So Much for that “Gutsy Call”… Bush Ordered Elite Forces Into Pakistan 2 Different Times
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 4:43 AM
So much for Obama’s “gutsy call“…
Bush made the same call at least twice during his time in office.
(X-Journals)
President George W. Bush made the same “gutsy call” to send US elite forces into Pakistan at least two different times during his presidency.
The Australian reported:
On a moonless night, US helicopters carrying a team of America’s most elite forces crossed the Afghanistan border into Pakistan in pursuit of one of the world’s most wanted terrorists.
Hovering over the compound, heavily armed US Navy SEALs scrambled expertly down ladders on to Pakistani soil as Pentagon officials in Virginia watched the events unfold by video link from a camera in an unmanned drone flying over the site.
But this did not happen last week, and the target was not Osama bin Laden.
It was 2006 and the man in the American’s sights was bin Laden’s al-Qa’ida deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is still believed to be hiding within or close to Pakistan’s tribal areas.
The little-known operation in Pakistan’s remote Bajaur Agency near the Afghan border, ultimately unsuccessful, is rarely talked about and was never publicly claimed by the US administration.
But what it reveals is that last Monday’s operation, which has sparked ferocious debate in Pakistan over national sovereignty, is far from the first time that elite USforces have mounted military operations on the ground in the nuclear-armed nation…
…The Navy SEAL operation in Bajaur Agency was first reported by The New York Times in 2008, which cited a former top CIA official as confirming the mission…
…He said yet another operation occurred in 2008 just over the Afghan border in South Waziristan, in which three US special operations officers raided a madrassa suspected of being used as a base from which insurgents were firing on coalition forces.
Rustam Shah Mohmand, a former chief secretary of the northwest frontier province and Tribal Areas Commissioner, also confirmed the fact that last week’s Navy SEALs raid was not the first on Pakistani soil.
And, it likely didn’t take Bush 5 months before he made the decision to run the operation.
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Jackie Grant commented:
It didn’t take President Bush 5 months to make a decision because he didn’t have an American hating person like Valeria Jarrett telling him what to do……………..Bush was his own man AND more importantly he loves and believes in this country – something the “pretend president” doesn’t do.
mg4us commented:
Thank You President Bush!!
The “Chipmunk in the Chair” will never rise to the level of a true Commander-in-Chief. . . just a lowly Impostor-n-Thief as he steal our Countries future by squandering it away.
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southernsue commented:
president Bush has GOD on his side. he was confident and unwavering, a true president that loves his country. we knew all about this man, where he was from, proud american parents that have a wonderful history in the great USA.
i loved president Bush and felt safe when he was president.
now, our whole way of life is being upturned, wondering what this evil regime will go after next with all our money, not only that his foreign policy stinks to high heaven.
i have never believed we have had an evil president against the USA, however, i believe that we have one evil man in the White House, along with his ilk.
Reaganite Republican commented:
Well, it’s different when Obama does it
He’s “cool”
MAJ Mike commented:
Soooooo, when you do your job its “gutsy”.
It took THE WON 16 hours to make a decision that most Americans could make in less than 16 seconds. It took HIM 16 hous to decide that this action would benefit HIM politically. This was done to shore up HIS macho image for the eternal reelection campaign.
This still won’t erase the image of HIM on HIS girls’ bike with the metrosexual helmet from my mind.
squeaky commented:
he probably waited 16 hours to make sure it was safe to make his “gutsy” call. maybe this wasn’t exactly the outcome he wanted.
wow commented:
It took “I Won” 16 hours (that we know of) to make the decision… lucked out and has been milking it ever since.
GWB made the decision a number of times, and kept it quiet so that we just found out about it now. I wonder how many other times there were?
