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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLet's take a stroll shall we?.....
Down "I killed Bin Laden" Lane
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Let's take a stroll shall we?..... (Original Post)
underpants
Oct 2019
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IIRC, the GOP criticized Obama for "taking credit" for killing OBL,
The Velveteen Ocelot
Oct 2019
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)1. IIRC, the GOP criticized Obama for "taking credit" for killing OBL,
but they'll be fellating Trump all day for the demise of a guy who was disabled and who had already stepped down as the head of ISIS, and who blew himself up.
underpants
(182,789 posts)2. Almost immediately
Fox News started the "The military killed him NOT Obama".
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)3. And that's exactly what Obama said,
and gave full credit to the military operation.
DinahMoeHum
(21,784 posts)4. Let's go further down the road, shall we?
. . .when Trump, in his 1st week into his fake presidency, tried to one-up Obama. . .
Instead, we got a failed mission and a dead Navy SEAL, Ryan Owens
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/trump-says-they-lost-ryan-owens-commander-chief/580066/
underpants
(182,789 posts)5. They lost him
I'd forgotten about Ryan Owens.
April 2017. The MOAB bomb. Oooh look at the big boom boom I made
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-drops-the-mother-of-all-bombs-on-afghanistan