Turns out Obama’s famous “gutsy call” was anything but gutsy:

ARUTZ SHEVA – At the urging of senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, President Barack Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden on three separate occasions before finally approving the May 2, 2011 Navy SEAL mission, according to a new book scheduled for release August 21, The Daily Caller (DC) reported.

In “Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors who Decide for Him,” Richard Miniter writes that Obama canceled the mission in January 2011, again in February, and a third time in March.

Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor and assistant to the president for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, reportedly persuaded Obama to hold off each time, the book reveals, according to The DC.

Miniter, a two-time New York Times best-selling author, cites an unnamed source with Joint Special Operations Command who had direct knowledge of the operation and its planning.

Obama administration officials said after the raid that the president had delayed giving the order to kill the arch-terrorist the day before the operation was carried out, in what turned out to be his fourth moment of indecision.

At the time, the White House blamed the delay on unfavorable weather conditions near bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. However, when Miniter obtained that day’s weather reports from the U.S. Air Force Combat Meteorological Center, he said, they showed ideal conditions for the SEALs to carry out their orders.

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bobemakk
bobemakk

Notice all the people that left. I am sick of his monotonous rhetoric. Let's get to the issues, the economy, Obamacare that will ruin US, jobs, and the security of our country that under his leadership sucks. He doesn't even know how to create jobs by opening up the Keystone pipeline, and he even closed the east, west coast and gulf coast oil drilling and lied and said that we are drilling more. He is a failure.

Randall Hayden
Randall Hayden

There were many more options. The whereabouts of OBL were known for at least 8 months prior to the kill.

The indecisions were based upon perceived political perceptions by voters if the mission failed. Remember?: Biden said how gutsy the decision was & that it would have been awful for it to have failed, & there were already scapegoat documents to put blame elsewhere in case of failure.

I hate Obama's ideologies, policies, lies & him as a person, & it would be hard to have a lower opinion, but I would not see any negativity in him for approving a mission like that which did not meet its objective.

However, gov often mucks things up in procedures or rules of engagement. So, the military is often left short on tools or curtailment of ability.

aZjimbo
aZjimbo

This has been reported for quite some time. The wuss in chief probably lost his cajones. I still say something is rotten with this whole bin laden killing. Wasn't this guy more valuable alive with all the info he had? Buried at sea? Yea right. Tell me another.

PVG
PVG

This needs to go viral! Forward this to as many people as you can.

12grace
12grace

Just a reminder.

Who am I?

I was born in one country, raised in another.

My father was born in another country.

I was not his only child. He fathered several children with numerous women.

I became very close to my mother, as my father showed no interest in me.

My mother died at an early age from cancer.

Although my father deserted me and my mother raised me, I later wrote a book idolizing my father, not my mother.

Later in life, questions arose over my real name.

My birth records were sketchy. No one was able to produce a legitimate, reliable birth certificate.

I grew up practicing one faith but converted to Christianity, as it was widely accepted in my new country, but I practiced non-traditional beliefs and didn't follow Christianity, except in the public eye under scrutiny.

I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult, disguising myself as someone who really cared about them.

That was before I decided it was time to get serious about my life and embarked on a new career.

I wrote a book about my struggles growing up. It was clear to those who read my memoirs that I had difficulties accepting that my father abandoned me as a child.

I became active in local politics in my 30's; then, with help behind the scenes, I literally burst onto the scene as a candidate for national office in my 40s.

They said I had a golden tongue and could talk anyone into anything.

I had a virtually non-existent resume, little work history, and no experience in leading a single organization.

Yet I was a powerful speaker and citizens were drawn to me, as though I were a magnet and they were small roofing tacks.

I drew incredibly large crowds during my public appearances. This bolstered my ego.

At first, my political campaign focused on my country's foreign policy... I was very critical of my country in the last war, and seized every opportunity to bash my country.

But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on the country's economy.

I pretended to have a really good plan on how we could do better, and every poor person would be fed and housed for free.

I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess.

