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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 08:46 AM
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I feel your pain RW'ers (LOL)


At the direction of our President, the CIA and military presented him with a few choices from the least risky being aerial bombing to the most risky which is the mission he chose. The intelligence gathered from this mission was enormous but came at a risk. If this high risk mission had failed you would have heard the screaming nonstop from his critics, "Why didn't he just bomb the complex", "Weak on terror", etc...

I understand why partisans focus on just the military exclusively for their praise without even mentioning Obama. I understand why they are desperately trying to give W all the credit. This is a bitter pill for them to swallow politically considering how they were trying to paint him (and all Dems) as "indecisive" when it comes to defending this country. Unfortunately for their politics, that RW meme has just taken two bullets to the chest and head.


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deacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 08:52 AM
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1. OBL was in that house for the last 2 1/2 yrs. of bush and he still didn't find him. Obama, Panetta &
the Seals found and got rid of bin laden.
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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 08:57 AM
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3. and remember this?
Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden
Second week of bombing begins;
Media visits village hit by missile

By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Monday, 15 October 2001

After a week of debilitating strikes at targets across Afghanistan, the Taliban repeated an offer to hand over Osama bin Laden, only to be rejected by President Bush.

After a week of debilitating strikes at targets across Afghanistan, the Taliban repeated an offer to hand over Osama bin Laden, only to be rejected by President Bush.

The offer yesterday from Haji Abdul Kabir, the Taliban's deputy prime minister, to surrender Mr bin Laden if America would halt its bombing and provide evidence against the Saudi-born dissident was not new but it suggested the Taliban are increasingly weary of the air strikes, which have crippled much of their military and communications assets.

The move came as the Taliban granted foreign journalists unprecedented access to the interior for the first time. Reporters were escorted to the village of Karam in southern Afghanistan, where the Taliban said up to 200 civilians were killed in an American bombardment last Wednesday.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bush-rejects-taliban-offer-to-surrender-bin-laden-631436.html
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Frustratedlady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 09:37 AM
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4. Just imagine how the US would be...
if George's ego hadn't gotten the way. Idiot.
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 08:53 AM
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2. The lastest is Obama didn't want to get bin Laden, but Panetta over ruled him
Sometimes it is the military that overruled him.

Limbaugh unveiled the "Panetta is running the country" one last week,

There were a couple threads yesterday about one of the Tea Party leaders claiming something similar. His support? He saw a story "floating around the internet"
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Froward69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 09:40 AM
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5. MIC = Military Industrial Complex
Needs a Bogyman to keep the welfare coming. Bush was complicit in their thievery. So now those weak minded republicans are still trying to to downplay Obamas decisiveness. To somehow come up with a different scenario to keep their contracts paying off.

With Bin Laden Dead and Al Queda floundering. the Talaban will collapse in short order. Especially with the Democracy movement spreading throughout the Mid-east. a Democracy movement Kicked off NOT by Military action but rather Wikileaks... Leaking.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-11 09:50 AM
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8. PLUS ONE...............nt
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TNLib Donating Member (683 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 09:43 AM
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6. The knuckle draggers have reached an all time low
Cheney and Rove have both congratulated Obama on this victory. They are terrified of Obama winning 2012 it's kind of funny to watch them melt down like this.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 03:47 PM
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7. talk about crashing your hard drive(s) ...
bombing the house?

I wonder what intel treasures will be revealed to our forces from the hard drives and such which WERE NOT DESTROYED by a bombing run ...
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