Obama Killed bin Laden

Not to get into all the fine details about Mitt Romney's gaffe-fest in Britain or the foreign policy team he's assembling almost exclusively being ex-Bush presidency advisors who led us into Iraq and never captured bin Laden, but for any of your tea party friends who might suggest that our president's role in capturing bin Laden was minor (or as Mitt Romney actually claimed: "launching the raid was a no-brainer"), point them to this interview where the Admiral in charge of the Navy Seals mission is talking with hand puppet/CNN anchor Wolf "Please Don't Look up my Jeopardy Appearance on YouTube" Blitzer:

(emphasis mine)

WOLF BLITZER, CNN: This is the guy who's sitting right here who had the guts to tell the commander in chief we should do it, let's do it. And when you ordered that raid and when you said you think you - you didn't even know for sure that bin Laden was in Abbottabad at that compound about a mile or so away from the West Point of Pakistan, did you?

ADM. WILLIAM MCRAVEN, COMMANDER, U.S. SPECIAL OPERATIONS:  Well, let me make one thing clear.  I didn't order the raid.
(LAUGHTER)
BLITZER:  But he told the president of the United States that he thought he could do it.
MCRAVEN:  I mean, and this is not a small point.  The fact of the matter is it was the president of the United States that ordered the raid.
BLITZER:  And he deserves an enormous amount of credit for that decision.
MCRAVEN:  Absolutely, he does.
(APPLAUSE)

BLITZER:  And when he came to the head of special operations, that would be you, and said, what do you think, what did you say?
MCRAVEN:  Well, first, I will tell you that it was a long process to get there.
And our piece of it, the military piece of kind of what I look at kind of three components was probably the easiest aspect of the entire raid.  The two other pieces of this were the CIA's role.  And I think when the history is finally written and outlined and exposed on how the CIA determined that bin Laden was there, it will be one of the great intelligence operations in the history of intelligence organizations.
And a tremendous amount of that credit goes to Director Leon Panetta at the time because he built the right team, he had the right people, he made some very gutsy calls.  And he was not concerned about who got the credit.  And so when you take a look at how he built that team, which was a military and intelligence team, tremendous amount of credit goes to the agency.
And the other piece of this really is the president and his national security team.  I have made it very clear to people, again, the military piece of this, we did I think 11 other raids that evening in Afghanistan.  Now, I don't want to diminish the nature of this raid.  It was a little bit more sporty.
(LAUGHTER)
MCRAVEN:  And we understood that there were some strategic implications to it.
But, at the end of the day, it was what we had been doing really for 10 years.  The president and his national security team - I'm not a political guy, but I will tell you, as - as an interested observer in this, they were magnificent in how they handled the start to finish.
We went through a number of meetings.  The president asked all the right questions.  His national security team, with Secretary Gates, Secretary Clinton, Chairman Mullen, the vice chairman, Tom Donilon, Denis McDonough and John Brennan and others, really did a fine job of digging down to find out the facts, to make their recommendations based on the facts.
And of course the president gave me ample time to prepare once the concept was approved.  But at the end of the day, make no mistake about it, it was the president of the United States that shouldered the burden for this operation, that made the hard decisions, that was instrumental in the planning process, because I pitched every plan to him.
So any indication that Bill McRaven ordered this raid, led this raid was, you know, the key piece of this raid is just patently false.
BLITZER:  But you're a Navy SEAL.
MCRAVEN:  Yes.
(LAUGHTER)
BLITZER:  And these men who went in there, Navy SEALs, they were taking orders from you directly.
MCRAVEN:  They were.

 

This is what happens when you have a smart, competent person at the highest office instead of a bumbling idiot and Darth Vader running things.  Please, American voters, don't fuck this up this November.  And while you're at it, kick the Tea Party Republicans out of Congress so that Obama can actually go back to fixing the economy like he was doing for 2 years until those mouth-breathers took over and decided to vote 33x to repeal Obamacare and at least 13 times to ban abortion rather than, oh I don't know, actually attempt to fix the fucking economy.  Idiots.

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