Bin Laden still had the back and top of his head blown off right? Beause no one cares how that happened.

John Paul Jones: Green? Really? WTF is wrong with you?

Some submitters are also admins?

Granted it might have been hard to deny things because we left a chunk of a helicopter behind, but damn, Obama should have kept his big mouth shut. All that intel, rendered worthless before it even got to the States.

I call shenanigans. As if the White House ever had heaps of valuable intelligence. Humbug.

As long as it wasn't that uppity, commiem socialist Kenyan negro. That would be bad for America™.

I thought everybody has known that the story published by that Schmidle character was untrue since about June.

Pfarrer is a fraud. He's a bunko artist.

Apparently, this constitutes foreign policy in this derpmeister's mind:

Says a guy who wasn't there, wasn't involved in the operation, and is saying what he thinks might have happened there.

What the hell? Who approved this crap?

WaltzingMathilda:


Right. Because none of the al qaeda guys would have known their boss was dead for weeks or months.

Bin Laden kept himself off the grid as a way to stay hidden. It obviously worked for a while. The rest of the org going weeks without hearing from him was not unusual.

Obvious tag would have worked too.

Are we still talking about this? You'd think there was an election coming up or something.

America, Pfarrer explained, could have left things alone for "weeks or months ... even though there was evidence left on the ground there ... and use the intelligence and finish off al-Qaida."

lulz.

Might be a little matter of a blowed up helicopter that you might want to consider Sheik Von Douchebucket.

Is this the "this was a military coup because Bisquik Hoisin Onambla loved bin Laden and tried to stop the SEALS" guy?

I'm already preparing for the Thanksgiving dinner with my full retard derp relatives who will have consumed this book and will gleefully spout their knowledge on how Obama botched the successful raid to get bin Laden. Oh, this will be a blast. Do I start drinking early, arrive hammered out for a second wind, or get into it gradually to keep my stamina. I love the happy holidays.

Vodka Zombie: John Paul Jones: Green? Really? WTF is wrong with you?

It's one of those days, I think.

stuhayes2010: Says a guy who wasn't there, wasn't involved in the operation, and is saying what he thinks might have happened there.

Yes, I thought one of the hallmarks of SEALs was that they knew how to keep their farking mouths shut. I'm supposed to believe they blabbed to this douche?

Wouldn't surprise me one bit if they simple executed Bin Laden. I'm not in favor of that either. I would loved to have seen that asshole stand trial and go through the motions.

I mean, what, our often bureaucratic, laborious, labyrinthe justice system should only be turned on all of us?

Imagine Bin Laden having to languish in isolation in a Supermax for years while his lawyers file motions and the justice system stalls and evades (you know they would) and after conviction (he's a slam dunk), he gets to spend another 4 or 5 years in isolation only to be quietly executed in a room of 20 or so witnesses, etc.

Assuming OBL was simply executed, I don't like the idea of them creating a version of events where his supporters get to portray him as fighting the infidels until his last breath...

Marcus Aurelius: So.... no one except Obama could have revealed that Osama bin Laden was dead. The Pakistanis would never have even noticed.

Way to go, Obama.

/what a farking tool

Oh but Pakistan didn't know he was there, remember? He just built a million dollar compound in their dirt poor country a hundred yards from a military base (from what I heard) without anyone in the government being involved whatsoever.

One Bad Apple: Bin Laden kept himself off the grid as a way to stay hidden. It obviously worked for a while. The rest of the org going weeks without hearing from him was not unusual.

You can't have it both ways.

Either he was properly off the grid and so any intelligence gathered was out of date, inaccurate and/or limited.

Or he was connected and his death (and the information leak) would have quickly been known about.

One Bad Apple: WaltzingMathilda:


Right. Because none of the al qaeda guys would have known their boss was dead for weeks or months.

Bin Laden kept himself off the grid as a way to stay hidden. It obviously worked for a while. The rest of the org going weeks without hearing from him was not unusual.

"Man, I'm fit to kiss a camel about the next big terrorist thing we are planning. Can you run all the details by me again?"

Interesting take by this guy. Because while he says he is connected and knows what happened, I have an acquaintance who also claims to know a little something about it (having been in the military and part of the Tora-Bora operation way back when.) He says this guy is full of crap.

I don't know who to believe, really, but I'd probably side with the guy that I know and who isn't trying to sell anything.

The guy has a book to sell, and it seems the pitch is, all you Obama haters, you'll want to buy this one. Because what Obama should have done is not confirm or deny anything when the Pakistani government went nuts in the media about having its sovereignty violated, and showed pictures of a crashed American helicopter, and talked about how a bunch of American soldiers conducted a shooting raid in Pakistani territory. Yeah, Obama should have said, "I am not at liberty to talk about that" to the American public because Al Qaeda would have had no idea about what had happened, none at all, unless the story appeared on CNN. Or something like that.

hammettman: I'm already preparing for the Thanksgiving dinner with my full retard derp relatives who will have consumed this book and will gleefully spout their knowledge on how Obama botched the successful raid to get bin Laden. Oh, this will be a blast. Do I start drinking early, arrive hammered out for a second wind, or get into it gradually to keep my stamina. I love the happy holidays.

Ha ha! I'll be doing the same goddamn thing! Good luck. Oh, and be sure to bring up religious beliefs and morality standards - they'll LOVE to hear your opinions, I'm sure...

/in alabama, it's sec football and jeezus...

Everything a US President says in public is a political calculation. Announcing Bin Laden's death wasn't nearly as political as keeping it a secret would have been.

/October Surprise