F*cking loudmouthed Joe Biden

May 4, 2011:

Joe Biden opens his mouth about US Navy SEALs

Since President Barack Obama announced that “a small team of Americans” had killed Osama bin Laden, US government officials have carefully stuck to the line that they will not talk about which units were involved.
Obama did not say it was the SEALs. In numerous television appearances, Obama’s counter-terrorism chief John Brennan didn’t and his deputy national security adviser Denis McDonough didn’t. Despite the numerous news reports that named the SEALs, none of the anonymous briefers from the CIA and Pentagon would confirm it.
Here’s a typical response to a question about the SEALs from a senior defence official in a Pentagon briefing on Monday:

QUESTION: Can I ask you, can you confirm that it was a (Navy) SEAL team? And was this a specially designated team that had been practising or reviewing intelligence for a while and they were the unit of choice?
SENIOR DEFENCE OFFICIAL:  Not going to comment on units or numbers.

But here’s what the legendarily verbose and loose-lipped Vice President Joe Biden said at a dinner at Washington’s Ritz Carlton Hotel last night to mark the 50th anniversary of the Atlantic Council:

Let me briefly acknowledge tonight’s distinguished honorees.  Admiral James Stavridis is a, is the real deal.  He can tell you more about and understands the incredible, the phenomenal, the just almost unbelievable capacity of his Navy SEALs and what they did last Sunday.

And:

Folks, I’d be remiss also if I didn’t say an extra word about the incredible events, extraordinary events of this past Sunday.  As Vice President of the United States, as an American, I was in absolute awe of the capacity and dedication of the entire team, both the intelligence community, the CIA, the SEALs.  It just was extraordinary.

August 5, 2011:

ST6 Loses Nearly 10 Percent in Afghan Crash

The horrible loss of 22 SEALs from the elite SEAL Team 6, as reported by the Associated Press, would mean that the secretive unit lost nearly 10 percent of its force of an estimated 300 operators. That’s a crushing blow to the Teams and a horrible loss to the Navy and the American people if accurate.
Let’s also not forget the loss of a reported three Air Force Combat Controllers, the baddest assed close air support experts in the world. Our prayers go out to the Afghan commandos who accompanied these assualters on their mission. You know that if there were some ANA troopers on this one, they were some of the best Afghanistan had.

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Connecting The Dots

This could be just coincidence. Or it could be a combination of good intelligence, good planning, a healthy dose of luck, and the benefit of the goddamned assholes in the Obama administration who couldn’t keep their fucking mouths shut and put his re-election over basic operational security.

I’ve often said that while the mission planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid were almost textbook perfect (the loss of one helicopter notwithstanding), the followthrough by the Obama administration was just as textbook an example of letting political considerations trump all else.

We've a rank amateur as Commander in Chief; one who has never served. Neither did his lickspittle VP. We've that same rank amateur running this nation right now.

God Bless our Troops; God Speed to our fallen warriors.

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