Bin Laden Raid Fraught With 'Enormous Risk,' Obama Says

[Team Sergeant]

Epic Lie.

"Bin Laden Raid Fraught With 'Enormous Risk,' Obama Says"

Epic Lie.

obama said it was a 55/45 situation, another EPIC LIE.

Somalia was a "non-permissive environment" while Pakistan is a permissive to semi permissive environment, huge difference, and another EPIC LIE.

"Enormous Risk" is a total EPIC LIE, the Navy SEALs could have executed this mission with any SEAL team, so could have the Rangers, Marines, Special Forces, hell the AF PJ's could have carried out this mission. For 24 heavily armed SEALS there was little risk.

Sorry Teleprompter Reader of the United States, you're a liar and an idiot.

The only risk in this mission was if SEAL Team Six would make it back in time before the bar closed.

'Enormous Risk' my ass.

Trust me when I say the SEALS knew what was on that compound before they left their base.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011...sk-obama-says/

Obama: 'This Was a 55/45 Situation'

Though the raid on Usama bin Laden's compound was the result of years of intelligence gathering and training, President Obama stressed that the mission was a gamble up until the very end.

In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" aired Sunday, Obama discussed the many ways the operation could have gone wrong. He said the mission looked "promising" from the start, but that it entailed "enormous risk" -- the president noted that when the ball started rolling on the operation last August, officials had "no direct evidence" that bin Laden was living there.

As has been revealed in several briefings and interviews over the past week, U.S. officials began to feel more confident that a high-level Al Qaeda operative like bin Laden was living there the more they found out about the compound in northern Pakistan. But Obama said, "At the end of the day, this was still a 55/45 situation. I mean, we could not say definitively that bin Laden was there."

[Wiseman]

I think Obama is referring to the political consequences, i.e had the raid gone in some way, it would be political suicide for him.

[Dusty]

lol No, the risk was missing his tee time if the shooters stayed too long on the objective.

[Box]

between media saturation and the unique way that our government has delivered the information I am officially tired of hearing about it.

...which is a shame. Arguably a high point in our nations military history and the government has turned it into the type of local fair sideshow that you would expect to see in an old K-Mart parking lot

Incredibly underwhelming.