Ding Dong bin Laden is gone

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

Not speak for scaeagles, but say what you will about his favorite president, he was not afraid to roil the international waters. Nor was W if to less good effect. Obama ordered the assassination of a world leader. Yes, the operation is extraordinarily complicated, but such a decision comes from the president.

And he's killed some pirates.

Originally Posted by JWBear

Denying Obama any credit for Bin Laden's death is the current Republican meme. Many of those who previously gave him credit have now flip-flopped. It's an amusingly transparent bit of partisanship, and people need to be called out for it whenever it happens.

Again: scaeagles's post (IMO) was NOTHING about ANY president: giving or taking away from Obama, George W Bush, or Ronald Reagan. He was (IMO) simply trying to give credit to the SEALs who did the deed. It was Strangler Lewis who tried to make it about a President.

Yes, Obama gave the green light to make it happen and should it have failed, the blame would have been on his shoulders and therefore, he gets credit for the mission's success. But I, like scaeagles, ALSO want to sing the praises of the troops on the ground (as well as the intelligence people, the support crews - such as the crew who was able to fly in a replacement helicopter on a moment's notice when one crashed, even the crews who built the mock-up to run training exercises, et. al.).