It was the free market, banks and corporations.

I decided to start making citizens hate them and, if they became envious of others who did well, the plan was clinched tight.

I called mine "A People's Campaign".

That sounded good to all people.

I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the traditional path of politics and was able to gain widespread popular support.

I knew that, if I merely offered the people 'hope', together we could change our country and the world.

So, I started to make my speeches sound like they were on behalf of the downtrodden, poor, ignorant to include "persecuted minorities".

My true views were not widely known, and I kept them unknown, until after I became my nation's leader.

I had to carefully guard reality, as anybody could have easily found out what I really believed, if they had simply read my writings and examined those people associated with. I'm glad they didn't.

Then I became the most powerful man in the world.

And then world learned the truth.

Who am I?

ADOLPH HITLER

freenca
freenca

Chillingly similar, Grace! The sooner proceedings against the traitor, BO, can begin, the better!

12grace
12grace

I posted this in more than one place and I suggest that all of you do the same thing!

This is a DVD that could change the direction of the next presidential election.

It is an Absolute Must-See!

I urge all of you to buy as many copies as possible and give them to everyone you know...

Film Information

http://www.obamasrealfather.com/film-info/

At age 18, Barack Obama admittedly arrived at Occidental College a committed revolutionary Marxist. What was the source of Obama's foundation in Marxism? Throughout his 2008 Presidential campaign and term in office, questions have been raised regarding Barack Obama's family background, economic philosophy, and fundamental political ideology. Dreams from My Real Father is the alternative Barack Obama "autobiography," offering a divergent theory of what may have shaped our 44th President's life and politics.

In Dreams from My Real Father, Barack Obama is portrayed by a voiceover actor who chronicles Barack Obama's life journey in socialism, from birth through his election to the Presidency. The film begins by presenting the case that Barack Obama's real father was Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party USA propagandist who likely shaped Obama's world view during his formative years. Barack Obama sold himself to America as the multi-cultural ideal, a man who stood above politics. Was the goat herding Kenyan father only a fairy tale to obscure a Marxist agenda, irreconcilable with American values?

This fascinating narrative is based in part on 2 years of research, interviews, newly unearthed footage and photos, and the writings of Davis and Obama himself. Dreams from My Real Father weaves together the proven facts with reasoned logic in an attempt to fill-in the obvious gaps in Obama's history. Is this the story Barack Obama should have told, revealing his true agenda for "fundamentally transforming America?" Director Joel Gilbert concludes, "To understand Obama’s plans for America, the question is ’Who is the real father?’"

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• 1

My Real Father Is Frank Marshall Davis

Communist Propagandist, Marxist, and Poet

• 2

My Gramps, Company Man

Berkeley to Beirut, Seattle to Hawaii

• 3

The Seduction of Ann Dunham

Nude photos and the Kenyan Student Cover-up

• 4

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Indoctrination and an Identity Crisis

• 5

May 19th Communist College Years

Pipe Bombs and Pipe Dreams with the Ayers family

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See obama’s horrendous death plans for us.

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12grace
12grace

Thank you for the link,pm, we must get the word out about this DVD or the book.

p m
p m

Started watching this last night, and plan on finishing it tonight. It's very well done, thanks for posting about it. If folks don't want to buy a DVD here's a link to watch it online http://vimeo.com/46519358

Hypno Jive
Hypno Jive

Does anyone remember when the gutsy call was finally made?Do you remember what was preempted for Obama's BIG Announcement?It

was Donald Trumps highly publicized premier of Celeb Apprentice.

If you think back to that time period,Donald Trump had been stealing the headlines with his attacks against Obama.

This seems as good a reason as any to explain the delay Lil Barry's gutsy call and the sudden go-ahead given what we know regarding the petty nature of Obama's pathology.

Libertyship46
Libertyship46

I'm surprised that Richard Miniter was able to get somebody from the Joint Special Operations Command to leak him this information. But it makes sense since the leak did NOT seem to come from within the White House. All the past leaks from the White House went out of their way to praise Obama. Seems interesting that as soon as you leave the White House, people have a very different opinion of the president.

