According to a new book coming out August 21, President Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden three times before Navy SEAL Team 6 finally took the al-Qaeda leader down in early May of 2011.Originally Posted by GeoFisher
Can you link your sources here..........I'd love to read about that........more ammo
The book makes the claim that Obama’s close adviser Valerie Jarrett convinced the President to cancel kill missions in January, February, and then again in March of 2011. This wouldn’t be the first time Valerie Jarrett’s name has been mentioned in having questionable influence over the President.
Richard Miniter, author of the upcoming book cleverly titled, Leading From Behind: The Relucatant President and the Advisors Who Decide For Him, is an investigative journalist, author of two New York Times bestselling books, and has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, among other publications. To back his claims, he cites an unnamed source with Join Special Operations Command who had “direct knowledge of the operation and its planning.”
Although the decision was canceled three times, it almost didn’t happen because of ‘weather.’ Via the Daily Caller:
Obama administration officials also said after the raid that the president had delayed giving the order to kill the arch-terrorist the day before the operation was carried out, in what turned out to be his fourth moment of indecision. At the time, the White House blamed the delay on unfavorable weather conditions near bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
But when Miniter obtained that day’s weather reports from the U.S. Air Force Combat Meteorological Center, he said, they showed ideal conditions for the SEALs to carry out their orders.”
Miniter told the DC, “President Obama’s greatest success was actually his greatest failure.”
Back on May 1, on the eve of the one year anniversary of bin Laden’s assassination, I quoted former Navy SEAL, Chris Kyle, who said, “In years to come there is going to be information that will come out that Obama was not the man who made the call.” Although this is fairly unsubstantiated, Kyle could be seeing the first steps towards validation of his claim.
Now this is not to say that any of this information is or isn’t valid, and this information does not change anything that has happened, but the consistency of these types of stories arising is alarming. First it was a $150,000 bribe to Reverend Jeremiah Wright to shutup, then it was a falling out between Oprah and Obama (allegedly spurred by Valerie Jarrett’s discontent with the ease with which Oprah could bypass her to get in touch with the President), then there are the multiple items from Obama’s memoir that have been proven to be false (i.e. girlfriend), and now we have this. If this President is the one for our country, why is he so divisive? If half of the people hate him, he can’t possibly be that great.
Like I said, we have no way of knowing whether this claim is verifiable or not (at the moment, at least), but it doesn’t matter; these stories, tales, accounts, or whatever you want to call them all seem to point out that Obama is unprepared to be lead our nation. Without question, he is a product of Chicago politics, and you can argue all you want that shouldn’t matter, but ponder this: is your city influenced by or still run by the same crowd of people that ran it less than a hundred years ago?
These continuing claims of irresponsibility, lies, and questionable judgments are not signs that we have who we need to lead us to American prosperity.
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