Breaking News! CNN announces Osama Bin Laden is Dead !

and the people analyzing the intelligence are Obama's staff, are they not?
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No, they're mostly non-partisan, career State Dept., CIA and NSA (National Security Agency) experts.
 
Reba said:
He didn't have military experience, did he?

He was smart enough to realize that, and to use the expertise of those who do have experience. That's a good thing.
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Which is exactly why those of us that disagreed with you on that point stated that he did not need military experience. He had the intelligence to delegate to those that did. It would appear that you are now agreeing with that which you vehemently disagreed with a short time ago. Good for you. Changing your mind in the face of evidence is a sign of fluid thinking.
 
Reba said:
Somehow you overlooked my praise of his accomplishment. All your laughter blinded you, I guess. I don't begrudge him credit where credit is due. You also don't understand that while praising Obama, I can also praise all the others who were involved in the success of this mission.

BTW, it's not the job of any President to analyze intelligence. We have specialists for that. They do the gathering and analyzing of the intelligence, and present it to the President.
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Both of us...
 
heard from FB -

1. Osama bin Laden died on same day as Hitler 66 years ago
2. The soldier who killed Osama bin Laden is from Brooklyn

weird huh?
 
jillio said:
Nope, I didn't overlook it at all, even though it is buried under much more criticism and what ifs.
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Where did I criticize Obama in this thread? Where are the "what ifs" in this thread?

Yes, and the people analyzing the intelligence are Obama's staff, are they not? A good President knows how to delegate to good experts.
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I never argued that.

Laughter lengthens the life span. Negativity decreases it.
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Positive attitude doesn't always require laughter, and laughter doesn't always indicate a positive attitude. Incessant laughter when things aren't funny is kinda nutty.
 
Beach girl said:
No, they're mostly non-partisan, career State Dept., CIA and NSA (National Security Agency) experts.
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And who is the President?

(Why do we have to keep taking this back to very elementary facts?)
 
Reba said:
Where did I criticize Obama in this thread? Where are the "what ifs" in this thread?


I never argued that.


Positive attitude doesn't always require laughter, and laughter doesn't always indicate a positive attitude. Incessant laughter when things aren't funny is kinda nutty.
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Failure to see things as funny that most others do is nutty.:cool2:

Being positive that Obama is a horrible President does not qualify as a positive attitude, lol.

Start with post 306 and move forward with contextual meaning and past attitude in mind.
 
detailed information of raid

How Osama bin Laden Was Located and Killed - Map - NYTimes.com

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Jiro said:
correct me if I'm wrong but I saw something that there was a drone attack too.
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Where did you see that?

Maybe you saw something about a drone attack in Lybia.
 
jillio said:
Failure to see things as funny that most others do is nutty.:cool2:
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Most others, huh?

Being positive that Obama is a horrible President does not qualify as a positive attitude, lol.
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I can give my opinion about problems in our country without having an overall negative attitude. As I've stated many times, my ultimate trust in the future doesn't depend on politicians.
 
The decision by President Barack Obama to launch the assault that killed Osama bin Laden was one of the "gutsiest" calls by any president in recent memory, Obama's top counterterrorism adviser said Monday.

John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, said that despite intelligence indicating that bin Laden was in the compound in Pakistan, there was no certainty the al Qaeda leader was actually there.

Obama "made what I believe was one of the ... gutsiest calls of any president in recent memory," Brennan said.

'Gutsy' call led to bin Laden killing, Obama adviser says - CNN.com
 
So much to say about the long-awaited visiting of justice upon Osama bin Laden.

But there's one effect on U.S. domestic politics that deserves a thought:

Here's hoping that we have at last seen the end of this ugly insinuation that there is something less than fully American about the black president with the exotic name.

On Wednesday came the release of the long-form birth certificate that provided the final decisive refutation of the birther lie that the President Obama was born elsewhere than the United States.

On Saturday at the White House Correspondents Dinner, the most visible proponent of that lie, the blowhard TV tycoon Donald Trump, was publicly ridiculed in front of an audience of 3,000 people, without a voice to excuse or defend him.

And then late Sunday, the president told the nation of the execution of his order to shoot and kill bin Laden.

The success of the bin Laden operation is a great moment for the United States -- and not only for the United States.

But it is also a deservedly bad moment for some of the destructive forces in American public life, for those who have substituted for ordinary politics a sustained campaign to brand Obama as an outsider, as un-American, as non-American.

Those of us who oppose this administration's economic and foreign policies have had so many valid points to make.

Yet some have insisted on traveling beyond those valid points. They have called the president "post American." A "Third-world dictator." An individual whose behavior could only be interpreted as "Kenyan post-colonial." A "thug in chief."

They have tried to present U.S. politics not as a choice between liberal and conservative but as a choice between American and non-American, between real Americans and between a dangerous dark-skinned intruder. They have sought to portray the president as a man who could not be trusted to lead the country because he owed no loyalty to the country, because he did not belong in the country.

After the events of the past 72 hours, those kinds of attacks should be finished now. It's a cleaner world without bin Laden soiling it. And American politics will be cleaner for the expunging of the malicious fantasy of the president's non-Americanness.

Obama has performed the first job of an American president: He has used the power of the nation well to defeat the nation's enemies and defend the nation's people. After an interval for celebration of yesterday's accomplishment, it will be back to politics as usual. But let's hope that this time, the usual will include this difference: that the administration can be criticized as "liberal" without being libeled as "alien."

Now, stop questioning Obama's legitimacy - CNN.com
 
And who is the President?

(Why do we have to keep taking this back to very elementary facts?)
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You thought that intelligence was (mostly or entirely) analyzed by Obama's staff. That is not correct. Obama's staff are his political appointees. The non-political, career professionals at State, CIA and NSA do nearly all of the analyzing.

Obama's staff, and Obama himself of course, decide what to do about it. They make the political decisions.

Why we keep having to go back to elementary facts is because you do not understand what you're talking about in terms of how the government works.
 
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