FORT WORTH, Texas — The Bush administration would have used the same strategy to kill terrorist Osama bin Laden had those circumstances arisen years ago, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told The Associated Press in an interview Friday.
Rumsfeld said President Barack Obama made the right decision in sending Navy SEALs to raid the al-Qaida leader's compound in Pakistan earlier this month. But he declined to say how much credit the Obama administration deserves.
"The capabilities to do it were developed over time by previous administrations, and they benefit the country, and the intelligence had been gathered over a long period of time," Rumsfeld said. "And it came to fruition in the Obama administration, to the credit of the intelligence community. ... I don't have a doubt in my mind but that President Bush, if he had information as to the location of bin Laden, would have done exactly the same thing, and I thought the forces executed it brilliantly."
Most information about al-Qaida that led to bin Laden's hideout came from three detainees after the CIA used "enhanced interrogation techniques," including the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding, Rumsfeld said. Bush approved those techniques for the CIA's use only on high-value targets and were never done by the Defense Department or on any Guantanamo Bay detainees, Rumsfeld said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/20/donald-rumsfeld-obama-made-right-decision-bin-laden_n_865017.htmlExcuse-mongering as always, eh, Rummy? I'll bet there were plenty of "circumstances" where you and Georgie and Dickie could've erased OBL's ass, but he wasn't the guy you were obsessed with, now was he?
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