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Wingnut pundits being 100 percent wrong, on the wrong side of history, divisive and intellectually dishonest — just to fling a few Hannity memes back in his face…

According to the Washington Post, the “surgical” special forces operation that resulted in the terrorist leader’s death was authorized by President Obama last Friday after months of intelligence gathering, and was carried out early Monday morning (local time) as a small force of elite American troops descended on Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. According to the Post, the U.S. “did not share any intelligence with foreign governments, including Pakistan’s.”

The operation was very similar to what then-candidate Obama said he would do in an August 1, 2007, speech: “If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets [in Pakistan] and President [Pervez] Musharraf won’t act, we will.” At the time, however, Obama’s position on Pakistan was attacked and mocked by right-wing commentators who claimed Obama had threatened to invade the country.

Rush Limbaugh said in September 2007: “Well, we’ve got another tape from — I get these guys confused — Usama bin Laden. Another tape says he’s going to invade Pakistan and declare war on Pakistan and Musharraf, which, ladies and gentlemen, puts him on the same page with a Democrat presidential candidate — that would be Barack ‘Uss-Obama.’ ” Limbaugh added: “All right, so, we’re going to attack Pakistan. Poor Musharraf’s going to get it on both ends if Barack’s elected.”

Also remember that during the last presidential election McCain basically said ‘hell no we won’t go’ when asked about Pakistan, and he implied that Obama’s Pakistan policy and statements were crazy and dangerous. I am now well pleased that Obama won the election and sincerely regret my vote for McCain/Palin.