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 ...
I wonder if this will be in the next Michael Moore movie.
Shamelessly stolen from Twitter
Barak had to consult his teleprompters
No one has mentioned this (to my knowledge).
He took 16 hour ,then they caceled for a day for weather , oh the seal team practiced o a duplicate in afganastan multiple time . Let’s see the pic.
Booooooom
This is Hillary’s fault - remember all that fuss she made about the 3AM phone call? Obama just converts that to a much more civilized 7PM. Allowing the use of daytime hours for important matters of state, like golfing. Then he makes his decision.
Isn’t he brilliant?
He sure was acting more weird than usual at the dinner on Saturday night... Actually that show was down right bizarre and there was more venom and hate for the ‘Donald’ than I have ever seen demonstrated for OBL.
atlasshrugs has a h*ll of an article up how Obama dithered and wouldn’t make a decision, kept holding things up at every turn....and the military MOVED ANYWAY on concrete info. A coup getting around Obama....military coup is the word used.
That’s why he had that dumb*ss look on his face, they literally pulled him off the golf course after the raid was in progress, that’s why he’s still in his golf shirt.
The rest of it, the conflicting made up stories, all cover up covering Obama’s buttocks, cover from the media!
What 48 hours and Team Obama is already over playing their hand on this. The Anti-War left is starting to chime in and even though tactically the mission went pretty well the political operation is beginning to show Obama as the same old quisling, bumbling idiot we always knew he was. This story is like a thimble full of jet fuel poured into dying engine, a quick and powerful racing of the engine and then back to sputtering. I bet by June his approval is back in the low 40’s as gas goes up another 50 cents and the moribund economy gets even more sick. I hope I didn’t offend the Freeper who penned some whiney treatise how all Freepers should give it rest and join in the Jingoistic Obama Cult if just for one day
Unbelievable.
I would've probably "slept on it" for about 16 seconds.
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.
He was probably having trouble getting through on the SAT phone to warn OBL to clear out ... that’s my theory on the delay ... ;-)
Screw it. He is a ditherer and a dallyer and any hesitation (i.e. 1 minutes, 5 minutes, 16 freaking hours!!!) is inexcusable. The MF calculates the POLITICAL fall-out before he does anything. He is worthless, dishonest, cowardly and (am I leaving anything important out?)..
He probably had to check with George Soros and get his permission.
Naa, pretty thorough.
Just like the reports that he dithered over the decision to take out the Somali pirates.
Probably needed time to determine if what ever decision he made will affect his political career.
In this case - if the mission is successful, he will take credit. If the mission is a bust, he will blame someone.
Probably needed time to determine if what ever decision he made will affect his political career.
In this case - if the mission is successful, he will take credit. If the mission is a bust, he will blame someone.
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