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In reply to the discussion: "Fuck the White House Correspondents' dinner" [View all]Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)Every Republican laughed and pointed fingers, and a big chink of DU did the same.
Calling Obama all sorts of uneducated, uninformed schmuck. This was well before he had privvy to the intelligence that eventually came forward that initiated the Navy Seal raid.
Lets count how many people publically walked that back....oh Yeah, that would be a big fat ZERO.
Pakistan was never an ally. They were turncoats at ever intersection. They were unreliable and denied US access. The Theatre is all about gettin Bin Laden anyway. I don't call that theatre. There was no pretense, they was a real fear that the event may not have worked at all. Then the real fall out would have been disastrous. Pakistan would finally have some meat to justifying their duality...instead they lost "face" throughout the world.