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Killing Bin Laden: The President's Story, Part 1

May 8, 2011 5:00 PM

In his first and only interview since the killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama talks to Steve Kroft about the intelligence and preparations leading up to the operation in Pakistan.

President Obama on the mission to kill bin Laden

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by AutoCAD712 May 17, 2011 1:19 PM EDT
Ok. Privatesectorevolt......
How about sharing with us lowly cult members the names of these "Numerous independent investigators" that you reference, so that we may also benefit directly from their vast wisdom as you clearly have. This would undoubtedly be be "conveniant" for us as well. Also, are we REALLY going to talk about IQ scores after 8 years of George W. Bush speeches????
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by areystreet May 16, 2011 10:34 AM EDT
It was a rough two days for Obama's high value targets -- Trump and Bin Laden. Who is next on that list?
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by RFJJ May 15, 2011 8:18 PM EDT
All I can say is, that after 8 years of bravado, we finally have a president who can get the job done.
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by fromadistantshore May 15, 2011 5:35 PM EDT
It's disheartening and downright sickening to read some of these hateful, racist anti-Obama comments. The people who post this garbage should be ashamed of themselves. American soldiers have fought and died to ensure our right to free speech and this is what they choose to do with it?

If this country goes down the drain, it will be due to people like these, who live in the greatest country on earth and have not one iota of gratitude for the priviledge. Please do the rest of us a favor and go back into your holes in the ground if all you want to do is destroy our country with your hate. As one pundit put it, the right wing is so ludicrously negative that if Barack Obama walked on water, they'd say it was because he couldn't swim.
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by strakha May 15, 2011 7:04 AM EDT
People like the person commenting below really need to drop that bipartisan mentality, and thank Obama for doing a good thing. I did not hear a single word about Bush getting Saddam that was not relief or gratitude, no matter which party they belonged to.

Comments like that belie a thought process that is unfortunately endemic in the Republican Party right now. Did you know that approximately 50% of Republicans doubt President Obama's citizenship? I find that disgraceful, worrying, and damaging to our democratic process. We need to argue on the basis of real issues, and not simple support our "Team" no matter what they say or do. To take that approach is to admit that you have never thought about the issue, which is arguably the most important decision a person has to make.

To vote is a privilege and a great responsibility, and it must be approached with a sensible, mature, and most of all analytical nature. Every vote is counted equally, and you owe it to your fellow countrymen who look deeply, and agonise over their decision, to do the same.

Just remember, we only get as good a leader as what we deserve.
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by mystawnya May 14, 2011 3:33 PM EDT
liberty and justice for all who live under our flag and our anthem
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by Shadow_Angel17 May 12, 2011 9:13 PM EDT
Thank You So Much Mr.Obama Your My New Hero You Helped A Lot Of My Friends Families To Forget About The Fateful Day In New York With The Twin Towers My Friends Uncle And Her Father Were Killed In The Sept.11th Attack One Was Killed In The Plane That Hit The First Tower And The Other In The Field Were That One Plane Crushed We All Love You In Wythe County,VA
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by Greg_J May 12, 2011 9:52 AM EDT
I have just watched the whole interview with Obama, and quite frankly I feel sick in my stomach with the words of this self-righteous individual. I cannot describe him as 'Whiter than White', because he is not. He is an evil mongrel, who uses USA's military might to justify and still threaten others in their own countries with what he and America will do to them in the future. To give this man the Nobel Peace Prize was also the most sickening event that all decent people on this earth had witnessed.


Obama declared himself to be GOD when he said that Osama deserved the justice delivered to him. He is the one who needs his head examined. When talking about dumping the body in the sea Obama says that, "Frankly, we took more care on this than obviously Bin Laden did. He did not have much regard for how they were treated and desecrated. That is something which makes us different". He has also said at other times that, "That is not what we are". If I were interviewing him as an investigative, and not career journalist, I surely would have asked Obama, how the USA was different in invading Iraq twice, when the Iraqis had not done any harm to anyone in the USA, and they, along with the Pakistanis had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11.


I would have questioned him how he and the like-minded American are different deliberately dropping bunker-busting bomb in Iraq, where over 200 women and children were sheltering, burning them alive. Using daisy-cutter bombs, which suck the air out of other human beings lungs. Using cluster bombs, depleted uranium enriched ammunition, firing tens of thousands of cruise missiles, and millions of tons of bombs on Muslims populations in various countries. That is exactly what you are Obama, a murderous President of the biggest terrorist state on this earth. I still do not wish any harm in the future to any of the DECENT Americans. But, you know the LAW of NATURE, "What goes round, comes around", and "Bigger they come, the harder they fall.


When are you going to make Israel OBEY the International Community, macho Obama? NEVER EVER, is the answer!
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by anon0101 May 11, 2011 2:52 PM EDT
YAY~!! It only took OH... a decade and how many young people & soldiers lives over that 10 years. Along with a huge chunk of the current debt. This.. this is a win? only on the grounds Bin Laden is dead. What i wonder is how he "eluded Justice" for so long in 1 Million $$ Home about 1 mile away from that countries military base surrounded by almost 20 feet tall walls. C'mon the most sought after guy in the world for 10 years and he was hardly even hiding if you could call it that. I guess, I just sure hope this isn't the new standard of excellence to expect from future military goals... I don't Doubt that Usama is dead, i Figured he was killed some time back before i got this news. To be honest though I am less inclined to take Obomas word of this on account of half of every thing he says seems to be complete pud. If this were all a big joke though... how easy would it be to snag credit for the death of a dude that half the world had already assumed was already dead and then offer no decent evidence. Hah... Funny to ponder, completely false i know, but still a decent laugh.
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by msmith8441 May 11, 2011 9:25 AM EDT
Panetta ordered the raid. Obama is spinning another tale.....

http://socyberty.com/issues/white-house-insider-obama-hesitated-panetta-issued-order-to-kill-osama-bin-laden/
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