The raid during which bin Laden was killed was planned over the last three months. We have heard about the replica of the compound that was built so the seal team could train in a realistic setting. We heard about the deputy and principal meetings to plan the mission and the aftermath to the smallest detail. It was this group that recommended the burial at sea for bin Laden after a proper Muslim burial. Given all that preparation, why is there a return to confusion at the White House about the raid? here are two examples:
First, on Capitol Hill today, Attorney General Eric Holder was asked for the legal basis for the raid on the bin Laden compound. His answer was that it was an act of national self defense. Huh? Is it beyond Holder to say that the USA is at war and bin Laden is an enemy combatant? That, after all, is the legal justification for killing bin Laden. We are at war, plain and simple. I guess the idea of admitting that there is a war with the terrorists still freezes the leftists in the government with fear.
Second, we have the fiasco with the pictures of the dead body. We have heard that the pictures would be released. We have heard that they won't be released. the president supposedly made a final decision that no pictures would be released. That decision was followed shortly by Reuters publishing pictures of dead bodies inside the compound. Of course, the Reuters pictures were taken shortly after the seal team left with bin Laden's body. Even so, the Reuters reporter explained in the article that none of the bodies in the pictures look like bin Laden. In other words, more confusion is spreading. Now, there will be millions who look at the pictures from after the US forces left and conclude that bin Laden was not killed since none of the people in the pictures look like Osama.
Can it really be that no one in the administration thought about the questions that would be asked after the raid? these are not difficult questions to foresee. Anyone who thought about it could have come up with both. '
I just sit here and imagine the firestorm that would have erupted had the same thing happened during the Bush administration. The articles about turning triumph into failure would have come in a major onslaught. the media should be as harsh with Obama and the obamacrats for this ongoing confusion.
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