Obama Doubles Down

Obama just doesn't get that Americans really don't think it was that hard of a call to send in the SEAL's after Osama. He spent the weekend spiking the football and now has repeated his rhetoric that Romney wouldn't have pulled the trigger:

Asked about Romney’s comments from earlier this morning belittling how difficult the decision to go after bin Laden may have been, the president said “As far as my personal role and what other folks would do, I’d just recommend that everybody take a look at people’s previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to go into Pakistan and take out bin Laden. I assume that people meant what they said when they said it. That’s been at least my practice.”

Okay, I'll play this game. Here's what Romney said:

It’s wrong for a person running for president of the United States to get on TV and say we’re going to go into your country unilaterally. Of course America always maintains our option to do whatever we think is in the best interest of America. But we don’t go out and say “ladies and gentleman of Germany, if ever there was a problem in your country [and] we didn’t think you were doing the right thing, we reserve the right to come in and get them out”.We don’t say those things, we keep our options quiet.

Emphasis in Hot Air link.

This is all bullshit and purely political and Obama knows it but it plays horribly in my opinion. Not one president would have declined to authorize the raid to take out a man who personally ordered and paid for the deaths of nearly 3,000 people. Even Bill Clinton, who wavered and did not pull the trigger prior to 9/11 would have given the go-ahead without a second thought.

When Arianna Huffington says this is a bad idea politically, you know the rest of us who have suffered through this administration really hate what he's doing. "Despicable" is not a word that leaves any wiggle room.

Obama Killed Osama In Case You Forgot

Really? I mean, how petty and un-presidential is Obama:

A year after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama’s team is launching another precision operation: a full-scale public relations offensive aimed at using the bin Laden mission to boost the president’s reelection bid.

We get it, Obama green-lighted a mission that anyone in his position would have. It didn't take courage if you felt you were doing what was in the best interest of the nation, that what he was elected for. The real courage was shown by the SEAL's and the Army pilots that flew precision routes and got them home.

It takes real big balls to go into what may be the un-friendliest nation in the world, attack a home right near their military academy and kill the man they've sworn to protect. Spare me the rhetoric, Obama. Real men accomplish things and allow others to talk about them, instead we have this insecure moron leading an ad campaign affirming his supposed greatness and guts in ordering true real men to do the task.

 Obama never had the real patriotism and guts required to serve in any branch of our military and, in fact, abhors the military and everything they stand for. Without a standing military honed to a sharp edge by policies put in place by Donald Rumsfeld, the mission would possibly have ended like Carter's misadventure did.

 If this is the best he's got to show the country after nearly four years, he's in a for an ass-kicking of Reaganesque proportions akin to when the Gipper whacked Mondale.

 By the way, the alleged genius Commander in Chief didn't even call the shots.

Update: More at Breitbart.

Noted Environmentalist Warns of Global Warming

Quoth the leader of the International Panel on Climate Change:

leader blamed the United States and other industrialized nations for climate change and said the only way to prevent disaster was to break the American economy, calling on the world to boycott U.S. goods and stop using the dollar...

..."The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous decades have now become frequent,"...

...leader noted Washington's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and painted the United States as in the thrall of major corporations that he said "are the true criminals against the global climate" and are to blame for the global economic crisis, driving "tens of millions into poverty and unemployment."...

No, it wasn't the leader of the IPCC (but could easily have been as he's been known to slam the US and lie to get his way), it's Osama bin-Laden allegedly in a new video. Brilliant actually, nothing will motivate the world's leftists like blaming America for destroying the world with our large emissions of carbon dioxide. Hell, that could have easily been Barbara Boxer uttering those words instead of the man responsible for the deaths of 3,000 people in lower Manhattan.

I'm sure the global warming schemers have already devised a mechanism in their fetid little minds whereby they conveniently forget and forgive that the dust from the towers, the carbon released from the burning of the fuel and the oil released by the French supertanker Limburg into the Red Sea. The Earth was just collateral damage in the greater battle.

