President Obama's order to kill bin Laden, and the successful mission due to that order, allowed America to have a VICTORY to 9/11. So yes, President Obama earned the privilege to "Spike the Ball. Because, after all, it was Bush/Cheney who dropped the ball, several, several times.
In 2007 Candidate Obama must have had some idea that binLaden was in Pakistan or he would not have said he would enter Pakistan to kill bin Laden if he were President -- duh!
In 2005, Donald Rumsfeld, via Bush/Cheney called off the Mission to Kill bin Laden in Pakistan.
In 2002, Bush/Cheney called off the Mission to kill bin Laden in Tora Bora and so bin Laden was allowed to go safely into Pakistan and live there throughout the entire 8 years of Bush/Cheney -- until President Obama had him killed in 2011.
President Obama was the only President in the 10 years after 9/11 to actually have the courage, strength and leadership to make the call to kill bin Laden.
Since President Obama had bin Laden killed the rightwing has been pissed off. Seems they liked bin Laden being alive.
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Maybe the GOP liked being able to pop out a video of bin Laden right before an election, like the video of bin Laden right before the 2004 election.
Maybe the GOP like being able to raise the Terror Color Code right before an election, like Tom Ridge wrote about in his book on being told to raise of the terror code before the 2004 election.
Maybe the GOP liked their boogie-man being alive so they could start wars and win elections ... but they always leave out: bin Laden attacked America on GOP White House Watch and GOP Congress Watch.
I've never understood why the GOP said "America was safe with Bush/Cheney" as the reality is, America was not safe at all with the inept Bush/Cheney Foreign Policy.
Here's an example of how unsafe America was because of the inept, incompetent, bungling of Bush/Cheney on Foreign Policy:
- Bush ignored the Aug 6, 2001 PDB Titled "Bin Laden Determined To Strike America" while he was on his first month long vacation
- Mission to Get OBL in Tora Bora CALLED OFF 6 months after 911
- Mission to Get OBL in Pakistan CALLED OFF in 2005
- Anthrax letters
- DC Sniper
- Imaginary WMD that cost over 500,000 innocent men, women & children to lose their lives.
- Falsified Intel
- letting bin Laden go safely into Pakistan
- Weakened the US Economy by giving Tax Cuts while trying to pay debt on two wars
- how 'safe' was America when Bush/Cheney committed War Crimes?
I don't think Bush/Cheney orchestrated 9/11 - However, their Foreign Policy was such a failure they ignored the August 6, 2001 PDB so Bush could enjoy his first month long vacation after only being in office for 7 months.
I also think if Bush/Cheney would have killed bin Laden in Tora Bora they knew they would have a problem explaining their deep, deep, desire to invade Iraq so they could steal Iraq Oil money - which they did - (and the US Taxpayer has to pay Iraq back for that stolen Iraq Oil money that happened on Bush/Cheney's watch.)
Here's a scary fact, Bush/Cheney's Failed Foreign Policy Advisers are Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy Advisers who must have advised Bush/Cheney to let bin Laden live safely in Pakistan, spend $4 Trillion dollars to invade Iraq and search for imaginary WMD, and to keep popping out videos of their boogie-man as a fearmongering technique.
Add Romney's Foreign Policy Advisers together with Romney, in August 2007 saying, "I do not concur in the words of Barack Obama in a plan to enter [Pakistan] to get bin Laden ... U.S. troops "shouldn't be sent all over the world." He called Obama's comments "ill-timed" and "ill-considered." and you have a would-be President who would have let bin Laden continue to live safely in Pakistan.
A reminder of Obama's 2007 comment Romney was referring to: "If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will," Obama said.
So yeah, Romney was wrong. Bush/Cheney kept America strong>unsafe. And if Romney had been elected President bin Laden would still be alive as the only way to kill bin Laden was to enter Pakistan which neither Romney nor his Bush/Cheney Foreign Policy advisers would have let him do.
All these things I mention are exactly why President Obama has earned the privilege to "Spike the Ball" and the death of bin Laden was a clear VICTORY for America
Sadly the entire Rightwing, including Dick Cheney & Liz Cheney are pissed off that their beloved boogie-man is dead ... hmmmm ..... they must love Terrorists who want to harm America.
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