Bush Home Buzzing After Bin Laden Killing

[Gman]

Source: CBS DFW

DALLAS (AP) – Flag-waving supporters left flowers and patriotic red, white and blue balloons outside the Dallas home of former President George W. Bush Monday in the hours that followed the U.S.-led mission that killed Osama bin Laden.

“Thank you President Bush,” said a sign left on the gate outside the street leading to the secluded Bush residence.

Read more: http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/05/02/bush-home-buzzing-after-bin-laden-killing/

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In an alternate reality.............

[Dennis Donovan]

Thank you, President Bush, for letting him go at Tora Bora...

...just so President Obama could get him. :D

[alp227]

19. Washington Post in 2002: U.S. Concludes Bin Laden Escaped at Tora Bora Fight

The Bush administration has concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the battle for Tora Bora late last year and that failure to commit U.S. ground troops to hunt him was its gravest error in the war against al Qaeda, according to civilian and military officials with first-hand knowledge.

Intelligence officials have assembled what they believe to be decisive evidence, from contemporary and subsequent interrogations and intercepted communications, that bin Laden began the battle of Tora Bora inside the cave complex along Afghanistan's mountainous eastern border. Though there remains a remote chance that he died there, the intelligence community is persuaded that bin Laden slipped away in the first 10 days of December.

Full story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62618-2002Apr16

[cyberpj]

1. Oh Puh-leeze. n/t.

[Botany]

2. July 2006 bush shut down the hunt for bin Laden

C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/washington/04intel.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1304349089-jn9ds4XUxfJJUuJEryTLtA

By MARK MAZZETTI
Published: July 4, 2006
WASHINGTON, July 3 — The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday.

The unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned within the C.I.A. Counterterrorist Center, the officials said.

The decision is a milestone for the agency, which formed the unit before Osama bin Laden became a household name and bolstered its ranks after the Sept. 11 attacks, when President Bush pledged to bring Mr. bin Laden to justice "dead or alive."

The realignment reflects a view that Al Qaeda is no longer as hierarchical as it once was, intelligence officials said, and a growing concern about Qaeda-inspired groups that have begun carrying out attacks independent of Mr. bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

[TygrBright]

3. Wow. Pathetic. n/t

[kestrel91316]

4. "Thank you" for WHAT? For failing utterly to make a sincere effort to get the man??

[Auggie]

5. Total Bushit

Planned response to diminish President Obama's achievement

[logosoco]

6. so, apparently,

even though the sept. 11 attack happened when bush was president, it was really clinton's fault, and even though obama has been president for over 2 years when osama was killed it was thanks to bush.

My brain feels a little crooked in my skull when i try to look at how repubs/baggers see the world!!

[aquart]

34. Clearly, they operate on a time delay.

[zeemike]

7. Sometimes I am embarrassed by America.

They have come to treat death so lightly as if it were a point made by your team...But wait....this is all just a game to them.

[Plucketeer]

13. You've got it!

ESPECIALLY since we've not been asked to pay one dime of what it's cost to wage war for a decade! The only consequence we've been asked to contend with is the outrageous tab that's been run up - mostly on a war that was pursued where Bin Laden WASN'T! :dunce:

[snooper2]

35. 12 people doesn't not make America 311,276,114

lot of freaking people...

You know percentage of the population you are "embarrassed" about?

0.0000038550982424562135%


There are more than 12 Du'ers you should be embarrassed by much less the whole damn country

[zeemike]

37. I would be embarrassed if it were just one.

But it might be my upbringing....I was taught to be humble in victory.

[Jefferson23]

8. How much were they paid? I mean come on now...lol. n/t

[Botany]

9. check here

http://www.americansforprosperity.org/texas

[Auggie]

11. +1

[BumRushDaShow]

10. They couldn't take all the coverage of cheering folks outside of the White House

so they had to do this. :rofl:

[Arugula Latte]

12. OMG, I thought this mean Bush was getting buzzed/sloshed on booze

which seems a very likely scenario. "It shoulda bin me!"

[Plucketeer]

14. All I can say is.....

Lets give the Bush home coordinates to the Seals.

[jwirr]

15. Thank you booosh for not taking this method of getting him in the

first place - think of all the lives that could have been saved in Iraq and Afghanistan on both sides if you had just let the CIA handle it as a law problem instead of a military measure. The military is not the only answer to all problems. :sarcasm:

[Dont call me Shirley]

16. No thanks to bush who delights in genocide.....

[Jackpine Radical]

17. That's fucken pathetic.

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[MgtPA]

23. "barry"??

