Stop Giving Obama Undue Credit

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Can we stop giving Obama undue credit for the capture of Osama Bin Laden?

First of all a reality check. This wasn’t a Obama thing. This was a Presidential thing. A Presidential thing that goes back to Bush. Bush was the one that first told the people involved “to do everything” to capture Osama. If Obama continue that stance doesn’t really matter, as the stance had already been established.

Beyond that the intelligence goes back years, and directly relates to the capture and intelligence provided by 3 or 4 individuals. This isn’t something that happened over night, or even in the last year. The fact is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was captured more then 8 years ago, and was the first piece of the puzzle that led to other intelligence.

Another thing I want to cover is the supposed “balls” Obama had to call on the Navy SEALs to pull this off. Okay. Reality check. The President doesn’t decide when Navy SEALs are used. The Navy decides when the SEALs get deployed. Do you know why? Because SEALs don’t go into situations unless the chances of success are 100%. Do you know how many failed SEAL missions there are? Only 1 since 1962. Also the President just doesn’t go “Lets deploy the SEALs”. His national security team brings it up long before it even pops into his head – Because if it pops into the President’s head before the people that plan this type of thing can bring it up the answer always is “That wouldn’t be a good idea”. So no. It didn’t take balls to deploy the Navy SEALs.