Bush wants some credit for killing Bin Laden LOL !!!

Bush feels Obama ignoring ex-president's role in Osama Bin Laden strike for 'victory lap


WASHINGTON - George W. Bush won't be at Ground Zero with President Obama Thursday in part because he feels his team is getting short shrift in the decade-long manhunt for Osama Bin Laden.

"[Bush] viewed this as an Obama victory lap," a highly-placed source told the Daily News Wednesday.

Bush's visit to the rubble after the 9/11 attacks was the emotional high point of his presidency, but associates say the invitation to return with his successor was a non-starter.

"He doesn't feel personally snubbed and appreciates the invitation, but Obama's claiming all the credit and a lot of other people deserve some of it," the source added.

"Obama gave no credit whatsoever to the intelligence infrastructure the Bush administration set up that is being hailed from the left and right as setting in motion the operation that got Bin Laden. It rubbed Bush the wrong way."

Bush spokesman David Sherzer said Bush "appreciated the invite, but has chosen in his post-presidency to remain largely out of the spotlight."

Associates familiar with his thinking say Bush does not believe Obama or his handlers wanted to exploit his presence. But the tag-team idea "was for the benefit of Obama, and Obama withheld credit from people Bush believes deserved it," a source said.

Asked about the matter at Thursday's White House briefing, spokesman Jay Carney said "this is a moment of unity for Americans and a moment to recall the unity that existed in this country in the wake of the attacks on 9/11.

"We completely understand that he's not able to come, but…the invitation was made in that spirit," Carney added.

Since leaving office in 2009 the 43rd president has stuck to a rigorous code of silence about criticizing Obama.

After Obama telephoned him on Sunday evening with the word Bin Laden was dead, Bush issued a statement calling it "a momentous achievement."

"I congratulated him and the men and women of our military and intelligence communities who devoted their lives to this mission," Bush added.

In his remarks to the nation Sunday night Obama mentioned Bush in passing, noting that "I've made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not against Islam."

The closest Obama came to praising his predecessor's efforts was indirect: "Over the last 10 years, thanks to the tireless and heroic work of our military and our counterterrorism professionals, we've made great strides" in the war against Bin Laden's Al Qaeda terror network.

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Well he certainly deserves it. It was entirely his policies (which Obama was highly critical of, even swearing to discontinue them), which culminated in the elimination of OBL, not Obama whatsoever.

 

Bull Shit

Bush had 6 + years.If he had focused on Bin Laden and not Iraq he might have got him

 

Bush's policy did get him. The only thing Obama deserves any credit for is not changing Bush's policy (which he harshly criticized). He also had murderers storm into and violate the sovereignty of Pakistan, and murder a man and everyone around him in cold blood, with no trial or any due process.

 

In a story about the resurrection of the harsh interrogation techniques debate slated to run on The New York Times’ front page Wednesday morning, reporters Scott Shane and Charlie Savage completely ignore CIA director Leon Panetta’s Tuesday evening confirmation that waterboarding played a role in procuring the intelligence that led U.S. forces to terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/04/t...n-assassination-in-harsh-interrogation-story/

You are right Range Rover.....

 

And yet our beloved bleeding heart lefties are consumed with man love for Dumbo anyway. Go figure.

 

The decade-long, tortuous trail that ultimately led to the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. special forces included vital clues extracted from waterboarded Guantanamo detainees, America’s spymaster says.

So, did torture work?

Barack Obama outlawed waterboarding – simulated drowning – calling it “torture” and denouncing his predecessor, George W. Bush, for authorizing what was called “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

But CIA director Leon Panetta, currently the toast of Washington because his agents painstakingly tracked down the al-Qaeda leader, has acknowledged that a waterboarding yielded valuable information. That intelligence gave Mr. Obama the chance to make good on his vow to hunt down Mr. bin Laden.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...hat-helped-find-bin-laden-cia/article2010468/

 

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=219926

 

He did change Bush's policies,he focused and put all our resources on Bin Laden,The Taliban and Al Quada and not some witch hunt for WMD's in Iraq