Posted on 08/10/2011 11:23:10 AM PDT by Nachum
I hadn’t noticed that.
Obama is beyond disgusting.
Definitely only a photo-op for him.
Yeap, I think it might be Admiral Mike Mullen. Makes sense that he would be in the group since most ofthe KIA were Navy Seals
What a surprise, GF!
Makes me want to vomit.
He is more than a disgrace.
Carney answered:
“The reason we were able to release a photo, is that it was carefully done so that none of the transfer cases that contained remains were in the picture . . . we were able put those restrictions and control the White House photographer so that the photograph that we released does not cause any of those problems.”
REUTERS
A friend of mine who is a Vet says his salutes are perhaps the worse of any president. Obama displays his disdain for our military in obvious ways sometimes, other times more subtlety, like with his half ass ‘salutes’. Let's not forget his 'slip up' using the term 'Navy Corpsman'. He is a belligerent left-wing twerp.
If it is then I can understand. I was thinking Zero was saluting at the wrong time! LOL!
“...An official White House photo of a saluting Obama was distributed to news media and published widely. It also was posted on the White House website as the “Photo of the Day.” It showed Obama and other officials in silhouette and did not depict caskets.
Doug Wilson, head of public affairs at the Pentagon, said the department did not know the White House photographer was present and had no idea a photo of the event was being released until it became public. He said the photographers who routinely travel with the defense secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were not allowed to go to the event, and no official Pentagon photos were taken or released...”
http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-photo-sparks-protest-223835400.html
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I have a question and I'm not trying to be offensive or disrespect the deceased. But, according to news stories, the remains of these men were sent back on two transports. If the copter burnt up along with everyone inside, why are there transfer cases at all right now? Have they DNA’d the remains to determine who was on that copter? Plus, aren't they allegedly still investigating the crash? Wouldn’t that investigation include the remains of those on board? It seems an awfully quick turnaround to be able to conduct a thorough investigation of the conditions and cause of that downed copter.
Yet there Obama was, a few days past the loss of these troops appearing for his photo op.
“What happened on night of deadly Afghanistan helicopter crash?
“...ISAF says insurgents had been using RPGs during the initial engagement and that the helicopter had been fired on, but still refers to the incident as a crash.
“While it has not been determined if enemy fire was the sole reason for the helicopter crash, it did take fire from several insurgent locations on its approach,” ISAF said.
While it is not unusual for rocket-propelled grenades — normally an anti-tank weapon — to hit helicopters, it is extremely rare for them to actually bring one down...”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/10/us-afghanistan-crash-idUSTRE7792ET20110810
It could very well have been. Because Obama's salute is so corney, it's possible the photo was taken when his hand was in motion before he had completed the salute.........
That's just my thought,
This has been handled wrong since Seal Team 6 was identified as those who took out Osama.
That bs immediately made each member and the team a target.
The loaded and ancient helicopter was apparently sent in on a bs mission with the Talaban waiting for it to show and shoot it down.
Soon, we will be seeing the names of the family members and where they live. That will make them targets for those seeking revenge for Ben Laden.
Put on your tinfoil.....
OBL was dead long ago. The original raid was a ruse. It happened, but whoever was killed, it wasn't OBL.
Obama ordered the OBL raid drama to tidy up the exit from Afghanistan next year. Obama may not even have originated it. It may have been a lower level ready-to-go contingency to exit the CIA false-figurehead boogeyman show set up after OBL was killed in Tora Bora or wherever.
Why kill OBL and let "#2" fill the vacuum? Kill him, and then fake the cave dwellers out that he's still giving orders. It's not like killing Hirohito and standing up a manchurian candidate. It would be like the left killing Rush Limbaugh and saying he had recovered from a drug addiction which ruined his hearing and made his speech sound funny for a while....then they'd own the golden EIB mike.
OBL, Inc. was still putting out weekend at Bernie's tapes for years that were obvious fakeries. Why not still putting them out? If the Al Qaeda cranks wanted to score, they could've put out a single fakeried video right after the raid saying "You missed me, infidel! Ha!" If AQ had been making those videos, they'd have done that, or at least released a "best of" DVD or an "in case of my death" video. If the US had been making those videos, then obviously they would just stop.
So now this.
Biden's over-exuberance mentioned Seal Team 6, getting them and their families into security problems.
1. Elite warriors crammed into one package for a mission they're not intended for, with a "cheaper" crew and an aircraft that is not intended for them and are hit by a lucky shot from an anti-tank weapon that kills everybody beyond recognition.
2. As an apology for outing them and their families, the specops generals demand that their team be "recycled" into obscurity by staging their deaths publicly the way OBL's was. Yes, we have select quotes from family, pictures, etc. But what special ops family wouldn't do anything to have their man back safe out of harm's way? Or back into a different theater or who knows. Witness relocation happens. So could this. We don't know how fubar this situation really is on the inside of the military with airhead-in-chief calling the shots.
3. Someone on the inside could've ratted out the team and or set them up the bomb. The team thought they had hit OBL. And the camel jockeys thought they got the guys who got OBL. And the F16 pilots think that they got the guys who got the guys who got OBL. But the spooks who were making OBL videos are still out of a job.
There need not be a "evil genius" or "complete incompetent" dilemma over Obama. Hitler turned out to be both.
They were literally sent into the valley of the shadow of death by someone.
“They were literally sent into the valley of the shadow of death by someone.”
It might be time for the SEALs to handle some local problems and dangers.
I like it!
You KNOW it angers him, he hates our Military. It’s almost as good as seeing him being forced down on his knees, subjugating himself, and being forced to Honor those who he so despises.
Not to mention, that even after 3 years as CINC, he hasn’t, yet, learned a proper salute.
Yup! I like it.
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