OBL = dead
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And election year politics is ridiculous no matter what "wing" you are.
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I think he's probably earned the right to spike the football, at least on the 1 year anniversary. But, yeah, if it becomes a Rudy Giuliani 9-11 type thing, it will get old. My advice to Obama's political opponents who don't want to hear about it anymore is to stop accusing him of being anti-American "coward-in-chief." It only gives him an excuse to rub it in your face.
I think he's probably earned the right to spike the football, at least on the 1 year anniversary. But, yeah, if it becomes a Rudy Giuliani 9-11 type thing, it will get old. My advice to Obama's political opponents who don't want to hear about it anymore is to stop accusing him of being anti-American "coward-in-chief." It only gives him an excuse to rub it in your face.
I don't care who the Pres is/was....the POTUS did not "get" OBL and it's an insult to Team 6 to continue the whole BHO got OBL. How much skill, brains, training does it take to say 'yes', when asked 'do you want to take the shot"?
I give Obama credit for making a good political decision to let our boys go in and take Bin Laden out that night. Courageous? That might be stretching it a little bit, in my opinion, because I don't put much weight behind courage when it comes to political decisions.
However, he's the man at the top that had to say 'yes' and he said it (when several key advisors, including Biden were saying 'no') and it turned out great and I'm happy for that. I celebrate the fact that OBL is dead.
However, he's the man at the top that had to say 'yes' and he said it (when several key advisors, including Biden were saying 'no') and it turned out great and I'm happy for that. I celebrate the fact that OBL is dead.
IMO, Obama made the right decision (or was pushed into the decision by Leon Panetta, according to some reports). Afterward, he was humble in saying we "don't spike the football."
He had Bill Clinton spike the football for him n the recent TV ad. I suspect it's going to be a summer's worth of football spiking. Understand it's politics, but his hypocrisy knows no bounds.
We killed a guy who was a prisoner of Pakistan in a Military Compound after we had given them $3 Bil/year for several years in military aid to help us find him -- they were "hiding" him so we'd keep giving them cash..... pretty genius -- but not sure if this should ever go down as some magnificent feat.....
It's a good thing we water boarded some Muslim Extremists in order to find out who UBL's Courier was -- or we might still be looking around the world for a nut that was under house arrest in Pakistan.....
It's a good thing we water boarded some Muslim Extremists in order to find out who UBL's Courier was -- or we might still be looking around the world for a nut that was under house arrest in Pakistan.....
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from jon stewart
[video]http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-may-1-2012/victory-lapse---the-anniversary-of-osama-bin-laden-s-death[/video]
from jon stewart
[video]http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-may-1-2012/victory-lapse---the-anniversary-of-osama-bin-laden-s-death[/video]
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the kool aid?
i'm still trying to figure out how a dude on dialysis lived that long and then the dialysis machine wasn't even found at his place. if someone could explain that to me, then id conveniently forget about the multiple versions of how the raid actually went down.
the kool aid?
i'm still trying to figure out how a dude on dialysis lived that long and then the dialysis machine wasn't even found at his place. if someone could explain that to me, then id conveniently forget about the multiple versions of how the raid actually went down.
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Second, was there ever any real evidence that OBL was on dialysis or was it just speculation.
First, dont diss an article without ever reading it.
Second, was there ever any real evidence that OBL was on dialysis or was it just speculation.
Right, "Presidents don't spike the football. You do an end zone dance on an aircraft carrier even if you never found the football!
“I believe that was aboard the USS Humility" :biggrin:
Steven Colbert
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first- i didn't diss it, i just wanted to be prepared for what i was about to read. it gets confusing with so many different timelines, i'd hate to mash them all up.
additionally, it is hard to read an article when it requires a subscription to read it online or the actual magazine to read it. so thanks for being an elitist snob for those of us too poor to afford it.
second- yes.
first- i didn't diss it, i just wanted to be prepared for what i was about to read. it gets confusing with so many different timelines, i'd hate to mash them all up.
additionally, it is hard to read an article when it requires a subscription to read it online or the actual magazine to read it. so thanks for being an elitist snob for those of us too poor to afford it.
second- yes.
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I read this somewhere this morning and I'm paraphrasing: Thanking The Obama for the killing of OBL is like thanking Ronald McDonald for the hamburger. You don't thank the mascot, you thank the one who prepared your hamburger for you. Not discounting the "office" or the "authority of the office" of the President or CIC, but in my humble opinion, I can't thank Obama for what Seal Team 6 did that day.
I read this somewhere this morning and I'm paraphrasing: Thanking The Obama for the killing of OBL is like thanking Ronald McDonald for the hamburger. You don't thank the mascot, you thank the one who prepared your hamburger for you. Not discounting the "office" or the "authority of the office" of the President or CIC, but in my humble opinion, I can't thank Obama for what Seal Team 6 did that day.
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I see Bush Derangement Syndrome is still alive and kicking. I do not recall ever applauding Bush for that show of bravado. I will give credit to Shrub for actually flying a military jet to the aircraft carrier. Big Ears simply strolls out from behind two large armored personnel carriers. I am surprised he wasn't dressed in a Qadaffi-style dictator's uniform. :rolleye2:
The second highlighted part is why it was courageous. Various intelligence agencies/officials put the likelihood of obl even being there at between 30% and 60%. If the compound had been OBL-free, or if the operation had ended in failure in some other way, we (the USA) would have been portrayed as the Keystone cops or worse by much of the rest of the world. Remember that the operation went down in a country that we had not declared war on and which was considered, at least technically, and ally. Obama would have been eviscerated by Republicans and many in the media. He'd have been portrayed as Jimmy Carter, part II by conservatives and could have kissed his chances at re-election goodbye. It takes courage to make that call whent here's so much disagreement on the accuracy of the intelligence and when the stakes for the country and yourself personally are so high.
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