As soon as they realised what was happening, Bin Laden’s guards opened fire from the rooftop with rocket-propelled grenades and apparently managed to shoot down one of the Black Hawks.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Univ. of Michigan Ph.D. Doesn't Know His Principles From The Principal
Honestly, I don't go looking for these mistakes, I just happen to find them somehow! That I find them so broadly distributed and at the supposedly highest levels is a bad sign of an accelerating cultural decline.
". . . Bell’s principle concern in the chapter is to correct some popular misconceptions . . .."
It is a popular misconception that there is mastery of knowledge apart from mastery of the language with which one expresses it.
Go to the principal's office at once!
(source)
A Lovely Grammatical Error, By a So-Called Associate Professor
". . . including one recently convened by my colleagues and I from Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion . . .."
Seen here, by I.
Savage Asks: Why Now? Why Get "bin Laden" on Sunday?
To wipe the royal wedding off the news cycle, because Obama wasn't invited. The I-Me-My-Narcissist excuse.
Sorry, nice dig, but too short-sighted, and it underestimates the size of that narcissistic ego, whose fortunes all hinge on race. If Obama suddenly appeared white, it would all be over in an instant.
Re-election is the goal. Ending the war in Afghanistan is the one obstacle he can still affect. The end of "bin Laden," who may well have died long ago, leads easily to closure of that debacle. Alexander the Great might have concluded as much, who got bogged down and fought until he was tired, and needed to move on.
So find a victory, declare it, and get the hell out.
The original plan had called for the first withdrawals, after the ramp-up, "the surge," to begin this summer. The "bin Laden" victory in May provides the necessary praeparatio to start them. Ending America's longest war "successfully" will make Obama popular with the troops and with the people, who all are weary.
"Bin Laden" Had Plenty of Time to Arm Himself as Others Were "Eliminated"
The "lunge" for a weapon when faced with a US Navy Seal in the doorway is pure fantasy. He had plenty of time to prepare with a weapon as the systematic assault unfolded.
How about a lunge for cover instead, and a bullet in the back of the head as he went?
And in a revelation which appears to lend weight to the claims in Pakistan, a senior US defence official told reporters that only one of the five people killed in the raid that took down Osama Bin Laden was armed and ever fired a shot.
And the official said the shooter was killed in the early minutes of the commando assault, in an account that differs greatly from the original reports which portrayed a chaotic, prolonged firefight amid stiff resistance.
The new details emerged after officials debriefed the Navy Seals who pulled off the raid in Pakistan.
He said the operation was a precision, floor-by-floor mission through Bin Laden's compound where all of the others encountered were not carrying weapons and were quickly eliminated.
. . . Especially if the US Navy Seal Shot "bin Laden" in the Back of the Head
"It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence or as a propaganda tool."
-- Obama, quoted here
A caller to Rush Limbaugh today suggested, on the analogy of the headshot to JFK, that the exit wound is the problem here, not the entry wound.
News Organizations Tip-Toe Up to Fact of White House Incompetence and Lies
Even the gullible UK Daily Mail has noticed:
The raid on Bin Laden's lair has been the focus of a constantly changing stream of information from the White House.
So has the normally compliant Reuters:
US accounts of what happened have changed throughout the week, and initial characterizations of a 40-minute gun battle have given way to officials being quoted as saying only one of the five people who were killed had been armed.
AP Report Shows Obama Intended to Kill, Not Capture: Only One Was Armed
This was a state sanctioned murder of unarmed combatants, which Obama and his attorney general have insisted in the past be treated as civilian criminals. So not only were his actions illegal and contrary to the American values he has claimed to defend, his actions were contrary to his own definition of those values:
Only one of the five people killed in the raid that got Osama bin Laden was armed and fired a shot . . ..
As the Navy SEALs moved into bin Laden's compound, they were fired on by bin Laden's courier, who was in the guesthouse, the official said. The SEALs returned fire, and the courier was killed, along with a woman with him. ...
The Americans were never fired on again as they encountered and killed a man on the first floor and then bin Laden's son on a staircase, before arriving at bin Laden's room. Officials have said bin Laden was killed after he appeared to be lunging for a weapon.
The complete story is here.
Obama Would Tax You By The Mile If He Could
Obama is trying to figure out yet another way to tax Americans:
The Obama administration has floated a transportation authorization bill that would require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based on how many miles they drive.
Read the rest here.
"It is necessary [in a tyranny] also to multiply taxes, as at Syracuse; where Dionysius in the space of five years collected all the private property of his subjects into his own coffers."
-- Aristotle, Politics
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Leon Panetta to the Rescue: Implicates Live Feed Breakdown for Ignorant Statements
See the video here:
"[T]here was a time period of almost 20 or 25 minutes where we - you know, we really didn't know just exactly what was going on . . .."
Live Feed From Abbottabad Assault Was Cut Off For 25 Minutes
The White House was blind during that whole time:
Leon Panetta, director of the CIA, revealed there was a 25 minute blackout during which the live feed from cameras mounted on the helmets of the US special forces was cut off.
Full story here.
The President Lied to the World on Sunday Night
“After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.”
There was no firefight. There were no weapons in the compound. The only fire came from US Navy Seals, ordered (unlawfully) to execute "Osama."
Waterboarding, no.
Execution of an unarmed combatant, yes.
Impeachable offenses, yes.
The Petty Tyrant Stiffs The Free Republic of Texas, Twice
No space shuttle, no fire disaster aid.
Story here.
"A tyrant also should show no favour to a man of worth or a freeman; for he should think, that no one deserved to be thought these but himself; for he who supports his dignity, and is a friend to freedom, encroaches upon the superiority and the despotism of the tyrant: such men, therefore, they naturally hate, as destructive to their government."
-- Aristotle, Politics
"A tyrant also should show no favour to a man of worth or a freeman; for he should think, that no one deserved to be thought these but himself; for he who supports his dignity, and is a friend to freedom, encroaches upon the superiority and the despotism of the tyrant: such men, therefore, they naturally hate, as destructive to their government."
-- Aristotle, Politics
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