Bumblers in the Trump bunker: A raid gone wrong

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Unless your head is buried so deep in the ground that you can see our Australian enemy, the latest news about Trump's anti-terrorist raid in Yemen should come as no surprise:
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Without sufficient intelligence ... A Navy SEAL died, others were injured, and children were killed. Yup, this is what happens when a celebrity buffoon with a bunker mentality gets the power of life and death. Right away, U.S. military sources started leaking to the press about his screwup. Odds are, this kind of thing will happen again and again. But don't worry Trumpkins, those lost factory jobs will be back in America any time now.

In a statement last Sunday, Trump hailed the Yemen raid as a "success," and on Wednesday, propaganda minister Sean Spicer gushed that the raid yielded "an unbelievable amount of intelligence that will prevent the potential deaths or attacks on American soil." But it appears — I know this will come as a shock — that Trump and Spicer were peddling alternative facts.
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Granted, counterterror operations are high risk, and bad stuff happens. But when a president OKs a raid "without sufficient intelligence" or consultation with the National Security Council's terror experts; when he gets decisional input from people who have no business being at the table (in this case, his son-in-law and his white nationalist hack)...well, that's when bad stuff is most likely to happen. - NewsWorks

Talk about telling it like it is! I cannot and will not get over this raid disaster. tRump's disaster. Not after the Benghazi circus.

Good people dying and military missions failing due to incompetence of the highest order. This is the definition of that saying about you cannot convince a stupid person they're stupid, because they lack the deductive tools to assess their own stupidity.

How many of us have to die before we say we've had enough of this fcuck wit-in-chief and his all too eager accomplices in the KGOP?

[dembotoz]

1. intellegence windfall? did we get their netflix account number?

[benld74]

2. Only if,,,

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3. Who pushed for this raid - the military or the administration?

Either way, it shows a whole lot of disrespect for the people killing and dying for us to send them into a firefight like that. What was the objective? Was it so valuable that it was worth dozens of lives, including William Owens? Who pushed this raid forward? Was it the military tyros in the White House, none of whom has any recent (say, the last quarter century) military experience? Or was it someone in the Pentagon who had been frustrated for months because the Obama administration wouldn't carry out such a reckless plan, but he knew he could buffalo the new kids on the block?

I've heard that all those White Working Class voters prize our fightin' military men and women very highly. Why don't the popular media go on safari to deepest Flyoveria and ask the hard-working folks of the hinterlands how they feel about bungled raids that leave a lot of bodies?

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4. It's my understanding that Bannon glamorizes war

It's my understanding that Bannon glamorizes war. So not far fetched to think he'd be all in on using other people's families to fight wars for his amusement.

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5. The usual game suggests itself

What if a Democratic administration had done this? Conservatives and their mighty Wurlitzer house organs in the media made a big enough deal about the raid that netted bin Laden. To hear them tell it, it was a complete failure. Where are they when a raid such as the late Yemen raid looks a lot more like an actual failure with real casualties? Now, we get "Let's not politicize this tragedy."

Nauseating!