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To get bin Laden, Obama relied on policies he decried
Post Date: 2011-05-04 15:09:43 by no gnu taxes
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While we may not know all the details about and behind this operation, it's fascinating to see how many of the things that made the success of this operation possible were not so long ago decried by many of the president's fans and fellow partisans. For one thing, it apparently would not have happened without those infamous enhanced interrogation techniques -- "torture," according to critics of the Bush administration. The enhanced interrogation techniques reportedly led to identification of the courier who eventually led our forces to bin Laden's hiding place. Critics of waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques assured us that "torture" ...
Key Republicans say don't release bin Laden photo
Post Date: 2011-05-04 14:38:04 by go65
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Two key Republicans on foreign policy -- Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) -- say the United States should not release the postmortem photos of Osama bin Laden. "I don't want to make the job of our troops serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan any harder than it already is," Rogers said, NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports. "The risks of release outweigh the benefits. Poster comment: Scott Brown has also said the photos shouldn't be released. Click for Full Text!
The Kenyan: being the Lying Asshole That I Am, I Have Backtracked And Won't Release the Bin Laden Death Photos
Post Date: 2011-05-04 13:50:01 by no gnu taxes
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In an interview with Steve Kroft for this Sunday's 60 Minutes, President Obama says he won't release post-mortem images of Osama bin Laden taken to prove his death. Video of the comments will appear on the CBS "Evening News" on Wednesday. Republican House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said Wednesday that the Obama administration should not release the gruesome post-The killing of Osama bin Ladenmortem images, saying it could complicate the job for American troops overseas. Rogers told CBS News he has seen a post-mortem photo. "The risks of release outweigh the benefits," he said. "Conspiracy theorists around the world will just claim the ...
Gates, Clinton Advising President to Not Release OBL Photograph;
Post Date: 2011-05-04 13:32:00 by socalv8
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Obama Increasingly Concerned No Good Would Come from It President Obama is increasingly doubtful that there's a compelling reason to release a photograph of Osama bin Laden's corpse, ABC News has learned. There don't seem to be many skeptics of bin Laden's death in the Muslim world, with bin Laden's wife having survived the attack to identify bin Laden's death both to the Navy SEALs and Pakistani authorities. Meanwhile, sources say, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are advising the president about concerns at the Pentagon and State Department that releasing a photograph could prompt a backlash against the US for killing bin ...
Morning Bell: Top Six Reasons We Got Osama bin Laden
Post Date: 2011-05-04 12:52:08 by socalv8
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Taking down Osama bin Laden was an achievement resulting from a culmination of a decade of national security policy. Soft power and diplomacy helped along the way, but it was hard power and military might that made it possible. President George W. Bush put the correct policies in place, including the PATRIOT Act, Gitmo and increased intelligence gathering. President Barack Obama was wise to continue executing many of the same strategies. Here are the main reasons we were able to take him out. #1. We Invaded Afghanistan. Anyone who is a hunter knows you have to flush game out before you bag it. It often works the same way with terrorists. The Taliban refused to give up bin Laden because the ...
Obama to Meet With Sept. 11 Victims’ Families as Job-Approval Rating Jumps
Post Date: 2011-05-04 11:46:20 by Skip Intro
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President Barack Obama, whose approval ratings have surged since the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, will travel to New York tomorrow to meet with families of Sept. 11 victims. Former President George W. Bush, whose ratings soared to 90 percent in the weeks following the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, declined Obama’s invitation to be there. “He appreciated the invite, but has chosen in his post- presidency to remain largely out of the spotlight,” David Sherzer, a spokesman for the former president, said in an e- mailed statement. “He continues to celebrate with all Americans this important victor in the war on ...
January 2009: We no longer need to kill Bin Laden, claims Barack Obama
Post Date: 2011-05-04 11:39:26 by no gnu taxes
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Barack Obama has claimed it is no longer necessary to kill Osama Bin Laden to win the war against al-Qaeda. In an unprecedented departure from the current wanted 'dead or alive policy,' the U.S. President-Elect said that simply keeping bin Laden holed up in a cave was enough to keep America safe. 'My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him,' he said. 'But if we have so tightened his noose that he's in a cave somewhere and can't even communicate with his operatives then we will meet our goal of protecting America. I think that we have to so weaken (his) infrastructure that, whether he is technically alive or not, he is so pinned down that he ...
Obama Approval Rating Goes Down After He Tries to Politicize Bush's Excellent Work in the Apparent Killing of Bin Laden [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-05-04 11:16:56 by no gnu taxes
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 24% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -13. Overall, 48% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance, down from 50% 2 days ago.