Conservative_Hippie
Conservative_Hippie

You mean our brave President is in fact an indecisive wimp?! /sarc

He's bloody lucky that Bin Laden didn't kill any more Americans during that time or this could have been the impeachment trial of the century for our Wimp-in-Chief!

CG patriot
CG patriot

pffft, 3 time's puh-lease, I bet it was more then that with these commie liar's. In regards to how all this went down with Bin Laden's death? Obama will "never take credit" for-it in my eyes.

What's more upsetting to me, is the "Helo crash" that killed 20 of our esteemed Navy Seals. As it was reported that those who lost their life's did not participate in the raid, but yet, were from the same unit? Yeah, that sure covered-up all that misconception did it not.

~Beyond shameful~

Most have said it was a coincidence.........B.S. and I cry foul and who is this WH mole/leak-er?

Down thread, I re-read MiketheMarine's post, from the Female Obama supporter: sure brings many pieces of the puzzle together in regards to how radical Obama is and who is "occupying" our White House.

BTW: let's not forget "the Fort Hood" massacre, that too, was another convenient cover-up for our Fraud and Chief.

p m
p m

The only 'guts' in question were those of the Navy Seals who carried out the operation.

Kelly60
Kelly60

I knew this month's ago from an insider on another blog site. My question is more who the insider is now....hmmm, more cats out of the bag...this is good, getting better. Makes me trust the insider I've been reading about just that much more.

p m
p m

UM? He had it over a year ago from his WH insider. Good site - and another WHI report promised for later this week.

Kelly60
Kelly60

Yes, you're right. I didn't realize it had been that long ago though. Funny, not many of these other blog sites will give him any credibility....at least it seems that way.

p m
p m

I think they're coming around - per today's posts.

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

So, Valerie Jarrett made the gutsy call? After being so gutless 3x?

This man sickens me.

Pete Gardner
Pete Gardner

Here's a problem I have with this: Minter cites an "unnamed source." I think we need to be just as critical of something like this as we were of all the "unnamed sources" that tried (and succeeded) to bring Herman Cain's campaign to a halt.

MaxineCA
MaxineCA

Thanks for that Mike"OUR"Marine. I read your comment the other day, and it sent chills up my spine! The more info that comes out, the more fearful I am about all of the muslims that have infiltrated during recent years, and I didn't think the fear could get any higher. I would suggest you send that post to Mark Levin since he is finally coming up to speed on the topic. Thank goodness for the internet, Bachmann, West, Peter King and many, many others who are willing to speak the truth.

As a side note: I hop over to Daily Caller a couple of times a day. This morning when I clicked on the bookmark, (I use Mozilla Foxfire) it said that Google had determined that the website had been hacked several times and was not safe. I immediately jumped out of it but from then on my PC totally locked up. It took me all morning to get my PC working again. (I was so glad the "read more" link wasn't to DC.) Has anyone else had this problem? I wonder if Tucker has a response?

NYGino
NYGino

Very ironic that while various 'leaks' coming from the White House try to build up the Impostor's image as a warrior/leader another leak from the Joint Special Operations Command show the true person, a waffler, afraid to make a decision on his own without the OK from his in house nanny.

WordsFailMe
WordsFailMe

I still cannot get over that picture of the President on the United States, cringing, sucking his thumb, against the wall, like a cornered, immature spider in a hot skillet. THAT is the image for his White House portrait, statue on the DC street corner and image on the eventual postage stamp.

Army_Pilot1967
Army_Pilot1967

I betcha' George Bush wouldn't have hesitated to pull the trigger on the operation to kill Bin Laden. I don't care what anyone else thinks about GB, but I liked him, and I miss him. I didn't agree with everything he did, but I still think he was a good president.

notebene
notebene

I'm not surprised at all. Odumbo made a media circus out of this and I assure you, he waited for an opportune moment to finally call it. That moment also had to align with kissing the rears of every M u s lim that supports him. That ridiculous picture showing Odumbo and company was posed and fake, just like his entire administration. The only thing real about the POTUS is the damage he has caused upon this nation.

