Posted on 05/02/2011 8:58:54 AM PDT by xzins
I don't accept the baseball analogy: "Bush gets the W and Obama picks up the S."
That is a party-based response, and the truth is that Osama was eliminated on Obama's watch. His team gets due credit. (Of course, the ultimate credit goes to the Seal Team [and the Army helicopter unit as evidenced by Chinooks and Blackhawks?]).
Obama has been in charge over 2.5 years now, so the systems are his, the leadership teams are his, the directions are his, and that's not just with the military. It's the same with everything from the Justice Dept to the Treasury to the SS Administration to the Economy.
It's all his. He gets credit for what's right and blame for what's wrong.
Gasoline prices are due to his manipulations. Joblessness is his due to his (lack of) vision for America's future and his insistence on huge tax increases. The dominance of China in markets that formerly belonged to us are due to his inaction. Oil spills are his. A sluggish economy is his. World historic debt is his. Rapidly increasing inflation is his.
Nothing can any longer be about GW Bush. Bush is yesterday's news.
the days of CREDIT BUSH are long gone...
The days of BLAME BUSH are alive and well
Ping
Nahhh... sorry.
This ‘war’ was declared “ILLEGAL” by the left a LONG time ago. obama RAN on the promise that he’d END this “ILLEGAL” war. He even declared that it would no longer even be CALLED a war on terror.
HOW on earth can they claim credit now? It’s all been an ILLEGAL war to fill the pockets of Bush and Cheney’s oil buddies, hasn’t it?
Can’t have it both ways, lefties.
They can’t have it both ways.
I heard (from a reporter that had a telephone conference with "the most senior" administration officials) that they found the compound a couple of years ago (i.e. during the latter days of the Bush Administration), but they were not able to confirm that Bin Laden was physically there until recently.
Most of the intelligence that went into this operation happened under Bush and the principal lead came from none other than KSM, who, during his waterboarding interrogations at GITMO, gave up the names of Bin Laden's most trusted couriers. They then began tracking these couriers which led them to this compound.
Can’t have it both ways is correct. I agree.
But, you can’t refuse to go back years in one case and call it legitimate in another.
This strike has ratified the Bush Doctrine.
Everything Obama has done has vindicated Bush.
But, people can’t refuse to go back years in one case and call it legitimate in another.
That applies to both pubbies and dems.
You can’t say Bush gets blame for the economy and then say he gets no credit for Osama.
Likewise, we can’t say he gets no blame for the economy and then say he gets credit for Osama.
We/They can’t have it both ways.
bttt
“Everything Obama has done has vindicated Bush.”
:::::::::::
Exactly, and more. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld all had a hand in providing our now long-lost executive leadership that laid the ground work for this victory (FOR BUSH). Up to this point, Obama, the anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-military socialist thug that he is, has done nothing but criticize and lie about Bush, et al. He was going to shut down Gitmo, all along, every time he opened his useless mouth. And Gitmo was probably the source of intel that helped this operation, as some qualified sources have noted.
I had the misfortune of listening to Obama beat his chest about how HE, I AND ME made this happen. What a disgusting POS. What a crock.
We know who the real contributors have been to America’s national security efforts. Chalk this one up to Bush. He EARNED IT!!!
Well, when it comes to the economy, NOBODY is saying that Bush had no part in it. It began to crumble while he was still in office. Everybody knew it then and knows it now.
THIS -The War on Terror, was vilified by the left all along. We were PICKING on poor old Bin Laden.. it was illegal.. it was only for oil, etc..
Apples and Oranges.
Although it was Truman who was the CIC at the conclusion of WWII, most of the credit for the victory in that war went to FDR who put the machinery in place to ensure the victory.
Although Obama was CIC when Bin Laden was taken out, the intelligence which lead to the final operation would not have been possible if Obama had succeeded in closing Gitmo and outlawing “enhanced interrogation” techniques.
Apparently the order from Obama was not to take Bin Laden alive and the orders were to kill him. That does seem rather a bizzare request, since Bin Laden would have been the single most important intelligence capture in the war on terror.
I think he was ordered killed because Obama didn’t want to catch heat for “enhanced interrogation techniques” that would have been utilized to extract pertinent information from Bin Laden.
Since they apparently took his body out of the compound, one would think they could have taken him alive. But the information I received was that the seal team was sent there specifically to assassinate him.
They followed orders. They are to be commended. The fact that we lost a great source of intelligence can only be laid at Obama’s feet.
Just the beginning.
Bush get’s blamed for the bad economy, and Obama takes credit for the great intelligence. None of this was put in place 10 years ago.
There’s always the actual facts/truth of what happened in each case (economy and WOT/bin Laden).
Nobody’s going to trap me into the blame/credit game that the media and the pundits and the politicians play, wherein the template is set by them and we can’t use facts/truth to seperate the wheat from the chaff.
Last month was the deadliest month in Iraq since 2009 ... Are we still there!?
[the principal lead came from none other than KSM, who, during his waterboarding interrogations at GITMO, gave up the names of Bin Laden’s most trusted couriers]
Do you have a source for this? I’d like to link it on FB.
They're trying, by simply ignoring the fact that the intelligence responsible for all this came out of - gasp! - Guantanamo......the same Guantanamo that Barry vowed to shut down because of it's inhumanity.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.