When it comes to bin Laden, does getting it right matter?
Aug 30, 2012, 8:46 PM | Updated: Aug 31, 2012, 12:01 am
Another report has come out about a new book entitled No Easy Day, written by a member of the elite Navy SEAL Team 6.
The description of how uber-terrorist and al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was dispatched from this Earth contradicts the account leaked by the Obama administration.
After bin Laden was announced dead by our president in May of 2011, reports suspiciously started to surface that he fought in vain as the SEAL team descended on his compound in the dead of night, even grabbing one of his wives and cowardly using her as a human shield.
Not so, according to the new book that comes out Sept. 4. Bin laden was shot in the head as he peered out of his bedroom into the hallway. He wasn’t spraying bullets like a scene out of an action movie. He was dead before he hit the ground.
After team members found him lying on the ground, they plugged him with several more rounds until he stopped twitching. So much for the “capture or kill directive” that was fed to and regurgitated by the media last year.
I am not angry nor upset at the way Osama bin Laden was killed. I am glad he’s dead, and I am glad the president made the decision to send our elite guys into another country to snuff his evil ass out.
What really bothers me is that we’ve been lied to before when it comes to both successful and tragic military operations: how Jessia Lynch was “liberated” from an enemy hospital. How Pat Tillman was tragically killed in Afghanistan, followed by the absolute farce, the hellish charade the military put his family through trying to get to the truth.
So why did the administration have to weave a tale, a lie, a fabrication as to what actually happened to Osama bin Laden? After all, bin Laden is still dead. Isn’t that what matters?
Look, it doesn’t matter if you brazenly display a “mission accomplished” banner for all the world to see on an aircraft carrier or you insidiously and calculatingly decide to leak a fantastical story about something that didn’t happen.
It’s the same thing in my eyes.