SMU students, others gather at George W. Bush’s Dallas home after Osama bin Laden’s death

LaDivina, anonymous:

Thank GWB for what, exactly?

Montemalone, anonymous:

If the shrub had done his job correctly in the first place, instead of starting wars for his profiteer pals, OBL would have been taken out 9 years ago, and thousands of people, soldier and civilian, wouldn't have died needlessly since. President Obama did what needed to be done. The echo chamber gopers just can't stand the idea that this President knows his job.

hummypabp, anonymous:

Clinton had OBL on realtime tape.

Didn't take him out.

Why not?

lparchman, anonymous:

LaDivina,

Setting up a network and putting policies in place that allowed President Obama to continue the search for him. You'd most likely be interested to know that the initial intelligence that led to the capture of Osama came from Guantanamo Bay in 2007...you know, that "unconstitutional" base that Obama initially said he would close within one year of his Presidency. Interesting how that worked out, huh? Anyways, hope this clears some of the confusion up for you. Thanks!

lparchman, anonymous:

LaDivina,

Setting up a network and putting policies in place that allowed President Obama to continue the search for him. You'd most likely be interested to know that the initial intelligence that led to the capture of Osama came from Guantanamo Bay in 2007...you know, that "unconstitutional" base that Obama initially said he would close within one year of his Presidency. Interesting how that worked out, huh? Anyways, hope this clears some of the confusion up for you. Thanks!

RMPinney, anonymous:

Thank GWB for Gitmo and pushing hard to form and increase our overseas intelligence services.

The information which lead to Osama was gathered from secret prisons overseas and from Gitmo detainees, using torture.

You really think this information would have been obtained with Obama in charge during that time? Obama doesn't want to offend Muslims and may have likely not taken the necessary hardline needed to get the information required.

tired_old_fan, anonymous:

Thank you GW Bush, it is clear the Obama Team embraced all of the Bush Policies in fighting the GWOT, which they publicly vilified. It is unfortunate, but we see many cheering the UNILATERAL military action conducted on the soil of another sovereign Nation - a complete contradiction of the Obama/Democratic Partisan public stance. The Obama-Holder-Clinton 'smart power' doctrine actually advocated that these Terrorists should be given the rights of US Citizens and tried in US Civilian Courts. It seems they did not give Bin Laden a trial...

tired_old_fan, anonymous:

Thank you GW Bush, it is clear the Obama Team embraced all of the Bush Policies in fighting the GWOT, which they publicly vilified. It is unfortunate they went overboard for their own petty gain. But now we see many cheering the UNILATERAL military action conducted on the soil of another sovereign Nation - a complete contradiction of the Obama/Democratic Partisan public stance. The Obama-Holder-Clinton 'smart power' doctrine actually advocated that these Terrorists should be given the rights of US Citizens and tried in US Civilian Courts. It seems they did not give Bin Laden a trial...

dcc166, anonymous:

he put in place the things in which obama currently still uses on the war on terror and used ksm information from his water boarding interagations at Gitmo to find out the couriers nickname which led to OBL death. Thats why President Bush is to be thanked.

tobyedwards, anonymous:

Obummer did one thing right. Period! He gave the ok to kill Osama, that was all he did. If you think President Bush never intended to do the same you are smoking crack. Let your hate for President Bush go. You can't be a miserable S.O.B. all your lives....then again...maybe you can.

fb3195, anonymous:

For those on the Left who want to lord this victory over conservatives more than they want to celebrate it with the whole country over against the terrorists:

This Politico report outlines how the victory began in 2007, with intel from a detainee identifying the courier whose movement led to bin Laden. There is one party whose base in 2007 was caterwauling about the rights of enemy combatant detainees everywhere (not just Gitmo).

Q: Was it Bush or Obama who disregarded that political pressure so this day could come? A: It was both Bush and Obama. So the Left has nothing to crow about today over the Right; this is a victory for everyone in the US, for both administrations, and especially for everyone in and out of uniform who sacrificed so much to see liberty prevail over wickedness as it did yesterday, no matter when they served.

The President deserves great credit for a gutsy decision to take the ground option. No doubt. As one commentator said after the news broke last night, if the mission had gone wrong President Obama would bear the full responsibility; so he gets the tremendous credit for getting it right.