Pundits predict no more accurately than a coin toss (Krugman is most accurate)
Post Date: 2011-05-04 09:40:32 by go65
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Op-ed columnists and TV’s talking heads build followings by making bold, confident predictions about politics and the economy. But rarely are their predictions analyzed for accuracy. Now, five Hamilton College seniors led by public policy professor P. Gary Wyckoff have analyzed the predictions of 26 prognosticators between September 2007 and December 2008. Their findings? Anyone can make as accurate a prediction as most of them if just by flipping a coin. Their research paper, “Are Talking Heads Blowing Hot Air? An Analysis of the Accuracy of Forecasts in the Political Media” was presented via webcast on Monday, May 2, at www.hamilton.edu/pundit. The paper is also available ...
The changing Bin Laden death story
Post Date: 2011-05-03 16:24:17 by no gnu taxes
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White House press secretary Jay Carney just gave a press conference in which he insisted that Bin Laden was resisting capture. But he said explicitly that Bin Laden was not armed. He could not explain what kind of "resistance" he was offering. He did say a wife of Bin Laden's was in the room and rushed the soldiers. She was shot in the leg. It's hard to think based on this account that there was any serious attempt to capture the terrorist leader. John Brennan's statements at his press conference on Monday apparently contained claims that somebody just made up, e.g., the propaganda point of Bin Laden using one of his wives as a shield.
White House asked California paper to take out unflattering remark about first lady
Post Date: 2011-05-03 15:53:22 by socalv8
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A small weekly paper in California claims that a White House official asked it to remove a sentence from a “benign” feature about Marine One because it reflected poorly on first lady Michelle Obama. In an email to The Daily Caller, Gina Channell-Allen, president of the Pleasanton Weekly in Pleasanton, California, said that her paper “received a call from the White House asking us to take out part of the story because it reflected poorly on the First Lady.” The story in question was a soft feature about Marine One titled, “Inside Marine One, President Obama’s helicopter,” that ran in the paper on April 20. Pleasanton staffer Amory Gutierrez ...
White House modifies Osama bin Laden account
Post Date: 2011-05-03 11:58:26 by A K A Stone
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The White House backed away Monday evening from key details in its narrative about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including claims by senior U.S. officials that the Al Qaeda leader had a weapon and may have fired it during a gun battle with U.S. forces. Officials also retreated from claims that one of bin Laden’s wives was killed in the raid and that bin Laden was using her as a human shield before she was shot by U.S. forces. At a televised White House briefing Monday afternoon, Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan said bin Laden joined in the fight that several residents of the Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound put up against the Navy SEALs during the 40-minute ...
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Post Date: 2011-05-03 10:34:51 by Rudgear
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 26% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Thirty-six percent (36%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10 (see trends). The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates are also available on Twitter and Facebook Overall, 49% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance. Fifty percent (50%) ...
Another lie exposed: Disposing of Osama's body at sea is NOT in compliance with Islamic law
Post Date: 2011-05-03 08:58:46 by no gnu taxes
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White House officials lied to justify destruction of evidence Despite the U.S. justifying destroying all evidence of Osama's supposed dead body by burying it at sea in "accordance with Islam," Islamic scholars are saying it runs completely contrary to Islamic law. AP reports: CAIRO (AP) -- Muslim clerics said Monday that Osama bin Laden's burial at sea was a violation of Islamic tradition that may further provoke militant calls for revenge attacks against American targets. Although there appears to be some room for debate over the burial -- as with many issues within the faith -- a wide range of senior Islamic scholars interpreted it as a humiliating disregard for the ...
STILL NO PROOF OF OSAMA'S DEATH FORTHCOMING!
Post Date: 2011-05-03 08:23:49 by no gnu taxes
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It has been many hours since the The U.S. Military supposedly captured & killed Osama bin Laden in their custody.....yet still no concrete proof of death has been made available to The Media World. WHY does this continue to be so? You'd think that The U.S. Authorities would be going out of their way to prove properly & maybe even conclusively to the world that the man they purportedly cornered, and killed earlier today was bin Laden, rather than showing nothing beyond what they've shown already, and hoping that paltry assurances that they actually got him will convince the world watching. So far the most we've been allowed to see is some grainy ABC News video showing ...
bin Laden - Obama Credit and Blunder
Post Date: 2011-05-02 20:01:33 by jwpegler
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In a dramatic late night announcement, President Obama went on national television last night and told the American people that a Navy Seal team killed Osama bin Laden. The U.S. government announced that they sent bin Laden to his watery grave, probably somewhere in the Arabian Sea. Bravo to Obama and CIA Chief Leon Panetta for brining bin Laden to justice. However, the decisions surrounding the disposition of bin Laden's cold, dead body were not without controversy. I'm not a conspiracy nut, but I wonder why the government didn't keep bin Laden's body around for independent verification. Obama is from Chicago -- a town notorious for winning close elections within the ...
