Thread: The path to bin Laden’s death didn’t start with Obama

Originally Posted by darth omar

Not making bin Laden a priority was the Bush strategy.

Bin Laden was A priority for Bush.

Originally Posted by jviehe

Bin Laden was A priority for Bush.

I realize you live in a fantasy world, but according to Bush you're wrong.

Bush: Truly not concerned about bin Laden (short version) - YouTube
Remember, this is just SIX MONTHS after 9/11. In response to a reporters question, President Bush tells the world that he is "truly not that concerned" with catching the man who murdered 3,000 Americans just six months and two days earlier because "we've marginalized him.

Bush Quotes about Bin Laden - BuzzFlash Reader Commentary

FLASHBACK: Bush On Bin Laden: 'I Really Just Don't Spend That Much Time On Him' | ThinkProgress
. In 2006, conservative Weekly Standard editor Fred Barnes told Hannity’s Fox News that in a recent meeting with Bush, the president had told him “bin Laden doesn’t fit with the administration’s strategy for combating terrorism.” Barnes said Bush told him that capturing bin Laden is “not a top priority use of American resources.”

There's lots more out there. You just have to want to educate yourself.

Do you know why Bush said all of that. Because the Bush's and Bin Laden's have been business partners for a long time. If Bush had really tried to get him (remember the wanted dead or alive poster) it would have upset the Bush's money train.

Originally Posted by jviehe

Bin Laden was A priority for Bush.

As I recall, Bush's first priority was protecting the country.

Originally Posted by darth omar

That's just it though; taking out bin Laden, post-9/11, wouldn't have changed anything---from a terrorism standpoint. Which is exactly why Bush didn't make him a priority. Now certainly OBL deserved to be taken out and I'm glad he was, but it only matters from a symbolic standpoint.

We are no safer with bin Laden dead then we were when he was alive.

The threat is relatively unchanged by him being alive ... but revenge for killing our family members is a priority. I don't consider the mastermind of a plot to kill thousands symbolism and it would not have hurt my feeling if they killed all his family too. Not very Christlike ... more of an eye for an eye.

Originally Posted by darth omar

As I recall, Bush's first priority was protecting the country.

Yes, that was his FIRST priorty. Are you saying capturing Bin Laden should have been a higher priority than general defense?

Originally Posted by jviehe

Yes, that was his FIRST priorty. Are you saying capturing Bin Laden should have been a higher priority than general defense?

Wasn't Bush's First priority making sure that everyone owned a house?

Originally Posted by USCitizen

Wasn't Bush's First priority making sure that everyone owned a house?

I thought Bush's first priority was tax cuts so business could create jobs.

Originally Posted by wooyarn

I thought Bush's first priority was tax cuts so business could create jobs.

Just like Obama, Bush had a multitude of first priorities.
Keeps one's various constituencies feeling good.

Originally Posted by USCitizen

Just like Obama, Bush had a multitude of first priorities.
Keeps one's various constituencies feeling good,

That's true

Originally Posted by Forplay

Further, when bush was around OBL was on the move. However under Obama, OBL was stationary for years.

Makes sense.

When you know that nobody is looking for you it's fine to come and go as you please.

When you know you're being hunted down like a dog you go to ground in the safest place you can find.

Fortunately, President Obama had the balls to set the precedent that America's enemies aren't safe anywhere in the world.

If president Bush had still been in office when we'd found the douchebag, and assuming he had the balls to go after him (he did give A.Q. Kahn a free pass, after all) the SEALs probably would have had ISI agents on a ride-along, the same way the CIA did when they were operating along the border region (which is the only place Musharraf allowed them to go).

You know like he did when he could not figure out what to do in Afghanistan, should I add troops, should I not.......

You know that the strategy that ultimately became known as "The Surge" in Iraq was in planning for two years?

Should I, should I not, should I, should I not..............

Juz sayin'

Originally Posted by soot

Makes sense.

When you know that nobody is looking for you it's fine to come and go as you please.

When you know you're being hunted down like a dog you go to ground in the safest place you can find.

Fortunately, President Obama had the balls to set the precedent that America's enemies aren't safe anywhere in the world.

If president Bush had still been in office when we'd found the douchebag, and assuming he had the balls to go after him (he did give A.Q. Kahn a free pass, after all) the SEALs probably would have had ISI agents on a ride-along, the same way the CIA did when they were operating along the border region (which is the only place Musharraf allowed them to go).



You know that the strategy that ultimately became known as "The Surge" in Iraq was in planning for two years?

Should I, should I not, should I, should I not..............

Juz sayin'

I don't see any reason why Pres. Obama shouldn't get credit for his role in the hunt but to say former Pres. Bush wasn't even looking for him is bat shit crazy.

Originally Posted by jviehe

Yes, that was his FIRST priorty. Are you saying capturing Bin Laden should have been a higher priority than general defense?

I'm saying just the opposite. Killing bin Laden had more to do with justice for 9/11 than defense.

Originally Posted by jviehe

Bin Laden was A priority for Bush.

True, but not Osama, Bush's priority was taking care of the people who set him up in business and provided all the money for his "career" as an oil man, the Bin Laden family.

Keeping Osama alive was the least he could do for the people who funded his "career" in the oil business, a career that never made a cent back for any of the investors.
That's why one of the first things Bush did after taking office, was pull the FBI off of tracing Al Qaeda funds....

I see loyalty as an admirable trait, usually.....