Hillary Rodham Clinton talked a reluctant President Obama into killing Osama bin Laden — after the president canceled plans for the mission three times, an explosive new book claims.
Obama feared that the daring Navy SEALs operation to raid bin Laden’s hidden Pakistani compound “might go tragically wrong” and he would be blamed for it, author Rich Miniter says.
His account challenges a key element of Obama’s re-election campaign — that his decision to kill the world’s No. 1 terrorist symbolizes his resolute leadership.
The book — “Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him” — describes Obama as being heavily influenced by three women — Clinton; his wife, Michelle; and longtime adviser and confidante Valerie Jarrett.
The book cites an unnamed source in the Joint Special Operations Command as saying that Obama canceled a mission to kill bin Laden in January 2011, as well as another in February and a third in March.
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I’m not surprised that he was concerned things would go wrong. Just like carter was the weakest pres before Obama and carter could not get an operation to run correctly if carters life depended on it.
This clown of a pres is afraid to make a decision based on what it might to to his name-what a joke. his name is already tarnished
There’s plenty to incriminate President Obama already without relying on “explosive new books” quoting unnamed sources in an election year. This is silly.
We know OblameO didn’t want to kill him by the fact that he had to think about it overnight. ANY president would have said DO IT right away.