Spies in blue: San Fran Cops May Be Working As FBI Spies
Post Date: 2011-05-02 18:08:41 by A K A Stone
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San Francisco cops assigned to the FBI's terrorism task force can ignore local police orders and California privacy laws to spy on people without any evidence of a crime. That's what a recently released memo appears to say — and it has sent shockwaves through the civil liberties community. It also has members of the S.F. Police Commission asking why a carefully crafted set of rules on intelligence gathering, approved in the wake of police spy scandals in the 1990s, were bypassed without the knowledge or consent of the commission. "It's a bombshell," said John Crew, a long-time police practices expert with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern ...
About Those Oil Subsidies
Post Date: 2011-05-02 17:09:35 by CZ82
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About Those Oil Subsidies By Randall Hoven Everyone wants to end subsidies to oil companies, from President Obama to John Boehner and Paul Ryan. My question was "What subsidies?" Remarkably enough, CNN Money provided the answer. It turns out that they are all tax "breaks." I even hesitate to call them "breaks" because some of them amount to little more than Congress defining accounting terms such as "capital equipment." And the total amount of earnings not collected in taxes (which liberals define as a "subsidy") is about $4 billion per year. Here is how that breaks down. Domestic manufacturing tax deduction -- $1.7 B. This is a tax ...
Flashback - 3/28/08 - McCain / Palin Criticize Obama's plan to attack AQ in Pakistan
Post Date: 2011-05-02 16:39:24 by go65
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"Sen. John McCain of Arizona, close to clinching the GOP nomination, called Sen. Barack Obama 'naive' today and...blasted him for advocating a bombing of Al Qaeda hide-outs in Pakistan," the Los Angeles Times reports. "The best idea is not to broadcast what you're going to do, that's naive," said McCain, who also questioned the very notion of "bombing Pakistan without their permission." ... -----
Osama bin Laden is dead. I blame Bush.
Post Date: 2011-05-02 16:35:39 by no gnu taxes
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I was resting on my couch late Sunday night, doing something utterly forgettable and reveling in the great victory of one American-owned British soccer team over another American-owned British soccer team, when my friend texted me the news: Osama bin Laden was dead. Never far from a live laptop, I grabbed mine and came here to the Tatler and saw that Ed Driscoll and Austin Bay were already on the story. Drudge had posted a photo of the terrorist upside down, with a suitably red headline. Flipping on Fox, there was Geraldo saying mostly silly things while he waited for the president’s remarks. Well, it all did look legit. But after all these years, could it really be possible? ...
SIGN: ‘Obama forgot to say – Thank You President Bush!’
Post Date: 2011-05-02 16:12:56 by no gnu taxes
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SMU students and other Dallasites held posters Sunday night in front of former President George W. Bush’s home in Dallas thanking him for his dedication to the country after news of Osama bin Laden’s death came down. The home on Daria Place in Preston Hollow, about a mile north of SMU, was a meeting place for Bush fans and those celebrating the death of man who the U.S. government holds responsible for the worst terrorist act on American soil.
On The Democrats Making Of The Death Of Bin Laden All About Themselves And Obama [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-05-02 16:04:40 by no gnu taxes
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As Michelle Malkin points out, Democrats are "all in a Twitter" praising Obama and taking all the credit for finally having nailed Osama Bin Laden. As a matter of fact, listening to the boasting of the Democrats, you'd think instead of just signing the executive order authorizing the action, that it was Obama himself, the one, who putting his life on the line, rappelled from the Black Hawk helicopter down to the compound, and pulled the trigger on Bin Laden. This, of course, without giving Bush - who set in place the policies that have kept us safe since 9/11, which Obama has been forced by the reality on the ground to uphold almost to the letter in spite of all his campaign ...
While Self-Proclaimed NeoCon Patriots Mock Obama's Success Over Bush's Failure The Super-POTUS Calls World ‘Safer’ After Pakistan Raid
Post Date: 2011-05-02 16:03:54 by war
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WASHINGTON — Calling it a “good day for America,” President Obama said Monday that the death of Osama bin Laden had made the world “a better place,” as new details emerged about the overnight raid and firefight in Pakistan that killed him. “The world is safer,” Mr. Obama said as he appeared at a White House ceremony bestowing the Medal of Honor to two soldiers killed in the Korean War. “It is a better place because of the death of Osama bin Laden.” Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda and the most hunted man in the world, was found not in the remote tribal areas along the Pakistani-Afghan border where he has long been presumed to be sheltered, but ...
Cindy Sheehan: If you believe the newest death of OBL, you’re stupid.
Post Date: 2011-05-02 15:17:54 by no gnu taxes
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The decision to drop terror chieftain Osama bin Laden’s corpse into the Arabian Sea was the final meticulous step in a raid whose details were calculated to exert deadly force but also to achieve maximum effect in the propaganda war: the White House was careful to say bin Laden’s body had been treated according to Islamic tradition, but also to deny his followers a shrine. But while the watery grave may help diminish bin Laden’s status as a martyr to his followers, it was already fueling conspiracy theories; as the administration resisted releasing even photographs of the slain terrorist leader on Monday, a predictable haze of myth and rumor had already, inevitably, begun to ...
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