So my question is, Will the leftists who made so much noise to categorically elevate the Due Process rights of detainees - bolstering the morale of terrorists in and out of detention, BTW, and possibly prolonging the date we learned the courier's name - will those leftists now admit they were utterly unhelpful to this victory?

tobyedwards, anonymous:

Obummer did one thing right. Period! He gave the ok to kill Osama, that was all he did. If you think President Bush never intended to do the same you are smoking crack. Let your hate for President Bush go. You can't be a miserable S.O.B. all your lives....then again...maybe you can.

Husein, anonymous:

None of this would have been done if Barak had kept his own campaign promises and gotten out of Pakistan. So please don't give the impression that this was Barak's big plan and he is such a great leader; that is just moronic. He will get credit for being the President during the operation, but to say that his heart was in this hunt is ludicrous. I myself was not for the extended war in Afghanistan so I am no buddy of Bush.

frenchdeux_1, anonymous:

LaDaViNiA,

Not a big thinker, I see. Maybe this will help remind you what to thank George Bush for. Afghanistan, Iraq, Gitmo. If you don't remember those, just think, FREEDOM.

bhagen88, anonymous:

The initial information about the high level courier came from an informant at Gitmo, several years ago, well before Obama appeared on the scene. That was during Bush's watch; kudos to him for beginning the process and designating the team that eventually tracked OBL down.

Kudos to Obama for continuing the project and letting the team do their job; also for signing off on the final raid when the time came.

MASSIVE KUDOS TO THE ACTUAL TEAM WHO GOT THE JOB DONE!!!

dave9085, anonymous:

If Clinton hadn't been more interested in the oval orifice than doing his damn job, ubl would have been dead BEFORE G.W. was even elected. But go right ahead, blame Bush. It's all you leftists know.

thomabb, anonymous:

If Clinton had done his job back when Osama attacked the World Trade Center the first time, 3000 innocent people wouldn't have died on 9/11.

joe8221, anonymous:

The U.S. military know their job. Crediting Obama is like thanking Hugh Hefner for having nice tits.

piperfromtn, anonymous:

If Bill Clinton had not pardoned the FLN terrorists and urged Israel to let them go, we could have perhaps dodged the bullet for a while longer and even precluded entirely the 911 attacks. Also, if Bill Clinton would have accepted Bin Laden from the Sudan, we could have precluded even more trouble by having had him in custody over 10 years ago.

jj2711, anonymous:

"BHO is so amazing." "Definitely the smartest man alive." "He knew exactly where OBL was all the time." "Just waiting for the right time." However, shouldn't we have brought OBL to NY for a fair trial? Need to make sure OBL understands what he did was wrong. Where is the liberal outrage for carrying out battle field justice? Wouldn't you at least expect PETA to be upset about the treatment of this animal? It is comical watching the media fawn over BHO's brilliance, and hilarious watching these haters of the military try to act the role with elections just around the corner.

llancealot2002, anonymous:

Hey bone head,,,, the key intelligence which lead to OBL's death was gathered during Bush's tenure from detainee's in Guantanamo. The identification of the courier, the compound, EVERYTHING. Nothing Big O did lead up to this except approving the final mission.

randy1, anonymous:

Spare everyone the Obama credit. The narcissist in chief is a clueless baffoon that got lucky with intelligence obtained by the Bush administration from Guantanamo more than likely. Barry can't produce one job, get gas prices in check or do anything about the deficit his "tax and spend" policies have produced. Never owned a business, jr. senator, surrounded by radicals, racists preachers and admitted comunists. That's what this president knows.

jamesthames, anonymous:

If President Clinton did his job in 2000 - 9/11 wouldn't have happened.

Thanks goes to W and the US military! Job well done

davepub, anonymous:

The weenie Bush-haters' argued for years that the reason this didn't happen earlier is because Bush took us into two wars. But now we are in three wars. This took about 25 well-trained special ops guys. How exactly is it that troops in Iraq would have prevented it? Only in a mind tangled in false theories.

