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underpants

(182,829 posts)
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 06:57 AM Aug 2012

Coming to MSM near you -WSJ/WashTimes writer's book --Hillary made The President kill Bin Laden

New book says Hillary Clinton was force behind mission to kill Osama bin Laden

It was Hillary Clinton who persuaded a jittery President Obama to carry out the mission to kill terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, a new book claims.

Obama canceled three missions targeting bin Laden before Clinton finally convinced him to pull the trigger, according to the book by former Wall Street Journal reporter Richard Miniter.

Miniter — who has also worked for the Washington Times and the Sunday Times of London — cites an unnamed source within Joint Special Operations Command as claiming previous missions to kill bin Laden were canceled by the President in January, February and March 2011.

Miniter’s explosive allegation threatens to undermine the White House’s narrative of a decisive Obama ordering the risky May 2011 raid by U.S. Navy Seals to kill bin Laden at his compound in Pakistan.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-book-hillary-clinton-force-behind-mission-kill-osama-bin-laden-article-1.1140412#ixzz24B1zdPWu

The other sources carrying this story - Google News search - are
Ynetnews (?)
The Daily Mail
and India Express.

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rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
1. There is no end to the garbage they come up with...
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 06:59 AM
Aug 2012

and even if it's true, he did it after BushCheney failed for eight years.

 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
2. Obama did it.Bush didn't... but this is trash book...
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 07:14 AM
Aug 2012

Obama did it.
Hillary is part of Obama's team.
Obama is #44
(and has clinched reelection, so next up is #45 in 2017
and Hillary is #45

when Hillary runs against Jeb, she can remind Jeb that the Bush's didn't get did NOT get Bin-laden.Nor did the Bush's take any action and it caused 9-11.

I think the choice is clear.

democrats or democrat supporters only.

longship

(40,416 posts)
3. Are you sure that's not "Nyetnews"
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 07:17 AM
Aug 2012

And the "Daily Mail" is such an upstanding journalism source.

I don't know about "India Times" but I don't see too many first line sources here.

In other words, "Meh!"

WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)
8. It really wouldn't matter even IF it's true--it was still Obama who ordered it--he is PRESIDENT
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 08:13 AM
Aug 2012

NOT THE SECRETARY OF STATE or anybody else.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
10. I'm sure it is nothing but a bunch of woo.
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 08:28 AM
Aug 2012

Even if it were true, how about that, two adults working together in the White House. What a change from the shrub.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,414 posts)
11. There's a pretty big reason for doubting this:
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 08:32 AM
Aug 2012

President Obama was the ONLY candidate in 2008 who argued for going into Pakistan to get OBL if necessary and everybody, including Hillary, criticized him for it.

It seems like more pot-stirring to me- keeping the Obama/Clinton 2008 primary alive

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