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Old and In the Way

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14. It wasn't incompetence...it was willful decision making not to find and kill him.

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Mon Apr 30, 2012, 09:06 PM

Apr 2012

Not only was OBL well connected to the House of Saud and the House of Bush, but he was a useful tool alive to help justify Bush's illegal and immoral GWOT. After they gave him safe passage out of Tora Bora into Pakistan, I suspect they always had a pretty good idea where OBL was. And they were quite happy keeping him under house arrest so they could use him when it was politically expedient to remind the American people that the 9/11 boogyman was still on the loose.

Essentially, the same military, analysts, and intel were available to Bush as it was to Obama. The difference was Obama was willing to go after him, Bush wasn't.

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According to the GOP,any idiot could have found and taken out Osama bin Laden. [View all] Swede Apr 2012 OP

Then why didn't Bush succeed in 7 1/2 years? nt Fresh_Start Apr 2012 #1

silly me.... any idiot could have done it Fresh_Start Apr 2012 #3

9 1/2 years. applegrove Apr 2012 #7

Bush was only in office for 8 years Fresh_Start Apr 2012 #12

Oh so true. My bad. applegrove Apr 2012 #21

You can't explain that! pinboy3niner Apr 2012 #8

Cuz Bush wasn't just any idiot. Iggo Apr 2012 #15

Because bush wasn't an idiot Confusious Apr 2012 #19

That must mean George Bush isn't just any idiot. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2012 #2

We had a special kind of idiot in office forced on us by the GOP. Tennessee Gal Apr 2012 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author applegrove Apr 2012 #5

Bush obviously wasn't just any idiot. Turbineguy Apr 2012 #6

Then, logically, Bush and Cheney were dumber than an idiot. n/t krispos42 Apr 2012 #9

Ding ding we have a winner malaise Apr 2012 #11

It takes an idiot to pull a trigger krispos42 Apr 2012 #16

Yep - still they are so terrified of this truth malaise Apr 2012 #23

Makes sense. An extraordinary idiot like Bush never could have got him. MichiganVote Apr 2012 #10

Well, maybe Prophet 451 Apr 2012 #13

It wasn't incompetence...it was willful decision making not to find and kill him. Old and In the Way Apr 2012 #14

So, Bush was not an idiot? RobertEarl Apr 2012 #17

Can't explain republican framing. Old and In the Way Apr 2012 #27

Some folks here are saying that he was lower than an idiot RobertEarl Apr 2012 #30

I agree completely. MelungeonWoman Apr 2012 #20

Bush may have been an idiot, but don't confuse that with this handlers cr8tvlde Apr 2012 #26

That's the perfect example. Old and In the Way Apr 2012 #29

It's true. I took him out to dinner a few times. Got lucky once. saras Apr 2012 #18

If people watch Rock Center Wed. night on NBC they'll see the truth. And then THAT will get some jenmito Apr 2012 #22

well, we know of one fucking idiot that didn't. spanone Apr 2012 #24

Their lower than an idiot couldn't find and take out bin Laden, Autumn Apr 2012 #25

So Bush/Cheney were complicit with him having done what he did? flvegan Apr 2012 #28

Yet the party that is replete with them couldn't manage it. Go figure. pinboy3niner Apr 2012 #31

More proof that Rincewind May 2012 #32