In March, President Obama Authorized Development of Plan to Bomb Compound but Wanting Evidence of OBL’s Death, Did Not Execute*
Sources tell ABC News that in March President Obama authorized the development of a plan for the U.S. to bomb Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound with two B2 stealth bombers dropping a few dozen 2,000-pound JDAMs (Joint Direct Attack Munitions) on the compound.
But when the president heard the compound would be reduced to rubble he chose not to pursue that option.
That would mean there would be no evidence bin Laden was dead to present to the world – no DNA evidence, as the administration anticipates it will have.
Plus all 22 people in the compound including women and children, plus likely many neighbors would be killed.
The president wanted proof. And he wanted to minimize collateral damage.
So instead the president authorized this incredibly daring and difficult operation, scheduled for a time of “low loom” – little moon luminosity – so the US helicopters could enter into Pakistan low to the ground and undetected.
The operation was authorized Friday morning.
It was originally planned for Saturday night but on Friday, for weather reasons, it was pushed to Sunday.
The bombing plan was one of many multiple possible courses of action presented to the president in March and then refined over the course of the next several weeks.
-Jake Tapper
*This post has been updated to make the language more precise.
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A hand well played, Mr. President. I still wouldn’t vote for you if my life depended upon it, but this was a good move. Navy SEALs rock.
Posted by: ConservativeWoman | May 2, 2011, 7:37 am 7:37 am
Much better to advance his reelection campaign. Finally!! obama does something right! He’s following in GWB footsteps exactly
Posted by: Ed | May 2, 2011, 7:41 am 7:41 am
Why did they bury him at sea before giving us the opportunity to see the body? After 10 years of rumors on his whereabouts, I would like to have seen him with my very own eyes.
Posted by: MissButterfly | May 2, 2011, 7:44 am 7:44 am
Nothing about this is as it appears. Smoke and mirrors. I also would never vote for Obama again.
Posted by: tzada | May 2, 2011, 7:47 am 7:47 am
So “facial recognition software” can identify somebody after a NATO 5.56mm headshot at close range? Sounds like somebody’s invoking Amazing New Technology as part of his 2012 campaign, to me.
Posted by: Mac | May 2, 2011, 7:55 am 7:55 am
Job well done… a big hand to former president GWB!
Posted by: Rabbi Issamar Ginzberg | May 2, 2011, 7:59 am 7:59 am
Photoshop is great.
Posted by: Darren | May 2, 2011, 8:00 am 8:00 am
Well Done President Obama and to our Special Forces that killed Bin Laden..
Posted by: Dan McCullough | May 2, 2011, 8:02 am 8:02 am
Disposing of the body within 24hrs was not to observe Islamic Law, or to prevent a shrine from being built. Islamic Law states only Muslims can handle dead Muslims. They must also be buried with the right side of their bodies facing Mecca. The Koran also says that no eloborate grave markings are permissable.
I hope this isn’t on of Obama’s card tricks to get re-elected. If it is true don’t give one ounce of credit. Obama has been against the war, and the military since his political career began. He opposed the initial invasion of Iraq, opposed the serge, opposed going to Aghanistan, Pakistan. He voted against body armor, against kevlar upgrades, personal blowout bags, military bonuses, and the list goes on and on and on…………..
Posted by: tyler | May 2, 2011, 8:02 am 8:02 am
So he was worried about collateral damage?
He has sent MANY more drones into Pakistan to kill lower level al qaeda than Bush EVER did… and Obama has killed so many civilians there that the Pakistani’s want us out.
Nice reporting ABC… Obama nice… Bush bad.
Posted by: CFJuice | May 2, 2011, 8:04 am 8:04 am
So our commander and chief put American lives at great risk to get the body (for political purposes??) instead of just dropping munitions on his compound??? If Osama was keeping women and children there, then he put them in harms way and should be held accountable. I am glad none of our guys were hurt, but would have prefered to not have put them in that position.
Posted by: Rob Anon | May 2, 2011, 8:04 am 8:04 am
Thank God for President Obama’s leadership. Men in women in uniform finally have a real leader in the White House that we can depend on and trust.
Posted by: Proud Marine | May 2, 2011, 8:06 am 8:06 am
Huge CONGRATS!! for our wonderful and brave heroes. Now let’s all watch the Left, who has forever denigrated and demeaned the military, calling them “jack booted thugs”, murderers” operators of gulags (prison camps) and “no better then the enemy we seek to defeat”, take full credit for this great victory.
Remember had Obama had his way we wouldn’t even be in Afghanistan or Iraq and be in no position to take down the savage (if in fact we did). The military effort in the WOT would have been DEFUNDED if the Dems had their way and who can forget the 4 months it took him to just make up his mind to send more troops to Afghanistan at the request of our Generals?
Posted by: JJV | May 2, 2011, 8:08 am 8:08 am
Something just doesn’t seem right….I would never doubt the skill of the US Navy Seals, or any man in uniform that pledges to protect the USA but something just doesn’t sound right…..
Posted by: hank | May 2, 2011, 8:10 am 8:10 am
Buried at sea and a big fire. Convenient.
Posted by: JL | May 2, 2011, 8:11 am 8:11 am
there are pics, just not on US TV. We got DNA samples currently being tested. Kudos for making a good call allowing our special ops guys to actually go after him, though I’m sure their orders were NOT to bring him back alive. Why kill civilians when we didn’t have to. There was a twitter during the event, but the guy didn’t really know what was happening till it was over. Yes it will help his reelection, but we got our man.
Posted by: Dave C | May 2, 2011, 8:12 am 8:12 am
Watched the Obama speech last night and I heard plenty of I’s. I authorized this, at my direction, etc.Nice leadership…
Posted by: Mike | May 2, 2011, 8:14 am 8:14 am
Oh stop. Obama did not come up with this plan. He was advised of options and authorized this one.
Obama did not put US soldiers in harms way for political reasons. He was advised of the special forces option and took it. Our military and special forces exist to take these types of missions.
Great work to our military and ops, DEVGRU and the CIA guys you will never hear about.
The President took a risk. This could have failed. It was the right risk and the right call. I think Obama is otherwise a pretty lousy PResident and loathe his ideology, but this call on this occasion was a job well done.
Posted by: Ace Tomato | May 2, 2011, 8:18 am 8:18 am
I don’t believe it.
where’s the pictures, the film, or the marines who did it?
obama is full of siht.
Posted by: skeeter | May 2, 2011, 8:20 am 8:20 am
Ah, i just love how these conservatives can’t stomach the fact that it took a democratic prez to get the job done!! Eat your heart out! Brains and tactics: thatz how you lead! Job well done! I’d vote for you in a second, Mr President!
Posted by: conserevativessucks | May 2, 2011, 8:29 am 8:29 am
Show us pictures of the body………..
Posted by: Jerry | May 2, 2011, 8:29 am 8:29 am
We want proof, Obama — PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOF.
Posted by: Duncan Renaldo | May 2, 2011, 8:33 am 8:33 am
Showed his birth certificate and took out Bin Laden; all in one week…..What a guy!
Posted by: William Bush | May 2, 2011, 8:34 am 8:34 am
4 years in the planning and finally we got the SoB!!
Posted by: jvpski | May 2, 2011, 8:34 am 8:34 am
The nation’s biggest LIAR tells us that UBL is dead, really?
And the SHEEPLE news media eats it up.
Where is the body, buried at sea?
Liar!
Sounds like Wag a Dog to me!
Posted by: TexasForever | May 2, 2011, 8:34 am 8:34 am
i believe it, it all makes perfect sense and God Bless the Seals … hoorah
Posted by: will | May 2, 2011, 8:35 am 8:35 am
That was a good decision. And because he inherited the best military in the world, he was able to get what he wanted. Gutsy decision.
Good speach, smart teleprompter and BZ US Navy Seals.
Posted by: WayneLLewis | May 2, 2011, 8:36 am 8:36 am
Progressives are not only about advancing life and the cultural activities that give it meaning, but the backbone to eliminate any life that impedes that progress. The President is very cool under pressure, decisive, and all I can hope for is that this will only be the initial move to carry the world’s population forward in such a way that benefits all, not just conservatives.
