Notice that US Troops in Afghanistan continue to die at the same rate as before the killing of Osama.
I don’t think Osama was quite the big fish they made him out to be. Strategically, killing him didn’t mean all that much in the big picture, it served more of a propaganda purpose....That’s why Bush really didn’t care too much about capturing him. It wasn’t the “War on Bin Laden”, it was the “War on Terror”. Sure, I’m glad he’s dead, but Obama has milked way too much out of it than deserved. I’m sure if Bush killed Osama and Republicans cheered as much as the Democrats have, the Democrats would just have accused Republicans of being blood-thirsty yadda yadda.
Remember when Saddam was captured, all they cared about was that he got a fair trial.
Back during the Iraq war, during Bush’s time, the left was all in a tizzy that getting Bin Ladin was the end-all be-all of the response to 9-11.
They even believed it themselves, though it was just their excuse for hating Bush.
That hatred extended from Fla 2000, and the denial of the “Clinton 3rd term” through Algore.
You mean like island layabout Charlie Rangel's hand wringing over Saddam's raping and murdering sons, Usay and Quday?
"We have a law on the books that the United States should not be assassinating anybody," Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-NY, told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." "We tried to assassinate Castro and we paid dearly for it," the Rangel contended. "And when you personalize the war and you say you're killing someone's kids, then they, in turn, think they can kill somebody."Yes, those crazy Hussein kids. Just a couple of pranksters known for dipping girls' pigtails in inkwells and tying cans on car bumpers.
So you could almost say obama shot us in the foot. As long as osama was alive, al quaeda was being run by a sick old man, forced to change his hiding places frequently. Not conductive to planning big terrorists attacks. But now with him dead, al quaeda has a new, younger leader who can stand the strain and a bunch of pissed off followers out for our blood for killing their leader.
Alternatively, the Dems, with Bin Laden dead, might have turned around and demanded Bush exit The Suck immediately -- and Afghanistan would have reverted to Taliban control after a couple of years -- which the 'Rats could use to berate Bush again, with cover from the MSM for their own role in ending the war prematurely.