Susan RICE just put the lie to the canard that OBAMA refused many chances for this kill.

[UTUSN]

It was out there from the start of the news of the death that OBAMA had a few/several/many chances to do the kill but didn't do it because he was cognizant of the repercussions.

RICE just told Rachel that to her knowledge this kill thing never came up.

[Marie Marie]

1. Imagine a President that stops and thinks before acting.

Seems like a million years since we had reasoning going on in the White House.

[UTUSN]

2. Time is, indeed, a relative thing!1

[moondust]

3. It has been reported widely

that both the Obama and Bush admins passed on the chance to kill him due to the potential consequences.

I heard a Dump defender this afternoon say they didn't need to kill him back then because his militias weren't attacking Americans then whereas now they are attacking Americans.

If that's true then what has changed to cause them to start attacking Americans? Well, Dump had to undo Obama's JCPOA accomplishment by foolishly pulling out of it and applying sanctions and "maximum pressure" on Iran ever since. Dump himself caused all this escalation.

[crazytown]

4. McChrystal advised against it in 2007

at the height of 'the surge'. That's the only concrete instance we know so far,