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Originally posted by ShaunHatfieldIn your wee little mind, do you picture him taking the 16 hours to critique the actual plan?? Ya think he might be contemplating invading a sovereign country (a nuclear one) in the middle of the night? maybe?
Originally posted by ShaunHatfieldWhy would she be on her knees? Are you implying something? Kind of like your kools, b-ball and koolaid comments? You should start trying to get over yourself.. it might take a while!
Originally posted by Chaser2000au
reply to post by Intelearthling
The mere fact that Obama made the decision in his own time shows that he is not a puppet to the military war machine or political body of the US senate.
I think it was a Job well done...................
Originally posted by ShaunHatfield
reply to post by anon72
pssst... you have a black / democrat as your president... nanananananaananananaan Nothing you can do about it now..
I love it.. The man can't do anything right.. If he stormed in people would complain about that too... If he brought the body to America, people would have complained.... If they kept him alive and put him on trial, people would go flippin nutz!!!!!
What should he do? Get you some tea?
Originally posted by Crakeur
So, yeah, I find it odd that a man the whole nation is led to believe is the most wanted man on the planet, finally is in our sights and the president of the united states, knowing that capturing or killing this man will set him back on the path of re-election and reverse his negative image in an instant, takes 16 hours to contemplate getting him, dead or alive and then, during that long meditative process, he attends a correspondent's dinner.
Originally posted by Intelearthling
Obama made it sound like in his post-operation speech that upon confirmation of Osama's whereabouts, that he gave an immediate go ahead for the Special Warfare raid on the compound that housed Osama bin Laden.
What if, by chance, that during this time, Osama got word of the raid and fled once again. The American public has been waiting really more than ten years for this scumbag to be either captured or killed.
I know some will say that why should 16 hours matter when we waited this long. 16 hours is an extremely long time, especially when given the conditions and the magnitude of this mission.
We're very lucky that Osama, if in fact it was him, was killed in the raid. Lolly-dagging around with such an important decision as this, IMHO, is not the sign of a competent leader.
www.dailymail.co.uk (visit the link for the full news article)edit on 4/5/11 by Intelearthling because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Golf66
It is impossible to have a debate or conversation without a common frame of reference - clearly you don't understand the Military Decision Making Process either in theory or in practice. Therefore any details would be wasted. You have all the details you are going to get from me and I have all those I am going to get.
Look-up some information of Staff Planning and the role of the Commander; perhaps what teams are needed for a successful raid or even the proper proceedure for securing and clearing an objective.
Just say what you mean - the man can do no wrong in your eyes...check.
Anyone can see that by reading any of your adoring posts about Barry.
If you want me to go through Obama's 16 hour process it's probably like....golf swing - getting better, selling some votes, which union to pay off, raise some more money to buy more votes by flying all over in AF1...oh yeah those SEAL's have a plan all laid out and ready to go. But I do have that book I'd rather like to read - let them wait a while longer. Nah -first I'll have a Kool and shoot some hoops with REV Jesse.
For you since you seem slow - the mission was already planned, rehearsed and waiting for him to say go/no-go and had been for weeks if not months it had been back briefed and war gamed to death yet - the Mighty O just needs a little more time to outthink the experts...
Just put down the cool aid for a minute get up off your knees for a few minutes and stop looking up at the man and see him for what he is...he's a boy playing at being king and the commoners are eating it up.edit on 5/5/2011 by Golf66 because: (no reason given)edit on 5/5/2011 by Golf66 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Crakeur
Mr. President, we've located Hitler and we feel we can take him down or capture him.
Originally posted by Sinnthia
Originally posted by Crakeur
Mr. President, we've located Hitler and we feel we can take him down or capture him.
All the confusing reports have all agreed that there was no comfirmation that Usama was there until the raid actually went down. There is a big difference between "we know where he is" and "we think he is in there with those women and children." You know that, right?