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In reply to the discussion: SEALs slam Obama for using them in bid to take credit for bin Laden killing during election [View all]Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)...piece of garbage.
Geeze.
I have no idea how many people here will actually go to the link and read the full article, as I have, but that thing is an amazing construct of...well, bullshit.
And it looks like most of that bullshit is coming from these (ex) SEALS.
Admiral William McRaven "made the call" as opposed to the President, as former SEAL Chris Kyle alleges?
Bullshit. Bullshit. Bulllllll-shit.
There are quite a few things tucked away in the article like that, that are just bullshit.
And I think anyone who is reasonably aware of the situation in Pakistan would find it hard to believe that "any President" would have made the same call. That's bullshit, too. In fact, it's funny because the single biggest gamble in the Obama presidency was to carry out that raid. Remember, Pakistan had no idea we were there. They could have shot down our aircraft, killed our troops. Did I mention Pakistan has nuclear weapons? I mean, come on. If that raid had gone bad it would have been EPIC bad.
There's no president who's just going to reflexively say "Oh, yeah, go for it. Use the bat copters."
Not in that situation.
PB