First, the experts in the video claim that all military operations depend entirely on intelligence, it's crucial, I think one of them says roughly "good intelligence is the difference between wasting lives on a mission or successfully completing a mission" Well when you manufacture false intelligence or ignore the agencies that provide you with intelligence because you don't like what they are telling you and then you go out and create the Office of Special Plans, as Bush/Cheney did so that you can create propaganda and filter out intelligence so that it jives with your own message, you are not following this concept of "good intelligence" and therefore when you mission - the war in Iraq, is founded on bad intelligence, you are wasting lives, looking for WMDs and invading a country that had no connection to the 9-11 attack, that is not going to be a successful mission and you have wasted lives.
Secondly the lady in that video Debbie Lee, I think was her name who talks about her son the very first SEAL to die in Iraq, on August 2, 2006, why were we in Iraq? Who was president on that date, George Bush, and he sent us there wasting billions of dollars, on a mission based on false or bad intelligence, so the video you are referring to, deals with issues, beyond the scope of this administration.
Thirdly one of the SEALs in this video state along with several other people that Obama had nothing to do with killing Bin Laden, but prior to that statement, another one of these experts, states, that you need the right intelligence to know where, when and how to strike your enemy, and that you need good intelligence in order to get the authorization to strike. Obama is the Commander and Chief of our military, all presidents hold this role, so when the intelligence goes up the chain of command who is it that you think gives that authorization? The SEAL team would not have been able to strike at all without the order from the President. The SEAL goes further to say that AMERICA killed Bin Laden, well who represents the ultimate power and authority for this country?
Another problem I see with the claims made in this video, is the idea that somehow drones, helicopter inserts, SEAL tactics etc. were somehow all secret before Obama somehow let the cat out of the bag. These claims are also laughable. Drones have been in use long before Obama, Clinton used them and so did Bush/Cheney, there existence and use was promoted on TV heavily during the war by Bush before Obama was ever elected.
I especially laugh at the idea that somehow for the last 200 years there has been a sacred trust between the military and the Whitehouse that has just now been violated that national security should always come before politics. The military has just now for the first time in history been politicized. That is hilarious as the military has always been a political tool, every war ever fought has been because of politics and politicians.
The video suggests that operational security is important to the success of a mission yet both of the missions that these experts are complaining about were good examples of operational security, the missions were both completed successfully the Bin Laden strike and the Stuxnet virus both succeeded, and then after that the details of the missions were made public. These missions were successful due to good intelligence, unlike the war on Iraq.
Lastly, the experts say that even though the bad guys knew we got Bin Laden, that we could have possibly gained more intelligence if we had not announced the mission immediately, do you seriously think that the Pakistani Government would have allowed us to hold quarantine that compound for a week or longer or that we didn’t also as a part of that raid collect computers, as much intelligence as possible to gather from that house at the time? This is just a few criticisms, you will always be able to find people in the military that have issues with their superior officers, the politicians and the commander.
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