Posted by: devildog | May 2, 2011, 8:40 am 8:40 am
And all the SHEEPLE forget….. your wonderful Bill Clinton could have done this years ago….. how many U.S. citizens and servicemen have died since?
Posted by: Yosemite Sam | May 2, 2011, 8:41 am 8:41 am
Why didn’t we drag his body through the streets of Manhattan and give him a good pig lard rub down before burying him at sea?
Posted by: Roger That | May 2, 2011, 8:43 am 8:43 am
No body, no proof. If indeed Osama is dead, may his 72 virgins be drag queens.
Posted by: Ayla | May 2, 2011, 8:43 am 8:43 am
Hey lefties, see what your president can accomplish when he isn’t chasing chubby loose womyn around the desk with his cigars? Or is he? You did say back then that ‘everybody does it’ and to move on because all Presidents cheat! So, which is it? Was Clinton a misogynyst or is Obama chasing chubby loose womyn with cigars around the desk?
Posted by: Heh | May 2, 2011, 8:45 am 8:45 am
Man, Trump really pushes Obama to do things he doesn’t want to do (Birth Certificate and OBL Death). Way to go Trump, finally someone with a spine…
Posted by: Pete | May 2, 2011, 8:46 am 8:46 am
George W. who?
Posted by: Drake Jones | May 2, 2011, 8:46 am 8:46 am
4 more years!! this is only the beginning, i am a die hard conservative and he just got my vote!
send a man to do a mans job!
Posted by: kevin | May 2, 2011, 8:49 am 8:49 am
Great job on killing that S.O.B., but this does not make Obama a great Pres. at the end on the day people are still out of work and the econ. is still in the tank.
Posted by: david | May 2, 2011, 8:54 am 8:54 am
the comment “Ah, i just love how these conservatives can’t stomach the fact that it took a democratic prez to get the job done!! ————————————–
while it happened under a democratic prez,it took conservative men to do the actual job! obuma and people like him cannot get their hands dirty.
Posted by: joeyb | May 2, 2011, 8:55 am 8:55 am
I DONT BELIEVE IT! This is all a 2012 campaign prop by the Thug-In-Chief. Where’s the BODY? BS if you ask me. Buried at Sea???? Something’s very FISHY about that.
Posted by: TEAPARTYPATRIOT | May 2, 2011, 8:56 am 8:56 am
I congratulate President Obama for ordering the mission on Sunday.However,in the glow of victory there are some troubling issues:#1-if this story of a planned March attack is true,was it necessary to risk the lives of American servicemen in the operation yesterday?#2 was it wise to wait 2 months before striking?#3 it appears that the President had multiple National Security meetings before ordering the hit.Was he reluctant to proceed?#4 we do not know the specifics of this operation,but it seems very similar to the action against the Somali pirates after taking that American ship captain hostage. At that time Obama continuosly refused to give permission to move-the captain was rescued and the pirates killed only when the on-site commamder ordered the action when the pirates were within sight of land and reinforcement.Obama never did give the command to dispatch the pirates-but the White House did claim credit.
Posted by: Nephron | May 2, 2011, 8:56 am 8:56 am
the lesson here is that you do NOT mess with the navy seals
Posted by: Chris | May 2, 2011, 8:57 am 8:57 am
4 more years!! this is only the beginning, i am a die hard conservative and he just got my vote!
send a man to do a mans job!
Posted by: kevin | May 2, 2011 8:49:00 AM
You are as conservative as Jimmy Carter is pro-Israeli.
Posted by: J.R. | May 2, 2011, 9:00 am 9:00 am
Obama put American lives at risk so he could have proof?
Posted by: B Forrest | May 2, 2011, 9:00 am 9:00 am
I would like to extend my congratulations to the true heroes who carried out this mission and all those who worked the intelligence to allow this to happen. Congrats also to Obama and GWB. They both deserve credit for this.
I thought Obama’s speech last night was decent, but there were too many ‘I’s, “me”s and “my”s in it. Calling Bush to notify him was a very classy thing to do.
Good day for the U.S., but the war on terror is far from over.
Posted by: J.R. | May 2, 2011, 9:04 am 9:04 am
As I recall we killed the head of Al Qaida in Iraq with an airstrike and then forces went in to pick up the pieces-no firefight. We were lucky yesterday that no Americans were hurt-including on the crashed helicopter.
Posted by: Nephron | May 2, 2011, 9:05 am 9:05 am
I can remember just 911 president Bush’s approval’s were around 85%, By Friday people will buy 4.50 to 5.50 a gallon gass and remember that Oboma want drill baby drill and let the nutcase EPA make policy to protect a little Lizzard or a little Fish, Oh bye the way this is the second campaign promise he kept the other one was to put the coal and oil bus, out of business,
Posted by: Steve | May 2, 2011, 9:05 am 9:05 am
Nice job Obama! But, this does not mean we are now best buddies.
Posted by: Rick | May 2, 2011, 9:10 am 9:10 am
Why was he buried at sea? Why didn’t we see his body in the casket? Suspicious! I expect more crackdowns on the liberties of Americans, all in the name of safety.
Posted by: Karen | May 2, 2011, 9:12 am 9:12 am
I wonder if he is really dead…
Posted by: Ontros | May 2, 2011, 9:16 am 9:16 am
Great job to all involved, especially our dedicating military, GWB, and true patriots everywhere.
No thanks to the professional left is given however.
Remember this is the same “I”bama who made his campaign priority to close down Gitmo where we garnered all of our information which led to the death of this skumbag.
This is the same left who wanted to try our own for successful torture methods giving us the needed info to accomplish this mission.
The left should hang their heads in shame for such blatant hypocrisy.
Posted by: JLP | May 2, 2011, 9:20 am 9:20 am
Bush did it!!!!
Posted by: Oboa | May 2, 2011, 9:21 am 9:21 am
yet the author never told us until now…
Posted by: anathema pariah | May 2, 2011, 9:21 am 9:21 am
Obama has a very thin skin. He is furious, and worried , about Trump. Hence , Saturday night´s verbal attack on Trump , and, then , last night interupting Trump´s show for the announcement. Obama had known for a week that Bin laden was dead. All this strikes me as being about as “real and credible” as the phony birth certificates and fabricated life history!!!! When are we going to find out the truth??? All this is because obama is desperate for re-election!!
Posted by: madeleine7 | May 2, 2011, 9:22 am 9:22 am
low “lume”
Posted by: Dan | May 2, 2011, 9:25 am 9:25 am
Hmmm…so many congrats to our fantastic MILITARY!!! The CIA and our Navy Seals IF, this is in fact, true…unfortunatly, because Obama is the #1 liar in this country, and coincidentally there is now NO BODY for proof, they threw him in the ocean it seems (there are so many ways for them to have his DNA by now, hair samples etc over the last years) that proving it to us just by the White House saying “well, we have a DNA sample now” and no body to show you, is just what the Chief Clown loves to do. Lie his way out of everything, all to prop up his poll numbers, which, again, coincidentally have completely tanked to 40%…what a good way to bring up those poll numbers a couple days after leading Dems came out and said that it will be alot harder to get Obama re-elected than they thought. If our military guys did get him…that is wonderful, but they did it in SPITE of Obama…not because of him. And here he is again, trying to take credit for it…with all of his little “I” did this, “Me” “I” “I” “I” That’s all that ever comes out of that mouth of his. No matter what, I will never vote for Obama…ever
Posted by: paul | May 2, 2011, 9:29 am 9:29 am
I was okay with this until I heard the “burial at sea”. Why whould they do that? I hope someone was smart enough to get a picture of that sob with a gaping hole in his head before they dumped him overboard.
Posted by: CS | May 2, 2011, 9:33 am 9:33 am
First off, the facial recognition they did was done BEFORE they shot him. They had to positively identify bin laden before killing him. They didn’t say, but I’m sure they took measures to identify him after he died as well. We already had bin laden’s DNA in our posession anyway. Second, he was buried at sea because they didn’t want people to memorialize any certain location where he was buried. Smart move! This info was within all of the articles pertaining to bin laden.