BTW, Thank you Geo. Bush, and Thank you pres. Obama. Good job America. Now fix the debt.

joe9989, anonymous:

Oh Jeez.... Yeah it was all about his profiteering pals huh? So how does that explain gas prices being higher now? Is your pet obama really a friend of the oil companies? Why no outrage now? You libs are the most pathetic of hypocrits.
On a positive note... Way to go SEAL's for taking out the king of all scumbags!

randy1, anonymous:

Spare everyone the Obama credit. The narcissist in chief is a clueless baffoon that got lucky with intelligence obtained by the Bush administration from Guantanamo more than likely. Barry can't produce one job, get gas prices in check or do anything about the deficit his "tax and spend" policies have produced. Never owned a business, jr. senator, surrounded by radicals, racists preachers and admitted comunists. That's what this president knows.

k_cahill, anonymous:

Thank him for waterboarding. Thank him for Gitmo. Thank him for taking the fight to them.

But you can thank Congress for not letting Obama shut down Gitmo.

But I will thank Obama for making the right call in shooting OBL, rather than bombing him. Proof is better than not knowing for certain

brentjenny, anonymous:

OH yes this president knows his job. That is why we are almost broke, we have $5 gasoline and we will probably let his muslim buddies Pakistan get away with hiding the scum. BTW it is the intelligence community that knows their job. All Obama Bin Laden did was say ok pull the trigger.

david6660, anonymous:

OK, so BHO is taking credit for killing OBL. It happened on his watch and he needs some good news. I'll give him that.

Now what? Are you going into Yemen? How committed is BHO to the war on terror? If OBL is just a trophy for his reelection, I wouldn't be too surprised. What would surprise (and gladden) me is redirecting the war from Afghanistan to Yemen and/or get al-Zawahiri next. Finish the job, Obama!

david6660, anonymous:

OK, so BHO is taking credit for killing OBL. It happened on his watch and he needs some good news. I'll give him that.

Now what? Are you going into Yemen? How committed is BHO to the war on terror? If OBL is just a trophy for his reelection, I wouldn't be too surprised. What would surprise (and gladden) me is redirecting the war from Afghanistan to Yemen and/or get al-Zawahiri next. Finish the job, Obama!

joshua_e_watkins, anonymous:

Bush let Osama Bin Laden escape from Tora Bora and shifted forces out of Afghanistan over to Iraq. Also, he said in this video that he didn't really care about Osama: http://youtu.be/4PGmnz5Ow-o

tst1212, anonymous:

Obama deserves credit for listening to Pros for once and not his academic buddies who would have suggested he turn over all info to our "allies" the packies. Thanks Obama for not getting in the way.

You have to love how Obama canceled the bombing of the compound in March, right around the same time he changed his stance on gitmo. What a coincidence!

familywill, anonymous:

since Bush did do his job...Obama can now take credit for the whole thing...as if Obama has the ability to have come to this point all on his own...LOL!!! THANK YOU GWB and the men and women working on this years before Obama was even a mention.

kevinmitchek, anonymous:

I think if Oba's approval numbers were much higher, Osama would still be alive. That said, I guess he could have taken the Mike Moore and Keith Oberman way out but he gambled and won. For this well done. But Oba should take a lesson from this scrap your garbage policies and let those who know what they are doing do the job. We still have millions out of work and gas is still over $4 a gallon.

jim6853, anonymous:

Thank Bush for what? OBL would have been dead and gone long ago if the incompetent Bush went after him after 9/11. The fact is that Bush left the mastermind of 9/11 and went after Saddam Hussein. Of course he got who he went after. Obama took office and immediately made the capture of OBL a top priority. Well, he has gotten who he went after. That's the point here. Bush went after Saddam while Obama went after OBL.

jubell, anonymous:

Thanks to GWB, for what....let me think...he took down Sadam, he managed to capture a number of the high ranking ALQ operatives which subsequently led to the capture of OBL thru interrogation tactics that Obama opposed. So thank you GWB is correct! Also, the real thanks goes to the military intel and the special operatives for if it weren't for them, OBL would have never been killed. The thanks don't go to the president...he just said yes to someone else's plan then took the credit for it as if he planned the mission and pulled the trigger.

bluntnhonest, anonymous:

Yes! Thank you ex-President Bush! Starting wars in nations that had nothing to do with 9/11 and allowing the most vile and greedy filth ever to exist (in Corporate America) to runamuck without restraint and nearly destroy the world's economy are acts we will forever be grateful for! Thank you so much for being the worst president in the history of this nation; given another year you could have destroyed us beyond recovery.

saky37, anonymous:

Obamas a duche. Truth be know he hated giving the order to take out one of his own. Why they gave this POS (OBL) the Muslim honor of being buried within 24 hrs shows Obamas true feelings toward these people. They should have wrapped him in bacon and used him for bait!!!!

amesa, anonymous:

LaDivina, says: Thank GWB for what, exactly?

