Posted on 05/02/2011 6:14:50 PM PDT by Kaslin
National Security: The decidedly non-multilateral killing of Osama bin Laden came after a long hunt. President Obama took credit, but it was George W. Bush's detainment and interrogation policies that provided the big break.
The courier was the key. He goes into the history books with the prothonotary warbler, the rare bird that exposed Alger Hiss as a communist spy.
And with Iraq's Tikriti tribe, the source of the breakthrough that led to the capture of Saddam Hussein.
And with David Kaczynski, the brother of the Unabomber, whose tip led the FBI to a remote Montana cabin where the convicted mass murderer had a live bomb ready to mail to another unsuspecting victim.
It was in 2007 during the Bush presidency that the U.S. discovered the real name of bin Laden's secret courier. We originally knew of him from captured terrorists held in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, who told U.S. interrogators his nom de guerre earlier in Bush's term.
Interrogations revealed the courier to be a protege of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Indeed, it might be that KSM himself, the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was the source of the information — perhaps after being waterboarded.
What was Barack Obama doing in 2007? He was complaining in campaign speeches that the Bush administration had failed "to take out an al-Qaida leadership meeting in 2005."
As it turns out, the Bush administration in 2007 was gathering information that would be used less than four years later to eliminate bin Laden during the Obama presidency.
Then-Sen. Obama promised that "if we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and (then-Pakistani) President Musharraf won't act, we will."
But it was Bush's policies that facilitated the gathering of the actionable intelligence President Obama used.
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Not one ounce of credit. Not one inch.
I will not forget the past 10 years. Never.
Liberals did everything in their power to obstruct the prosecution of the war, to handicap and demonize our troops, to defund their operations, to cut budgets on intelligence, and where they didn’t cut it, to effectively hamstring it.
Never. I give all the credit to the US military and those intelligence agencies that have been able to continue functioning in spite of the left.
But I will NEVER give any credit to the Left in this. NEVER.
The fact is that if Obama and the rest of the idiot senate Dems had gotten their way, Gitmo and the tough interrogation techniques that eventually gave us OBL would never have happened. We’d still be sending FBI agents to Pakistan to nicely ask the Pakis to find OBL for us.
“a supposed terrorist”?
Bin Laden was a supposed terrorist? Are you serious?
Don’t usually mouth off to long time Freepers but man you gotta be off your meds or something if you don’t think Osama was a terrorist.
As opposed to this?
I understand. The left neither supported nor voted for Bush Sr. after the Soviet Union fell. Why should anyone on the right feel obligated to do otherwise?
I get your ire. But I don’t know what to believe anymore. This spectacle is B Movie level. It gets weirder and worse everyday.
Explain what you mean, if you could. It is early, and I don’t understand.
Ah. It WAS too early for me. That is a straightforward statement...thanks for the clarification.
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