Last, I loved Rick’s comment above – Nice job Obama, but this doesn’t mean we’re buddies. LMAO. Ain’t that the truth! This secrative operation has been in force since 9/11. But it didn’t start there, either. Both Clinton and Bush organized teams during their presidency.
Posted by: Freebyrd | May 2, 2011, 9:33 am 9:33 am
Yes, Obama deserves to be elected again, I guess we are all communist now. There are a couple of things that still bother me a little though like:
1. Obamacare
2. The failed $850 billion stimulus
3. High, persistent unemployment
4. Gas prices
5. The 2012 budget’s fecklessness
6. Massive deficits each and every year
7. The seizure of GM and Chrysler, the transfer of bondholder wealth to unions, and the dumping of the GM stock at a loss
8. Dodd-Frank
9. Hostility to Israel, including attack on apartment expansion and icing of Prime Minister Netanyahu in basement of White House
10. Failure to support Iran’s Green Revolution
11. Failure to support Syrian revolution
12. The Libyan Fiasco
13. The incompetent handling of the Gulf Oil disaster
14. The unnecessary permitorium in the aftermath of the Gulf Oil disaster
15. The shutdown of Shell’s Arctic oil exploration by EPA
16. The president’s push for cap-and-tax in the Congress
17. The president’s attempt to unconstitutionally impose cap-and-tax via EPA when the Congress wouldn’t pass cap-and-tax
18. The president’s push for unconstitutional restrictions on free speech on his political enemies while keeping the unions free to spend money on campaigns via The Disclose Act
19. The president’s attempt to unconstitutionally impose The Disclose Act on his political opponents but not unions via Executive Order
20. The president’s use of unaccountable “czars”
21. The president’s refusal to accept Congressional direction vis-a-vis his “czars” contained in the last 2011 Continuing Resolution
22. The president’s verbal assault on the Supreme Court while the members of the Court sat before him in the state of the Union
23. The president and Eric Holder’s politicization of the Department of Justice, including the black panthers case and the refusal to defend DOMA
24. The president’s use of demonizing rhetoric towards his opponents, such as accusing doctors of performing unnecessary surgery for money
25. The president’s hyper-partisan approach to governing including “I won, you lost” in 2009 and the assault on Paul Ryan with Paul Ryan as an invited guest in the president’s April 2011 “deficit speech.”
26. Bowing to the Saudi King and the Japanese emperor
27. Returning the bust of Churchill to Great Britain
28. Removing the missile shield from Poland and the Czech Republic
29. Backing the would-be dictator of Hondorus when that nation’s Supreme Court rightfully removed him from office
30. Failure to push for quick ratification of free trade agreements with Columbia, Panama and South Korea
31. Indecision on Afghanistan surge coupled with announcement of eventual withdrawal.
32. Incoherence on Egypt, most obviously with the dispatch of Frank Wizner and then rejection of Wizner’s advice vis-a-vis Mubarak.
33. Appointment Craig Beck to NLRB via recess appointment
34. Appointment of FCC commissioners who are pursuing “net neutrality” without Congressional authorization
35. Failure to resume full water deliveries to California’s Central Valley because of the Delta Smelt
36. Attempt to close Guantanamo Bay
37. Attempt to try terrorists in New York City
38. Janet “The System Worked” Napolitano
39. Government takeover of the student loan program
40. Cancellation of “virtual border fence” project with no replacement or indeed concern for border security
41. The “Beer Summit” and the attack on the Cambridge Police Department
42. The Department of Justice’s attack on Arizona for that state’s exercise of its sovereign legislative authority on the issue of citizen identification rules
43. The attack on Scott Walker and Wisconsin for the governor’s and the state legislature’s exercise of their sovereign legislative authority on public employment issues
44. Dabbling in basketball brackets while the Middle East fell into chaos and the gas prices skyrocketed
45. Arguing that American exceptionalism was the same as any nation’s sense of exceptionalism
46. Implying that Minnesota bridge collapse was the result of lack of infrastructure funding
47. Inserting himself into campaign for the Olympics
48. Attack on D.C. voucher program
49. Van Jones and a long list of other appointees
50. Teleprompter dependency and the worst run of presidential rhetoric since Millard Fillmore combined with testiness in the few interviews he grants.
Posted by: worriedmom | May 2, 2011, 9:35 am 9:35 am
I will not vote for him but congratulatios to the President for thez first thing he did right since his election. Burial at sea very smart to avoid and hint of a location where dead hero worship could develop. I’m conservative but that doesn’t have to mean blind stupid as some the posted comments indicate the authors are.
Posted by: GHD | May 2, 2011, 9:35 am 9:35 am
We need those seals to Get Obama out of Office when he is indited Hoorah
Posted by: Texasgene | May 2, 2011, 9:36 am 9:36 am
Where’s the death certificate?
Posted by: Halekulani | May 2, 2011, 9:36 am 9:36 am
Everyone in that compound was a terrorist. We should have killed all of them.
Posted by: woodNfish | May 2, 2011, 9:41 am 9:41 am
he was buried at sea because they didn’t want people to memorialize any certain location where he was buried.
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Great, so they will instead memorialize the place where he was killed. Big difference…..right?
Posted by: JJV | May 2, 2011, 9:43 am 9:43 am
@worriedmom…..I stopped your reading at#9 item…I was agreeing with you and I am sure the rest I will agree but #9???? I could say we have been blind to Israeli aggression and we need to open our eyes to the biased and one sidedness of the Palestinian question….no ifs ands buts about it…They have been Icing over the moderate majority of Palestinians for decades so a little icing on BB is nothing to worry about…!
worriedmom you have more to worry if we only side with Israeli brutality of the Palestinians.
Posted by: chupaa | May 2, 2011, 9:43 am 9:43 am
So I guess this means I wont be watching the entire episode of celbrity apprentice I dvrd’s last nite.
What a cheap trick Obama! You are a filthy socialist pig who pulled a rabbit out of your hat just before they lobbed the tomatoes your way. ‘
Now all you sheep who are cheering ought to take a good hard look around
Posted by: CELEBRITY PO'D | May 2, 2011, 9:44 am 9:44 am
Mr. President,
Congratulations for a decisive act in approving the military ops that killed OBLadin and more success in the future before 2012 November elections.
Mr. President, where’s the body of OBLadin? Why dumped his body in the high seas?
The white sharks will not dare to eat his flesh. He belongs to them. He will rise along our beaches.
Posted by: FTroy | May 2, 2011, 9:44 am 9:44 am
What slobbering blithering fools. No body. No photos. No video. We can photograph and video every attack we make – but not this one. How very convenient. And now the masses fall to their faces to lick the feet of Obama in thanks. Exactly what he wanted. Had President Bush said OBL was dead but not produce evidence, the Obamabots would be howling fraud and liar.
Posted by: Linda | May 2, 2011, 9:44 am 9:44 am
Thank God for President Obama’s leadership. Men in women in uniform finally have a real leader in the White House that we can depend on and trust.
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LOL, oh yeah he is “the magical one” alright. Why jsut look at how he van lead from behind. That’s never been done before.
And he’s such a great “leader” he wanted to defund the troops in Iraq and considered the Iraq surge a “failure” up until AFTER he was sworn in to office in 2009.
Great leader, sure.
Posted by: JJV | May 2, 2011, 9:46 am 9:46 am
In the first footage released of OBL, after 9/11, they identified him by the structure of HIS EAR. They said that little detail is distinct and hard to replicate. Maybe they took off his ear this time, Van Gogh style!
Posted by: ladini | May 2, 2011, 9:48 am 9:48 am
The President took a risk. This could have failed. It was the right risk and the right call. I think Obama is otherwise a pretty lousy PResident and loathe his ideology, but this call on this occasion was a job well done.
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He is a lousy prez and if this would have failed, trust me we would NEVER have heard a word about it.
Posted by: JJV | May 2, 2011, 9:48 am 9:48 am
Then why was UBL buried at sea? Are there any pictures?