The first, as someone put it so well, crass – the second, class.
squeaky commented:
hollywood depicted rock hudson as a ladies man – need we say more.
squeaky commented:
if john kerry was elected in 2004, we wouldn’t have bin laden. we’d still be apologizing.
jomojava the infidel commented:
16 hours……that’s a round of golf and a good night’s sleep for Mr. Toughguy.
bg commented:
++
Obama’s 72 Versions
==
squeaky commented:
bg – 72 versions [if you can't dazzle them with your brilliance baffle them with your bs] he looking for the version that lets him have his cake and eat it too..
obama – no more mr nice guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5mxXEIcQCc
workingclass artist commented:
Hmmmmm…..maybe Bin Laden really has been on ice & that’s why we don’t get the pics….Maybe Bush killed Bin Laden before Soetoro bluffed his way into the office….
Joanne commented:
A picture is worth a thousand words, and Obama’s furious expression while watching the Seals go take out Osama makes it very plain – he did not make the call.
Stuart commented:
We all know that if the raid had failed Comrade Zero would be blaming the generals, the military, George W, and any one else he could conceivably tie to the failure. But the Seals pulled it off flawlessly. So all of the credit must go to Obama for saying Uh, oh, uh, well………….uh, oh,
(Dear reader please imagine 16 hours of this.)…….oh, well, OK.
tw commented:
Right, Bush sending SEALs into the middle of nowhere Pakistan/Afghanistan is just like sending SEALs into the well populated city of Abottabad with their military training facility there. No remote chance that the two incidents are different. Civilian casualties, etc.
anne commented:
Ummmm…. he didn’t capture his targets. But umm, Bush did it first. And without thinking or planning. so yea. He did what Obama did, but didn’t succeed, so that makes Bush better. Yea.
This is comical. Thanks for the laughs!
DSchoen commented:
In the area of gutsy calls I would put the “Doolittle Raid” as more gutsy than this.
This caused the Japanese to over extend themselves as they didn’t know where the land based bombers came from.
Also the decision to drop the “A-bomb” was a more gutsy call.
As for a “hit” based on intel I would put “Operation Vengeance” above this.
On April 18th 1943 a group of 18 American fighters, piloted by a hand picked group of airmen was sent to find and shoot down the airplane transporting Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.
These aircraft were sent after intercepting a Japanese coded transmission which revealed that Yamamoto would be on an inspection tour of forward air bases. All aboard the two Betty bombers were killed.
Risks? Letting the Japanese we had broken their code and were reading their plans in “real time”.
barry commented:
It was a cowardly call by the Obama. It takes no courage to send a commando team into a military cantonment under the protection of radar and missile defenses .
Only Republicans can take courageous decisions like sending a plane load of weapons to Iran and begging for the release of hostages. Or not sending troops as requested by local commanders to Tora Bora. Or providing Pakistan with tens of billions in aid for their ‘support and cooperation’ while a mass murderer enjoys life in a military cantonment in a hill station.
Obama, as GOP mascot and obese, impotent, draft dodger, Limbaugh belches on the radio — this decision required no courage, intelligence or judgement.
One is left to wonder who is more upset at the demise of OBL or the GOP?
jorgen commented:
Obama’s call was only gutsy as he did not want to kill Osama and undoubtedly had to be forced to give the order. Obama is an appeaser.
Sue commented:
Nice try!
Bush came out empty handed.
Oh yeah didn’t Bush say this:
“I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care.
It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.”
- President GW Bush, 3/13/02
Chisum commented:
Oh yeah didn’t Bush say this:
“I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care.
It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.”
- President GW Bush, 3/13/02
Sue,
Actually he didn’t.
http://www.911truth.org/article_for_printing.php?story=20110502145352871
Instead of simply repeating liberal talking points perhaps you should look things up for yourself.
Neo commented:
As Tec, the gang leader, says in the 2003 movie “Malibu’s Most Wanted” …
Tec: [high-pitched scream] STOP IT! You say one more line and I’mma have to smoke myself!
Obama has made himself into a “one trick pony” that has run it’s course.