Posted on 05/10/2011 11:41:33 AM PDT by MissesBush
In scarcely a week, we have seen two of the most important advances in the war on terror since the 9/11 attacks. And President Obama deserves full credit.
The first was his go-ahead for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The second was more inadvertent, but arguably more important. This is the opening his spin has given to Republicans to force what we should have had in 2008: an honest debate on America's antiterror policies.
The opening began Sunday night, when Mr. Obama rushed a national address on the bin Laden killing. Notwithstanding his later comment to "60 Minutes" that Americans do not "spike the football," the president appears incapable of doing what would serve him best here: Letting the action speak for itself, and heaping praise on his predecessors (Bill Clinton as well as George W. Bush) for their contributions. Instead we got the implication that no one was trying to get bin Laden until Barack Obama arrived in town.
At the same time, all the president's men were put in the position of denying something the Navy SEALs had made obvious: They owed much of their success to information resulting from policies authorized by President Bush but opposed by Mr. Obama. Thus Leon Panetta found himself bobbing and weaving when NBC's Brian Williams kept asking the CIA chief whether waterboarding had anything to do with finding bin Laden.
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During the 2008 campaign, for example, Mr. Obama asserted it was "the fact" that Mr. Bush "championed a strategy that distracted us from capturing bin Laden, that focused on Iraq, that had nothing to do with 9/11." Now, however, we learn that we discovered the courier's close tie to bin Laden through a top al Qaeda operative, Hassan Ghul, captured in 2004 . . . in Iraq.
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In 2004, a top Al Qaeda operative Hassan Ghul, captured in IRAQ which war Obama and the Dems said was a distraction from capturing Bin Laden tells us who OBL's closest courier is--including his real name.
In the next few years the man's name and identity is confirmed by warrantless wiretaps of terrorist phone calls.
So 3 policies Dems opposed--enhanced interrogations, warrantless wiretaps and the Iraq War all lead to OBL being killed.
This lead to a multi-year manhunt for the courier which lead the CIA to Bin Laden's compound. THANKS BUSH!
Yes, the Iraq War played a direct part in finding OBL---read it and weep Dems.
I'm sure Obama will have the class and magnanomous generosity to credit Bush and policies Obama opposed for the best moment of his presidency--if he can take time out long enough from congratulating himself that is.
Interesting isn't it---the only bright moment of Obama's presidency came courtesy of conservatives---the military which offed OBL and Bush policies that lead to finding OBL. LOL!
Ironic, it took conservatives to make Obama look good, something Obama has completely failed to do for 2 1/2 years for himself.
When will Obama get around to thanking the right for the only positive moment in his long, failed, miserable presidency???
“When will Obama get around to thanking the right for the only positive moment in his long, failed, miserable presidency???”
Right after he gets down on his knees and repents of his opposition to BAIPA.
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