Posted by: Kyle | May 2, 2011, 9:52 am 9:52 am
It amazes me how bitter americans are that they don’t want a single person from 9/11 to have closure. Those who lost loved ones from the results of this pig I pray this gives you a little more peace.
The burial at sea makes sense as you don’t want a place for people to “worship” osama. They have it on film, they have DNA and they have still pictures. Kudos to our military!
I realize this changes nothing but it’s nice to know that he got what was coming to him! Glad he refused to surrender.
Posted by: amazed | May 2, 2011, 9:53 am 9:53 am
I can’t stand Obama and think he is a terrible president.
But by green-lighting this, he may have accomplished the best act of his term as president.
I’ll give him kudos for it.
Posted by: TiminPhx | May 2, 2011, 9:53 am 9:53 am
when a president talks about the war on terror isnt he politicizing it?? isnt that what we were told in 2004 and 2005 and 2006. so if we’re consistent, we better not talk about this in political terms, cause its obviously a ploy by the administration. ya know, the timing and all. thats what would have been said in 2004. this is just like the color alerts ya know. so let’s all stand down. no big deal. we got lucky. too bad we didnt do the carpet bombing tho, and take out the rest of pakistan. good move obama.
Posted by: fred | May 2, 2011, 9:55 am 9:55 am
They are showing some pics of the dead body on Indonesian TV. Looks fairly convincing, but hardly constitutes absolute proof. If Bin Laden was indeed killed in a planned action, then cameras were certainly brought along. So until the US military provide definitive photographic or video evidence, we should not simply swallow this story wholesale.
Posted by: Mark Gibbs | May 2, 2011, 9:57 am 9:57 am
Obama put American lives at risk so he could have proof?
Posted by: B Forrest
Evidently.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | May 2, 2011, 9:59 am 9:59 am
Even if POTUS showed a photo of a dead Osama next to his mother crying outloud and Osama’s birth certificate in full view plus a video of Osama being born from his mothers vagina simultaneously playing in the background and the Chief Medical Officer testifying that the DNA of the person pictured was indeed Osama’s you wouldn’t believe it. I’m proud to be an Amercian but you’re all complete idiots. Please find gainful employment and make your lives useful.
Posted by: ME | May 2, 2011, 9:59 am 9:59 am
When Che Guevarra was killed they put his body on a slab for all to see. When Saddam Husseins sons were blown up we dragged out the bodies. It’s rather curious that at a time when President Transparency’s poll numbers are at alltime lows we manage to kill OBL last week and not a peep of it leaked out.
Posted by: CS | May 2, 2011, 10:00 am 10:00 am
Just remember that it was The Seals – not Obama! Still conflicting times of OBL demise – they have to get their story straight! BHO was working on this since last August! I think that’s a lie or incompetence at best! Show us the photos of this evil devil, bloody and dead!
Posted by: Rick | May 2, 2011, 10:00 am 10:00 am
I DON’T BELIEVE IT! DO YOU THINK WE’RE FOOLS, OBAMA? SHOW ME A DEAD OSAMA.
Posted by: Apatriot31 | May 2, 2011, 10:02 am 10:02 am
The picture of Obama circling around is a fraud. So, I wish they stop putting it around for us to see. Pakinston said it was a fraud. This will make it worst for our adminstration. I believe in Tim Osman, Cia agent that states that Ben laden has been dead for a long time. The United States had pressure from other countries with the crappy birth certificate and the natural citizen topic and felt it had to be done. That is take a bunch of pictures of some dead Ben Laden, get his DNA(?) and throw his body into the sea for only the fish to know. Great job, Obama, that’s atta boy! But, like the old biblic book say “things will be revealed and will come to surface one day”. Unfortunately, you have managed to close the 27 website that state your BC was a fraud, you have Gates remove himself from this deceit, you have managed “for the good of the country” to do this (which by the way I don’t blame you- how can a big country explain that they didn’t vett their President and that all the treaties are in somehow not valid with other countries— we know you had to do this and one day the Americans will see it in history- that is if the CIA has another whistle blower like Tim.
Posted by: Jecolon | May 2, 2011, 10:04 am 10:04 am
Prob have to send in a FOIA request for the photo…much like the birth cert.
Turn the release of the picture into a passion play when the polls drop again. LOL
Posted by: SamIamtwo | May 2, 2011, 10:05 am 10:05 am
Hawaii will issue a certificate of death shortly. Better than DNA.
Posted by: moron | May 2, 2011, 10:08 am 10:08 am
I am amazed that people don’t give credit to Obama for this.
Clinton lost Osama in Sudan then Bush lost him in Tora Bora Afganistan. Bush even reduced teams hunting him.
It was Obama who increased the funding for this and also gave clear mission to CIA.
This does not mean Obama is great in everything else but he did good here.
Posted by: Monty Python | May 2, 2011, 10:11 am 10:11 am
When something sounds too good to be true…well…you get my drift.
Posted by: TxnByBrth | May 2, 2011, 10:16 am 10:16 am
he was buried at sea because they didn’t want people to memorialize any certain location where he was buried.
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Well the Sea Burial is rather stupid.
We could have mummified the guy and put him in a shrine in that soon to be Ground Zero Mosque. We then could have kept tabs on who visited the memorial, there would not be any doubt we got the guy and the best thing is he would have served as a Dead Human Shield for New York City. The site would quickly become a holy site for Radical Muslims and they would then never nuke the city.
Another opportunity lost due to weak minds which don’t think Out-o-da-Box.
Posted by: Noz | May 2, 2011, 10:17 am 10:17 am
The credit goes to the folks at Guantanamo, who are the ones who got the information leading to this event. Obama deserves credit only for knowing (for once in his life) when to keep his mouth shut and do as he is told. I’m sure Obama is totally lost in these things and that the big boys told him what to approve.
Posted by: tanarg | May 2, 2011, 10:18 am 10:18 am
Thank you President Bush for getting Obama Bin Laden. Without you GW we never would have gotten this lousy scum. Thanbkfully Obama wasn’t so stupid as to stop ANY of your policies.
Posted by: Jon | May 2, 2011, 10:18 am 10:18 am
I’m absolutely amazaed at the audacity of this administration! Haven’t they figured out yet that the vast majority of the American people DO NOT TRUST THEM but yet they really do believe that we will just blindly take their word for this?! Morons!
I WANT PROOF but where is it? Supposedly at the bottom of the sea. Nice. Real nice. No country wanted the body so the U.S. in a fit of compassion for a mass murderer buries it at sea to mollify Islamics. Not so fast.
Obama’s got the lowest ratings of any Prez since Jimmy Carter so he tells HIS military to take out Osama but there’s no proof. I know this sounds like those Hollywood idiots with their Bush 9-11 Conspiracy, but Obama has lied & showed his arrogance for the past 3 years and I don’t trust him as far as I could throw the Titanic!
Posted by: Katie69 | May 2, 2011, 10:18 am 10:18 am
I think Obama did not give the order. It was done without his blessing by a military who already had instructions to get obama whenever possible. Of course Obama will own this, but he is not directly responsible for it. Just like the Navy Seals taking out the pirates.
Posted by: donfitness | May 2, 2011, 10:20 am 10:20 am
Osama is not at sea. The WH has it stashed in the basement as a trophy.
Posted by: Vic | May 2, 2011, 10:24 am 10:24 am
Thank God for George Bush and the republican might. They were so tough for all those years when he was in office. Asleep at the wheel for 7 years after 9/11. Maybe he was having trouble finishing that book that he was reading to the first graders when the planes hit….
Posted by: GWB | May 2, 2011, 10:29 am 10:29 am
WorriedMom — Good list!! — I’ll get back to you with the NEXT 50 reasons NOT to re-elect Obama!!! LOL
Posted by: TheLoyalOpposition | May 2, 2011, 10:30 am 10:30 am
I hear Donald Trump wants to see the death certificate..
Posted by: willieg | May 2, 2011, 10:31 am 10:31 am
I want to see the death certificate. If it were bush, he would have had the coroner from the wizard of oz come by to proclaim osama certifiably dead and then we could have believed it.
