Bin Laden is DEAD, thread from Hell

[Toro]

I thought he would be reelected before last night, but that it would be closer. A year and a half is an eternity in politics.
I am predicting a 25 point swing in his approval rating, though.

It's going to be harder labeling Obama as soft on terrorism. Whether or not it matters in 18 months, I don't know.

 

[Truthmatters]

how did he prove it was waterboarding that got the info?

 

[Intense]

Great work by Leon Panetta

Some howled when he was given the CIA job. He goes on to lead the most successful CIA operation ever

I met Him once long ago, when He was My Congressman. I Like Him.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Congressman Peter King said on Fox News a few moments ago that it is a fact that Waterboarding led to the killing of Usama Bin Laden. Dick Cheney said the same thing, only not so assuredly as Peter King.

He said that the informant that led us to UBL, his identity was discovered by interrogation methods that Obama and everyone here on the left says is torture. KSM was waterboarded over 8 years ago and King said this eventually tipped them off to where UBL was located. His actual location was discovered way back in Aug of last year. They suspected that he was in Pakistan 4 years ago.



Does this ruin it for you if the tactics that were used, which ultimately led to his death, were considered torture and thus war-crimes by some on the left? I think it's pathetic the way some are jumping on this yet they have been fighting tooth and nail against it for so long.

So, this victory all of you are pounding your chests over may have not ever happened if it weren't for Bush doctrine. I know Obama has done nothing to improve the military since he has taken over as POTUS. The task force had been in operation for years before Obama was elected. All Obama had to do was decide if he wanted to go ahead with the mission.

Bush left Obama in a much better situation then his predecessor did. Clinton left Bush a 9 page summary on terrorism while Bush left Obama a rebuilt military and this task force already hot on the tail of UBL. Wasn't that nice of him??

Cheney says Enhanced Interrogation Probably Led to UBL Death - FoxNews.com

Didn't you listen to Obama's speach? He did this all by himself.

 

[mudwhistle]

Let's start a new category about UBL because somebody is pushing all of these threads into one single thread.

 

[Oscar Wao]

at the pic!!!

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

This will be yesterday's news by Friday. Anyhoo, I remember when the left howled that getting Bin Laden meant nothing.... then it did when we didn't.

Now we have drunken college kids who were what, 8? 9? when this happened using it as an excuse to get shit-faced.

Whatever... glad he's gone. YAY U.S. military!!

 

[mudwhistle]

Great work by Leon Panetta

Some howled when he was given the CIA job. He goes on to lead the most successful CIA operation ever

Gen Petraeus is the new CIA director. Panetta is now Sec. of Defense.

Obama changed their assignments don't you know.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Fuckin'. A.

Glad someone finally got it done.

Guess I'm kind of glad it's Obama, but frankly I'd be happy if Donald Trump and Sarah Palin shot him from a helicopter.

But I'm just happy he's dead. That is all.

oibama did not do one damn thing the men and women who serve in the military did.

he had to authorize going into Pakistan.....something Bush or Clinton would not have done....

 

[rightwinger]

Great work by Leon Panetta

Some howled when he was given the CIA job. He goes on to lead the most successful CIA operation ever

Gen Petraeus is the new CIA director. Panetta is now Sec. of Defense.

Obama changed their assignments don't you know.

They need to go through Senate confirmation

Panetta lead the raid

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Fuckin'. A.

Glad someone finally got it done.

Guess I'm kind of glad it's Obama, but frankly I'd be happy if Donald Trump and Sarah Palin shot him from a helicopter.

But I'm just happy he's dead. That is all.

oibama did not do one damn thing the men and women who serve in the military did.

he had to authorize going into Pakistan.....something Bush or Clinton would not have done....

And how exactly do you know this?

 

[Toro]

It was a gutsy move by the President. Much like Jimmy Carter he alone, would have shouldered the blame if the attack turned into a disaster or if bin Laden wasn't there. The safe move would have been to call a massive bombing of the compound. But then we would never have known whether he was actually killed

Similar to his handling of the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama, Obama showed patience and daring in handling a critical military operation.

This wasn't gutsy because his skinny ass wasn't at risk.

This was the kind of move that you do when you want positive I.D.on the target. It's a fairly simple operation due to the isolation 18ft walls afford you. The hard part was getting approval with Pakastan to do it. The compound appeared like a textbook raid site.

Apparently, they never told Pakistan that the operation was going down.

Just heard on FOX that the CIA, Special Op's, and the operative on the ground had a codeword, "Geronimo" for Bin Laden. Once the operative got a visual on Bin Laden, and confirmed he was there, the code word was given and the mission launched within minutes.......Cool shit!.........They are also reporting that The President was able to watch the mission go down in real time, and may have witnessed the actual killing of Bin Laden.....Man, I would love to see that footage

Pakistan has some serious 'splainin' to do.....How in the hell they couldn't have known he was there is ridiculous. He's virtually down the road from a Pakistani military base, and the neighborhood is packed with retired military. too include many former high command.

Pakistan knew where he was.

If we told them we were going in, Osama would have been gone.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Great work by Leon Panetta

Some howled when he was given the CIA job. He goes on to lead the most successful CIA operation ever

Gen Petraeus is the new CIA director. Panetta is now Sec. of Defense.

Obama changed their assignments don't you know.

Panetta lead the raid

Wow.... he lead the raid? When did he become a special pops guy?

 

[mudwhistle]

at the pic!!!

He's post to say....excuse me while I whip this out!!!

 

[mudwhistle]

Okay....so we can shoot em in the head....but waterboarding???


Now that's just cruel.

 

[SFC Ollie]

This wasn't gutsy because his skinny ass wasn't at risk.

This was the kind of move that you do when you want positive I.D.on the target. It's a fairly simple operation due to the isolation 18ft walls afford you. The hard part was getting approval with Pakastan to do it. The compound appeared like a textbook raid site.

Apparently, they never told Pakistan that the operation was going down.

Just heard on FOX that the CIA, Special Op's, and the operative on the ground had a codeword, "Geronimo" for Bin Laden. Once the operative got a visual on Bin Laden, and confirmed he was there, the code word was given and the mission launched within minutes.......Cool shit!.........They are also reporting that The President was able to watch the mission go down in real time, and may have witnessed the actual killing of Bin Laden.....Man, I would love to see that footage

Pakistan has some serious 'splainin' to do.....How in the hell they couldn't have known he was there is ridiculous. He's virtually down the road from a Pakistani military base, and the neighborhood is packed with retired military. too include many former high command.

Pakistan knew where he was.

If we told them we were going in, Osama would have been gone.

It would appear so.

 

[Antiderivative]

American Excpetionalism: Spending 4 trillion to track down someone who ***** goats.

Who is the idiot here?

 

[SFC Ollie]

American Excpetionalism: Spending 4 trillion to track down someone who ***** goats.

Who is the idiot here?

You!

 

[Harry Dresden]

Obama is smarter than Clinton, haha

i dont know about that....but he has more balls....

 

[Oscar Wao]

Well, a shot in the head and that's...*that.* You're done, you're over, you're toast. In a second tops.