The Obama White House can keep a secret.. This was started in AUGUST

and not a peep leaked out.. The people in a need-to-know situation zipped their traps & said nothing..

It shows that adults ARE in charge:)

The UK knew about this too.

The sudden announcement of the "no honeymoon" for the UK newlyweds struck me as odd, when all the media was abuzz about how he had taken off two weeks and how they planned to go to Kenya or Jordan..

Someone nixed the honeymoon at the "right moment", knowing what a target those two might be..

The newlywed groom and his younger brother, who served in Afghanistan, are both active members of the UK military.

give a date. Maybe he was confidant the job would be done.

They all get to go out on a high note

I have long suspected Pakistan's secret service of protecting bin Laden. They had no opportunity to do so this time.

Now would be a perfect time for a BIG speech, laying out the following:

Bin Laden is captured/killed.
Middle Easterners are throwing off the oppressive leaders of decades.
The US & allied forces have set in motion, plans for the Iraqis & Afghans to take care of themselves.

These are all sovereign nations, and the leaders the people choose can come to us at ANY time for advice, but the military actions in that region are OVER..

Our forces are coming home...ALL of them

The Middle East now has a task at hand.. They can align with the rest of the world, and get their houses in order as they get back to the business of commerce, education and the betterment of their own people. We cannot GIVE them freedom, but we have removed impediments to their achieving their own freedom.

It is now up to them to choose the correct path for their people.

I'd add something about cutting off funding.

I think it was back in 2001...

Help me out here.

another one paid attention:)

have triggered the whole Wiki-leaks debacle.........maybe they were afraid Assange would get hold of info that would have tipped off Osama Bin Laden or scared him to a new hiding place.

He assured the State Department he didn't want to endanger national security:

This is but one obvious reason that the Wikileaks "industry" is a bad idea.

or the rogue elements at least...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1007822

That's nothing. The Bush whitehouse kept the secret that 9/11 was an inside job for 7 years!

:sarcasm:

k/r

:spank:

Our government keeps too much secret, but they were right to keep this plan very secret.