'No Easy Day,' Bin Laden Raid Book: Osama Was Unarmed

More obfuscation and distraction from you.  

I'm Ernie Pyle.  Not good enough for you?  Ok, I'm General Malcolm Granger.  

Our military service in a civilian-controlled military is of no consequence.  Not in general or in relation to this discussion.  It doesn't matter because when you join up, it's not "are you willing to fight for your country?", but "are you willing to die for country?" Once that deal has been cut,  your longevity is whatever strategically suits Command's objectives.  If it suits the CIC to put you in dangerous circumstances for some greater good, the CIC will do it.  And that's why we have (or used to) transparency.  Or as the GOP's favorite president said, "Trust but verify".  

I said "members of Congress who have been designated to oversee military operations".  Not the entire Congress, although the information we're talking about could and should be known to all members and citizens.  

If you can't explain how divulging the true circumstances of how Bin Laden died would be dangerous, I don't think you're an honest character, worthy of attention.
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'No Easy Day,' Bin Laden Raid Book: Osama Was Unarmed

Don't start a p!ssing contest with me.  There's a difference between telling fairy tales lies and saying nothing.  There's also a difference between giving away strategic information to the world and informing the people's representatives (members of Congress who have been designated to oversee military operations) of facts.  

What do you think is a secret here and why should it be secret? 

There's enough that smells about everything coming out of the government, and that has been coming out for several administrations now, to warrant investigations, prosecutions and purges at all levels.
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'No Easy Day,' Bin Laden Raid Book: Osama Was Unarmed

So, fairy tales told by the government to their bosses (the American people) is what this democratic republic is all about to you.
About Osama bin Laden
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'No Easy Day,' Bin Laden Raid Book: Osama Was Unarmed

So you believe that Owen is telling the truth, and that's how he is betraying his friends and discrediting the military: By contradicting the official line that the Obama administration announced to the world?
About Osama bin Laden
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'No Easy Day,' Bin Laden Raid Book: Osama Was Unarmed

Anyone who says "Obama killed OBL", I ask, "How do you know?"  

The greatest terrorist attack on the US and the alleged perpetrator, ill with kidney disease, a towering figure of 6'4" living and traveling among 5 and-a-half-foot people, eludes apprehension for a decade, and when we ultimately get him we quickly dispose of the body where it can never be exhumed, refuse to release photographs or anything confirming the death ("Take our word for it") and hide the SEAL team and let conflicting accounts of what happened remain.

It's as likely to be true as the official account of 9/11, where the US sent all of the steel from the WTC to China, untested, to be recycled.  

We don't do that.  We salvage downed air planes from the bottom of the ocean and reconstruct them in hangars to find out what happened.  It's why we are a nation run by rule of law and not rule of man.  Where we examine evidence in courtrooms to get to the truth.  

But all that is over.  

The situation might have been remedied had Democrats and Obama come into office investigat­ing and prosecutin­g the Bush administer­tion, Wall Street, defense contractors, and restoring the 'rule of law'.  BushCheney exploited the inherent weaknesses in the Constituti­on:  A precarious balance of power between the three branches of government­.  But Obama refused, and has continued the BushCheney disregard of the Constituti­on, even going beyond BushCheney abuses.

Do you know that the Pentagon has no photos of the dead OBL, and no DNA analysis was done on OBL.  Nor does any video exist of the raid, either at the scene, at the Pentagon, in the WH Situation Room.

If you want to talk about OBL, then let's throw the windows open and get a real investigation.  Starting with what actually happened on 9/11 (the 911 Commission was a cruel joke), the policies that led to 9/11, our response to it, the post-9/11 policies which have us in a perpetual state of war with Americans being no safer.
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