Oama is dead, or so I'm told

Two weeks ago, the driving story in the media was Donald Trump and the whereabouts of the president's birth certificate. All of that ceased to be of any interest to the nation at 10:50 PM Sunday night, when the first news reports began to confirm that Osama Bin Ladin had been killed in an American military raid in Pakistan.

Since then a number of stories and reports have surfaced and continue to surface surrounding the death of Bin Ladin and how it came to be accomplished, particularly since the man had eluded all efforts to capture or kill him for almost ten years.

The developing story of Bin Ladin's has taken on some expected and some not so expected twists and turns. Presently, the main interest seems to be focused on the release of photographs to supposedly prove that Osama Bin Ladin was in fact killed in the early morning hours of Sunday in Afghanistan. There are those who are claiming that only the release of the photographs can finally put everything to rest. But what can truly be proven by the release of photographs of his dead body or the subsequent videos of his burial at sea. Could you identify the man from his death mask? I couldn't. And who is to say who was wrapped up in a sheet and slid overboard from the USS Carl Vinson. Or if there was in fact a body in the sheet at all.

In my opinion, the larger reality is being completely missed in the aftermath of Bin Ladin's reported death. That reality begs a couple of simple questions. Why now? And why no adverse reactions by American media to his death or how he was killed?

The simple truth of the matter, is that president George Bush in as much promised that we would get him. One day, some how, America would get it's justice against the man. The fact that the opportunities passed and the clock ran for the next nine and a half years without actionable plans to accomplish that goal, seems to have been lost on the masses.

Yes, president Bush promised we would get Bin Ladin. The problem was, nothing was ever really done to accomplish getting Bin Ladin. The closest we ever came during the Bush years was at Tora Bora and we twiddled our thumbs and let that opportunity slip away until the man was gone.

American attention span seems to be about fourteen days on average in my experience. After that, if the media doesn't continually reinforce the reality, Americans become sidetracked by more important issues like Charlie Sheen or Lindsey Lohan or American Idol etc.

George Bush didn't get Osama Bin Ladin for one very simple reason, he never was committed to doing what was required to accomplish getting him. George Bush and America were too concerned over sovereignty issues to do what needed to be done, or go where we needed to go to accomplish getting the man. George Bush made no bones about asserting that the terrorist who had attacked us on 9/11 were our enemies and so were those who harbored those terrorist and that both would be viewed and treated equally by his administration. But that never happened.

Every reasonably intelligent person on this planet has known that Bin Ladin fled to Pakistan after fleeing Afghanistan and everyone has known that he has been there for at least the past nine years. So why the mystery or amazement by media as to his whereabouts. Bin Ladin must have literally sat and laughed while watching CNN at the amusement of the spineless American administrations who knew where he was, yet refused to come get him. Yet Americans were told by our government for almost a decade, that the intelligence just couldn't seem to pin down his whereabouts.

The other obvious story that is being overlooked this week is the debate commentaries of the 2008 election cycle. Commentaries that occurred during the party debates and ultimately between the two candidates once they had been decided. Without exception, each of the republican candidates stated that they would not send troops into Pakistan or any other country to get Bin Ladin, 'even if it could be proved that he was there.' They claimed that they did not want to violate Pakistani sovereignty and additionally, Pakistan was a valued Allie in the war on terror and they would not want to jeopardize that. All but one in the debates held the same position on that point. the one hold out was Barack Obama.

Barack Obama said from the beginning, that if he were president and the opportunity presented itself? He would send American troops into Pakistan to get Bin Ladin. Which brings up an interesting time line problem. Obama made the promise during the campaign, yet it took two and a half years to accomplish. I wonder why? Did it truly take Obama's security team two and a half years to develop the information on Bin Ladin's whereabouts? Or did it take that long before the necessity dictated that it was time.

Seriously, did it take that long to obtain 'actionable intelligence on the man?" Really? Let's see. Bin Ladin was finally found, hiding in the open in one of Pakistan's major urban centers. Behind the walls of a custom built compound, a compound that didn't exist until 2005. A compound that costs over a million dollars to construct six years ago. A compound that was roughly a quarter of a mile from Pakistan's largest military training complex? And no one in Pakistan or America knew?

It was reported yesterday that a gathering of the president's inner circle of national security apparatus was summoned Sunday afternoon to the white house situation room, to watch in real time, the SEALs assault of Bin Ladin's compound. What does that mean? To watch in real time? Simply stated? We have the means (and have had for quite a long time) to utilize real time look down capability from our spy satellites.

