BF2S Forums Obama Press Conference: Bin Laden Is Dead

lowing wrote:

13/f/taiwan wrote:

it seems some people would rather support bin laden then obama.

Could it be possible, in your opinion, to be capable of not supporting either of them? Any chance at all?

lowing wrote:

AussieReaper wrote:

lowing wrote:

Could it be possible, in your opinion, to be capable of not supporting either of them? Any chance at all?

You're either with us, or against us. -GWB

So by hating Bin Laden, by default I have to love Obama? Sorry, don't work that way...They both suck in their own ways.

“The code name for Bin Laden was ‘Geronimo.’ The president and his advisers watched Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, on a video screen, narrating from his agency’s headquarters across the Potomac River what was happening in far-away Pakistan.

“‘They’ve reached the target,’ he said.

“Minutes passed.

“‘We have a visual on Geronimo,’ he said.

“A few minutes later: ‘Geronimo EKIA.’

“Enemy Killed In Action. There was silence in the Situation Room.

“Finally, the president spoke up.

“‘We got him.’”

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“They train around the clock… They know that failure will not be an option. Either they succeed or they don’t come home.”

“‘In the short term, it’s hands off the president,’ says an adviser to a Republican presidential candidate, discussing the political atmosphere after the U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden. ‘The country is feeling good about itself, really for the first time in years, and the president is the embodiment of that. Nobody wants to be the person who pops that balloon.’

“Talks with aides and associates of several leading Republican candidates suggest they all believe the same thing: This is a time to step out of the way and let Barack Obama take credit for killing bin Laden. The advisers expect the president’s poll numbers to rise. And then they expect those numbers to go back down, and the campaign to return to economic issues…

“‘You have to be very careful about how you handle the president,’ says the first adviser. ‘His economic policies are still fair game, but anything that sounds personal is bad. He’s going to be riding a wave for some time.’”

....then last July, Pakistanis working for the Central Intelligence Agency drove up behind a white Suzuki navigating the bustling streets near Peshawar, Pakistan, and wrote down the car’s license plate.

The man in the car was Bin Laden’s most trusted courier, and over the next month C.I.A. operatives would track him throughout central Pakistan. Ultimately, administration officials said, he led them to a sprawling compound at the end of a long dirt road and surrounded by tall security fences in a wealthy hamlet 35 miles from the Pakistani capital.

On a moonless night eight months later, 79 American commandos in four helicopters descended on the compound, the officials said. Shots rang out. A helicopter stalled and would not take off. Pakistani authorities, kept in the dark by their allies in Washington, scrambled forces as the American commandos rushed to finish their mission and leave before a confrontation. Of the five dead, one was a tall, bearded man with a bloodied face and a bullet in his head. A member of the Navy Seals snapped his picture with a camera and uploaded it to analysts who fed it into a facial recognition program.

And just like that, history’s most expansive, expensive and exasperating manhunt was over.

Macbeth wrote:

"On a moonless night eight months later, 79 American commandos in four helicopters descended on the compound, "
Um am I reading this right? 79 commandos?

Last edited by lowing (2011-05-02 23:38:38)

AussieReaper wrote:

lowing wrote:

Anyway, so much for the age old condemnation from this forum that enhanced interrogation techniques does nothing. This board can no longer make those claims. It is how information was obtained that lead the CIA to bin laden.

Techniques condemned by Obama was used to find and kill bin laden, and now Obama stands poised for the credit. Gotta love hypocrisy

He still hasn't closed Gitmo. He promised to do that years ago.