Posted on 08/20/2012 4:55:42 PM PDT by lbryce
Full title of Article:EXCLUSIVE: Obama 'cancelled missions to kill bin Laden THREE TIMES after getting cold feet - until Hillary Clinton stepped in', claims explosive new book
Barack Obama cancelled three operations to kill Osama bin Laden before finally going ahead with the mission at the insistence of Hillary Clinton, according to a new book.
The explosive allegation is contained in an expose by journalist Rich Miniter, who argues that the White House’s carefully-crafted narrative of Obama as a decisive leader who dispatched the al-Qaeda leader despite the doubts of advisers is a myth.
The killing of bin Laden is at the centre of Obama’s re-election campaign and is likely to be highlighted yet again by his aides on the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks next month. Obama has already come under fire from former SEALs for trumpeting his role in the raid.
Until now, no one has claimed that he was reluctant even to launch it.
Miniter portrays Clinton as the main force behind killing bin Laden and contends that the prevaricating Obama has been in thrall to a number of dominant women – Clinton, top adviser Valerie Jarrett and his wife Michelle.
It was Jarrett, a long-time Chicago ally, he reports, who urged Obama to cancel the first three operations to kill bin Laden.
Miniter writes that Clinton’s alliances with Leon Panetta, then CIA director and now Pentagon chief, and David Petraeus, then head of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan and now at the helm at the CIA, were critical in bringing bin Laden to justice.
At the start of his presidency, Miniter writes, Obama was ‘studiously undecided’ about whether to kill the mastermind of 9/11.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
FTA:‘He refused to weigh in or commit himself on even small matters related to a possible strike on bin Laden.’ He continues: ‘Obama was often disengaged as the bin Laden operation took shape; he left critical decisions to the then-CIA Director Leon Panetta, then-Secretary of Defence Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
No doubt Obama had to be dragged to making the decision. But Bubba Clinton can’t help leaking to enhance Hillary even tho he is probably exaggerating Hillary’s position in this. It was Pannetta and Patraeus who were doing all the pressing to get it done. Without them, Osama would still be walking the planet.
Hillary leaked this. Add that to her rejecting the VP slot and she definitely is working against Obama this year.
Plausible, if so, Hillary’s a real killer, according to book I read about the Waco massacre of ‘93, Hillary was the one who gave the order to assault/take no prisoners at the Davidian compound and Reno took the heat.
CIA Panneta and Defence Gates pressing yes.But since when does a striped pants Secretary of State make tactical military decisions.Hillary, no. She is legend in her own and Bubba’s mind. She was a terrible First Lady, Senator, presidential candidate and now Sec of State.
Alas, it's just as convenient for Republicans to believe it. So, everybody’s happy with the Emperor’s beautiful new robe.
Dishonorable Disclosures (22:00 Youtube video)
Special Operations (OPSEC) (website to get involved)
..he doesn't buff behind his colossal ears without the OK from Mama Jarrett
Now that’s real lipstick on a pig
and a QUEER pig at that...
I remember hearing he had to be called off the golf course the day UBL got it.....has anyone remember where, and who reported that?
never mind, here it is...
With Waco and the bombing of the Serbs it was all about the timing and how each was connected to one of Hillary's scams, that's why she directed when each would begin.
BTW, as First Whatever, she had no legal authority to order the final raid to begin which makes her as guilty of murder as David Koresh.
they shoulda left him on the golf course and told him about it later...
Killer Queen (Hillary).....couldn’t resist.
She keeps her Moet et Chandon
In her pretty cabinet
‘Let them eat cake’ she says
Just like Marie Antoinette
A built-in remedy
For Kruschev and Kennedy
At anytime an invitation
You can’t decline
Caviar and cigarettes
Well versed in etiquette
Extraordinarily nice
She’s a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laserbeam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime
Ooh, recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try ?
To avoid complications
She never kept the same address
In conversation
She spoke just like a baroness
Met a man from China
Went down to Geisha Minah
(killer, killer, she’s a Killer Queen)
Then again incidentally
If you’re that way inclined
Perfume came naturally from Paris (naturally)
For cars she couldn’t care less
Fastidious and precise
She’s a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime
Drop of a hat she’s as willing as
Playful as a pussy cat
Then momentarily out of action
Temporarily out of gas
To absolutely drive you wild, wild..
She’s all out to get you
She’s a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime
Ooh, recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try ?
You wanna try...
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