Yes, we can literally look down onto anything that we want anywhere on this planet and observe. Day or night, fair weather or fowl, clouds or no clouds. Our satellites can see what is going on anywhere on this planet. We can read the name tags on the uniforms of our soldiers and even see facial expressions of those engaged in conversations. So when they say that Leon Panetta and Robert Gates and Hillary Clinton and the rest of the national security team, were watching the SEALS assault in real time? They were literally watching the helicopters land in the compound. They were seeing the muzzle flashes and they were seeing the infrared signatures of all involved in real time. The good guys and the bad guys, they were all lit up on a big screen in the situation room, stream live via NSA satellite.

Which means? When Osama received the double tap by the SEAL that killed him? The blood pool in the bedroom immediately showed up on the infrared screen in the situation room of the white house. So the president not only ordered Bin Ladin killed, he got to watch him die, along with Hillary and Gates and the rest in the national security inner circle.

Which leads to the next interesting point that seems to be eluding the mainstream media in America. And that point is rater glaring IMO. This was a kill mission, plain and simple. Anyone listening to Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security, John O. Brennan, couldn't have missed the reality that the man reported to the media as the operational guide lines and rules of engagement for this mission.

Brennan as much as admitted that it was a kill mission, stating that a number of conditions had to have been met for Bin Ladin to have surrendered and adding that those conditions weren't met; therefore, he was killed. Excuse me? The bottom line according to Brennan, was that barring Bin Ladin lying face down on a bed butt naked, he was marked to be shot on sight and that is what our SEALS were told going in before they ever left the pads in Afghanistan.

Personally, I have no problem what so ever with that approach to Bin Ladin, but to watch this administration twisting the fibers of this story into the whole cloth that they want displayed as the truth is something to behold.

Had George Bush sent a SEAL team into Pakistan to assassinate Bin Ladin, we would still be holding congressional hearings and the left would still be demanding impeachment proceedings for having violated the sanctity and sovereignty of another nation.

No, make no mistake. We could of had Bin Ladin in 2002 if we had truly wanted him. If we had of had the will to do what was required to get him. If we truly had held Pakistan to the standard that president Bush first asserted immediately after the attacks of 9/11. We could of had him anytime in-between then and last Sunday. Once again, it required nothing more than the will to go in and get him. And Obama finally had the will to do it.

With the real time capabilities that we possess to look down on Pakistan like we did last Sunday? We never utilized them before last Sunday? And then we provided a front row seat to the privileged few in Washington while we assassinated this animal? Yet those same capabilities and those same assets were never used or applied to search for him in Pakistan? At All? No one ever noticed this million dollar compound being built or sitting 1000 feet away from a prominent military landmark? No one ever wondered who might of built the damn thing or who was living there? Yet suddenly? After nine and a half years, we were suddenly able to develop actionable intelligence and go and get the scum bag and kill him?

Which leads to the last of my points. As it concerns the killing of Osama Bin Ladin, president Obama has done everything that he and his party would have literally lynched anyone in the republican party for doing. Hence the reason why the collective gaggle of GOP candidates in 2008 elected to publicly denounce even the thought of going into another country to kill Osama Bin Ladin.

And since the assassination of Bin Ladin, those like Joy Behar on The View (yesterday) have enjoyed the reality that is slowly beginning to sink in with the liberals in this country. Behar openly stated that it's over as far as the 2012 presidential campaign is concerned in her opinion. Behar said that we should just skip 2012 all together, after Obama's performance of taking out Bin Ladin. What else is left to say about the coming election according to Behar.

Which leads to the reality of Sunday's mission. While some will coyly ask (tongue in cheek) for the long form death certificate for Bin Ladin and others will demand to see the photographs of the deceased vermin, the president can sail right along and collect all the glory for doing what should have been done years ago. The death of Osama Bin Ladin is the monster wave with the beautiful curl that this administration has been waiting to ride. Surely, they created it and they are more than happy to ride it right into the sunset.

So no, The killing of Osama Bin Ladin was not ordered for Sunday night, simply as a means to disrupt Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice, regardless of what the conspiracists might say. The Killing of Bin Ladin was ordered and executed as a means to distract the public away from Obama's failed economic policy issues, a collapsing economy, rising inflation and gas prices moving toward $5 a gallon. Obama gets the much needed shot in the arm in the polls and America gets the carcass of a dead martyr to play with for the next several months while they are distracted from their own misery. And come the 2012 election cycle? You can count on the new Obama slogan being something along the lines of "I got him!"

Meanwhile, the realities remain. Osama Bin Ladin may be dead, but the man's ideas are not dead and the man's extremism of religion are alive and well and prospering. The ideas and Islamic militancy of Osama Bin Ladin permeate the middle east and the west like a cancer. And as it concerns militant Muslims and Al Qaida and the followers of the now martyred Osama Bin Ladin? Not a lot has changed on their horizon. They still hate us and they are still committed to destroy us.

So in the final analysis, it could be said that not a lot has been accomplished, aside from a long overdue emotional release. Yeah, we got him and that's about it.