A new alliance is born, folks. On one side we have theocratic ideologues who hate the US and will abide no questions contradictory to their religion and on the other we have al-Qaeda. A marriage made in Paradise.

Monday Afternoon News and Notes

On the road again...

I waited for weeks for spring to spring and instead we went right to summer. It was a scorcher in Rehoboth and throughout the northeast this weekend. If this global warming, I'm all for it.

Here's what's news:

-According to the Pakistani ISI, Osama is currently Satan's buttboy (or his enema giver)having left this Earth. Not sure if we can trust them but I've generally suspected he's been dead for a few years. Hey, one can hope.

-I saw the best bumper sticker this weekend on an SUV. It read "I already have a savior, I'm looking for a president". This would be why it was created.

-Us evil Republicans want everybody to get swine flu and die--provided those who do are heathen liberals don't you know. Or something like that. Hey, it's progress, they blamed it on Rove and not on Bush.

-DICK Polman is such a sycophant for Obama he knows what The Ones jockstrap smells like:

On the cusp of his first 100 days in office, the new president is fully embarked on his transformative mission, dominating the news cycle by sheer force of his telegenic cool, exuding confidence, and prompting downhearted Americans to feel better about their troubled country.

DICK evidently hasn't been paying attention to the first 100-days. Does anyone wonder why the Inquirer is losing readers at an alarming rate with bias such as this while the Wall Street Journal is gaining?

-Swine flu hits US, Obama team is woefully unprepared and understaffed.

Barney Frank: Let's Reduce Defense Spending 25%

Hey, we need to get those who have been repeatedly beaten down by evil capitalists some money asap so we'll just take 25% of our military funding while we're at war to do it:

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said Democrats will push for a stimulus package after the November election, and called for a package reducing defense spending by 25 percent while saying Congress will "eventually" raise taxes.

Frank told the editorial board of the SouthCoast Standard-Times that he wanted to reduce defense spending by a quarter, meaning the United States would have to withdraw from Iraq sooner.

"The people of Iraq want us out, and we want to stay over their objection," he said. "It's extraordinary."

Frank also said the post-election stimulus package will focus on spending for building projects, extending unemployment benefits, and further supporting states' healthcare costs. "We'll have to raise taxes ultimately," Frank said. "Not now, but eventually." Frank told the Standard-Times that if Democrats cannot secure the votes they need in November, they will try again in January, when they will likely have stronger majorities in the House and Senate.

So Rep. Frank wants to make sure our infrastructure, unemployment benefits and health care is intact at the expense of our military. That'll make Osama bin Laden really happy.

People like Frank will ensure that 2010 looks like 1994 all over again. We have two weeks to make our case that these people will destroy America. It's probably too damn late.

WaPo Just Making Things Up Now

The Washington Post finds one obscure posting on an Islamist website and concludes that the Jihadi's are supporting McCain:

Al-Qaeda is watching the U.S. stock market's downward slide with something akin to jubilation, with its leaders hailing the financial crisis as a vindication of its strategy of crippling America's economy through endless, costly foreign wars against Islamist insurgents.

And at least some of its supporters think Sen. John McCain is the presidential candidate best suited to continue that trend.

"Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election," said a commentary posted Monday on the extremist Web site al-Hesbah, which is closely linked to the terrorist group. It said the Arizona Republican would continue the "failing march of his predecessor," President Bush.

While everyone else in the world--al-Qaeda especially--seems to be pulling for Obama because they know The One will curtail our successful efforts against terrorism, the WaPo has to shill for their man and intimate that it is in fact McCain they want.

It's funny, really, that Obama's own running mate even thinks that al-Qaeda or some other terror group will test him within the first six-months of his assuming the Oval Office. Yet, the Post has to protect Obama and print this garbage based on nothing more than a single post among millions. I even like the way they worm in that they're not quite sure if it reflects bin-Laden's views.

