Navy SEAL's book will describe raid that killed bin Laden
 

It had to happen sooner or later.

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I've got the book. Starts out, "He poured a mellow summer brew into an old stein leftover from his Harvard days as his wife complained that he was drinking too much and his diet was horrible. 'We'll talk," he said.

He eased back into his easy chair and kicked off his golf shoes, reminiscing about his latest kill-UBL.

"Hairier by far than the pirate thang", he mused, smiling to himself.

Goes on from there. :rolleyes:

When I read this today, I was confused about the sentence that said, "...with the potential to affect the presidential race" because the liberal rag writing the article seemed to suggest it would support Obama. Does anyone have any insight into what "impact" it will have? Thx

Depending on if this is legit and how much "classified" info is in there this has the potential to negate the vets coming out against the supposed leaks from the WH.

Well, except for whoever leaked that whole AQ mole working for us thing. To me, that has massive 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc order effects that could reverberate for years beyond this administration.

Taking credit for the stuxnet virus....that was sweet...yeah, we did it, ain't we cool....how stupid. That ind should be found and shot.

Way too soon… Whatever happened to the term “Quiet Professionals” :confused: If the proceeds from the book don’t go to the families of the fallen, IMHO, the guy is an attention whore, and a POS, DEVGRU or not…. Just my 00.02

A little less heart warming rhetoric would be nice , I think. ;)
Either you shut the hell up about killing UBL or you get your manuscript vetted by the relevant folks at JSOC and do whatever you want with the proceeds.
Anything else in between is just a futile justification, IMO.

They're not, they're Seals; speedo wearing, volleyball playing, UBL-killing Seals. They write books and star in movies--quiet is not their strong suit. I expect this will be the first of many "I was there and looking good" books that will come out for this mission.

No pink font? Pretty disrespectful of our SOF brethren. I know several SEALs who would concur to nix the book idea. Plenty of QPs writing books and starring on TV last time I checked.

Surely something as sensetive as this would be sewn up in Classified information, oaths of secrecy etc etc. Is this not a White House initiative perhaps? If it spills the beans on the Operation, why keep the authors name secret? Perhaps it was Gore Vidals swansong.

No matter how you slice it, the Navy SEAL video has ALWAYS seemed to be more fact than fiction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv9AUFpRGyc


"Absolutely Sir, discretion assured....
...I FUCKING SHOT BIN-LAAAADEEEN"


Did anybody really think that fact wouldn't eventually follow fiction? Its like being mad at a fish for eating worms. Look at Dalton Fury, does anyone think if it was him on the trigger that we wouldn't already be reading an "I fucking shot Bin-Laden" book by now?

I'm surprised it took as long as it did.

I did not expect someone from the "team" writing a book on the raid so soon.This is very much expected,I do think maybe 10-20 years later OBL's corpse pictures might be released or leaked.

The reaction among former and current DEVGRU members might be interesting,so will that of SOCOM & JSOC,especially after their reaction to Lt.(retd.) Chuck Pfarrer's book on the raid.

Dalton Fury cashed in with a book about killing UBL in which UBL was not only not killed, but not even seen. But he had lots of references to cool gear, (and IIRC he even took a few swipes at SF). Think of the movie and merchandising that must certainly follow any book about actually killing the guy and you could almost imagine Navy SEAL/UBL/UBLwife/Obama Action Figures...

I was thinking something similar when I saw the article on Drudge this morning. You sir, however, owe me a keyboard, that is the most deserving intro for O's next "autobiography" and by far the funniest thing I have read in quite a while.

Learn "the pivot" - shift your body weight just a bit, take sip of your Java, savor it, swallow it, set it back down... THEN directly confront your monitor and read. This is particularly important when reading a thread where Special Forces Soldiers may be discussing the latest book by a SEAL (serving, former, knew a brother-inlaw, or other) writing about themselves. Keyboards are on you.