Easy 1. Assuring obama and democrat super majority congress wins in 2008 which gave u obamacare, $4 gas and rising, food inflation, 20 million unemployed, a debased and devalued currency, and soon to be 3rd world status by this insane march into progressive (pseudo communist/fascist corporate/military marriage) Dante's inferno, and smirking while he did it. 2. the patriot act 3. tsa molestation 4. curtailing the Constitutional rule of law and OUR US citizens Bil of Rights 5. creating a make believe war that cheney said could last 100 years to finance the military industrial complex and rich bankers making loans to ALL combatants 6. I could go on but why? he basically continued his father's and clintons screwing Americans and passed the scepter to someone worse than himself and even j carter...

Gandalff69, anonymous:

@Montemalone Oh Please... We can continue to go back to Clinton with blame for not taking him out thus allowing 9-11 to happen in the first place and the ensuing wars that followed. As far as the PROFITEER part, well America is still waiting for that part so keep listening to Daily Kos for the updated talking point as that one is way past its sell by date.

Wait for the other shoe to drop as your going to hear that this operation has been in works for many years. Yes years, when Pakistan changed leaderships just as our trail on Osama was hot. They have trained for the extradition or execution since the end of 07'.

Obama doesn't even know all of the military protocol except that he gets a call once and a while to say Ok to something. He needs to know why! His primary job is to protect & defend the Constitution & the Borders of the United States of America. Not make policy, push policy or create social programs.

As for this President knowing his job... Really? A General Calls and says this looks like the best time should we give the orders to go in....

duh duh duh (lets see NY Times has an article says I am in major trouble, I am raising gas prices to reduce Americas carbon footprint & people will hate that, food prices are on the rise except mine, there is a food shortage on the way except for me, unemployment is about to rise again above 10% most likely except for me, inflation is about to kick in big time except for ME, I have added a war to our armed forces and nobody seems to care because I am ME, I kept the old ones going & kept gitmo open & nobody cares because I am ME, I released a paper that doesn't have my birth weight & length but it does have signatures so haha, Wednesday is party night ... oh right sorry) Yes go get him people will love me and think I am the genius! Oh Please!

john9141, anonymous:

Perhaps the students were being sarcastic.

SitizenKane, anonymous:

Just when i am ready to write off the current youth; they do somthing great like applauding - thanking Bush.

bluedawgie, anonymous:

To Montemalone and other Bush bashers......... If Clinton hadn't let Osama Bin Laden go when he had him, perhaps this whole mess could've been averted in the first place.

skubaduk, anonymous:

As the liberal press, Dem's, Muslims, NPR, Oprah and the ACLU + others will opine.

" Why didn't we take him alive so he could have stood trial in the US ? ".

victor_easley, anonymous:

"Q: Was it Bush or Obama who disregarded that political pressure so this day could come? A: It was both Bush and Obama. So the Left has nothing to crow about today over the Right; this is a victory for everyone in the US, for both administrations, and especially for everyone in and out of uniform who sacrificed so much to see liberty prevail over wickedness as it did yesterday, no matter when they served. "

Exactly! This comment is worth reiterating and I am no great fan of either president mentioned. Yet, this is a victory for America bigtime!

elyelizabeth, anonymous:

Wow, who knew torture could accomplish so much in the world? I suggest that every American undergo torture, so that they will give up all secrets! And if we have no secrets, at least it'll toughen us up. Just like at Gitmo, we'll have to torture a lot of innocent people, but you never know when that one secret will come out, resulting in a victory for national security when one guy with a beard gets killed in Pakistan. I, for one, feel a lot safer!

Let the wimps condemn torture. As for me, I'll keep supporting it, even volunteering for it. Of course, I'm white and was born here, so it will probably never happen to me. . . .

DantheMan, anonymous:

I'm willing to give W half the credit for killing OBL if he'll take all the blame for letting 911 happen in the first place. Black folk have been cleaning up after white men for years. Stellar job by the Commander in Chief.