Election ’12: The president seems to think bragging about killing Osama bin Laden will help get him re-elected. But the question is increasingly becoming why the president hesitated on such a no-brainer decision.
Jack Keane, the Army vice chief of staff from 1999 to 2003, told Mike Huckabee on Fox News over the weekend that the U.S. government knew exactly where Osama bin Laden was nearly a year before President Obama gave the order to send in the Navy SEALs to his compound in Pakistan.
The retired general told Huckabee, “We had the target in the summer (of) 2010, and it took until the following May to execute the mission.”
Keane was surprised at the delay “because, you know, the longer you spend on something like that, the greater likelihood is that the target will be compromised because of your surveillance, and then that target will flee.”
Keane added, “I know for a fact that we had it that summer, maybe even sooner than that.”
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bin Laden is probably a COUSIN of his
I can understand that a person would want to make sure and not tip their hand that they were close to bin Ladden. To make sure there weren’t a lot of innocent people killed, was probably another concern. The problem is that this was more than likely delayed so that the announcement would come at a time that would be politically advantagous. It was probably timed to deflect some critcisms he was getting for some other policy he was taking flack over.
The sad thing about the situation is that taking out bin Laden was not a priority, but a convenience to have as an “ace up the sleeve”. I don’t think he was that concerned as to whether or not bini Laden was taken out, but how it could help him look good to the public. BO was ready to blame the general in charge of the operation, if anything went wrong. That shows what a coward BO really is. Everything is calculated for his political advantage.