Posted on 05/05/2011 6:54:28 PM PDT by jazusamo
The cadaver was rushed to the Vincent and send on to be with 72 Sturgeons..
BTTT !!
You are wise.
LLS
When dealing with a secret operation one should answer, “ I can neither confirm or deny the action.” Keeping quiet lets one take action on what has been found without blabbing it to the world.
Firstly, there is no body armor on the head (and if there is one, like a helmet, you can see it.) Secondly, center mass shots may be survivable; two shots to the head from anything at or above .223 are not.
Col North identifies the biggest blunder of Obama in the whole operation: immediately announcing it.
It was absolutely stupid. Didn’t it occur to Obama, Hillary or Panetta that the immediate announcement might compromise the usefulness of gathered intelligence from the site?
On its own, it would have taken at least 36-72 hours before the Pakistani authorities would have figured out exactly what happened and word leaked out to other members of the al Qaeda network that bin Laden had been killed and his computers, etc. taken. Maybe even longer, depending on bin Laden’s regular communication methods.
Waiting even just a week to announce it might have given our intelligence agencies a fighting chance to roll up other parts of the network who might not yet have gotten the word.
It is almost as if they wanted to quickly alert al Qaeda to what happened. Are they really that stupid? Or were they so eager to credit Obama (”I, me, I, I, me”) as the great Osama-killer that they just didn’t care that they were leaving things on the table?
I can confirm OBL has been killed. Beyond that, I have no comment would have been best.
In which case, his immediate announcement serves well in, as you point out, alerting the rest of the team while making obsolete any intel gleaned from the mission.
This seems to fit in with many things he's done, such as tie our soldiers' hands with ROE that benefit the enemy and the like. imo
My typo - what’s the difference between ‘Obama’ and ‘Osama’? Just a little bs.
North makes a good point...as do other posters responding here.
Since Pakistan officials claim they didn’t know he was there, but for Obama’s eagerness to take credit, no one would know who we took out.
For all anyone would know, it could have been another #2 link in the terrorist chain. Pakistan surely couldn’t claim we got Osama. Since they claim they didn’t know he was there. Then, if they later claimed it was Osama, then they would be admitting they knew he was there.
Obviously, sooner or later, no matter what, the truth would be outed. Still, in the interim, much more intelligence could have been garnered. Beginning with-—what did the Pakistani’s know, and when did they know it?
Obama’s eagerness to take credit, created a narrative for the Pakistani officials, letting them off the hook. Doing so, at a time when they should be held accountable to the world, for harboring a fugitive.
Instead, now the narrative is to release the pics, or to not release the pics. When the narrative should be to charge Pakistan officials for harboring a fugitive.
North makes the best case for not releasing the photos.
ping to an excellent article. Ollie North cuts to the bottom line on many aspects of the mission that took out bin Laden.
You're right and he has. As others have said; only 0bummer could screw up the successful mission of taking out the most notorious terrorist of our time. I bet he drinks straight out of the milk carton and backwashes too. lol
Next rooster I get I am going to have to name it Obama. Maybe a goat can be Biden.
What do you call two shots and a splash of salt water?
A bin Laden cocktail!
Maybe Obama really did want to alert them.
Remember his face in that situation-room photo? Absolutely grim-faced, and it looked to me like he did NOT want this to be happening, as if he were more concerned about his brother-in-faith Osama Bin Laden and the welfare of the Umma.
Look at it again. Does his face look like he's the concerned captain-in-chief of our military? Or an ideologue getting bad news about a brother-in-arms? He looks like he's watching Rodney King reruns, actually.
Based on this, they should have kept quiet about killing OBL till the soldier was released. Now, who knows what will happen to him. Meanwhile they insult us that the photo is too gory.
SEALs practice mainly headshots in CQB. They assume their targets are wearing body armor. No 2+1. Just two to the head.
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