The Insult to the American Soldier

[Warph]

The Insult to the American Soldier

"Can't anybody here play this game?"

The president, revealing himself to be Barack Obungle, has done what nobody else could have done, not even the spectacularly hapless original New York Mets, who drove Casey Stengel to his famous cry of terminal frustration.
(Barack Obungle... Great name for that putz in the WH.  I may have to use that... Warph)

The White House converted a picture-perfect military operation into a public-relations disaster that will be cited as what not to do and how not to do it in flackery textbooks for a hundred years. Days after the raid on Osama bin Laden's "mansion" they still can't get the "fact pattern," in the language of the White House, even close to straight.

Even that ubiquitous photograph of the president, the secretary of state and assorted minions bravely watching the operation in "real time" looks now to have been a "photo-op" taken after the fact. This is the scene that the goofy John Brennan, the president's anti-terrorism chief, described as one of unbearable tension endured heroically by the magnificent minions. Hillary seemed to be clutching her throat, choking back terror as she watched the raid unfold, but now Leon Panetta, the chief of the CIA, reveals that 24 minutes of the 40-minute video were "blacked out" by some kind of electronic malfunction. Maybe she was only wishing she had ordered pepperoni with extra cheese when the president sent out for pizza.

What a roller coaster ride: Osama bin Laden engaged the SEALs in a firefight. Well, no, actually, it turns out he didn't. But he did seize a woman, probably one of his wives, to use as a human shield. Uh, well, actually he didn't do that, either. But he was armed, we know that for sure. Ummm, no, not really. OK, but we're positive that woman was killed. Uh, not exactly. But we definitely, positively, absolutely know that Osama is dead. We have the photographs to prove it and the public can see them. Er, no, not quite. The president has them but you can't see them. Everybody will just have to take his word for it.

Rest of story at: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/6/pruden-insult-american-soldier/