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Joe Biden Admits He Advised President Obama Not To Carry Out Bin Laden Raid

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Vice President Joe Biden spoke to a conference of House Democrats in Maryland today, and in discussing the SEAL Team raid that successfully took out Osama bin Laden, he admitted that he advised President Obama not to carry out the mission because “we have to do more things to see if he’s there.” The vice president gave an insider account of the internal discussions in the White House before the order was officially carried out.

RELATED: President Obama: ‘Ask Osama Bin Laden Whether I Engage In Appeasement’

Biden praised the president for having a “backbone like ramrod” before giving a point-by-point recollection of everything that happened in the final day before Obama gave the SEAL team its orders.

“The President, he went around the table with all the senior people including the Chiefs of Staff. He said, I have to make this decision what is your opinion. He started with the National Security adviser, the Secretary of State and he ended with me. Every single person in that room hedged their bet, except Leon Panetta. Leon said GO. Everyone else said 49, 51, this…

It got to me. Joe what do you think? I said ‘You know I didn’t know we have so many economists around the table. We owe the man a direct answer. Mr. President my suggestion is don’t go. We have to do two more things to see if he’s there.’”

Biden said that Obama left that night promising to make a decision, and the next morning returned to the White House and made the order official. Biden credited Obama for understanding everything that was at stake when he gave the order, and took the opportunity to dispute a common Obama talking point.

RELATED: Jon Stewart Reviews The State Of The Union: ‘You Opened With I Killed Bin Laden?!’

“This guy doesn’t lead from behind. He just leads. And that’s clear.”

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  • Anonymous

    Doesn’t Biden have a Pontiac Firebird to wash on the White House lawn?

  • Anonymous

    More of these types of stories need to come from White House sources.  This President is indeed a decisive leader and the country needs to know that now.

  • Anonymous

    Like a true Jedi!! Obama 2012!!

  • Matt Ketcham

    Powerful video.

  • Anonymous

    Biden isn’t worthy of the office he holds. Obama on the other hand, is a great war time president. Bin Laden raid was a gutsy call.

  • OSTL

    Even though he ran on an “anti-war” platform?

  • Hout Bosques

    You’re implying a contradiction. There IS none. I can be anti-war, but pro-defense. I can be against invading another sovereign nation without provocation, as we did under Bush the younger with Iraq, as we did under Bush the elder with Panama, as we did with Reagan with Nicaragua, as we did with Viet Nam under LBJ; but I can be for joining with our allies in supporting the popular overthrow of a tyrant like Qaddaffi, for joining with our allies in the European theater of WWII, for defending ourselves without reservation against the hostilities of Japan. 

    Anti-war is not the same thing as pacifist. I recognize the authoritarian mind is not nimble with nuance, so just take us at our word: we can decline to bully & taunt & compell, yet be passionate & be more effective than bullies can even imagine in defence. 

    Candidate Obama made a commitment on the campaign trail, to hunt down Osama bin Laden, to do something that President Bush had abandoned doing for no sense, leaving the trail of the inspiration for a mass murder that had the biggest single effect on this country’s sense of security since Pearl Harbor. I don’t know if I would have made that commitment, but then I wasn’t running for president, and people who run successfully for president & then govern successfully need a better sense of the symbolism that I have; I can understand his reasons, his reasoning & his greater sense of the power of symbolism in the office of the POTUS than I have.

  • Anonymous

    Once again, aren’t we all just so glad to have this guy instead of Palin as VP?

  • Anonymous

    Amen to that!  That Alaskan gash is a disgrace to humanity.  

  • Ben

    yup

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003105863276 Political Dookie

    And slow Joe gave this advice in a slight Indian accent.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003105863276 Political Dookie

    Sounds like the misogyny of Chris Matthews.

