PrintJuly 14, 2009
Obama said he would, but now he won't
Obama's CIA chief Leon Panetta has made clear that he ended a program initiated under the prior administration to capture and kill Al Qaeda leaders in countries not cooperating with our efforts to root out these scourges.
One has to assume that this act meets with his boss' approval. If so, as my friend "Ranger" notes, Obama was lying again:
He would go after Bin Laden if they found him anywhere in the world, even if the local government wouldn't co-operate.
Here's exactly what Obama said last October 7 in the debate with John McCain:
And if we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then I think that we have to act and we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden; we will crush Al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.
So according to candidate Obama we'd go into uncooperative countries and kill Bin Laden if Obama is elected. But now that he is elected and has appointed a new CIA chief to do the job, he won't.
