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Bush's faults were ignoring OBL from January to September 2001 and invading Iraq as a response to OBL.
What was Bush supposed to say? "I spend every waking hour on Google Earth looking for that son of a ."
He had a country to run. He put it in the hands of our intelligence folks and went about the rest of his responsibilities as president.
LOL at croutons getting butt hurt over that quote.
Bush's faults were ignoring OBL from January to September 2001 and invading Iraq as a response to OBL.
clinton let him escape
You Lie
lol @ this thread
So did Bush.
There's a lot more coming from the Repugs:
Right Rushes To Praise Bush For Obama’s Order To Kill Bin Laden
President Obama announced late last night that he had authorized a military mission to kill the world’s most wanted terrorist. “Last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice.” In response, conservative leaders and pundits rushed to heap praise on the president — President Bush, that is:
– Majority Whip Eric Cantor: “I commend President Obama who has followed the vigilance of President Bush in bringing Bin Laden to justice.” [Link]
– Former Bush Chief of Staff Andy Card: “[Bush] made sure everything was in place so that President Obama could have an opportunity to get Osama bin Laden.” [Link]
Other conservatives used the opportunity to advance their national security agendas, claiming the mission vindicated controversial Bush policies on everything from unilateralism to torture:
– Rep. Steve King (R-IA) tweeted, “Wonder what President Obama thinks of water boarding now?” — an allusion to the fact that the nickname of the courier who served bin Laden may have been elicited under tortured interrogation. [Link]
– Former Bush adviser Karl Rove said on Fox & Friends this morning: “I think the tools that President Bush put into place –- GITMO, rendition, enhanced interrogation, the vast effort to collect and collate this information — obviously served his successor quite well.”
– Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld noted that the critical intelligence that led to bin Laden’s death “very well could have been partly a result of the interviews that took place at Guantanamo.” [Link]
– Heritage Foundation President Edwin Feulner, wrote in a blog post, “Bin Laden’s elimination vindicates U.S. strategy in the region, started under President George W. Bush. President Obama and Congress should not use bin Laden’s death as an excuse to turn back the clock on the counterterrorism tools we need, like the PATRIOT Act.”
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– John Yoo, Bush legal adviser who wrote “torture memos”: “Without the tough decisions taken by President Bush and his national security team, the United States could not have found and killed bin Laden. It is the continuity of policies in the war on terror that has brought success, not the misguided effort of the last two years to disavow them.” [Link]
Meanwhile, some pundits went even further, criticizing President Obama for not giving his predecessor enough credit:
– Conservative blogger Mic e Malkin tweeted, “U know who Obama forgot 2 thank? Bush-era interrogators&detention staff who dvlped intel re couriers.” [Link]
– Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham tweeted, “BHO turning this into a campaign speech. He should have thanked GWB, not reminded us OB escaped.” She was also su ious of the timing of the announcement, asking, “Did Obama WH wait to announce on anniv of Bush ‘Mission Accomplished’?!” [Link, link]
– Tea Party Nation head Judson Phillips “said that the death of Osama bin Laden happened in spite of President Obama and criticized the President for announcing the breaking news during Donald Trump’s ‘Celebrity Apprentice.’” [Link]
As for real estate mogul Donald Trump, he had more important things to tweet about this morning: “Don’t forget to watch Donald J. Trump’s Fabulous World of Golf—tonight at 9 pm, Golf Channel.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/02/...eax-bin-laden/
Lying, chicken , ing Repugs, 9/11 was all Clinton's fault 10 months after he left office, while Repugs claim credit for killing OBL 2 years after they leave office.
Naturally the usual suspects take this occasion to do what they do.
and to think we would have saved billions if we just relied on special forces to do the job in the first place...
Exactly, or Carter.You mean the way Clinton screwed it up?
Obama is one up on these guys now.
If things hadn't gone so smooth militarily, the GOP could have had a political touchdown equal to the Carter fiasco going into a election year....It was a brave decision by Obama and Hillary Clinton...
If it became public, I agree. I don't think a failure would have become public though.
If it hurt Obama, someone would have leaked it...
Meanwhile, in an alternative reality..
Read more: CBSDALLAS (AP) – Flag-waving supporters left flowers and patriotic red, white and blue balloons outside the Dallas home of former President George W. Bush Monday in the hours that followed the U.S.-led mission that killed Osama bin Laden.
“Thank you President Bush,” said a sign left on the gate outside the street leading to the secluded Bush residence.
ANALYSIS: Bush’s Lackluster Hunt For Bin Laden
Politico reports that supporters of George W. Bush are “irked” that the former president isn’t getting more credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden, despite the droves of conservatives lawmakers and pundits who have been rushing to give Bush equal credit as Obama.
But this praise for Bush relies on rewriting history to obscure the fact Obama re-prioritized the hunt for Bin Laden after Bush had largely abandoned the effort to focus on Iraq.
