Dear neocon assholes: Obama got bin Laden, deal with it! (updated)

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Bolton: Obama Killed Bin Laden Like Nixon Landed On The Moon

Speaking before a crowd of veterans in Hilton Head, SC at a campaign event for Mitt Romney, former United Nations ambassador John Bolton dismissed the notion that President Barack Obama deserves any credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden:

“The irony is (Obama) is campaigning on the basis that he is a success as a foreign policy president. This is amazing. Navy Seal Team Six killed Osama bin Laden That is his definition of success. In 1969, when Americans landed on the moon, it is like Richard Nixon taking credit for that. It happened to occur during his presidency.”

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/4066

John Bolton picks the wrong fight

By Steve Benen

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For anyone with even the slightest understanding of the relevant events, this is gibberish. President Obama, in his role as Commander in Chief, took an enormous risk and ordered the strike. The responsibility for weighing the evidence and the dangers was his alone, and it was up to the president to make the call. Bolton would have us believe Obama was merely a bystander to events, which is plainly untrue. Indeed, if the mission had gone poorly, it’s the president who would have received the blame.

But it didn’t go poorly; it was a national security triumph for the administration and the president who gave the order.

OK, so Bolton was simply wrong on the policy. But what about the politics? This is nearly as dumb a mistake.

Of all the issues Republican campaigns want to talk about, the U.S. mission that killed bin Laden should be near the bottom. It’s really not complicated: there’s no GOP upside for reminding Americans about one of President Obama’s most notable successes.

Indeed, Bolton was speaking as a prominent Mitt Romney supporter, which makes this even worse — Romney wouldn’t have ordered the same strike that killed the al Qaeda leader. We know this because he’s said so.

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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2012_01/john_bolton_picks_the_wrong_fi034763.php

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1. happened to occur during his presidency

was berlin wall coming down

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2. Wow

now where have I heard that before? "Navy Seal Team Six killed Osama bin Laden" ...Obama had nothing to do with it.

Nevermind that they wouldn't have been able to just go in there and do it without an order from the top, and planning between the top and military brass. The top being President Obama of course.

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9. This

looks like Mitt's new strategy: Yeah it happened, but Obama didn't do it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002168683

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3. We know who they would have blamed 100% if the mission failed

and endless analogies to Carter and Operation Desert One, Clinton's Blackhawk down and JFK's Bay of Pigs.

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4. Neocons have a difficult time with reality and neocon Bolton highlights that with his

words of fantasy in his world of made up stories which he shares with his flock of like-minded brethren.

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5. I seem to remember bush sayting that "he just didn't think much about Bin Ladin"

Obama got him, idiots. Bush actually let him go in Afganistan, if you'll remember. Sorry Boys but the REAL man got him. People aren't stupid and understand who finally got Osama.

&

This is a positive spoof of president Obama but it really says a few things

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6. The ridiculous shit they feed their stupid base. And they eat it all up.

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7. It's desperation. n/t

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8. bolton is excrement....a warmongering son of a bitch

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10. K & R

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11. Is Yosemite Sam still trying to appear relevant?

What a dipshit.

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12. Bolton knows that Obama

fucked up the ReTHUG meme