Kerry's statement of the US killing OBL

[karynnj]

U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said the death of bin Laden “closes an important chapter in our war against extremists” who kill and maim innocent people.

“We are a nation of peace and laws, and people everywhere should understand that our ten-year manhunt was in search of justice, not revenge,” Kerry said in a statement issued shortly after Obama’s address.

“Terrorists everywhere must never doubt that the United States will hunt them down no matter where they are, no matter how long it takes,” Kerry said.

The lesser Senator commends both Obama and Bush for this.

"I commend President Obama, former President Bush and the highly capable men and women in our military and intelligence community whose tireless work over the last decade made this day possible," Brown said in a statement, adding that bin Laden "finally the justice he deserved."

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/05/osama_bin_laden_is_dead_but_th.html

(Apparently, though not responsible for bad things that happen 8 or 9 months into his Presidency, Bush gets credits for things that happened over two years after he left office. It is appalling how many in the meeting are playing Bush and the firemen a decade ago to connect the two events - no mention that he once said that it wouldn't really matter if they get him. )

What I wonder is whether this could have been the effort that Davis was working in support of. It would explain Obama himself arguing that Davis was a diplomat and putting his own weight behind getting him released.

[ObamaKerryDem]

1. See, JK is such a class act. If it were me, I freely admit that..

..I would be rubbing the RW's faces into it, after what they pulled in '04! :evilgrin: But JK--like Pres. Obama--has the disposition, vision, and discipline of a true leader. So proud--and relieved--to have them at the helm, such a refreshing--and EFFECTIVE--change!

I agree 100% with what you just said, karynnj. IMO Bush deserves no credit. Obama did the job that he could not, perhaps would not do. Period.

It's also sadly amusing to me how the RWers, after so many years of talking about nothing but 9/11 and capitalizing off of it politically, refuse to give Obama any kind of real credit for this at all. Do they really hate him, that much? Wait, we already know the answer to that!

[karynnj]

2. I think their lack of graciousness will be noted by the independents in the middle

The media will have some success with making it seem that this was a common 10 year effort, when the truth is that Bush took his eyes off Afghanistan and OBL, after failing at Tora Bora, because he bought into the neo con agenda. At this point, I honestly think that he genuinely believed in it - and felt, with almost religious fervor that he was doing God's work. He really did give that more importance than catching OBL.

This was most noticeable after 2004, because he did care about the politics - but even then their were his statements of saying he didn't think about catching OBL that Kerry called him on in the third debate. (Kerry cited date and place, when Bush said it was one of his "exaggerations", but there was little media coverage afterward that Kerry was correct or that this was important - they were too busy soothing Lynn Cheney's hurt feelings that Kerry said her out of the closet daughter, who coordinated many anti-gay referendums, was a "lesbian". (My two lesbian daughters would be angry if I were angry that some one said they were lesbians.)

[YvonneCa]

3. Video...

...here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=580728&mesg_id=580728