiu to get the astroturf celebrators lined to be in front of the WH and write a speech for the puppet to read.

The Soros -Daly staff then sent the TelePrompter reader to play golf and get out of the way.

These evil creature left our brave navy seals in a unreal dangerous situation for 16 hours deep inside Pakistan.

51 posted on 05/03/2011 9:35:34 PM PDT by ncalburt (DO MORE WIMPS need to apply to fight the Soros Funded Puppet !)
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To: Niuhuru
"Kill Osama, or let him go? Kill Osama, or let him go?"

     — Obama, for 16 hours

52 posted on 05/03/2011 9:40:03 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: Freddd
Do you have a link to her site and article? I trust her work - she's done a lot on Lt. Col Allen West...but I've lost the link to her site.

I do have this article I've been sending out - and getting a lot of flak for - but it all fits - there he sits in a corner, like a little boy, very defeated look, in his golf clothes.

they are already spinning this otherwise - but it doens’ pass the smell test. Here's how MSN is spinning it for him - explaining him being in his golf shoes -

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42874398/ns/world_news-death_of_bin_laden/

I would like to see Altas S's piece? One of my son's is swallowing the cover story! arrgh

53 posted on 05/03/2011 10:03:39 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (watch the otherhand)
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To: Thank You Rush
He said on TV Sunday night the raid was a “week ago.”

I also heard those initial reports Sunday, but I do not recall that 'he' was Obama.

You have to recognize that a lot of rumors are reported initially when things like this happen, as everyone is anxious to get a scoop.

54 posted on 05/03/2011 10:14:40 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Going to Charlotte for the barbecue is like going to Minneapolis for the gumbo - John Reed)
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To: BobL
I’m far from an Obama supporter and I know he’s a dope regarding the military, but I still don’t see a problem with the Commander In Chief giving it some thought before sending troops into a very hostile situation.

Ahmm - they've known where he was since last August.

'bamba is the Ditherer in Chief. It's his modus operandi. He cost countless of our troops lives while he dithered for months on sending more troops - he's dithered on just about everything - he's dithering now - It's Wednesday. seen the photos yet?

Some things, like lives, are lost by not being able to make a decision!

If they finally had to override him - so be it. I'm sure they've got the goods on him - to make him sit in the corner chair and shut up....then let him take all the credit. Deal with the devil. this would sooth his narcissist soul and the politicians would, hopefully, gain steam for the election - stay in power. As for the military, I suspicion Petreaus has had about enough of this CICINO.

55 posted on 05/03/2011 10:14:40 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (watch the otherhand)
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To: Free Vulcan
Evidentally Valerie Jarret was basically directing the President as to what to do/not to do.

and reports say that the 'coup' folk shut her out of it - not allowed in the sit rm either - if this all turns out to be true, I hope it gets exposed LOUDLY

56 posted on 05/03/2011 10:23:15 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (watch the otherhand)
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To: saltus

How are you so sure that Bush wasn’t playing mind games with the terrorists? What’s wrong with misleading the ENEMY? I always thought that great leaders never lay their cards on the table and keep their enemies guessing. You seem to be from the school that thinks it’s a great idea to tell you enemy your strategy and exit dates so that they can hold out and return when you exit. Brilliant!


57 posted on 05/03/2011 10:48:24 PM PDT by dupree
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To: ncalburt

I wonder if a member of the CIA told Obama that if he didn’t give the order, they would end the birth certificate issue themselves and Obama would end up just like JFK.


58 posted on 05/03/2011 11:08:07 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Freddd; All
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/

I found the link!
scroll down to

“Skulking Towards bin Laden: Obama Overridden by Military and Intel Officials in Takeout of OBL?”

this is why, in the photo in the sit rm, he's slumped down in the corner chair with a look of total defeat - still in his golf clothes. They got Vallerie isolated from him, grabbed him and told him to sit down and shut up.

Now he's dithering again - the longer it takes to release the photos, the worse it's going to be.

and now that this is leaking out, this is the rediclous spin they're trying to put on it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42874398/ns/world_news-death_of_bin_laden/

59 posted on 05/04/2011 12:15:34 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (watch the otherhand)
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To: Free Vulcan
So was Hillary. Obama need women to point him in the right direction.
60 posted on 05/04/2011 5:26:20 AM PDT by Realman30 ("I've already made a donation to Haiti. It's called taxes". . . . El Rushbo.)
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