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Title: Obama took SIXTEEN HOURS to make up his mind about Bin Laden mission
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Daily Mail
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... s-make-mind.html#ixzz1LJkz0f2d
Published: May 3, 2011
Author: Daily Mail Reporter
Post Date: 2011-05-03 16:48:29 by Rudgear
Keywords: Government, Sham, Barry Soetoro Follies
Views: 3472
Comments: 16
* President 'slept on it' as tense military chiefs awaited decision * Action started the next morning when Obama declared 'it's a go' * Mission delayed by one day after heavy cloud cover on Saturday night * Navy seals dodged Pakistani security to reach Bin Laden's lair * Outpouring of emotion on streets down to 'the same sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11' Obama told members of Congress Barack Obama kept military commanders hanging by declaring he would 'sleep on it' before taking 16 hours to give the go-ahead to raid Bin Laden's compound. Hit squads of specialist Navy Seals - who were not even told who they were preparing to capture - had practised the mission at two reconstructions of the terror chiefs sprawling compound. The mission looked set to be given the all clear last Thursday when analysts confirmed beyond doubt that Bin Laden was in busy town of Abbottabad in northern Pakistan. But the president stunned officials when he told a national security meeting that he wanted more time to think - and disappeared out of the room. 'I'm not going to tell you what my decision is now - I'm going to go back and think about it some more,' said Obama, according to the New York Times. He then added 'I'm going to make a decision soon.' The head of the CIA and other senior intelligence officers who were keen to proceed were left tense as they waited for the president's decision. But the next morning after 16 hours, Obama summoned four top aides to the White House Diplomatic Room. Before they could speak, the president put his fist on the table and declared 'It's a go'. With those three words, the greatest military operation in recent history began. Had it not been for heavy cloud cover on Saturday, troops would have been deployed then. But they waited another day, and reached Pakistan just before midnight on Sunday evening. Obama refused to tell Pakistan about the mission in case it was leaked by jihadist sympathisers within the administration and Bin Laden took flight. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1383010/Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-Obama-took-16-hours-make-mind.html#ixzz1LKAGqkCF
Poster Comment: With all this adulation at a moments notice, you'd think Super Fly would get more than a roughly 1% boost in polling.
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#3. To: Rudgear (#0)
What a paradox: the smaller the mind, the longer it takes to make it up.
#5. To: Happy Quanzaa (#3)
His supporters are cheering the fact he's a decision maker. What a sad sack to have at the head of our affairs at this point in history.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestBarack Obama kept military commanders hanging by declaring he would 'sleep on it' before taking 16 hours to give the go-ahead to raid Bin Laden's compound.
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