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SEALs, Grandma Obama Getting ‘Pumped Up’ Security

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Posted on May 12, 2011
U.S. Navy / MC2 Kyle D. Gahlau

Defense Secretary Robert Gates says, “We are looking at what measures can be taken to pump up the security” of the mysterious Navy SEAL team that shot Osama bin Laden, after said SEALs expressed concerns. Over in Kenya, the government says it will inspect all visitors to the Obama compound.  —PZS

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All visitors going to the home will have to be thoroughly vetted,” said regional administrator Francis Mutie.

“They will undergo security screening before they are cleared to visit the home.”

Sarah Obama, who lives in western Kenya, was the third wife of President Obama’s paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama.

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By PatrickHenry, May 14, 2011 at 8:15 am Link to this comment

Maybe if we use these guys to take out those Wall street hedge fund managers.

I can see where the underwater training would be useful in the mountains of Pakistan….?

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By TDoff, May 13, 2011 at 7:07 pm Link to this comment

Geez, we better hope we don’t assassinate any more of the ‘world’s most dangerous terrorists’, if every time we do we have to ‘jack up’ security. Killing those Mo-Fo’s sure makes the world a dangerous place.

Hey, wait a minute! What if we…, Naw, forget it, the MIC would never go for ‘peace’.

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By Arabian Sinbad, May 13, 2011 at 12:57 pm Link to this comment

Another economic burden on already enslaved and depressed American taxpayers! Imagine how much financial burden it would be indefinitely to provide security details for some forty so-called “courageous and heroic” Navy Seals who carried out the summary execution of unarmed old man, yet they are already wetting their pants out of fear for their lives and their family members, even though their names or pictures have not been disclosed! 

And as if that’s not enough, American taxpayers are now to shoulder the burden of providing security for Obama’s grandma far away in Africa.

Is this Obama’s plan to create jobs for the millions of unemployed, or is it his long term solution to unemployment by keeping military America indefinitely employed in overseas military adventures because they can never be absorbed in an America-at-peace economy?!

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By Leefeller, May 13, 2011 at 6:58 am Link to this comment

There seems a bit of irony here! The picture of the seals above and the fact that Osma ben Ladein was fed to crabs!

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By redipen, May 13, 2011 at 2:22 am Link to this comment
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fishy says it best

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By gerard, May 12, 2011 at 5:31 pm Link to this comment

What a kettle of Fish!

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