How is Obama not 100% responsible for getting Bin Laden?

[dkf]

If he had said no nothing would have happened.

Do these people not understand cause and effect?

[Rocknrule]

1. And yet Clinton's blow job was 100% responsible for 9/11

:wtf:

[Trey9007]

2. Bush deserves some credit because.....

after all, without Bush, theres probably no 9/11..

[dkf]

3. Lol

[malaise]

11. Freaking DUzy

:rofl:

[graywarrior]

4. Low IQ and racist attitudes?

[RZM]

5. The official story claims that the process of identifying 'the courier' was a long one

Some of the intelligence that made the raid possible was collected under the previous administration. But I guess you're right that since Obama is CIC right now, it's his call alone whether or not to authorize this kind of thing. But since there is no other CIC, I don't see how your framework could allow for any other person to take credit.

I'd say the lion's share should be split between all of the informants, analysts, and military personnel that made it possible.

[emulatorloo]

7. Wingnut opinion makers are claiming Obama had nothing to do with it.

That's the context.

[dkf]

8. But you could have had all that info and no go.

Then nothing.

[emulatorloo]

6. Trust me, if it had failed, the same people would have been calling for Obama's head

[elocs]

9. That is exactly true. n/t

[Old and In the Way]

10. Just look how they reacted when the hostage rescue mission failed under Carter.

It was his fault that a sand storm clooged filters and create conditions for a helicopter to crash. But cutting a deal with Iran to hold the hostages until after the 1980 election was a noble thing for Reagan/Bush to do. I credit Obama only for having the guts to do the right thing and go after him, given the risk that the Right would have held him totally accountable for the any number of ways that this mission could have failed.

[SmileyRose]

12. He already said he's not 100% responsible.

Obama himself put all the credit with the people in the military and intelligence community who've been working on this since the first day.

[TheWraith]

13. Even beyond that: he insisted on a raid, rather than an airstrike.

His choice resulted in the difference between a successful mission and a crater with who knows how much collateral damage, possibly including never knowing what happened to Bin Laden.

[SaveAmerica]

14. Some don't understand how the Chain of Command works, and for those who say he didn't have anything

to do with it, that would be to say that the Seals went rogue and also Bush had nothing to do with our guys going into the Middle East and they've all gone there on their own. Cause they love that whole 'risk your life every day' thing.

[former9thward]

15. Yeah 100%. The military in this operation and CIA tracking various people

for years had nothing to add to it. He did it all himself. 100%. Yup.