Saturday, April 18, 2009

who said what and when...

This is the story going around in my email. I can not vouch for it but the email said that the seals were on station every early in the game. They proposed several actions and were refused permission every time. On that final night it was determined that the commander on the scene had the authority to give the seals a go if there appeared to be an imminent threat. The implication was that no one in Washington would have so the local commander made the call and would have taken the heat if it went bad.

If it had gone wrong the blame would have gone onto the local commander but the credit seemed to go to the president. Strange how that works out most of the time.

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