The main stream media in heaping praise on President Obama has used the word courage or gutsy every other syllable in describing the action to take down Osama Bin Laden.

To quote Vickie Guerrero "Excuse Me!" but what exactly was courageous about President Obama giving the order for Navy SEALs to kill that terrorist puke.

Chances are since September 12, 2001, there have been standing orders within the CIA, NSA, Special Forces command and the Pentagon that should anyone come across Osama Bin Laden they are to drop what they are doing and do whatever it takes to kill or capture the headman of the international jihadist movement.

Moreover, since 9/11, has it not been the gut instinct of every American to do great bodily harm to Bin Laden.

So then how is it that doing what should come naturally is courage personified?

Truth is, to use another wrestling catch phrase, is that there was no courage displayed by President Obama in having Bin Laden killed.  Courage would have been taking action on the first thread of even remotely actionable intelligence on Bin Laden's location not sitting idly by for months to act as President Obama did.(remember in his national address that the Intel on OBL had been brought to the Presidents attention in August of 2010)

Courage is not giving the mass murdering terrorist a full islamic funeral rite and burial at sea in difference to cultural sensitivities but saying to heck with what radical islamist think and taking Bin Laden's body and burying it in garlic, letting the bomb sniffing dog that was on the raid was the corpse as a fire hydrant, driving a stake thru his heart, a silver bullet right between the eyes, severing the brain stem, putting the remains into a wood chipper, burning the pile of goo and putting the ashes on a one way rocket ride to the heart of the sun and saying good riddance to bad rubbish.

Courage would be announcing that the terrorist ring leader had assumed room temperature by way of Navy SEAL and that every thing else related to what went down are classified and will not be talked about in public for many years.

Courage would be apologizing to the CIA interrogators and Bush administration lawyers who were involved in the implementation of interrogation techniques that got us the intel that led us to Bin Laden, instead of continuing to investigate and looking to prosecute those heroes.

Courage would be giving President George W. Bush and his counter-terrorism measures credit for bringing Osama Bin Laden to justice.

To bad courage is a foreign concept to President Obama.

Now there was some actual courage during the course of this whole event and that was the courage displayed by the Navy SEALs and other special and covert forces who risked life and limb to kill Osama Bin Laden, a job well done, even if President Obama had to sleep on the order 16 hours and play some golf before giving it.