On 05/08/2011 02:34 PM, MJ wrote:
*Bush Would Have Used The BLU-82
*/written by Ilana Mercer on 05.07.11
<http://barelyablog.com/?p=37658> @ 8:25 pm/
Incredibly, some Republican Party media megaphones have been making
the case that Bush deserves credit for the actions of Obama in
eliminating Osama bin Laden. There is something particularity rank
about this tack. It is one thing to credit the operatives in the
field, but quite another to commend a far-removed gas bag like Genghis
Bush with *the kill*
<http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=295429>. That is if
you support what some are calling an extra-judicial killing. A *Gallup
survey*
<http://www.gallup.com/poll/147395/Americans-Back-Bin-Laden-Mission-Credit-Military-CIA.aspx>
indicates that “More than 9 in 10 Americans approve of the U.S.
military action that killed Osama bin Laden on Sunday.”
What will it take for certain Republicans to give credit where credit
is due? Would BHO need to switch parties (a minor ideological
conversion, really).
The same Gallup poll *shows*
<http://www.gallup.com/poll/147395/Americans-Back-Bin-Laden-Mission-Credit-Military-CIA.aspx>
,
<http://www.gallup.com/poll/147395/Americans-Back-Bin-Laden-Mission-Credit-Military-CIA.aspx>
however, that, “Thirty-five percent say he deserves a great deal of
credit and another 36% say he deserves ‘a moderate amount’ of credit.
More than a quarter say he does not deserve much or any credit at all.”
This is probably a function of the general antipathy toward Obama’s
policies, and not *an objective assessment*
<http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=295429> of the
operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Rest assured that if something had gone wrong, the sitting president
would have been blamed. “Former President Jimmy Carter knows about
that,” notes the *Huffington Post.*
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/07/analysis-reimagining-obam_n_858968.html>
“In 1980, Carter approved a plan to rescue the American hostages in
Iran that ended in failure and left eight American servicemen dead.
The botched mission was cited as one factor in Carter’s defeat when he
ran for re-election.”
The attempt to drag Bush into this says something about the
convergence of the two parties on matters of foreign policy. Obama has
“embraced his inner neocon.” As a consequence, Republicans have few
bones to pick with the president on the foreign policy front. What
remains in their bag of political tricks is to make hay of his exotic
origins (*birth certificate* <http://barelyablog.com/?p=37379>), or to
claim that his predecessor paved the way for (what they perceive to
be) his recent success.
In any event, Bush’s military signature is the *Daisy Cutter*
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLU-82>.
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