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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 10:34 PM Oct 2012

McRaven on CNN about OBL raid: [Obama's] team...magnificent...

Didn't see this posted from July 2012

ADM. WILLIAM MCRAVEN, COMMANDER, U.S. SPECIAL OPERATIONS: Well, let me make one thing clear. I didn't order the raid.

(LAUGHTER)

BLITZER: But he told the president of the United States that he thought he could do it.

MCRAVEN: I mean, and this is not a small point. The fact of the matter is it was the president of the United States that ordered the raid.

BLITZER: And he deserves an enormous amount of credit for that decision.

MCRAVEN: Absolutely, he does.

(APPLAUSE)

...

MCRAVEN: And we understood that there were some strategic implications to it.

But, at the end of the day, it was what we had been doing really for 10 years. The president and his national security team - I'm not a political guy, but I will tell you, as - as an interested observer in this, they were magnificent in how they handled the start to finish.

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Scroll down to the comments section. Dawson Leery Oct 2012 #1
Yes, they did so well! I may Cha Oct 2012 #2

Cha

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2. Yes, they did so well! I may
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 11:33 PM
Oct 2012

be wrong but it seems like that Team Obama did so well that the attempted swiftboating of the President sank like a boat full of holes.

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