Posted by: GWB | May 2, 2011, 10:32 am 10:32 am
“I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.”
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02
“I am truly not that concerned about him.”
- G.W. Bush,
repsonding to a question about bin Laden’s whereabouts, 3/13/02
Posted by: flynnmd | May 2, 2011, 10:34 am 10:34 am
So, where is the body?
Posted by: Jingo | May 2, 2011, 10:34 am 10:34 am
Good job US military!! — Best in the world!!!
Posted by: TheLoyalOpposition | May 2, 2011, 10:34 am 10:34 am
Good to see that other think this is fake Obama will do anything to get control of us for another 4 years it a sham as was 9/11 our own government is responsible for 9/11 and this fake as well, I do not trust this government it is not by the people or for the people any more.
Posted by: Floyd | May 2, 2011, 10:35 am 10:35 am
1) Where is the body?
2) Better not question this or you’ll be demonized as a birther/body whacko.
3) This is repulsive. The twitter flash mobs sent out by the WH were abusing the American flag… and plenty of arabs mixed in w/ the kids… wearing fake army t shirts.
4) WH talking points are intented to inflame jihadists to strike us.
Posted by: LanieLou | May 2, 2011, 10:35 am 10:35 am
Good thing Obama didn’t get his way and shut down Gitmo.
….guess where the intelligence came from? ;-D
Posted by: JustAGuy | May 2, 2011, 10:36 am 10:36 am
Obama is the greatest President of our lifetime! It took guts to order the helicopters in instead of just bombs or a drone strike. He inherited a Republican economic disaster and is getting this country going to right direction! Face the facts, people — history is on Obama’s side!
Way to go Seals, CIA, and President Obama!
Posted by: AlNipper49 | May 2, 2011, 10:36 am 10:36 am
“Thank God for George Bush and the republican might.” – GWB
I’m with you GWB, The Bush Administration did most of the initial leg work and waterboarding. Obama followed up with the Navy Seal Final Operation “Osama Bites the Dust”.
It’s the Ultimate Waterboarding ie; burial at sea that I’m not a fan of.
That was a stupid decision.
Posted by: Noz | May 2, 2011, 10:38 am 10:38 am
@ worried mom. That’s a great list. I’d add that Obama sold thousands of guns to the Mexican drug cartel (ATF Gunwalking fiasco) and remember when the Dali Lama visited the White House? Obama made him exit through the side/back door – the trash door. The sidewalk was littered with piles of garbage bags. But what can we expect from a man who doesn’t know how to take an opened umbrella through a fence gate (New Orleans visit).
Posted by: jacaranda | May 2, 2011, 10:38 am 10:38 am
@worriedmom
Amen!
Posted by: Wes | May 2, 2011, 10:38 am 10:38 am
@worriedmom – Cast you vote in the NEXT election will you! By the way…where is OBL’s body? One single picture of him dead is all I need.
Posted by: Gerald | May 2, 2011, 10:39 am 10:39 am
Obama is the greatest President of our lifetime! – ALNIPPERS49
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Dillusional.
Posted by: JustAGuy | May 2, 2011, 10:42 am 10:42 am
I find it odd that with such a great mission underway that Obama saw fit to celebrate by playing a round of golf yesterday. He lets nothing interfere with his play day.
Posted by: jacaranda | May 2, 2011, 10:43 am 10:43 am
From the article above:
“Sources tell ABC News that in March President Obama authorized the development of a plan for the U.S. to bomb Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound with two B2 stealth bombers dropping a few dozen 2,000-pound JDAMs (Joint Direct Attack Munitions) on the compound.
But when the president heard the compound would be reduced to rubble he chose not to pursue that option.”
Uh, what did he think a “few dozen” “2,000 pound JDAMs” being dropped on the compound would do?
Anyway, snarky humor aside, I’m glad this is over, and I think everyone involved crom the fellow that pulled th trigger, up through the entire military, up to and including the Commander in Chief have done a good thing today, and all deserver our thanks.
Posted by: N2vip | May 2, 2011, 10:43 am 10:43 am
what a way to kick off the 2012 campaign for re-election. should be lollipops and roses from here on out.
Posted by: barbara | May 2, 2011, 10:43 am 10:43 am
The facts are simple. Obama had to clean up another one of bush’s messes. From the economy to terrorism to two wars, george left us in great shape. Thank god for obama. I guess he is the real american….
Posted by: GWB | May 2, 2011, 10:44 am 10:44 am
Well then, produce the evidence for independent verification. Convenient Osama was “buried at sea” instead of retrieved by the kill team – more likely he was killed years ago and the only DNA evidence is what they have in the freezer.
Posted by: TJP | May 2, 2011, 10:48 am 10:48 am
The whole world now knows it was a democrat President who actually can say, “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”
Posted by: GWB | May 2, 2011, 10:48 am 10:48 am
Obama had to clean up another one of bush’s messes. From the economy to terrorism to two wars, george left us in great shape. Thank god for obama. I guess he is the real american…. – GWB
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The economy is worse now than when Bush was president. 60% of all deaths in Afghanistan have ocurred during the 2 years of Obama’s presidency.
Posted by: JustAGuy | May 2, 2011, 10:52 am 10:52 am
President Obama made getting bin Laden a top priority. He made direct command decisions that had him killed.
Following 9/11, Bush helped get members of the bin Laden family out of the U.S., fearing for their safety. He made lots of command decisions, like starting the wrong war and getting us distracted from getting bin Laden and Al Qaeda. With regard for the military, Bush consistently called for lower annual pay raises for soldiers than the Congress wanted. He hired a defense chief, a government manager of soldier pay and pensions, who wanted to scrap military retirement pensions. Bush was bad for the military and bad for the defense of our nation. After presiding over our nations’s defense when we were attacked on 9/11, Bush then FAILED to get the man behind the attacks – for 8 long years. All of this true.
Bush 0 / bin Laden 1 (09/11/01)
Obama 1 / bin Laden 0 (05/01/11)
Obama won this round in a slam dunk. Yes, I am proud of the Navy seals and the military for successfully completing their important mission. Now we can get out that “Mission Accomplished” banner that Bush had displayed 7 long years ago, and actually hang it when it really means something. Spin that Republican idealogues.
It is delusional thinking, twisted logic, and probably something else(I’ll leave it at that), that must lead Republicans to not want to give President Obama any credit, ever, for any of his accomplishments, including for his involvement in the successful operation that finally got rid of bin Laden.
Good job, Mr. President. Thank you soldiers, sailors, marines and the US government employees that got the job done.
Posted by: jm | May 2, 2011, 10:53 am 10:53 am
The republicans are once again proving that they are not interested in what is best for this country but rather are only interested in what is best for them. They are not real americans anymore.
Posted by: GWB | May 2, 2011, 10:57 am 10:57 am
“Obama had to clean up another one of bush’s messes. From the economy to terrorism to two wars” – GWB
How confusing!
How does spending 3 times what Bush did clean up the economic mess?
How does escalating the war in Afghanistan, ie: Vietnamistan the Sequel™ clean up that war?
True, Obama kept to the Bush time line and policy in Iraq and that has worked out.
Regarding Terrorism, that mess hasn’t been clean up by this.
I’ll submit to you that Lump Head, al-Zawahiri, is smarter, more radical and more dangerous than OBL.
Posted by: Noz | May 2, 2011, 10:58 am 10:58 am
President Obama any credit, ever, for any of his accomplishments, including for his involvement in the successful operation that finally got rid of bin Laden…..Thanks Barack, for giving the go ahead for this operation ! How’s that JM ?
Posted by: IV'EGOTBIGEARS | May 2, 2011, 11:01 am 11:01 am
Republicans were in charge for 8 years and at the end of that the wars were a mess and the economy was a DISASTER. Economy went off the cliff in 2008 before Obama even took office. Republicans want to forget that now of course, because the truth hurts. Obama has been cleaning up all the crap Republicans did to America. And now he even bags bin Laden!
It’s too bad Republicans care more about themselves than about America.
