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HE made the decision before he was ever even President.
From 2008.
Remember back during the 2008 election when John McCain and Hillary Clinton pummeled Barack Obama for saying he would go into Pakistan to get Osama bin Laden if the Pakistani government wouldnt?
We do
It began with comments Obama made in August, 2007 that if elected, he would make U.S. aid to Pakistan conditional: Pakistan must make substantial progress in closing down the training camps, evicting foreign fighters, and preventing the Taliban from using Pakistan as a staging area for attacks in Afghanistan.
He continued:
I understand that President Musharraf has his own challenges. But let me make this clear: There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al Qaeda leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf will not act, we will.
FLASHBACK 2008: McCain, Clinton Slam Obama For Saying Hed Go Get Bin Laden In Pakistan (VIDEO) | TPMDC
SEAL TEAM 6 killed Bin Laden, not Obama. He did not pull the trigger, so the thread title is a lie. Color me surprised... not.
Obama never killed anybody. The Seal Team 6 killed Bin Laden. All Obama has done is make a political issue out of it.
SEAL TEAM 6 killed Bin Laden, not Obama. He did not pull the trigger, so the thread title is a lie. Color me surprised... not.
But he gave the order that his advisers advised against. There was only a 40-60% chance OBL was actually in there.
The title came from the article. Sorry it made you cranky.
Obama never killed anybody. The Seal Team 6 killed Bin Laden. All Obama has done is make a political issue out of it. Obama said there would be no spiking of the football. Instead, politically, he's shoving that football up our asses.
Obama = noun, verb + I killed bin laden
go away
Remember how the Libs derided Rudy for his handling of 911, how they made it like he was a One Note Samba that he was "noun verb + 911"
Well isn't Obama "Noun verb I Killed bin laden"?
no you fucking retard, nobody derided Rudy for 9-11. Everyone makes fun of him because all he would say is 9-11 when he ran for office.
Seriously go play chicken with a bus, do us all a favor.
Obama never killed anybody. The Seal Team 6 killed Bin Laden. All Obama has done is make a political issue out of it.
Dunno, seems to be killing the Reps!
It's fun watching them all unhinge as a team. Rather like water ballet.
Barack Obama’s decision to go after Osama Bin Laden: how the president overruled his advisers in ordering the assassination - Slate Magazine
I don't want to drop this at the tail end of Mud dude's thread (sorry, name escapes me) because I feel it's more newsworthy than that.
Far from the no-brainer that Romney depicts, the secret, high-level discussions leading up to the raid were fraught with intense debate and uncertaintyand Obamas final decisions, on both whether and how to attack, went against some of his top advisers recommendations.
Vice President Joe Biden revealed a few months ago that he had urged Obama not to mount the assault. Bergen and Allison report that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates joined him in the dissentand they explain why.
In the weeks leading up to the decision, a group of counterterrorism officials, after conducting a red-team exercise of what could go wrong in such an attack, estimated that there was only a 40 percent chance Osama Bin Laden was actually in the compound. The CIA put the odds at 60 percent. Bergen quotes Michael Morell, the CIAs deputy director, as telling the president that the circumstantial case of Iraq having WMD was actually stronger than the circumstantial case that bin Laden is living in the Abbottabad compound.
Faced with these uncertainties, a president could have been forgiven for holding back. Certainly, a decision to go ahead was no slam dunk. More to the point, if Obama had given the order, and it turned out that Bin Laden wasnt there, it is an absolute sure thing that, one year later, Romney and his allies would still be lampooning Obama for his foolhardy recklessness and accusing him of letting the worlds No. 1 terrorist slip through our fingers, perhaps this time for good.
Oh, yeah! Because THAT makes a difference. Cherry-pickers r'Us.
SEAL TEAM 6 killed Bin Laden, not Obama. He did not pull the trigger, so the thread title is a lie. Color me surprised... not.
But he gave the order that his advisers advised against. There was only a 40-60% chance OBL was actually in there.
The title came from the article. Sorry it made you cranky.
SEAL TEAM 6 killed Bin Laden, not Obama. He did not pull the trigger, so the thread title is a lie. Color me surprised... not.
He gave the order.
Obama never killed anybody. The Seal Team 6 killed Bin Laden. All Obama has done is make a political issue out of it.
Dunno, seems to be killing the Reps!
Why should he?
We have the right to criticize you punks as much as you guys criticize us and everything we post.
we also have a right to throw idiotic posts all over your stupid threads as well... you guys do it!
Equal rights for the down trodden con$$$
Barack Obama’s decision to go after Osama Bin Laden: how the president overruled his advisers in ordering the assassination - Slate Magazine
I don't want to drop this at the tail end of Mud dude's thread (sorry, name escapes me) because I feel it's more newsworthy than that.
Far from the no-brainer that Romney depicts, the secret, high-level discussions leading up to the raid were fraught with intense debate and uncertaintyand Obamas final decisions, on both whether and how to attack, went against some of his top advisers recommendations.
Vice President Joe Biden revealed a few months ago that he had urged Obama not to mount the assault. Bergen and Allison report that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates joined him in the dissentand they explain why.
In the weeks leading up to the decision, a group of counterterrorism officials, after conducting a red-team exercise of what could go wrong in such an attack, estimated that there was only a 40 percent chance Osama Bin Laden was actually in the compound. The CIA put the odds at 60 percent. Bergen quotes Michael Morell, the CIAs deputy director, as telling the president that the circumstantial case of Iraq having WMD was actually stronger than the circumstantial case that bin Laden is living in the Abbottabad compound.
Faced with these uncertainties, a president could have been forgiven for holding back. Certainly, a decision to go ahead was no slam dunk. More to the point, if Obama had given the order, and it turned out that Bin Laden wasnt there, it is an absolute sure thing that, one year later, Romney and his allies would still be lampooning Obama for his foolhardy recklessness and accusing him of letting the worlds No. 1 terrorist slip through our fingers, perhaps this time for good.
So I guess you now must support Bush for going to war against Irag now, right?
