Obama shoots Osama, and then his own foot

Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia)
"FOR a second I thought I’d misread President Barack Obama. What guts, after all. What a leader.Against type, the Nobel Peace Prize winner sent four helicopters of troops into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden.What’s more, his hit squad did the job right under the nose of an army that was surely protecting the al-Qaida boss.But then, Obama’s greatest victory turned into a farce, thanks to all the President’s familiar traits of ineptitude, regal disdain and fuzzy Leftism.....Worse followed fast.On Monday, the President’s counter-terrorism adviser, John Brennan, made these claims: “Osama was engaged in a firefight” and was found “hiding behind women”. A woman he hid behind was said to have been shot dead.White House spokesman Jay Carney then added the soldiers who shot bin Laden “were met with a great deal of resistance” from “many other people who were armed”.

Uh-oh. In fact, every one of those claims is false. Bin Laden was unarmed. Just one of the five men killed that night had a gun, and he was shot early. Bin Laden did not hide behind any woman, none of whom were killed.I have close to zero doubt that the US got its man. But somehow Obama’s “trust me” reassurance sounds very hollow.The bumbler is back, and now we really do need those pictures.