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SEALs slam Obama for using them as ‘ammunition’ in bid to take credit for bin Laden killing during election campaign
By Toby Harnden
PUBLISHED: 18:35 EST, 30 April 2012 | UPDATED: 19:34 EST, 30 April 2012
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2137636/SEALs-slam-Obama-using-ammunition-bid-credit-bin-Laden-killing-election-campaign.html
Good. Notice the news comes from the UK, not the US MSM. I thought OBL should have been captured, simply disappeared in the middle of the night then taken to a secret prison in Eastern Europe or elsewhere and interrogated until he was used up then tried in a secret military trial, found guilty, hanged and dumped, not buried, dumped at sea. But what do I know?
President Obama is the expert here. After all, he located OBL, planned the mission, assembled and trained the SEAL team then called the shots as they executed the raid. He would have led the raid personally but of course the First Lady and Secret Service would not hear of it.
This about sums it up. :rolleyes:
Just wait until the movie comes out, though. :o
Prime Time American Kabuki Theatre
Funny as heck cartoons.
And people want to debate/discuss credibility issues regarding legitimacy of US news, media etc.
Astonishing & disgusting.
I found it a new low for a POTUS as well…he really should stop digging his hole, but my guess is the advisors will continue with an attack campain instead of discussing substance of the country’s issues.
Even Arianna Huffington called the ad “despicable”. I can’t wait until November so we can end this God forsaken failed experiment.
All presidents will take as much credit as possible for the successes, and distance themselves from the failures, especially in an election year regardless of party.
That’s politics and far from unique to Obama, that’s for sure.
That does not mean people don’t have a right to call a pres when he does it, but military men doing the ugly work and having some politician (attempt) to take credit for it, old as humanity.
I don’t like it either, but it sure aint no surprise or unique to this current president.
Military men who do the ugly work have every right to resent it but it’s time honored D baggery of all politicians to date.
Isn’t it against the USCMJ to bad mouth the CINC?
Funny how this current POTUS is almost as quick to blame others for his failures in office as he is to take credit for something any red-blooded American knows was not his doing.
I have obama-worshippers at work who give him full credit for “killing UBL”. They get very upset when I responded: “Funny, I never new obama was a Navy SEAL!”
Well I hope they don’t post this on their Facebook pages otherwise they will get a other-than-honourable discharge like that USMC Sergeant Gary Stein.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/26/marine-discharged-criticising-obama-facebook
:rolleyes:
I completely disagree with your premiss.
Nixon never took credit for the moon landing.
Bush running for his 2nd term, never took credit for taking out Saddam.
Truman never took credit for the Manhattan Project.
Heroes don’t brag!
Only small men!
Edit forgot to add: Under Bush enhance interrogation identified the only source who was the courier for Bin Laden. This resulted in our intelligence community tracking him down and then our men, took him out.
Nixon didn’t take credit, sure… but at the same time the douche-bag was hamming it up talking to Mr Armstrong taking away precious surface time blabbering, he was slashing NASA’s budget, deleting the last few REAL science missions, and destroying any and every possibility for a decent follow up ensuring continuing presence on the Lunar surface, all because he desperately needed to allocate some more funding for that “limited conflict” in SE Asia…
Hence the questionable (now discontinued) STS program, and the fact that 40 FOURTY years years later we still have not gone back.
Worse, we currently have no manned spaceflight capability whatsoever…
Truman had no idea there was a Manhattan project until April 24th 1945 - little credit on that one…
Bush…wel… would you want credit for that one?
If history serves us, those mentioned were many things, but heroes…?
And Obama has done so much better for NASA? Riiight… :rolleyes:
None of this detracts from the fact that it is in exceedingly poor taste for Obama to take credit for bagging OBL, when it was a multi-year, multi-administration effort, culminating in a daring raid by the SEALs to get him. Nothing you say will change that. Nothing.
That guy is a fucking idiot. Would he openly criticize his Battalion Commander and expect no repercussions?
Wasn’t it up to Admiral Mcraven anyway?
That i agree on.
Your observation is correct -Obama’s record on supporting NASA’s Ares/Orion project, and NASA in general is shocking and abysmal.
Throwing money on private enterprise (SpaceX etc.) to get us in back in LEO in a more cost efficient fashion is all good and well, but his “vision” and “policy” regarding long-term (Lunar and beyond) exploration is none existent.
Which would be the one thing that really gives the economy and our psyche a well deserved boost - looking at what Apollo did for us, this is an established fact.
Cancelling the STS and giving nothing in return is not exactly what should be considered the best way keeping us on top of the manned space-flight heap. Not with China gearing up to go there, albeit with recycled Soyouz-technology.
So yep - he is a douche. And after that last little incident at the US embassy in China, fair to say he is a spineless douche.
Nobel Peace price…PLEASE!!!:bad:
Didn’t you get a good look at the Team that ACTUALLY killed Osama?
According TO Obama… :rolleyes:
I could forgive cutting NASA if it was a last resort and all the fluff had already been cut out of the budget. It hasn’t. Space exploration is a valid pursuit of science that helps us as a species in the long term. Expecting private, for profit business to foot the bill with no short term payoff is foolish. They’re not going to do it. Not for long anyway. 
(Manned) Space exploration is really the only thing that will keep us viable as a species - we can only use up so much of our Earth-originated resources before they run out. Its elementary, and the obvious next step.
Considering the abundance and wealth of elements and energy floating around for the picking, really, it is not a matter of being able to afford it, but not having the luxury not to.
What’s even more baffling is that it would be a win-win proposition, a sure investment that would pay dividends to every following generation.
Unfortunately as long as we avoid making those logical but hard decisions we will be stuck and remain a little species.
So when Bush’s tearful face was featured in the 2008 RNC convention’s video involving MA2 Michael Monsoor’s posthumously awarded Medal of Honor…that was inappropriate too, right?
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