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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans who might be reading this - you know why you're pissed about this bin Laden stuff...
because your guy Bush was a big failure at finding him. Of course Bush gave up ages ago and instead decided to start an unnecessary war in a country whose leader had absolutely NOTHING to do with 9/11.
Then you spent all of 2008 election cycle claiming Obama didn't have the experience to make the type of decisions to find and bring bin Laden to justice.
In a Nutshell, the only thing you can 'brag' about is that 9/11 happened on your watch and YOUR pResident in Chief wasted billions of dollars and didn't solve one damn thing.
And it burns you to think that Obama did it halfway thru his first term in office.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)FIFY.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)"In a Nutshell, the only thing you can 'brag' about is that 9/11 happened on your watch and YOUR pResident in Chief wasted millions of dollars and didn't solve one damn thing."
Should be more than "a trillion dollars."
Other than that, spot on!
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I think you're over-thinking it. I don't think it has anything to do with what bush didn't do or what the teapartygop did or didn't do or what the teapartygop has or hasn't said said ... that level of thinking is beyond the 30 second attention span of its base.
The teapartygop is pissed is because this is a feather in this president's cap that they cannot deny. This is the only play in the teapartygop playbook ... outrage at everything Democratic or Democratic done.
AllyCat
(16,248 posts)the footrest up on the La-Z-Boy a little more while popping open another cold one.
HillWilliam
(3,310 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,246 posts)bongbong
(5,436 posts)It wasn't millions wasted, it was trillions.
WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)it's called looting the taxpayers.
It's called stealing and lying.
It's called stealing our future.
WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)Bake
(21,977 posts)How does that taste, Rethugs? All that bile. Choke on it.
Bake
madokie
(51,076 posts)rubs them the wrong way for sure as it should. Right now I'd be ashamed if I ever was a republicon
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)The majority aren't racists clowns. But all republicans have hate as their compeling reason for being a republican and that hate blinds them to all else. They hate something, like reproductive choice, early childhood education, union rights, people that need public assistance, people not from their social class, ect. That singular hate drives them vote against their OWN broader best self interests. I sometimes look at people that I earn more than twice as much as and have infinitely more retirement funds than singing the virtues of voting republican. I think, what damned fools are those people!!
RagAss
(13,832 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)If he did, he could have nailed him at Tora Bora, but instead he called the troops off.
Iraq was the real prize all along (where there was real money to be made).
Osama alive, was way more useful to the Rethugs as the elusive, bad Boogey-Man...keeping that FEAR card going as a blank check for an occupation.
JBoy
(8,021 posts)Bush's fear-based administration depended on Osama as an ever-present boogy-man.
TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)Actually, they DID invent him.
bulloney
(4,113 posts)They were both with the Carlyle Group on 9/11, holding their annual executive meeting at the Ritz Carlton in DC as the 9-11 attacks were taking place.
mac56
(17,575 posts)Said he didn't want to share it because he didn't want to telegraph his punches.
If that wasn't exploiting bin Laden for political gain, I don't know what is.
Crunchy Frog
(26,695 posts)His execution of the plan was flawless.
Awesome.
Uncle Joe
(58,481 posts)Thanks for the thread, LynneSin.
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)His comment was that it ruins "he is not one of us" (American) because he went out and killed our Public Enemy number 1.
malaise
(269,237 posts)and they know it.
Meanwhile M$Greedia is giving them airplay
GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)Even Jimmy Carter knows it.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Anyone with any substance in the GOP knew that it was best to wait until 2016
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)just didn't get the job done. He didn't care to. He was only concerned with getting lucrative contracts to his war profiteer buddies.
SunSeeker
(51,771 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Must admit I stole the "puffed-out rooster" line from a DUer who wrote it about 9 years ago ... Forget who that was ... But it's always seemed the perfect animal simile for Bush.
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)I nearly ruined my screen on that one!
hay rick
(7,650 posts)And what's up with Fox shifting from Osama to Usama? I know that was the original CIA/FBI version of his name, but why now? Perhaps we're supposed to distinguish between Osama, who was the evildoer that GWB nobly set out to avenge while Usama is the porn-watching nobody that the Seals disposed of and Obama took all the credit for...? I really can't think of any reason for the change except for a re-branding effort.
stupidicus
(2,570 posts)for wholly suporting the Bush reign of error and terror by voting for the unindicted war criminal twice, explains much of their conduct and trhetoric choices on these matter in their entirety.
The massive amount of shame they live daily in denial of all that really represents, also explains in no small part the chronic dishonesty and hypocrisy to be found from top to bottom in their rank ranks.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)You can't leave us alone, 'cuz you're sooo lonely.
4bucksagallon
(975 posts)Osama bin Laden, al Qaedas chief of Pakistan operations, Abu Hafs al-Shahri,
Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, the deputy leader of al Qaeda was killed, one of the groups
most dangerous commanders, Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in Pakistan, Al-Qaida in East Africa
(AQEA) senior leader Harun Fazul was killed, In Yemen that same month, AQAP senior
operatives Ammar al-Waili, Abu Ali al-Harithi, and Ali Saleh Farhan were killed,
U.S./Pakistani joint arrest of Younis al-Mauritani in Quetta, check, Tehrik e-Taliban
Pakistan leader Baitullah Mahsud was killed in Pakistan, Jemayah Islamiya operational
planner Noordin Muhammad Top was killed in Indonesia, and AQEA planner Saleh Ali Saleh
Nabhan was killed in Somalia, in Pakistan, al Qaeda operational commanders Saleh al-
Somali and Abdallah Said were killed, Taliban deputy and military commander Abdul
Ghani Beradar was captured; Haqqani network commander Muhammad Haqqani was killed;
and Lashkar-e Jhangvi leader Qari Zafar was killed, al Qaeda operative Hussein al-Yemeni
was killed in Pakistan, senior Jemayah Islamiya operative Dulmatin - accused of being the
mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombings was killed, al Qaeda in Iraq leaders Abu Ayyub
al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi were killed, al Qaedas number three commander, Sheik
Saeed al-Masri was killed, al Qaeda commander Hamza al-Jawfi was killed,
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/...
Still looking for Shrubs accomplishments they're here somewhere............