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Originally Posted by JWBear
And I still can't, for the life of me, figure out why Bush should be congratulated for something that the current administration accomplised that he failed to do in his 8 years in office.
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The intelligence gathering that lead to the eventual discovery of Bin Laden's location began well before Obama took office, to presume that Bush's decisions had nothing to do with it is as inane as presuming that Obama's didn't, or that Clinton was "to blame" for 9/11 for "failing to capture Osama" before Bush. I have no problem with giving Bush credit for the role his orders to the intelligence community played in the long and difficult task.
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Originally Posted by Moonliner
I see. So what you are saying is that adhering to Constitution of the United States of America is based on how uncomfortable and/or expensive a particular issue is?
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Bin Laden was a military target who had made it abundantly clear that he would not be taken alive. Given that he had vowed to kill himself before capture, and that his organization is rather fond of taking people out around them when killing themselves, I see no issue with shooting first and asking questions later. It's not murder, it's war. I don't like war, I do not promote war, but when someone starts a war and vows to continue that war, then war-like response is justified.