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President Sanctimonious strikes again.Claiming credit for an obvious decision is so shallow, but that is all that he has got. All of his main policies are abject failures.
Yesterday Guy brought you the details about President Obama doubling down on his "Romney wouldn't have ordered the kill shot for Osama bin Laden" rhetoric and now, the Navy SEALs are chiming in. SEALs feel they are being used as "ammunition" for Obama's re-election campaign and point out that it's the guys in the field fighting the enemy, not President Obama, who deserve the real credit. More from the Daily Mail:
Ryan Zinke, a former Commander in the US Navy who spent 23 years as a SEAL and led a SEAL Team 6 assault unit,...
And so shortly after taking office, "I" directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as "I" continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network.
Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by "my" intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with "my" national security team as "we" developed more information about the possibility that "we" had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan .
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Today, at "my" direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad , Pakistan.
Such abject hubris!