Obama = Most Effective President of Our Lifetime!
Posted by: AlNipper49 | May 2, 2011, 11:07 am 11:07 am
Thanks and accolades to the U.S. Navy Seals who fulfilled this mission at the risk of their lives and because they view the security of the U.S. as more important than their lives or egos.
Fortunate that Obama’s executive order to close Gitmo was never fulfilled since the intelligence about Bin Laden’s courier came from Gitmo detainees.
Obama deserves no personal credit. This event merely occurred during his administration. All credit is due to our intelligence services and military. The Obama is merely the suit behind the teleprompter.
Posted by: judithod | May 2, 2011, 11:15 am 11:15 am
Posted by: AlNipper49…Obama has been cleaning up all the crap Republicans did to America…….. Yeah, he sure has ! Just looked around and see how great everything is !
Posted by: IV'EGOTBIGEARS | May 2, 2011, 11:15 am 11:15 am
“Obama is the greatest President of our lifetime! It took guts to order the helicopters in instead of just bombs or a drone strike.”
Bravery indeed. Thank goodness he wasn’t harmed in the operation.
Posted by: Watchful | May 2, 2011, 11:18 am 11:18 am
Hey Muhammad!! I’m home!
Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water,
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.
Posted by: OBL says | May 2, 2011, 11:21 am 11:21 am
I’m just waiting for the announcement that Obama actually took Bin Laden out himself with an errant tee shot.I just hope Bin Laden’s virgins are lined up and waiting, and that they are all hung like horses.
Posted by: Jeff | May 2, 2011, 11:23 am 11:23 am
BO stinks and so does this operation. Using ‘under God’ in the Pledge of Alliegence might have seemed a good ploy, but only for those of us who don’t recall you omitting the phrase all those months ago. But you remember it now. What a guy! Let’s see. Golf in the morning, God at night. Be vigilant, America. There will be attacks all right. But by whom?
The breaking in of Celebrity Apprentice was good though. REVENGE!
The one and only thing that’s transparent about this administration is YOU fool!
Posted by: bo stinks | May 2, 2011, 11:23 am 11:23 am
Well, there you have it, voters. I, Obama, in my infinite wisdom, have personally extinguished Osama with meticulous planning and insight that only I, Obama, am capable of. Evidence? Well, despite the fact that we just popped a cap on Islam’s poster boy in a country we had no permission to be in, we are not totally insensitive to Islam custom and threw the evidence into some water within the prescribed time period. So, yeah….you’ll just have to take my word for it all, but I, Obama, am above petty politics and would never stoop to staging an event to boost my sagging poll results. Obama has spoken. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
Posted by: StaticKlingon | May 2, 2011, 11:28 am 11:28 am
JM: “Now we can get out that “Mission Accomplished” banner that Bush had displayed 7 long years ago, and actually hang it when it really means something. Spin that Republican idealogues.”
GWB: “The whole world now knows it was a democrat President who actually can say, “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”"
So, the War on Terr — err, I mean — Man-Made Disasters has been won? For liberals and others, who never paid enough attention, al-Qaeda and the War on Terror are bigger than bin Laden. In fact, for quite some time, it has been thought that bin Laden served only as a symbolic figurehead and no longer has an operational capacity within al-Qaeda. Given this, bin Laden’s death will primarily affect the morale of al-Qaeda, but will likely have little operational impact.
Further, the “mission accomplished” banner from the Bush administration was meant to reward our troops for completing major combat operations in taking control of Iraq, not announcement of our victory in the War on Terror, War in Iraq, War in Afghanistan or any other hair-brained liberal concoction of such. While this is a great victory in the War on Terror, the war continues as long as terrorism continues to be a threat to us!
Posted by: Anonymous | May 2, 2011, 11:44 am 11:44 am
Boo hoo, the republicans were impotent for 8 years and now they were shown up again. Now if trump had been president from 2000-2008, he would have just gone in and told the taliban that their fun was over and he was going to wipe them all out. Now that’s the republican way….all talk and no success. Mission accomplished.
Posted by: GWB | May 2, 2011, 11:45 am 11:45 am
Great job.
The result of work by both the Bush and Obama administrations.
And the Navy Seals.
Posted by: David | May 2, 2011, 11:48 am 11:48 am
Obama after his Osama announcement/Social Justice speech said:
“Tomorrow, on my direction, the sun will rise in the East.”
Posted by: CFJuice | May 2, 2011, 11:49 am 11:49 am
Is anybody else bothered by the fact that Obama had the opportunity to take OBL out with a couple of bombers – barely any risk to American lives, but instead chose to risk a SEAL team and four choppers (one of which we lost)? Unless I’m missing something the only thing gained by the additional risk is Obama’s opportunity to to parade around with “proof” of OBL’s death. That really bothers me. Risking the lives of a SEAL team instead of using the bombers doesn’t make OBL any deader!
Posted by: fordguy | May 2, 2011, 12:04 pm 12:04 pm
Intelligence was developed from detainees at Gitmo and “secret prisons” that the left screamed about….. Wanna close them now???????
Posted by: Take that Leftwinger radicals | May 2, 2011, 12:12 pm 12:12 pm
Mission accomplished was never Bush’s doing. It was the CO of the Aircraft Carrier’s idea.
Posted by: rayco | May 2, 2011, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm
We should have taken him alive….Put a big rock around his neck (or WTC iron beam!)…then “bury” him at sea!
Posted by: Jason | May 2, 2011, 12:23 pm 12:23 pm
Even a blind squirel finds an acorn now and then
Posted by: rayco | May 2, 2011, 12:25 pm 12:25 pm
OLB was staying in a mansion around the corner from military college. I state that Pakistan Government has no reason to inform whereabouts of OLB since Pakistan was getting billions of dollars in aid. Now Pakistan importance and aid will be reduced.
USA should not get involved in conflicts around the world. If they do, they should have a exit plan and who ever takes over should pay for the cost.
My concern is that USA will fall under its own weight of debt.
So stop spending money on wars, spend on economy and USA will rule the world.
WHY DO WE HAVE BASIS IN EUROPE, WHY DO WE NEED TO PAY FOR MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM IN EUROPE ETC??
GOD BLESS AMERICA
Posted by: harry brown | May 2, 2011, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm
Cant you republicans be happy and offer some congratulations to Obama for once?
Instead its…”He had nothing to do with it”…”wheres the body?”…”It was stupid to bury him at sea.”
You guys are lame.
And you are out of step with 99% of Americans today.
Posted by: herbissimo | May 2, 2011, 12:40 pm 12:40 pm
HERBISSIMO | MAY 2, 2011 12:40:04 PM…..Generalizations are seldom accurate – a little more reading bears this out.
Posted by: deanbob | May 2, 2011, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm
I give credit to BHO today for following the Bush administrations on the war on terror. I give credit to BHO for not closing Gittmo and continuing the Bush policies on water boarding.
I give credit to the specials forces operation and putting a bullet in the head of OBL. Thanks you!
Posted by: Sandy Lester | May 2, 2011, 12:47 pm 12:47 pm
SANDY – Obama ended operations in Iraq and got us refocused on Afganistan and Pakistan, and he ended waterboarding. That is the exact OPPOSITE of following Bushs policy. Obama did send the Special forces to kill OBL. And every American I know would have loved to be the one that pulled the trigger.
Posted by: herbissimo | May 2, 2011, 12:57 pm 12:57 pm
Well, credit where it’s due – I laud Obama for continuing the Bush policies that produced the original intelligence which eventually led to the killing of Osama bin Laden. Now if Obama can just get the U.S. and civilian casuality rate in Afghanistan back DOWN to Bush levels, and the overall “dead bad guys rate” UP to Bush levels, maybe we can make some progress.
Posted by: Madkangaroo | May 2, 2011, 12:59 pm 12:59 pm
herbissimo ……. since when were you elected to speak for 99% of Americans?
Let’s give all the credit to Obama – he’s proven that he’s a killer, without ever pulling the trigger himself.
If this mission were done while Bush was president, the entire leftist cadre in the country would be calling him a murderer!