MaroonRepublic
MaroonRepublic

Weather my arse. They were probably trying to determine how the Muslim world would perceive their decision.

mike3e4r7
mike3e4r7

lol. Maybe it was the weather. They were probably trying to figure out which way the political winds were blowing.

way

MiketheMarine
MiketheMarine

Wrong spelling. They were trying to decide whether the Seals would fail or whether they should just call it off.

p m
p m

I just hope they track all of them back and have the traitors subject to court-martial. Leaks about Seal's families amounts to the same thing - potential murder by proxy. It is intolerable.

Thank you for your reply MTM.

MiketheMarine
MiketheMarine

It may well have been an islamic organization. That is why these leaks, regardless of who is responsible, is so bad. Can you imagine being a Seal and deployed for combat and have to worry that someone in this criminal administration happens to leak where your wife and children live?

p m
p m

Think we'll ever know just how those Seals were set up for murder after this operation? Or by whom? Someone in the WH? Jarret's retribution? Can't believe that the shooting down of their helicopter was only a 'story' for such a short time. I think of them often.

Landscaper59
Landscaper59

MiketheMarine's post made the hair on my neck stand up! Father of a young Marine back from Afgha.

MiketheMarine
MiketheMarine

It is disconcerting that our white house is in collusion with Iran, isn't it?

Semper Fi, Marine dad.

MaxineCA
MaxineCA

Mike, do you have any info on the drone that "went down" in Iran? When it happened the whole story didn't make any sense to me. I haven't seen ANY reports on that incident since. Seemed strange then, seems strange to this day how we could let our technology end up in Iran. Hummmm, makes me wonder.

MiketheMarine
MiketheMarine

I don't know for sure but what I think happened is that a computer hacker working for either Iran or North Korea hacked the thing and took over control of the computer. Hacking is one of the ways both Iran and North Korea steal money and try to damage foreign countries. It is a government sponsored program in both countries.

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

I'm glad he's back. Please thank him for his service, from my family. God Bless our troops!

kong1967
kong1967

Gutsy call my ass. This is a call that any President shouldn't think twice before allowing the mission.

JohnOfPhiladelphia
JohnOfPhiladelphia

This is not surprising. We have the biggest Muslim Jihadist in our WH today. His name is Bar... forget it, amo puke if I have to write his name. What surprises me is that that Kenyan ape ever gave the call to kill OBL in the first place. I would have thought he'd have loved to give him a pass. Seriously! That's how evil I am convinced this man is.

And yet, the House won't make the move to impeach him!!! WHY!!!!!!

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

Bill Clinton ought to be proud.

kong1967
kong1967

...or jealous. Obama is making decisions....or not....that make Carter and Clinton not look so bad. They should either be jealous because he failed better than they did or be happy that he took the shame trophy away from them.

donmoffet
donmoffet

This doesn't surprise me at all...he's a coward.

JohnOfPhiladelphia
JohnOfPhiladelphia

Its because he's a coward that he gave in and ordered the operation at all. Believe you me, from what we know of this demon, Obama, he did not want Bin Laden dead at all. I'm sure of it!

Dukehoopsfan
Dukehoopsfan

I remember reading that he did not give the order but rather stepped aside and admonished panetta that if there were any problems they were his.

warpmine
warpmine

Probably waiting until just prior to the 2012 election cycle to make him look good. Face it everything these clowns do is political.

kong1967
kong1967

He did the same thing when the Navy shot those pirates on a boat. He didnt give the ok for that, either.

warpmine
warpmine

Of course it's ok for babies to die after botched abortions but not terrorists. Makes perfect sense for this clown.

kong1967
kong1967

I know, and it's disgusting. The left fights for murderers and the rights of criminals to keep them off death row because it's just so inhumane. Yet, when it comes to babies they don't give a damn.