  • Anonymous

    The pathetic, useless life of career political hack “Bite-Me” biden has amounted to nothing more than an inflamed pimple on the butt of America. The mental handicap of “Bite-Me” (which is fully qualified for treatment under obozocare) is a result of his multiple brain aneurysms which have made him incapable of operating heavy machinery (like a car or a screwdriver) — or preforming most normal tasks, like flying on an airplane or keeping his foot out of his mouth.  When overseas, his insane behavior is degrading  America’s stature in the world (you can almost hear foreign dignitaries mumbling “THAT’s what America has as a Vice President!). In Nov 2012 Americans will be throwing out “YOU LIE!” hussein and his failed socialist extremist pals and policies and then “Bite-Me” will be gone forever.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=586802903 Graeme Edgeler

    Raiding the Bin Laden compound wasn’t just pro-defence. It was also an act of war against Pakistan.

  • http://3chicspolitico.com/ SouthernGirl2

    Are you gnashing your teeth? Good! You’ll be doing a lot more of that in the coming years!

    Obama/Biden 2012

    ***dancing***

  • http://3chicspolitico.com/ SouthernGirl2

    Speak on it!

  • Anonymous

    That makes him a hypocrite, he’s still been on the ball. And yes, his hypocrisy is disgusting. 

  • Anonymous

    Gash? Do you lock your wife in the kitchen? 

  • Anonymous

    The foaming at the mouth thing is not very becoming.  Oh it’s not saliva?

  • Anonymous

    Killing Osama Bin Laden is an act of war on Pakistan?

    …Really?

    When exactly did the war start? Maybe you should alert Pakistan.

    You respond to killing one of the world’s most wanted terrorists with a dumb and asinine response to prove an even dumber one…

    …Congratulations!

  • http://twitter.com/jtLOL ‘Jim’ ‘Treacher’

    You might want to save your energy. If your boyfriend gets reelected, you may find the next decade or so to be very lean years.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    By that “logic”, Pakistan committed an act of war by Bin Laden’s presence in their country.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Very much so.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe Joe knows it wasn’t bin Laden that was killed in the raid, and he’s smart enough to lay the groundwork for a non-denial denial…

  • Anonymous

    You know what I think, “Tea Party American”?  I think reports of VP Biden’s Drudge-planted daytime sleep episodes were MANUFACTURED by the same black ops apparatus that apparently pays you to blog-spam the web.  Here’s what I’m talking about: 
    http://viclivingston.blogspot.com/2011/12/u.html

  • Anonymous

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  • Anonymous

    Was Bin Laden Pakistani.  Was he aided and abetted by Pakistan.  Are they truly allies?

  • Anonymous

    The press stayed on Dan Quayle for misspelling potato but hardly anything is said about all the gaffs Biden committed in 3 years.  Biden is a lacky and a whipping boy that is only there to run interference when Obama drops the ball.
    As far as Bin Laden getting wacked, I commend Obama for being the leader of the country when Bin Laden was offed, but since Obama made thousands of decisions during his tenure as president, he had to make at least 1 or 2 good decisions, and this was one of the 2, all the others did nothing but bring America to its knees, it is difficult to imagine America becoming the Country that was admired and respected when President Reagan was in office and if “God Forbid”, Obama is re-elected the possibility of him becoming Dictator And Chief is there so think before you vote, it could be the last time We The People will be allowed to vote under this Marxist administration.

  • Anonymous

    Gave order to shoot pirates off the coast of Africa = Dead
    22 out of 30 top Al Qaeda leaders = Dead
    Found Bin-Laden, ordered the mission to get him = Dead….if i were on President Obama’s shit list, i’d be a bit nervous right now

  • Anonymous

    the level of stupidity in what you just said, can not be over-stated

  • CICO

    Biden saying that he advised Obama not to kill Osama is simply a campaign move in an attempt to make Obama seem mighty.  LOL

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A7IWX6IL4TYSSBPSV3USKVBLDY Michael

    If you are Christian,or white, or a Republican, or a veteran, or read your Bible, own guns or gold/silver you are on MAObama’s $h^t list.

