(CNN) -- The decision by President Barack Obama to launch the assault that killed Osama bin Laden
was one of the "gutsiest" calls by any president in recent memory, Obama's top counterterrorism adviser said Monday.John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, said that despite intelligence indicating that bin Laden was in the compound in Pakistan, there was no certainty the al Qaeda leader was actually there.
Obama "made what I believe was one of the ... gutsiest calls of any president in recent memory," Brennan said."It was probably one of the most anxiety-filled periods of time I think in the lives of the people who were assembled here yesterday," Brennan said, referring to the officials involved in overseeing the operation. "The minutes passed like days and the president was very concerned about the security of our personnel.
"When we finally were informed that those individuals who were able to go on that compound had found an individual that they believed was bin Laden there was a tremendous sigh of relief that what we believed and who we believed was in that compound actually was in that compound and was found. And the president was relieved once we had our people and those remains off target."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/02/bin.laden.dead/index.html?hpt=T1you can almost feel the eyes rolling from the GOP can't you..
Look, I don't presume to give Obama all the credit since he didn't pull the trigger, but he did keep his word about going into Pakistan when he damn well felt like it if he found out OBL was there.. and it sounds as if while they were pretty sure it was OBL before they went, they weren't certain until they got there.. and that is pretty ballsy IMO..
But it also goes along with his entire presidency of higher terrorists deaths..
so like him/love him/hate him just because.. he deserves his kudos in this..
I heard someone on some channel say this morning (not an exact quote) something along this of (with my own words added to his)
"I'm glad this wasn't a 'bombing' or a 'drone' attack, I'm glad that OBL got to hear the helicopters coming and got to know they were coming for him. I'm glad he got to hear and understand the automatic weapons fire was coming for him, I'm glad that he got to hear English being spoken by US Navy SEALS along with that gunfire. I'm glad he heard it,saw it and knew the US had finally caught him."gave me goosebumps just typing it out...
