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onpatrol98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 11:00 AM
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Bush and Obama, Shoulder to Shoulder
By MARK LANDLER and ERIC SCHMITT
Published: September 11, 2011

On Sunday, for the first time, President Obama and former President George W. Bush stood together at the site of the Sept. 11 attacks, listening as family members read the names of lost love ones and bowing their heads in silence to mark the moments the planes hit.

In May, Mr. Bush declined Mr. Obama’s invitation to join him at ground zero after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. But on this morning, they stood shoulder to shoulder — commanders in chief whose terms in office are bookends for exploring how the United States has changed since Sept. 11, 2001, particularly in its response to terrorism.

The tableau was striking: the president who spent years hunting Bin Laden next to the one who finally got him. The president defined by his response to Sept. 11 standing alongside the one who has tried to take America beyond the lingering, complicated legacy of that day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/us/12obama.html?ref=politics
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 11:22 AM
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1. Shrub did not spend years hunting BL. I believe he stated he didn't
think that much about him anymore....
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MarianJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 12:03 PM
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2. Don't Forget the ...
...700+ days that he didn't even mantion bin laden.

PEACE!
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