They had already taken out folks with the Intel. It has an expiration date you know. You are not looking at the whole picture Originally Posted by WTF
Didn't President Bush land a jet on the carrier? Originally Posted by CuteOldGuyBush was in the Air National Guard. Landing a plane on a carrier is a unique skill set.
Whether he said it our not, the enemy would have to assume and act accordingly. I would assume that is wtf we would do if something was potentially compromised.I would add that the lower levels of his chain of command might not have had any access to much of the info or had any idea what it contained or pertained to. The safe house information may have been a ploy to get them to abandon the safe houses they already had. The actual locations of many of them would be compartmentalized to keep this exact situation from blowing the organization apart. The safe houses bin Laden would go to would be unknown to most of the lower level troops. Maybe the opposite was true also. It would be a big gamble for them to stay in current safe houses.
Look the article had one former Seal, now in politics, complaining about politics. I'm sure the former Navy Seal is not trying to boost his position in the GOP by doing the exact same thing he is accussing Obama of. Originally Posted by WTF
I'm pretty sure W was flying the jet that landed on the carrier, but I could be wrong.He might have taken the stick while in flight but he would have been hands off during the landing.
And yes, Stevie, I know everything is STILL Bush's fault, even though President Obama has been in office for more than three years.
Hey, since everything is Bush's fault, maybe he gave the order to kill bin Laden after all? Bush is still apparently running the country, so I think maybe he should get credit for this, since he gets the blame for everything else. Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
I think that was the case. If I remember right, they let him control it in the air for awhile, but the Pilot/Co-Pilot landed the jet. Originally Posted by CuteOldGuyIt's relativly easy to control a plane in fight. Landing on a runway in a fighter is much tougher than landing a private type aircraft because of the higher landing speed. Landing a fighter on a carrier deck is pretty much a controled crash on a very specific chuck of land about the length of 2 football fields. That's moving, pitching, and rolling along at @ 40 mph.
I think that was the case. If I remember right, they let him control it in the air for awhile, but the Pilot/Co-Pilot landed the jet. Originally Posted by CuteOldGuyI think the rest of the flight probably went something like this.