So there you have it.
According to President Obama, justice was done – but it was done without a trial by jury …. Since when is American Justice the murdering of an individual without having conducted a fair trial.
Eric Holder must be upset with this entire situation.
Posted by: Hazmat77 | May 2, 2011, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm
It’s all smoke and mirrors. Osama died in his sleep three years ago after he discontinued his dialysis treatments. But don’t worry… the Pakistanis they just took out probably deserved it. Their deaths served the interests of Osama who can now be remembered as dying with his boots on instead of as a sick old invalid. Obama who needed something to get the focus off this BC thing, the local Pakistanis who wanted this guys great house, and Al Qaeda who was needs a new face to lead, and now can claim Osama as a martyr, and even we Americans who can feel like there is one less bad guy in the world.
Posted by: Steve | May 2, 2011, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm
So they made collecting proof of Osama’s death as part of the plan but yet still are unable to do?
Posted by: Joe | May 2, 2011, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm
Hazmat77 – since when were you elected to speak for the leftist cadre? NOBODY would call ANYBODY a murderer for killing OBL!
I am done with you, and your crazy ideologue speak.
Posted by: herbissimo | May 2, 2011, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm
I think that, once again, we have to give credit to Donald Trump.
Posted by: michael | May 2, 2011, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm
wow truth b told he got the job done and what is sad about this is we are just as bad as they are. im happy to get rid of a bad guy but at what cost they kill an so do we no one is a winner so we r face with a damn if we do damn if we dont but when it comes down to it i am glad to be an american and I tip my hat to all those who had apart n it GREAT JOB PRESIDENT,SEAL &GOV
Posted by: JORD | May 2, 2011, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm
Congrats to Obama for listening to the Pros on how to lead, and not his academic buddies who would have turned over the op to our “allies” the pakies.
I like the decision to call of the bombing in March, and go with a face to face op. This also gave Obama time to reverse his stance on gitmo, how embarrassing it would have been to benefit from the program you tried to destroy.
Posted by: tom | May 2, 2011, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm
Why does anyone assume Obama is an exception to the rule when it comes to liberal thinking? Perhaps because they don’t understand that his thinking on issues like this is precisely how liberals think, not the weird stereotypes invented?
Question where your stereotypes come from. Who do they serve? How accurate do they seem when people *act* as liberals instead of talking about liberals from the outside?
Posted by: Goodtofu | May 2, 2011, 2:07 pm 2:07 pm
People will keep drinking this kool-aid posted by the news. Makes me laugh. Wake the hell up people.
Posted by: Robert | May 2, 2011, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm
I think Alnipper is overdosing on Obama kool aid again. Ok Al, calm down and take a deep breath. Obama is not and never will be the greatest President, no matter how much of that potato flavored kool aid you gulp down with your hot dog on a stick. We still have high gas prices, high food prices, and increasing healthcare costs. Take a break, Al.
Posted by: NotFondOfLibs | May 2, 2011, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm
Everyone’s intitled – So, with all the opinions, what was done, what should have been done, what shouldn’t have been done…maybe YOU should be president.
You know, we shouldn’t have gone to war with Iraq for a second time. No weapons of mass destruction were ever found and we’ve lost many service men & women.
Why did the US invade Afghanistan in the first place? 9-11, twin towers, 3000 dead? Has anyone seen “In Plane
Site” the conspiracy theory? Would the US sacrifice or create a smoke screen just to go to war? For oil?
Many of you keep pointing fingers at President Obama. Have you ever
experienced a clean-up project after a major tornado or hurricane? I have…it takes a lot of time.
President Obama inherited a lot of mess…the aftermath of a tornado
from previous administrations….and New Orleans is still trying to recover along with the rest of this nation.
President Obama made a decision and followed through. A salute to our men & women who proudly serve. And to the SEAL
team. They continue to work hard 24/7 while the rest of you sleep all
comfy & snug.
Posted by: bigbrim | May 2, 2011, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm
THANK GOD.ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUSE EVIL BEEN KILLED, BY USA.BY OUR BRAVEST TROOPS.THANKS TO PRESIDENT.
PLEASE FOCUS ON LYBIA’S DECTATOR.
PLEASE TAKE CARE OF THE OTHER DICTATOR IN SRI LANKA.THE RAJA BAKSHAY,THE KILLER.HE KILLED MILLION INNOCENTS ON THE NAME OF POLITICS.
THE GADDAFFI AND THE RAJABAKSHE,SHOULD BE VANISHED.IT WILL BE DONE ONLY SUPER USA.GOD BLESS USA.
Posted by: sirdey | May 2, 2011, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm
I guess that is why he had him quickly buried at sea! because he wanted NO PROOF???? R U kidding me, OMG! ABC stands for stupid.
Posted by: edwardo | May 2, 2011, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm
ALL THE TERRORIST AND THEIR SUPPORTERS LIVING IN THIS COUNTRY (USA)SHOULD BE PUNISHED VERY SEVIOURLY WITHOUT ANY MERCY.CONFESTICATE ALL THEIR BELONGINGS.DEPORT ALL THEIR RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.STOP THE CHARITIES TO PAKISTAN,KNOWINGLY HIDING THIS DEVIL IN PAKISTAN, NOMORE TRUST THIS COUNTRY.
Posted by: sirdey | May 2, 2011, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm
Edwardo one of the navy seals was wearing a headset so Obama could see the operation there is video evidence of Osama taking a bullet to the face
Posted by: Kivon | May 2, 2011, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm
Now we will hear all the BS about the things that Obama did without any proof. Bottom line is he is no better president today then he was yesterday and that is unacceptable.
Posted by: Capn Jack | May 2, 2011, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm
I’d like to congratulate all of you for so quickly politicizing and therefore diminishing a great day in America.
Posted by: John McNurty | May 2, 2011, 4:46 pm 4:46 pm
if ya tink oh what his name got osama bin laddy i got some stock for ya in widgets real cheap.. I have thought for yera sno wthat buskie got bin laddy just doidnt release the intel/ info to public so he would be a martyre to some of his followers..
& from what i see in press from over there that is exactly what is a happening.. Oh what his name just weakened us in the world today :(
Posted by: nunya b | May 2, 2011, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm
TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: KARLA | May 2, 2011, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
@sirdey.. THEY BURIED HIM WITHIN 24HRS OF HIS DEATH IN ACCORDANCE WITH MUSLIM LAW. AMERICA WAS LITERALLY FOUNDED ON RESPECTING PEOPLE’S RELIGION THROUGHOUT THE LAND, I.E. THE PILGRIMS. SO TO DISRESPECT THE MUSLIMS’ TRADITIONS REGARDING THEIR DEAD WOULD SIMPLY BE UN-AMERICAN ON THE BASIC OF LEVELS YOU IDIOT! JUST BE THANKFUL HE’S DEAD AND THAT THIS IS A VICTORY FOR THE UNITED STATES, INSTEAD OF TRYING TO RUIN THE MOMENT LIKE THE USUAL CONSPIRACY WACK JOB. SHOW SOME ALLEGIANCE TO YOUR PRESIDENT AND THE FLAG. I.E. THE HOME TEAM!!! SMH
Posted by: JEREMY TAYLOR | May 2, 2011, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm
Mission actually accomplished
Posted by: GWB | May 2, 2011, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm
Bush check list:
9/11
Bin Laden captured (not)
economic meltdown
bail out bankers
start two useless, expensive wars
double national debt
Mission accomplished
Posted by: GWB | May 2, 2011, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm
Steve said:
It’s all smoke and mirrors. Osama died in his sleep three years ago after he discontinued his dialysis treatments. But don’t worry… the Pakistanis they just took out probably deserved it. Their deaths served the interests of Osama who can now be remembered as dying with his boots on instead of as a sick old invalid. Obama who needed something to get the focus off this BC thing, the local Pakistanis who wanted this guys great house, and Al Qaeda who was needs a new face to lead, and now can claim Osama as a martyr, and even we Americans who can feel like there is one less bad guy in the world.
Actually, it sounds as if you died in your sleep three years ago.
