Top Romney Adviser Criticizes Obama For Not Killing Bin Laden Fast Enough

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Top Romney Adviser Criticizes Obama For Not Killing Bin Laden Fast Enough

Mitt Romney campaign co-chair and former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu accused President Obama of waiting too long to order the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, in an interview with the New York Times that was published on Saturday.

Sununu said that Obama was “timid,” could have gone after the terrorist mastermind sooner, and attributed the successful operation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:

The president is trying to take credit for following the strategy and the tactics put into place by George W. Bush. At some point the president is going to have to explain why he was timid on the first two or three opportunities that we had. Thank goodness Hillary Clinton was there was to convince him to do the right thing. [...] His trying to take credit for having been decisive belies the fact that he wasn’t decisive until pressed by others.

But former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served in both the Bush and Obama administrations, described Obama’s decision to order the raid that killed Osama bin Laden “gutsy,” saying that “people don’t realize” what a tough call it was and not everyone would have made the same call. Vice President Biden and Gates both advised Obama against taking the course he chose on the bin Laden raid, noting that “There wasn’t any direct evidence that he was there. It was all circumstantial.”

Indeed, even Romney had hinted that he would have not followed in Obama’s footsteps. In April of 2007, Romney said, “It’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person,” but quickly changed his mind after bin Laden was killed. “Any thinking American would have ordered exactly the same thing,” he proclaimed earlier this year.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2...-obama-for-not-killing-bin-laden-fast-enough/

Apparently GWBush is getting credit for killing OsamaBinLaden, and Osama was stupid. weak and timid.

Republicans, are getting more and more derptarded all the time.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

You freudianed "Osama" who wasn't that timid.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Clearly, Obama could have killed Osama far sooner by concocting utter nonsense to invade the wrong country.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

You know what I think? I think they are saying this to make the president look bad in election season.

Relevant:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/magazine/john-sununus-a-teddy-bear.html?_r=0

Didn’t Biden and Robert Gates advise against the mission?
I have no idea what happened in that White House. I do find it unseemly to see the intelligence leaks coming out of there trying to boost this president’s image.

But when there's rumours which degrade his image, that's not unseemly.

 

[Leonel]

He finished the job in 3 years someone else failed to do for 7 years, didn't he?

 

[Antilogic]

Clearly, Obama could have killed Osama far sooner by concocting utter nonsense to invade the wrong country.

Dat's a good question. Why weren't our boots on the ground in Karachi and Islamabad?

He finished the job in 3 years someone else failed to do for 7 years, didn't he?

Hey, why let annoying facts like this get in the way of a good partisan rant?

 

[GoodSarmatian]

He's damn right,
After seven years of preparation and planning by the Bush administration Obama should have finished the job within his first week of office.

 

[DinoDoc]

Well the operation was allegedly canceled 3 times by the Administration...

 

[warpus]

Romney's camp would find something to complain about even if Obama single-handedly parachuted into Osama's compound, roundhouse kicked his head off, and then proceeded to take out all of Al Qaeda.

 

[DinoDoc]

Isn't that what he claimed?

 

[Ailedhoo]

Isn't that what he claimed?

 

[Leonel]

Isn't that what he claimed?

Don't be obtuse and Bush had plenty of opportunities to get Bin Laden

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/05/03/163155/bush-did-not-catch-bin-laden/?mobile=nc

I know you don't like sources that are perceived as liberal but they link to sources that demonstrate Bush's lack of concern for Bin Laden, shutting down the CIA's special 'Bin Laden Unit', the opportunity to capture him in 2001, not to mention the enhanced interrogations and Gitmo didn't help to capture him.

 

[DinoDoc]

I haven't mentioned Bush in this thread. Why you think his failings (real or otherwise) would be relevant the the lighthearted comment about Obama's propensity to "spike the football" while claiming otherwise is bewildering?

 

[DinoDoc]

You seemed to like this post for some reason now decide to hypocritically decide to follow the path it berates. Why is that?

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

It seems some would rather have it that OBL wasn't killed during Obama's administration.

 

[Leoreth]

Oh, good plan Republicans, make this election about Bush, that has always worked out well.

Just make sure to criticize Obama for shifting all the blame to the Bush administration at the same time.

 

[GhostWriter16]

Clearly, Obama could have killed Osama far sooner by concocting utter nonsense to invade the wrong country.

This is why I don't want President Romney anymore than I do President Obama.

Anyone who is asking me why I'm not supporting Mitt Romney, this is exactly why.

He finished the job in 3 years someone else failed to do for 7 years, didn't he?

That's not quite fair. I agree that this criticism is somewhat dumb, but its an assumption that Bush could have done the exact same things that Obama can do now. Surely the 7 years the Bush administration spent preparing helped?

Oh, good plan Republicans, make this election about Bush, that has always worked out well.

Just make sure to criticize Obama for shifting all the blame to the Bush administration at the same time.

Both parties are getting dumber and dumber all the time.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

That's not quite fair. I agree that this criticism is somewhat dumb, but its an assumption that Bush could have done the exact same things that Obama can do now. Surely the 7 years the Bush administration spent preparing helped?

Well, if we take Iraq into account, that didn't help. It did quite the opposite.

I only have a gutfeeling about this, so nothing substantial, but I do get the impression the Bush administration saw OBL as a sidedish and Saddam as the main course from the start.

"We got him"

No further description necessary. We got him. We got the main man. Saddam. Not the guy who is responsible for 9/11, the guy who was responsible for smack-talking the US of A. And no one does that to the Ustated Nites of America

 

[Bugfatty300]

I haven't mentioned Bush in this thread. Why you think his failings (real or otherwise) would be relevant the the lighthearted comment about Obama's propensity to "spike the football" while claiming otherwise is bewildering?

Because that's how OT works. Your opinions will always be attached to some stereotype.

 

[warpus]

Well, if we take Iraq into account, that didn't help. It did quite the opposite.

I only have a gutfeeling about this, so nothing substantial, but I do get the impression the Bush administration saw OBL as a sidedish and Saddam as the main course from the start.

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- Bush, 3/13/02

"I am truly not that concerned about him."
- Bush, 4/8/02