Navy SEALS Slam Obama: Claim Obama “Was not the Man Who Made the Call” on Bin Laden Raid
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, April 30, 2012, 10:38 PM

Toby Harnden – SEALs slam Obama for using them as ‘ammunition’ in bid to take credit for bin Laden killing during election campaign

Navy SEALs blasted Barack Obama for taking credit for the killing of Osama Bin Ladent. One SEAL went as far as to say Obama did not even make the call.

‘In years to come there is going to be information that will come out that Obama was not the man who made the call. “

This was devastating. Leave it to the British press to get to the facts of the matter.
The Daily Mail reported:

Serving and former US Navy SEALs have slammed President Barack Obama for taking the credit for killing Osama bin Laden and accused him of using Special Forces operators as ‘ammunition’ for his re-election campaign.

The SEALs spoke out to MailOnline after the Obama campaign released an ad entitled ‘One Chance’.

In it President Bill Clinton is featured saying that Mr Obama took ‘the harder and the more honourable path’ in ordering that bin Laden be killed. The words ‘Which path would Mitt Romney have taken?’ are then displayed.

Besides the ad, the White House is marking the first anniversary of the SEAL Team Six raid that killed bin Laden inside his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan with a series of briefings and an NBC interview in the Situation Room designed to highlight the ‘gutsy call’ made by the President…

…Ryan Zinke, a former Commander in the US Navy who spent 23 years as a SEAL and led a SEAL Team 6 assault unit, said: ‘The decision was a no brainer. I applaud him for making it but I would not overly pat myself on the back for making the right call.

‘I think every president would have done the same. He is justified in saying it was his decision but the preparation, the sacrifice – it was a broader team effort.’

Mr Zinke, who is now a Republican state senator in Montana, added that MR Obama was exploiting bin Laden’s death for his re-election bid. ‘The President and his administration are positioning him as a war president using the SEALs as ammunition. It was predictable.’

…A serving SEAL Team member said: ‘Obama wasn’t in the field, at risk, carrying a gun. As president, at every turn he should be thanking the guys who put their lives on the line to do this. He does so in his official speeches because he speechwriters are smart.

‘But the more he tries to take the credit for it, the more the ground operators are saying, “Come on, man!” It really didn’t matter who was president. At the end of the day, they were going to go.’

Chris Kyle, a former SEAL sniper with 160 confirmed and another 95 unconfirmed kills to his credit, said: ‘The operation itself was great and the nation felt immense pride. It was great that we did it.

‘But bin Laden was just a figurehead. The war on terror continues. Taking him out didn’t really change anything as far as the war on terror is concerned and using it as a political attack is a cheap shot.

‘In years to come there is going to be information that will come out that Obama was not the man who made the call. He can say he did and the people who really know what happened are inside the Pentagon, are in the military and the military isn’t allowed to speak out against the commander- in-chief so his secret is safe.’

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/04/navy-seals-slam-obama-claim-obama-was-not-the-man-who-made-the-call-on-bin-laden-raid/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gatewaypundit2+%28Gateway+Pundit%29

Big effin surprise, nothing he says holds much water, that's just my personal opinion.

Why does President Obama take so much credit for killing Bin Laden?

This is a must watch video.

Awesome.
Thanks.

wait , the sitting commander in chief doesnt give such a huge order?

Do they call him and his cabinet to the situation room to observe 'someone elses' call?


that is interesting,, I wonder who makes it then,,, a Seal, a newspaper commentator?


,,,Ill check back for the answer on that one,,,

Truthfully I think he was already dead. I mean come on, no body and buried at sea not even 24 hours later? It's election year. Just good PR to use something like that. I can promise you, if in fact he did make the call, he didn't do it alone with no help from political advisers. He's still a puppet, no matter what people claim.

Hell, when I was a the State of Maryland payroll, I played the part for a while. Granted I wasn't ANYWHERE close to wielding the power of POTUS, but the same antics go on throughout all government.

I agree under the circumstances it seems from what I have read he could have been taken alive.

Dead men tell no tails all witness dead or tortured to confession.

What a fraud this country has become politicly

I'm with Peccy. I'm not so sure that was Osama bin Laden if they did assassinate anyone in that house.

Even if it was, the Commander in Chief not only can take the credit, he also will take the heat for anything that is done under his administration.

For the seals to say he did not make the call could even be true. But what are they saying then? That our Commander in Chief is also just a "figure head" and has no power as president?

Even that could be true. But if that is true, then WHO THE HELL IS REALLY IN CHARGE OF OUR COUNTRY?

WHO IS THE REAL COMMANDER IN CHIEF?

Come on you Seals spill the beans. Who is in charge? The Military? Is this country now under military control and our our elected politicians just fake figureheads?

If this is the case, then all the conspiracy theorist have been right all along.

Our government is not the real government. Someone else is running the show.

Jay Carney "The operation was run from the ground"

Technically, someone in the room decided to kill Bin Laden. Obama authorized the operation in a mealy mouth kind of way, but the actual decision making was done by General McRaven and the individual Navy Seals.

You know it and I know it is.

Best way to explain it.

There is a room with a hundred people in it. Between them all they have a hundred dollars

One of them has 80 dollars.

Two of them have five between them.

the other 97 people split the the remaining ten.

Who do you think controls that room?

The guy the 97 people vote to represent them or the guy who has 80 dollars?

Back up to April 2011, prior to this I don't remember seeing any video that was confirmed to be Bin Laden for quite some time. I believe he was already dead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTRhQvljEUY

Me too.

So what was the great big show and lie about killing him all about? Some kind of political move?

I don't believe the "Seals." I don't believe the O.P. I don't believe the President. I don't believe the B.S. Its all lies.

