{"id":29757,"date":"2012-05-01T09:28:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T13:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29757"},"modified":"2012-05-01T09:28:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T13:28:45","slug":"29757","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29757","title":{"rendered":"SEALs speak out on anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel and Old Trooper sent us a link to the UK’s Daily Mail<\/a> who bothered to take a chance to interview SEALs about how they felt that there was a big celebration going on today about the killing of bin Laden a year ago;<\/p>\n

Ryan Zinke, a former Commander in the US Navy who spent 23 years as a SEAL and led a SEAL Team 6 assault unit, said: \u2018The decision was a no brainer. I applaud him for making it but I would not overly pat myself on the back for making the right call.<\/p>\n

\u2018I think every president would have done the same. He is justified in saying it was his decision but the preparation, the sacrifice – it was a broader team effort.\u2019<\/p>\n

Mr Zinke, who is now a Republican state senator in Montana, added that MR Obama was exploiting bin Laden\u2019s death for his re-election bid. \u2018The President and his administration are positioning him as a war president using the SEALs as ammunition. It was predictable.\u2019\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mitt Romney said yesterday<\/a> that “even Jimmy Carter” would have made the same decision. In fact Jimmy Carter did make a “gutsy call” and sent in the Desert One Raid to Tehran. It failed and he paid the price at the polls a few months later.<\/p>\n

I did an interview with Human Events yesterday on the same subject which hasn’t been published yet, but I made the point that we don’t normally celebrate the anniversaries of deaths of our enemies. When have we ever celebrated the anniversary of Hitler’s death on April 30, 1945? No one has ever suggested we celebrate Saddam Hussein’s death (December 30, 2006) and he was an enemy a lot longer than bin Laden was our enemy. But the difference, I suppose, is that Hussein was captured and killed during the Bush Administration.<\/p>\n

From the Daily Mail’s link;<\/p>\n

A serving SEAL Team member said: \u2018Obama wasn\u2019t in the field, at risk, carrying a gun. As president, at every turn he should be thanking the guys who put their lives on the line to do this. He does so in his official speeches because he speechwriters are smart.<\/p>\n

\u2018But the more he tries to take the credit for it, the more the ground operators are saying, \u201cCome on, man!\u201d It really didn\u2019t matter who was president. At the end of the day, they were going to go.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, but when it’s the only successful thing he’s done in office, what do you really expect him to do. Run on his long list of failures? I just think it’s disingenuous of Obama to stand on the shoulders of the same troops who his Defense Department is currently screwing on healthcare. <\/p>\n

Yeah, f*ck you very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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