Posted by: GWB | May 2, 2011, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm
Obama Been Lying so much, for so long, he knew we would not believe him without witnesses and special forces involvement.
Posted by: BeenLyin | May 2, 2011, 6:16 pm 6:16 pm
Obama…I didn’t bomb because I wanted proof of his death, so immediately after supposedly being dead I dumped the body in the sea? This makes sense to anyone?
Posted by: Football | May 2, 2011, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm
Obama’s actually right this time around, bin Laden was more of a psychological target than strategic and nobody would believe it if all he did was go on TV and say “hey guys we just totally bombed the hell out of a building that might have contained the world’s most wanted man but we’ll never really know for sure.” It could even backfire since Islamists are pretty good at propaganda and probably have enough material to do a fake OBL for at least a couple of years if anyone was actually buying it.
Sometimes you’ve just got to send in the Ma…er, SEALs. GG lads!
Posted by: CppThis | May 2, 2011, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm
THANKS TO THE US MILITARY AND NOT TO OBAMA THE HIDDEN MUSLIM USING TAQQIYYA ON HAPPLESS AMERICANS !
OBUMMER NOW USES TAQQYYYA(FOOLING THE INFIDEL) ON AMERICANS
AND BECOMES SUPER PATRIOT BUT 90% OF AMERICANS KNOW THIS IS A MUSLIM CHARADE TO GET YOUR VOTE.
************OBAMA IS USING TAQQIYYA ON US!!*********************
TRUMP TOLD HIM TO TIGHTHEN THE SCREWS ON PAKISTAN.
HE DID
OBAMA WAS KILLED….. OR WAS HE?
WHY DID OBAMA WENT TO HOLLYWOOD?
—TO PLAN A VIDEO IN WHICH HE KILLS OSAMA
THEN HE GOES TO SILICON VALLEY AND COOKS HIS COMPUTER GENERATED LONG FORM BC.!!!
********STRANGE COINCIDENCES OR WHAT****************?
TRUMP:: OBAMA IS FOOLLING AMERICANS ONCE AGAIN, I URGE YOU NOT TO FALL FOR BARACKA MOHAMMED WOOD ONYENGU HUSSEIN UBAMA.
WHY WOOD?
—-FOR THE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER HE’S USING, WHICH BELONGS TO THOMAS WOOD. A DEAD 120 YR OLD CONN MAN.
WE TRUE AMERICANS DO NOT FALL FOR UBAMA MOHAMMED ONYENGU, WOOD HUSSEIN SCAM, !!!
____________________TRUMP __________________BACHMAN___________2012!!
Posted by: Kim Bailey | May 2, 2011, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
acts not asks..not that anything matters since neither the citizens nor the press is allowed to ask any real, probing questions of this administration.
Journalists are being told what to think, what to ask, what they can and cannot say and maintain access to the CIC. Yet, they lay down at his feet like trained guard dogs.
Why doesn’t the press protect our young people who are going to war to protect this country from his insane ROE’s? Not enough advertising revenues in that, huh?
Posted by: whatisis | May 2, 2011, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm
How funny! Photos and video would prove nothing to this group. Even a dead body would have been questioned. How many of you would have been able to confirm it was Bin Laden from photos. Every news outlet is reporting a successful mission to kill Bin Laden. Everyone of importance in the military and both parties are glad it was successful and don’t think it was faked. So I am to disregard what all news agencies are reporting and everyone of importance with inside information and instead that the word of some anonymous bloggers on this site. I don’t think that is rational at all.
Posted by: MikeMo1947 | May 2, 2011, 10:07 pm 10:07 pm
This is piece of article I read in my Mr’s American Legion Magazine. Fitting for today.
“Our country today is in a life-and-death struggle against an evil enemy, but America as a whole is certainly not at war. Not as a country. Not as a people. Today, only a tiny fraction of American families – less than 1 percent – shoulder the burden of fear and sacrifice, and they shoulder it for the entire nation. Their sons and daughters who serve are men and women of character who continue to believe in this country enough to put life and limb on the line without qualification, and without thought of personal gain, so the sons and daughters of the other 99 percent don’t have to. No big deal, though. They have always been first to fight, paying in full the bill that comes with being free for everyone else.”
Posted by: lvh | May 2, 2011, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm
“Proof of Death”. Long form?
Posted by: Juan Valdez | May 2, 2011, 11:53 pm 11:53 pm
Suddenly, Obama is Douglas MacArthur.
Posted by: Juan Valdez | May 2, 2011, 11:56 pm 11:56 pm
Yes, the same guy who wanted to end the wars, close down Gitmo, and got us into a Libya quagmire is the same guy who orchestrated a hit on Bin Laden.
He’s the same guy who split the atom, invented penicillin, and created the internet, too.
Hurry up 2012.
Posted by: KipNoxzema | May 3, 2011, 3:10 am 3:10 am
Bush did it!
Posted by: LMonkey | May 3, 2011, 7:13 am 7:13 am
Congratulions President Obama! Obama’s specifically chosen, ordered, and planned secret operation carried by our US governemnt military seals was quite successful. All Americans should be so thankful to those brave and honorable men who risked their lives during this mission. My deepest sympathy and support to all those who died, their families, friends, across the world as a result of Osama Bid Laden and his hijacking of the Muslim religion and promotion of terrorist ativities.
More will be coming out in days ahead proving once and for all the man US attempted to capture, but was ultimately killed was indeed Osama Bin Laden. DNA was gotten, so proof is undeniable. Of course many secret aspects of how these seals acted will not be brought forward, because our national security issues need protection.
The burying of Osama Bind Laden at sea was good decision and was done with respect according to Muslim Law. The allowed 24 hour period before burying was insufficient for too many alternatves. Also burying at sea immediately takes away any possibility of legal claim rights to Osama Bin Laden’s body. This also took away the possibility of Laden’s gravesite becoming a shrine.
I found Obama’s personal choice decision to use US seals once again quite interesting. Was a difficult gutsy call when he had multiple plans presented by his top military advisers. Obama sure knew he would be politically ridiculed if mission failed. All was handled same successful way as when American were rescued from Somali pirates.
This is a great time for American people to finally come together as a nation. This was great news. Thank you President Obama, our US military, and our brave US military seals. Job well done!!!!
Posted by: Sharon Lim | May 3, 2011, 11:10 am 11:10 am
President Obama is one of the worst president in history. Not only bashing Bush but for making empty promises and triple our debt. Now so close to finish his first term and knowing his popularity is down he came up with this. That Osama bin laden is death. There is NO proof of that. Except for the words of the soldiers that “killed him” which by the way they are under the command of president Obama. This is a comspiracy so he can get re-elected.
Posted by: Kimberly Kaminsky | May 3, 2011, 12:51 pm 12:51 pm
So, let’s cut to chase…it was former President GWB’s enhanced interrogation policies at GITMO that got OBL in the end, something “W” said he’d defend to the death (his death being something the libs wanted to see more than OBL’s!!!) In fact, they even made a movie about “W’s” assination, called him a torturer, Hitler, worse that OBL, and various other derrogatory names. And of course, the lame-stream press went right along with it….interesting we don’t hear a peep out of that bunch now, huh? Incidentally, when enhanced interrogation techniques were voted against by Congress–(by the likes of Barack Obama & Joe the “F-Man” Biden and the rest of those “yellow” libs in Congress) during the Bush admin; they wanted HIS (“W’s” head!). History will confirm that it was “W’s” policies (including water-boarding–which is part of enhanced interrogation) and maintaining that terrorists be kept at GITMO for military tribunals that ultimately got the “Rat-in-the-Hole, OBL” in the end! In conclusion, it looks like Obama will continue the Bush policies… and, yes, it is certainly THE MOST SINCERE FORM OF FLATTERY!!!
Thanks, W!
Posted by: Wendy | May 3, 2011, 1:11 pm 1:11 pm
osama bin laden is still alive and hiding in the philippines particularly the island of sulu where his abu sayaff allies took care and giving him shelter
Posted by: abu sabaya | May 16, 2011, 5:14 am 5:14 am