http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/osama-...ry?id=13544154
Either the admin are morons, or this information is useless. Else we'd not know about it, cause publishing it is, well, dumb.
Regarding mookie's post:
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Strange how there's no consistency here. Obama inherits the worst recession in decades and the right wingers immediately start screeching about how he needs to stop blaming Bush. But now two and a half years into his presidency the majority of the credit for taking down Osama is due to a guy who hasn't cared about him for 9 years?
You can't have it both ways.
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It's not like Obama has enacted any policies to stop the government hemorrhaging money. During the election democrats rightfully bashed Bush overspending, then Obama goes on to spend more into the red in a couple years than Bush did in 8.
Obama took out OBL. I give him credit for that, but he's a showboat, and makes everything about himself. He's the least self-deprecating president in a long time. The intel came about in part because of stuff he himself claims to be very much against. The very framework that allowed the raid was built by Bush for the Global War On Terror.
When OBL disappeared, in order to continue the rest of the fight, it was politically expedient to send the message that OBL was a bit player, marginalized. Its not like the US started ignoring intel on OBL, it's just that they wanted public perception to be that it was not the be all and end all, else every day without nailing him looks like a failure.
You can argue Iraq, but the reality is that AQIraq became (after we invaded) the principle theater of action for AQ. Their humiliating defeat in Iraq dealt AQ a serious blow. Even Sunnis rose up to eject them. What happened to AQ in Iraq was as unforeseen by them as the US response to 9-11 was (it's clear from OBLs statements before 9-112 he expected some tomahawks and a subpoena as a US response).
Regardless, the bulk of credit goes to Obama cause it's on his watch. Still, a better man would have talked less about himself, and more about everyone else.
Credit for the botched handling of the post-OBL information is all Obama, though.
Seriously, they are not showing pictures, but they ARE leaking information about the intel they gathered? WTF? Anything they even mention to the press is instantly NON-actionable. Ideally they'd have bumped off OBL (or interrogated him, then bumped him off), and kept it quiet while they used the intel to kill bad guys. Every time they open their mouths about all the great intel they got in the raid they lose---unless they got crap, and are trying to get the bad guys to move so we can catch them in a mistake.