Every bit. LIES.

The lunatics are running the asylum.

I saw Obama's face at the time the Seal operation was going on. They had a film of it. He sat there in the room hearing the reports. I can't forget the look on his face. It was shear helplessness. He could do nothing about the "operation"... what ever it was. He was just a spectator. He's just a puppet.

But did you watch the video I posted?

why ain't I surprised?

and then?
What would you have done with him?
Ever thought that every Two-Bit Terrorist would take Hostages to free him,and send Bodyparts piecemeal to sundry News-Feeds and US Embassies!
Taking him alive and putting him anywhere would have started the biggest Blackmail Operation in History!

http://personalliberty.com/2012/05/03/obama-2012-taking-credit-where-credit-isnt-due/?eiid=

Obama 2012: Taking Credit Where Credit Isn’t Due
May 3, 2012 by Ben Crystal

One year after Osama bin Laden's killing, President Obama tweeted this photo of himself and members of the national security team receiving an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House.May 2, 2011 was a pretty good day. The U.S. military and intelligence community managed to nail down a solid location on al-Qaida mastermind and erectile dysfunction sufferer Osama bin Laden. U.S. Navy SEALs swooped down in a daring raid and punched bin Laden’s ticket to the underworld.

Following the SEALs’ successful return, President Barack Obama did what any President would have done under the circumstances. Informed of the operators’ successful visit to paydirt, Obama spiked the ball.

Following Obama’s obligatory speech, Democratic Party mouthpieces from The New York Times to Bill Maher hailed him as a latter-day amalgam of George Washington and George Patton. The White House even released a photograph of Obama and close advisers watching the operation unfold. Although it never achieved the iconic status of images of President Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall or President Bill Clinton getting handsy with Monica Lewinsky, I certainly remember how the photo looked to me: Obama tried to look imposing while wondering if the first lady left any burritos in the mess. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mused to herself on how she would have done it better. A couple of senior military officers maintained their composure while answering stupid questions from Obama underbosses who wouldn’t know an MP5 from an MP3. And Vice President Joe Biden probably thought he was watching an ad for “Call of Duty 9: Killin’ Stuff is Uber-Kewl!”

But Obama sat in the big chair that day, so he got to put on his big-President pants and strut. After all, show me a politician who hasn’t jumped into the frame during the military’s success, and I’ll show you Cynthia McKinney. Obama spiked the ball, waved to the crowd and did the political version of a touchdown dance. Hardly groundbreaking stuff.

However, the subsequent celebration was somewhat more muted than might have been expected. Americans were struggling against the tide of economic, moral and societal trials and tribulations as severe as any since the “malaise” of the Jimmy Carter Presidency — if not the Great Depression. It’s fairly hard to focus on Presidential puppy-love when one of his chief economic advisers just shipped your paycheck to China (we’re looking at you, General Electric Co. honcho and Obama crony Jeff Immelt). And Obama’s waffling between appeasing Islamofascism and trying to portray himself as a wartime hero left citizens scratching their heads.

Fast-forward one year. Obama is off on a rather transparently timed “Osama: Still Dead” tour. The corporate media’s incestuous relationship with the Democrats has progressed beyond the usual fawning and now includes cuddle time with the President in what used to be a secure White House Situation Room, Beyonce and Jay-Z’s visit notwithstanding. And the tens of millions of Americans whose lives have dramatically worsened since Obama clawed his way into the White House realize that Obama’s celebratory reprise is like the water boy taking credit for the quarterback’s prowess on the field a year after the game ended.

Unfortunately, Obama hasn’t stopped at simply digging up bin Laden’s corpse for another photo op. He has also questioned whether his political opponents share his resolve. A recent Obama campaign video implies Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney would have backed off giving the go order on executing bin Laden, a crass electioneering ploy by a President without a record on which he can run. Furthermore, Obama’s implication that Romney lacks the stones to infect bin Laden with terminal “SEAL-itis” is sillier than a Martin Bashir monologue. I suspect most people to the right of Dennis Kucinich’s alien overlords would have green-lit the bin Laden execution.

A number of current and former Navy SEALs have decried Obama’s attempt to turn them into electoral “ammunition.” The mere fact that some of them have suggested they’re annoyated by Obama’s wanna-be grandstanding is noteworthy in and of itself. Even liberal mouthpiece Arianna Huffington wandered off the Democratic reservation, calling Obama’s gross politicization of the bin Laden execution “despicable.”

Perhaps Obama should concentrate on running on his own record of executive accomplishment, his economic successes, his societal improvements and the unity his Administration has delivered unto the Nation and the world. And let’s not forget his announcement of another decade-long commitment to maintain (not his) boots on the ground in Afghanistan. On second thought, perhaps he should keep campaigning on the SEALs record.

–Ben Crystal

I love artistic license and editorial privilege,,,

'what any president WOULD HAVE DONE',.,,,,

the good decisions are always no brainers for which no credit shoudl be given

the bad ones are usually conspiracy plots or individual passion of a president to ruin the country,,,,,,

sigh,, it never ends

what next, are they gonna take something David Duke says and post it as 'WHITES say....etc...etc...'

I think the point here is he is taking credit for what they did. That is what is pissing them off. They did all the work and he is using it as something to push his campaign when his involvement was that he was just sitting president and only had to say OK. I mean I can see their point. If someone took credit for my hardwork I would be pissed too.

I havent heard HIM take credit for anything but giving the order, which he did

I have heard him NUMEROUS times give credit to the seals for executing the mission


the seals are not a boastful group, they dont do it for the credit so I doubt many are upset that he acknowledges making the call,,,it was done under his presidency and that is what history will and should write ,, AS well as how disciplined and expert the Seals were who carried it out,,,