Reply #9: going through them one by one [View All]

1. This has been cleared up, therefore it is not a lie. A lie is something you do when you want to deceive. You usually don't immediately follow it up with the truth particularly when you do it voluntarily.

2. Ditto

3. This is not clear. So I'll give them this one at least to the extent that the government has not clearly stated whether the orders were solely to kill or whether they were to capture.

4. You cannot fit 79 humans on two helicopters like the ones used in this operation. The only helicopters that could hold that many people in just two would be Chinooks. You can't carry that many on one helicopter (since the other went down) because the max on a Chinook is 55. Even if you allowed for an emergency we are talking about 24 extra people plus a bunch of seized stuff, and the body of Bin Laden. So this is plainly not a valid criticism.

5. Just plain silly.

6. I'd argue a 250K home in Pakistan is still fairly luxurious. We know it was the biggest house in the neighborhood, we saw a satellite in the yard, one can quibble with what luxurious means but it was by no means a hovel.

7. Not sure what the lie is supposed to be here. They were monitoring reports in real time, but they also had periods of time where they didn't exactly know what was going on, it is not like there was a floating tv camera recording all of the action as it unfolded.

This is a silly list by alternet.

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