Sure… CSI:Miami can have it done in 10 minutes!
Jeff
I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn. 
I was on the phone to my Daughter, Elizabeth, who is attending the Naval Academy, last night when this occured. I told her. She was sceptical, “Where you getting this from, Dad?”. “Fox, NBC… Now on Drudge.”
Right about then, there was a commotion on her side of the phone, every one yelling and running down the P-ways. Someone turned their stero speakers out Banckroft Hall’s windows and started playing Queen’s “Another on bites the dust”. They all listened to the Presiden’t address, they the spread out onto the campus and the town.
Here is a video, taken with the Midshipmen storming the Commandant’s house, on campus, and his address to them.
Pretty much sums it all up.
Here’s the Superintentent’s speech:
So…there I was…watching the great Republican candidate, Donald Trump, trying to decide if he should fire Starr Jones or Meatloaf…as he prepared himself to turn the White House into another Trump casino…when…
…suddenly, at the critical point of the show…
“We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a special announcement from the President of the United States.”
It just doesn’t get better than this.
Funny…AM broadcast news reported Bin Ladens’ death 5 minutes before NBC’s break from Trump’s show.
Jeff
My son called me Last night and ask if i heard the news , It was hard to hear him through the cheers at the base.
I just knew jimmy was a closet Trump admirer.
In what time zone?
Somehow, I knew you would.
HOW BUSH HELPED OBAMA CATCH OSAMA
[Osama Bin Laden is dead.
Thanks to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
That’s what they forgot to tell you on the news last night. Yes, Bin Laden was caught because of the actions of this administration, but that was only possible because of the policies of the last administration.
And, no, this isn’t about politics.
This is about truth.
And the fact that war is a hellacious undertaking that can only be fought or lost. You can’t ***** foot, you can’t ACLU, you can’t holier than thou or politically correct. You have to kill or be killed, and be willing to do whatever is necessary to defend America.
Let’s get back to Osama Bin Laden.
Here’s how he was caught.
Intelligence officials learned that Osama Bin Laden had a trusted courier – a messenger and companion – who went with him wherever he went, and who might even be living with him.
They also learned the courier’s name.
With that information, intelligence officials went out searching for the courier. Last August, they found him.
Over the months since, they concluded that he was living with Bin Laden, and they became familiar with the compound where the men and several others lived.
And night before last, while many in the White House watched on helmet-cam, SEAL Team 6 got busy.
The dramatic conclusion was a double-tap to the head of the man who ordered the deaths of some 3,000 innocent people on September 11.
That’s what we learned yesterday morning.
But what does that have to do with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney?
To find out, you need to add a couple of elements to the story of Osama Bin Laden’s downfall – specifically, you need to add a when and a where.
Specifically, that first bit of information, the piece that started the whole thing, and which made the entire operation possible, where did that come from?
When and where did American intelligence officers learn of Osama Bin Laden’s courier, and when and where did they learn his name?
The when is four years ago, and the where is Guantanomo Bay.
Now let’s add two more elements – who and how.
Who told American intelligence officers about Osama’s courier, and what did those intelligence officers have to do to him to make him talk?
The first answer is Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
The second answer is waterboarding.
I’m sorry, “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
Tactics denounced by Barack Obama and John McCain, but implemented by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
Let’s put this all together.
Four years ago, Barack Obama was a brand new U.S. senator, and George W. Bush was president of the United States. Back in those days, the rules were different.
And though Barack Obama has condemned Gitmo and promised to close it down, the Bush Administration saw it as a useful tool in the war on terror.
Khalid Sheik Mohammed was a prisoner there. He is the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attack and – until Obama’s visit from the Navy – the highest-ranking terrorist ever caught.
And he got waterboarded.
A lot.
Dozens of times.
And he ran his mouth. He gave it all up.
Including the fact that Osama Bin Laden had a courier who was always at his side. Pushed a little harder, Khalid Sheik Mohammed remembered the courier’s name.
And it was that name that eventually led to that bright flash of light just before Osama Bin Laden met Jesus.
Let me be more specific.
If not for Gitmo and waterboarding, we never would have found Osama Bin Laden.
If not for Gitmo and waterboarding, Osama Bin Laden would still be alive.
Put another way, without the Bush-era policies he mocked, banned and campaigned against, Barack Obama wouldn’t have caught Osama Bin Laden.
Barack Obama’s attorney general threatened for a time to begin criminal investigations of the officials who authorized waterboarding, and now Barack Obama – and American national security – have benefited directly from those policies.
Guantanamo Bay as a special prison for terrorism suspects was reviled and condemned by Barack Obama and his party. And yet the system of holding terrorism suspects there has given Barack Obama the greatest victory of his presidency.
And that raises some issues. It asks some hard questions.
Or at least it would if politicians and reporters were honest enough to connect the dots.
This isn’t an “I told you so,” and it’s not a political rant.
It’s a reminder of what war is.
And it is a hope that the liberal party, which has just been benefited by conservative policies it condemned, will do some introspection and reconsideration.
There can be no politically correct war. There can be no culturally sensitive war. We can’t rule certain things in or out based on rules of engagement or campaign philosophies. We have to defend our county at all costs and by any means necessary.
The only right our enemy has is to cease being a threat to us or die. And when it is decided our enemy must die, we should administer that death as quickly, efficiently and ferociously as possible.
Go big, or don’t go.
Peace only comes after victory, and the duty of war is to secure victory as quickly and completely as possible.
And you do that by killing people and breaking their will.
It was that approach to war that gave us the information we needed to find Bin Laden. We should remember that going forward, and act according.
Yes, we owe Barack Obama a thank you.
But we also owe George W. Bush an apology.
Because without the policies of the former president, the success of the current president wouldn’t have been possible.
- by Bob Lonsberry © 2011](“http://www.lonsberry.com/email_columns.cfm”)
Yep
Thank you.
I am now hearing, from the left, that President Obama has, once again, “fixed” a mess that President Bush made. “Re-focusing the war on terror” and etc.
That is like crediting the first President Bush for bringing down the Berlin wall.
Also, think of how the media and the world would have reacted if this take down had occured during President Bush’s term. “Violation of Pakistan’s soverignty, Cowboy actions, Unilateral military force, Violation of Civil Rights, Illegal assasinations, War crimes, etc”".
Please, don’t get me wrong, I am NOT criticizing Presidentg Bush’s actions in this instance. He took the ball and ran with it and the operation was a great success. I am, however, calling into the light the fact that the media and the world leaders do not hold President Obama and President Bush to the same standard.
Hope this helps;
I had an opportunity to tag along to NY with my wife this past long weekend, it was a business trip for her. My first trip to NY. Got to see a lot of famous sites. I had wanted to visit ground zero since it happened, I got the chance on Sunday afternoon. It really brings out emotions. You stand there and look up to the sky and can see the planes crashing into the buildings and the panick that followed. I find out later that evening that Bin Laden had been killed. We stayed 3 blocks from time square and heard it was a zoo of celebration. If we weren’t so old (went to sleep) we probably would have went down there to take it all in. Stan
We went to New York in 2004 and the kids went with us. We all went to see ground zero. The thing that struck me, as soon as we exited the taxi, was the smell. It smelled “burnt”. And mixed up in that burnt smell was the smell of burnt flesh.
That’s what struck us.
I guess that is why both my daughers have chosen a military carreer. A whole generation was effected this way.
Game Over
