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onehandle

(51,122 posts) Thu Sep 6, 2012, 10:44 PM Sep 2012

Obama killed Bin Laden. Bush relied on him for 're-election.' nt

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Obama killed Bin Laden. Bush relied on him for 're-election.' nt (Original Post) onehandle Sep 2012 OP

More than anything Bush needed him to go into Iraq. yourout Sep 2012 #1

he's more valuable to us dead than alive now. TeamPooka Sep 2012 #2

I don't think that's quite fair metalbot Sep 2012 #3

yourout

(7,527 posts)

1. More than anything Bush needed him to go into Iraq.

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 10:46 PM

Sep 2012

Had we gotten him at Tora Bora he would have had a much harder time selling the folly of Iraq.

TeamPooka

(24,223 posts)

2. he's more valuable to us dead than alive now.

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 10:48 PM

Sep 2012

you want him?
You got him.

metalbot

(1,058 posts)

3. I don't think that's quite fair

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 10:52 PM

Sep 2012

I'm certainly not going to jump to the defense of Bush, who was a disaster.

However, Osama Bin Laden as an icon in the "terrorist world" would have been far more high value to Bush than to Obama. Had Bush had the ability to hit Bin Laden definitively, I have zero doubt that he would have. He'd have hit him in his first term if he could have (and that would have probably sealed his re-election beyond any doubts of voter fraud in Ohio).

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