How Navy SEAL "Matt Bissonnette" Won the Bin Laden Book Competition

[AWP]

Against my better judgement I'm starting this thread....

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/poli...onnette-won-bin-laden-book-competition/57965/

Bowden, a national correspondent at The Atlantic, had been trying to get an interview with Bissonnette for months, but had no idea Bissonnette was planning on writing a book of his own. In a move that looks a little sneaky, Bissonnette inquired into the release date of Bowden's book while keeping his publishing plans a secret, according to a Q&A published by The Daily Beast this morning

It seems like once UBL was killed everyone with "special friends" began writing a book.

Sean Naylor, paging Sean Naylor...you're late, beyotch!

 

[SkrewzLoose]

I'm at a loss...
I keep staring at the page and reading the article hoping something will click and it will make sense. No such luck yet.

 

[dknob]

This is business..
Good on him that sneaky SEAL ninja.

 

[goon175]

Bowden stayed pretty classy with his comments. Good for him.

 

[JohnnyBoyUSMC]

Wouldn't mind giving Bowden's book a look at, he's a good author and a pretty good journalist who get's down to the facts.

 

[LOOON]

Someone make it stop!!!!!!!

 

[DA SWO]

"Mark Owen" is bad for writing a book, but it's ok to talk to Mark Bowden?

WTFO?

 

[SpitfireV]

Imma write a book about writing a book about SEALs writing books about SEALs writing books about me writing a book.

 

[reed11b]

Imma write a book about writing a book about SEALs writing books about SEALs writing books about me writing a book.

Like Inception, only much more ghey.
Reed

 

[SpitfireV]

Like Inception, only much more ghey.
Reed

A deeper level of hair product.

 

[Lefty375]

Like Inception, only much more ghey.
Reed

Inception was amazing. Hater!

 

[Ravage]

Saw the new ZDT trailer - think they took hints from Owens book.

 

[AWP]

Saw the new ZDT trailer - think they took hints from Owens book.

Yeah. One scene from the trailer is almost identical to a section of Bissonette's book.

 

[SunDevils22]

For those who have both read the book and seen the movie, I thought the raid sequence of the movie was almost exactly as described in the book. Not reading into it too much, but sure is interesting.

 

[dknob]

Raid went down exactly like the book described it.

 

[goon175]

Anybody else notice the one "operator" flagging the shit out of the guy in front of him? That laser was burnin' a hole in his camelbak! haha

 

[8654Maine]

Imma write a book about writing a book about SEALs writing books about SEALs writing books about me writing a book.

Pretty soon we're gonna need a thread to list the books and movies about the raid.

 

[KBar666]

Raid went down exactly like the book described it.

Agreed.

 

[SunDevils22]

Overall, I thought the movie was entertaining. The torture scenes don't paint us in the best light, but I don't think it detracted from the movie too much. Being a civie, I can't really comment on the accuracy of how everything went down, but it sure was fun to watch. I'm guessing "Hollywood" took some liberties in the storytelling, but just from what I've read, they seemed to have quite a bit of inside information. Sure to be controversial, but I think people need to see it for what it is; something to entertain us for a few hours and not much more.

 

[dknob]

Overall, I thought the movie was entertaining. The torture scenes don't paint us in the best light, but I don't think it detracted from the movie too much. Being a civie, I can't really comment on the accuracy of how everything went down, but it sure was fun to watch. I'm guessing "Hollywood" took some liberties in the storytelling, but just from what I've read, they seemed to have quite a bit of inside information. Sure to be controversial, but I think people need to see it for what it is; something to entertain us for a few hours and not much more.

I'm pretty sure that shit happened in the 2002 - 2004 time frame anyway.

Very entertaining, but also anxiety inducing. I am good with dates - and knew exactly what was coming during those "scenes".