While many conservatives are triumphantly replaying Bush’s September 2001 declaration that he would find Bin Laden, just months later, by Bush’s own account, he was unconcerned about the terrorist mastermind. Asked about the hunt for Bin Laden at a March, 2002 press conference, Bush said, “I truly am not that concerned about him. I am deeply concerned about Iraq.” “I really just don’t spend that much time on him, to be honest with you,” Bush added.
By 2006, the trail for Bin Laden had gone “stone cold” and Weekly Standard editor Fred Barnes said Bush told him that hunting Bin Laden was “not a top priority use of American resources.” (Indeed, there was a flailing war in Iraq to fight.)
That year, it was revealed that the administration had he shuttered the CIA’s Bin Laden unit in late 2005. As the New York Times reported at the time, the move reflected a shift in resources to Iraq:
In recent years, the war in Iraq has stretched the resources of the intelligence agencies and the Pentagon, generating new priorities for American officials. For instance, much of the military’s counterterrorism units, like the Army’s Delta Force, had been redirected from the hunt for Mr. bin Laden to the search for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed last month in Iraq.
But Bush’s biggest misstep in the Bin Laden hunt occurred years before, in the early days of the war in Afghanistan. As a 2009 Senate Foreign Relations Committee report found, the Bush administration blew a critical opportunity to capture Bin Laden in 2001. Bin Laden was wounded and on the run, but top Bush national security officials rejected repeated pleas for reinforcements from commanders and intelligence officials fighting the terrorist leader in the caves of Tora Bora, despite the availability of resources:
Fewer than 100 American commandos were on the scene with their Afghan allies and calls for reinforcements to launch an assault were rejected. Requests were also turned down for U.S. troops to block the mountain paths leading to sanctuary a few miles away in Pakistan. The vast array of American military power, from sniper teams to the most mobile divisions of the Marine Corps and the Army, was kept on the sidelines. Instead, the U.S. command chose to rely on airstrikes and untrained Afghan militias. [...]
Even when his own commanders and senior intelligence officials in Afghanistan and Washington argued for dispatching more U.S. troops, [Commanding Gen. Tommy] Franks refused to deviate from the plan.
The report “removes any lingering doubts and makes it clear that Osama bin Laden was within our grasp at Tora Bora,” but that decisions made by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his deputies, and other top administration officials allowed Bin Laden to escape.
The consequence of this missed ooportunity are tremendous. As Lt. Col. Reid Sawyer, the director of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, told NPR yesterday, “if bin Laden had been killed in Afghanistan eight years ago in the caves of Tora Bora, al-Qaida might well have died with him. Now the organization is diversified enough it could weather bin Laden’s death — and hardly miss a beat.”
Moreover, as Rumsfeld himself acknowledged, Bush’s extra-legal torture and rendition policies did not help capture Bin Laden. Enhanced interrogation techniques did not work. Bush ordered one final push to capture Bin laden shortly before he left office, but this effort too was unsuccessful.
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/03/...tch-bin-laden/
Last edited by boutons_deux; 05-03-2011 at 03:12 PM.
Boutons, the master of bolding phrases we're too stupid to read and reposting entire articles without even a by-line
Sarah's reality...
LA TimesSpeaking at a fundraising event Monday evening, Sarah Palin credited President Bush by name for the death of Osama bin Laden but omitted the name of President Obama in her remarks.
Palin spoke to a crowd at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, Colo. “Yesterday was a testament to the military’s dedication in relentlessly hunting down an enemy through many years of war,” the former Alaska governor said. “And we thank our president. ... We thank President Bush for having made the right calls to set up this victory.”
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Others who didn't give credit to Obama in remarks about Bin Laden's death were Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania — although Huckabee did mention the president’s name.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich, ex-Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty included some gra ude to Obama in their statements.
Wouldn't want to use that against her when she runs would we...
Why do liberals want to put on an emphasis on Obama's race? I thought they were suppose to be the tolerant loving ones?
Is it possible to say that Clinton failed also? Didn't the first bombing of the WTC, the bombing of the USS Cole, and U.S. bombings in 2008 all happen under Clinton's watch?
Issuing credit to either President is just stupid. People have way too much time on their hands to try to debate this.
bull .
dubya and head shut down the OBL hunt and switched the military from Afghanistan to grabbing the oil in Iraq.
Barry refocused on OBL and gave the word for the bet-my-Presidency on the OBL attack.
VERY DIFFERENT Executive priorities got very different Exec results.
How Bin Laden Got Away in 2001
http://www.truthdig.com/eartothegrou...+the+Headlines
Sarah is so full of herself she makes me sick. She did come out out on top of the latest poll of potential republican candidates whom voters would NOT support though.
lol @ giving credit to the dude that said OBL was dead or not a threat at all. repugs better watch some youtubes.
If that's how your simple mind wants to work, then fine. Ignore the other thousand pieces that played a role. While you're at it, blame Obama for the shape the economy is in.
Nothing simpler than listening to dubya policy of abandoning OBL, and Barry's policy of bagging OBL.
Barry inherited the criminal Banksters' Great Depression from the Repugs. It started in 06/07, before Barry even announced his candidacy. The Repugs blocked a stimulus of a size appropriate to their Depression.
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