Why the GOP cannot claim credit

[DonCoquixote]

A Hallmark of the Bush admin was support of Pervez Musharaf and Pakistan, our "great ally."

Now, the house OBL died in was built in 2005, in a rather populated city, near a military base in what country?

If Bush did not support Pakistan, perhaps OBL could not have been so comfortable there.

[eridani]

1. Not only that, but Cheney and Bush called off the hunt

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/washington/04intel.html

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.

[quaker bill]

2. President Obama made it priority #1

because it wasn't on the day he took office.