I think I once read a comment on Daily Kos that said that the Post is not biased to the left so it must be true, right?

Update: Just as I thought.

US Nabs bin-Laden Aide

I'm of the belief that George W. Bush has made a conscious effort to step up action in the War on Terror because he knows that if Obama were to win, the gains we made would be in serious jeopardy, as would our collective national security.

We've seen the extermination (probably) of Adam Gadahn and others in Pakistan and the coming spring offensive will be bolstered by the presence of more French troops (damn, never thought I'd write that).

Today comes word that we captured us a good one:

The Pentagon said on Friday it has taken custody from the CIA of an Afghan national who helped arrange Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's escape from Tora Bora in 2001, a spokesman said Friday.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman would not say when or where Muhammad Rahim was captured or how long he was held by the CIA, but said he was transferred to US military custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba earlier this week.

"He is one of UBL's (Osama bin Laden's) most trusted facilitators and procurement specialists. He helped prepare Tora Bora as a hideout for Osama bin Laden. He assisted Al-Qaeda's exodus from the area in late 2001," Whitman said.

I sure hope they don't play Christina Aguilera too loud or keep him up past his bedtime.

Anyway, this is a good get and we seem to be picking them off at steady clip of late. Perhaps we'll get some information from him as he wiles away the days in the Caribbean paradise of Gitmo.

Exit thought: With all the UBL lieutenants we've captured, do you think that we've gotten the info that bin-Laden is dead and haven't released it? Think about it, we've been on the hunt for 6+ years and haven't had a reported sighting of him in nearly that long. Note how the Pentagon's Whitman phrased that last sentence, the terrorist detainee prepared UBL's hideout but he also helped al-Qaeda get out when it got hot. It's odd that he didn't say that he assisted in getting bin-Laden out.

I may reading too much into that but I've generally thought we took him out in 01 or early 02.

Update: It turns out that the Pakistani's may have had him for up to six months.

Did We Liquidate Zawahiri?

Maybe.

While Osama may be the sizzle, Zawahiri is the steak. He's the man who's been making the live videos the last five years since Osama was turned into rat food inside a cave became reclusive and doesn't do live action anymore.

Here's Roggio:

Pakistani and US intelligence are attempting to sort out the names of the al Qaeda and Taliban operatives killed in yesterday's airstrike in Azam Warzak, South Waziristan. Initial reports indicated Arabs and fighters from Central Asia were killed in the operation. One report indicates an "al Qaeda fugitive from Egypt" was among those killed, sparking rumors that Ayman al Zawahiri was the target of the strike.

South Waziristan Taliban commander Mullah Nazir, who is often characterized as a "pro-government" Taliban leader, appears to be the center of the storm. "Sources said that the militants belonged to the Abu Hamza group whose leader was said to be a follower of local militant commander Maulvi Nazir," Dawn reported. The attack occurred at the home of Shero Wazir, a follower of Nazir "who had rented it out to an Arab."

Definitely thin but the fact that "Arab al-Qaeda" were on the scene makes me think it was someone big. Roggio lays it out in a fashion that makes me think there's more to it but we won't know about it unless al-Qaeda chooses to make a martyr out of him. They didn't do it with many others so the odds are we'll be stuck in the dead/alive limbo we've experienced with Osama since Tora Bora.

Let's hope we vaporized the heathen bastard and his blood soaked turban is stuck on some safe house wall in Waziristan drawing flies.

Either way. we are taking it to al-Qaeda as we have been for six+ years but seem to be stepping it up. They can't be feeling at all comfortable. Perhaps Bush knows that an Obama presidency will mean a defensive posture and allow al-Qaeda to reconstitute itself thus putting us at greater risk than ever. Perhaps Bush knows we have to step it up and take out every single jihadi mofo we can in the next eleven months. At least I hope that's the plan.

Ghadan earlier and now Dr. Zawahiri? If so, it would be at least the most successful week we've had since we caught Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or when we nabbed Zubaydah.