  • Anonymous

    I’m starting to believe the story that came out 2 days after the raid that Panetta was really the one who gave the go-ahead because Obama was indecisive. Given the proof they had, it would have taken Bush 2 seconds to decide, not the 15 hours it took Obama.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Ar/100000903987836 Chris Ar

    I’m sure they will. This was carefully leaked to make the President look decisive in a situation where the right decision was clear and uncomplicated. By releasing this, fools like yourself become programmed to believe Obama made some great decision when in reality any President, from Tyler to Coolidge to Carter would have done the same. Congratulations, you are an unthinking tool.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Ar/100000903987836 Chris Ar

    Of course. Quayle was a Republican, and by default an evil monster needing destruction. Biden is an idiot, but he’s a Democrat, so it’s OK. This isn’t a sarcastic response, this is how most journalists think. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Winfield-Hancock/100001638485161 Winfield Hancock

    They told me if I voted for McCain for President we might end up with a
    gaffe-prone Vice President who gives bad advice …. and they were right!

    All this story really does is give the American people more reason to doubt Obama’s judgment in his ability to select people able to give him good and obvious advice.

    How come the crack, follow-the-story-wherever-it-goes-no-matter-the-party-or-the-consequences, media didn’t ferret this out before Biden divulged it? (Short answer. They did and spiked the story because it makes Obama look very, very lucky.)

    We’re not going to know what really happened, if ever, until Panetta’s book comes out.

  • Anonymous

    Small point – Invading Vietnam was more JFK’s doing. LBJ escalated, Nixon ended.

  • est1776

    Don’t forget he also ordered the murder of an American citizen without due process.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think for as much as I oppose Obama, I could ever call him an idiot.  To fail to take out Bin Ladin would have been the craft of an idiot had he gone that way.  That however does not award him with the honor of decisive leader, as it took him sixteen hours to weigh idiosy and wisdom before finally teetering in the right direction.  That is no accomplishment, that is just being ‘present’ as the following will illustrate. It’s about the man who sealed Bin Ladin’s fate, not Obama.

    White House Cowboy Poetry          an unCommon
    verse 

     
    God
    is the Governor of all men’s affairs

    Proved to Ben Franklin as 
    History declares

    Men of action asking wisdom their motives be right.

    Though right guided,  their
    motives teeming demons deride

     Lincoln’s Crew whose service was due
    its reward,

    Was subjected with George Bush ridicule untoward

    Lest those demons should embezzle our Heroes’ posterity

    Intervention was in order and by means oh so timely

    It was Providence
    that directed that holy mission

    And took care that good men not forever bear derision

    Held the hand that would slay the evil bin Laden

    ‘Till time would align to prove Bush right on the Lincoln

    Eight years may seem long to finally repair

    But His time had allow that mission mature

    Freedom’s seed could be damaged before rooted deeply

    Among the tares Lilac fingers grow the harvest so lovely

    George demanded Osama killed if not taken alive

    Those words would find meaning teleprompted live

    His successor if only present found something to say

    Bush’s prayer our desire was rewarded that day

    As for Hitler, so bin Laden rang out justice in May

    Let all hearken to Ben Franklin lest we fall to dismay

    The same One who directed our Founders affairs

    Guided Seals that smart weapon in divine time His way

    Ask thyself was it thee helping demons cultivate tares

    While the languishing lilacs suffer at the edge of despair?

    Or did you champion the word spoken on Abe’s
    deck on May Day?

    By God’s servant, our elected, heck that Texan Cowboy.

    Bill Whittle’s essay inspired the poem.  Found
    here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiYk8bxO7zQ

    Bill Whittle’s essay inspired the poem.  Found
    here:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiYk8bxO7zQ

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think for as much as I oppose Obama, I could ever call him an idiot.  To fail to take out Bin Ladin would have been the craft of an idiot had he gone that way.  That however does not award him with the honor of decisive leader, as it took him sixteen hours to weigh idiosy and wisdom before finally teetering in the right direction.  That is no accomplishment, that is just being ‘present’ as the following will illustrate. It’s about the man who sealed Bin Ladin’s fate, not Obama.