[apnu]

36. ... is Barack Obama's nickname. (nt)

[guitar man]

26. I see you've got your fist out

Say your piece and get out.... :eyes:

[renko]

40. More like RushSmoker, not smokewagon. n/t

Don't forget to come up for air.

[lady lib]

18. As one of the commenters noted...

Bush: “I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.” –Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002

[devilgrrl]

20. Thank you pResident Bush for letting Bin Laden attack us on 9/11!!!!!

:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

Now there's something to celebrate about.

[Name removed]

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[wilt the stilt]

27. Clinton?

if you remember the Bush's came in looking for the Russian threat and totally downplayed terrorism even though they were warned. too bad you are devoid of facts rightwinger. pathetic

[Bunny]

28. You'd thank Clinton? Really?

Why don't you tell us why, and please remember to show your work.

:eyes:

[LiberalLovinLug]

32. riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

I mean 8 months on the job (excluding the record # of vacation days for a President) just ain't enough time to wade through all the evidence and warnings from Richard Clarke and others. Maybe after a year or so one could start to take some responsibility for what goes on on your watch, but 8 months? Yeah, Clinton was still operating behind closed doors. (yuk yuk yuk)


:sarcasm:

[d_b]

24. Lol dipshits

[SoapBox]

25. Barf! I can't believe that some assjack put up that sign...

Thanks for NOTHING Bush, is what I say.

[WranglerRog]

29. Now wait just a cotton pickin' minute here......

I heard somewhere, sometime from somebody that the Dear leader, George W. Bush, led this raid, guided by the spirit of St. Ron of Reagan, and personally shot Osama Bin Laden with Saddam Hussein's own pistol! Of course first he water boarded him just a little.......

[guitar man]

30. Same as he was befor the Bin Laden killing

"Home buzzed".... :beer: I don't think he goes out much anymore :spray:

[Blasphemer]

31. Wing-Nuts are shameless... nt

[buddysmellgood]

33. Yes, thank you. Obama would never have needed to do this without you.

[bluedeminredstate]

38. Then there was Iraq

"Then there was Iraq. In late November, Donald Rumsfeld told Franks that Bush “wants us to look for options in Iraq.” Rumsfeld instructed the general to “dust off” the Pentagon’s blueprint for an Iraq invasion and brief him in a week’s time. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Richard Myers would later write, “I realized that one week was not giving Tom and his staff much time to sharpen” the plan. Franks points out in his autobiography that his staff was already working seven days a week, 16-plus hours a day, as the Tora Bora battle was reaching its climax. Although Franks doesn’t say so, it is impossible not to wonder if the labor-intensive planning ordered by his boss for another major war was a distraction from the one he was already fighting.

Franks briefed Rumsfeld and other top Pentagon officials about the war plan for Iraq on December 4. But both men agreed that the plan needed work. Rumsfeld gave Franks and his staff eight days to revise it. “Well, General,” he told Franks, “you have a lot of work ahead of you. Today is Tuesday. Let’s get together again next Wednesday.”"

http://www.tnr.com/print/article/the-battle-tora-bora?passthru=MWVlZjYxNzBiY2E1ZjI3Mzk1MGY3YWZiZjM1ZTgyZDU

This article was written in 2009 by Peter Bergen, one of the last western journalists to interview bin laden. He now comments on TWOT for CNN.

[Turbineguy]

39. Now here's to hoping

the Bush appointee at the DoD who's job it was to keep bin Laden informed of US plans doesn't get outed.

That would be embarrassing.

[renko]

41. Too late: RushSmoker outed himself.

[Javaman]

42. now begins the true revisionist history...

like they did with nixon and with ray-gun.

in a few years the mouth breathing right wing will laud moron* as "visionary".

just you wait.

[yellowcanine]

43. About a dozen people gathered near his security-tight residence until a thunderstorm rolled into

the area early Monday." Twelve people constitutes "Bush Home Buzzing"????

More accurate title: "Twelve die hards give Bush the credit for Osama's death and get chased away by rain."

[JayceR]

44. This won't be the end of it

Wait until you hear the statements from Trump, Palin, Beck, the Teabagger leaders and every other extreme-RW entity.

There is almost no point in having an election next year with these clowns as the face of the Republican Party.