    White House Cowboy Poetry          an unCommon
    verse 

     
    God
    is the Governor of all men’s affairs

    Proved to Ben Franklin as 
    History declares

    Men of action asking wisdom their motives be right.

    Though right guided,  their
    motives teeming demons deride

     Lincoln’s Crew whose service was due
    its reward,

    Was subjected with George Bush ridicule untoward

    Lest those demons should embezzle our Heroes’ posterity

    Intervention was in order and by means oh so timely

    It was Providence
    that directed that holy mission

    And took care that good men not forever bear derision

    Held the hand that would slay the evil bin Laden

    ‘Till time would align to prove Bush right on the Lincoln

    Eight years may seem long to finally repair

    But His time had allow that mission mature

    Freedom’s seed could be damaged before rooted deeply

    Among the tares Lilac fingers grow the harvest so lovely

    George demanded Osama killed if not taken alive

    Those words would find meaning teleprompted live

    His successor if only present found something to say

    Bush’s prayer our desire was rewarded that day

    As for Hitler, so bin Laden rang out justice in May

    Let all hearken to Ben Franklin lest we fall to dismay

    The same One who directed our Founders affairs

    Guided Seals that smart weapon in divine time His way

    Ask thyself was it thee helping demons cultivate tares

    While the languishing lilacs suffer at the edge of despair?

    Or did you champion the word spoken on Abe’s
    deck on May Day?

    By God’s servant, our elected, heck that Texan Cowboy.

    Bill Whittle’s essay inspired the poem.  Found
    here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiYk8bxO7zQ

    Bill Whittle’s essay inspired the poem.  Found
    here:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiYk8bxO7zQ

  • Anonymous

    sorry it exploded all over the page.  It was in nice poetic format when I sent it. 

  • Anonymous

    ROTFL……..he’s.what?…LOL………a decisive leader…..LMAO………wait, wait…wait…where’s the punchline?

  • Anonymous

    Gee, if only Bush had had one/one thousandth of the courage and intelligence Obama has, he would have told Cheney, Wolfowitz and the other neo-con Nazis to not invade Iraq. He would have saved the whole cabal of psychopaths from everlasting hellfire and possible prison sentences for treason and acts of crimes against humanity.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Obama sees Biden as a stupid white man.(which he is)
    The only reason he picked Biden as a running mate is he knew he could control the blithering idiot.

  • Anonymous

    Wayne, Read your poem and watched about 15 seconds of Bill Whittle. Your poem and Whittles essay made me think of Joseph Goebbels, because  you’re unwittingly the tail end of a semi-fascist era we’ve been going through. Your hero, Bush, might soon be a ‘war criminal’ for his treasonous ‘mission’ in Iraq and your ceaseless hatred of Obama is being sorely challenged by reality. The whole issue of the Bin Laden killing is really a dead issue! Obama, not some chickenhawk like Bush gave the order to proceed.

    Reality is that Bush and the rightwingers totally mismanaged our country, and in eight short years brought us to our knees with the help of many Democrats to be sure, but the Republicans were by far the major culprits and, fortunately, the public has caught on, especially after examining and rejecting the clowns who they want to put in charge of our country. Wayne, you may think you’re a great patriot and defender of the faith, but you should take a deeper look at what’s going on around you.

  • Anonymous

    Ganymede

    15 seconds is all you could take?

    I took a look around me, and saw what I saw. He who fears no truths, has little to fear from lies. Faith in truth gives courage to watch beyond fifteen, I read your entire post, and may I suggest you mine?
    Thanks for reading (and watching) as far as you did, and for responding.
    Wayne

  • Anonymous

    immm air repubicans need to get dare faces out of da blu barry pie and
    help king food stamp get the chevy volt out of the ditch.

    And we wil much, be that committed

    This message is payed for by the Allen West for president online campaign!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    oH LIKE HELL, YOU IDIOT. show us the proof!

  • Anonymous

    I don’t believe we had a war due to his actions.  He did pull out of one war and kids are coming home all the time from Afganisitan.  Still more good than Bush did in 8 years  and not hypocrosy

  • Anonymous

    JFK refused to send TROOPS but sent advisors.  If you read anything about that time, you will find Kennedy did NOT intend to send any troops or get into a full war in Nam.  It was LBJ that did the rest.  Nixon was afraid, very afraid as he couldnt stop the protests as they got worse and worse and still took 11 years.

  • Anonymous

    Oh shut the hell up.  Damn if he does, damn if he doesn’t.  This man could walk on water, bring a dead man back to life and the republicans would figure out a way to make him look bad or evil.  Man, it is getting old.  Pakistan got off easy!  If it had been someone else, we might have destroyed their company for hiding Bin Laden as an act of war against this country

  • Anonymous

    I for one forgive poor old Joe.  Have watched him for years and years and like him.  I like the way he can put his foot in his mouth and survive.  I don’t think he is doing this “for Obama”.  It is just him being Joe.

  • Anonymous

    That is a false argument. By taking up arms against America, that person renounced their citizenship. And once he sided with Al Qaeda, he effectively took up arms.

    I love how – in order to avoid saying Obama did good – you will actually side with someone that wanted to kill Americans as part of the enemies forces.

  • Anonymous

    That is a false argument. By taking up arms against America, that person renounced their citizenship. And once he sided with Al Qaeda, he effectively took up arms.

    I love how – in order to avoid saying Obama did good – you will actually side with someone that wanted to kill Americans as part of the enemies forces.

  • est1776

    That is absolutely NOT a false arguement. Timothy McVeigh attacked America. Did he renounce his citizenship and forfeit due process? Nope.

    I give Obama plenty of credit for making the call to kill binLaden. Keep in mind, however, thar it was only made possible by the intelligiance operatipn President Bush had put into play on the ground.

  • Anonymous

    It is a false argument. McVeigh did not take up with a declared enemy of the United States that we were at war with. McVeigh committed an act of terror, but did not actually leave the US and take up arms against the US. There is a huge difference.

    Al-Awlaki left the US, joined Al Qaeda, plotted attacks against the US with a declared enemy. An enemy we had declared against as well. He recruited fighters to join these attacks and repeatedly called for the death of America. That is taking up arms against the US, which is a renunciation of citizenship.

    McVeigh acted from within the US, with a small group of conspirators to attack a single US location one time. He did not actively seek the downfall of the US, but rather chose terrorism to make a political statement.

    I agree that the Bush administration started the intel moving, but Bush also famously said he was not worried about Bin Laden. The timeline for the raid to get Bin Laden clearly refers to Bush intel, but the decision was made by Obama. Bush chose to not go into Pakistan. He repeatedly said so. Obama took the info Bush left for him and used it to get Bin Laden.

    Look at it this way – had the operation gone sideways or worse, would you still be saying Bush had a hand in it?

    Also, keep in mind that Obama, when announcing it, gave Bush credit for the intel.

  • Anonymous

    Just like the 2 second decision to plunge into Iraq? Maybe a president should take more than 2 seconds before sending troops into harm’s way – and especially into a country we are not at war with.

    Bush did make this decision. He decided not to pursue Bin Laden or anyone else in Pakistan and announced it.

    As far as the endless efforts to somehow not credit Obama with this, you do realize it makes you sound small and bitter.

  • Anonymous

    The pathetic, useless life of career political hack “Bite-Me” biden has amounted to nothing more than an inflamed pimple on the butt of America. The mental handicap of “Bite-Me” (which is fully qualified for treatment under obozocare) is a result of his multiple brain aneurysms which have made him incapable of operating heavy machinery (like a car or a screwdriver) — or preforming most normal tasks, like flying on an airplane or keeping his foot out of his mouth.  When overseas, his insane behavior is degrading  America’s stature in the world (you can almost hear foreign dignitaries mumbling “THAT’s what America has as a Vice President!). In Nov 2012 Americans will be throwing out “YOU LIE!” hussein and his failed socialist extremist pals and policies and then “Bite-Me” will be gone forever.

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