George Bush angry at Obama's Ground Zero 'victory lap'

Source: Daily Mail

Thanks for nothing: Jilted George Bush angry at Obama's Ground Zero 'victory lap'

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 2:32 PM on 5th May 2011

Former president George Bush is angry at Barack Obama for not giving him or his administration credit in the discovery and killing of Osama Bin Laden, it was reported today.

Bush, who arguably set up the intelligence infrastructure that led to Bin Laden's bloody assassination, was 'rubbed the wrong way' after the President failed to acknowledge
his predecessor in the aftermath of Sunday's kill operation.

The spat comes as the President prepares to tour Ground Zero later today, meeting victim's families in private before laying a wreath at the disaster site.

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'Obama gave no credit whatsoever to the intelligence infrastructure the Bush administration set up that is being hailed from the left and right as setting in motion the operation that got Bin Laden.
'It rubbed Bush the wrong way.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1383860/Thanks-George-Bush-angry-Obama-does-victory-lap-Ground-Zero.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

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Yes, W you did a great job in getting after bin Laden.

C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden

By MARK MAZZETTI
Published: July 4, 2006

WASHINGTON, July 3 — 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.

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

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"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

Why the hell did he disband the bin Laden task-force in 2005 then? Why is he now pissed?

FUCK HIM. What a loser.

Just thinking of bush being unhappy makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

Dubya will get a clerical job that's impossible to fuck up. He will then promptly fuck it up.

:rofl:

You are so fanned.

Oops, thought I was on HuffPo. My bad. :blush:

back in 1996 too ..... the task force bush disbanded that was hunting bin laden ..... just so all the facts are out there. bush deserves 0 credit ..... fact -0 credit.

impending attack. :patriot:

role in the 1993 attack on the WTC. We don't know all Clinton may have had the CIA and FBI doing from and after the 1993 attack.

During the transition between the Clinton and Bush 43 administrations, Clinton told Bush Al Q'aeeda was the number 1 threat to the national security of the U.S. (or so Clinton said on TV).

So, no, Bush did not, even arguably, set up the infrastructure that led to killing of Osama.

I didn't understand why Obama invited war criminal Bush, to join him (Obama) at Ground Zero yesterday. Also did not understand why Obama invited Bush, but not Clinton.

says that was because OBL was put under house arrest in Pakistan around that time.

Keep the Boogeyman alive and scaring Americans........

Somebody watched too much Glenn Beck this week.

They are upset that THEY aren't getting credit or given their featured part of history. I don't believe any of them when they say that they heard this, or heard that from W.

I give Bush credit for remaining low-key after his presidency. Then again, who wanted to see him? Ground Zero is Obama's moment, and it's one of Bush's few classy moves to let Obama have it alone. Plus, in NYC, W might have been booed.

...and that would have made my decade.

He "graciously" declined and his official statement said he doesn't want to be in the spotlight. I find this article humorous.

Since when?????

"Angry" times infinity.

PB

It's slightly less reliable than Faux "News."

Not quite as bad as WorldNetDaily, but along the same lines as the NY Post. Very biased, not good at backing up its stories. Link to them if you want, but be very skeptical of their political reporting.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/05/04/2011-05-04_expresident_bush_feels_obama_undermining_his_staffs_role_in_osama_bin_laden_stri.html

Bush feels Obama ignoring ex-president's role in Osama Bin Laden strike for 'victory lap': source

By Thomas M. Defrank
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF

"WASHINGTON - George W. Bush won't be at Ground Zero with President Obama Thursday in part because he feels his team is getting short shrift in the decade-long manhunt for Osama Bin Laden.

" viewed this as an Obama victory lap," a highly-placed source told the Daily News Wednesday.

Bush's visit to the rubble after the 9/11 attacks was the emotional high point of his presidency, but associates say the invitation to return with his successor was a non-starter.

"He doesn't feel personally snubbed and appreciates the invitation, but Obama's claiming all the credit and a lot of other people deserve some of it," the source added."

Read more of Bush's bullshit at the link, if you can stomach it.

BTW, take a look at the poll too. So far 73% of those answering say credit for the operation belongs to President Obama. And that's in the NY Daily News!

Can you imagine if it was Bush and his crew who captured/killed Osama? Good Lord, they would have had a parade up Pennsylvania avenue with Bush carrying Osama's head on a stick!!

As Ann Richards would say..."Poor George!..."

I don't know if that is an inaccurate slant.

I'd hate to think any worse of any President than I already think of that fraud.

even when the topic is a war criminal. Especially when the topic is a war criminal.

My bet: total bullshit. It's either a right-wing OR left-wing fantasy. It works for either group.

credit for something they didn't do but if it goes wrong make sure you give the credit to the democrats. What a bunch of weak crybabies.

:sarcasm:

not one Repugniconvict voted for it ... claimed it would cause financial ruin "as far as the eye can see" ... produced a "surplus", and started to pay off the deficit/debt ... Repugs scrambled the spinmeisters to try to make sure some Republican got credit for it (including, so help me God, Gerald Ford!).

But how often did you hear, in the 2008 election cycle, about John McCain's wonderful support of NAFTA??? Not a peep, at least in the "liberally-biased mainstream media" ...

"Over the last 10 years, thanks to the tireless and heroic work of our military and our counterterrorism professionals, we've made great strides in that effort. We've disrupted terrorist attacks and strengthened our homeland defence. In Afghanistan, we removed the Taliban government, which had given bin Laden and Al-Qaeda safe haven and support. And around the globe, we worked with our friends and allies to capture or kill scores of Al-Qaeda terrorists, including several who were a part of the 9/11 plot.

It seems to me that "Over the last 10 years..." acknowledges that work was done during the previous administration. Guess * just can't stand to not hear his name mentioned.

Personally, I would have loved to hear Obama mention the things * did to NOT find OBL.

I'm just all broken up about his feelings getting hurt. Fuck him.

The got the story from the New York Daily News:

... pushed by the right wing in trying to down play Obama's accomplishments.

Carlyle Group, for one.
James R. Bath, another.

If Obama's smart and savvy he will make sure that it does in one way or the other.

Kevin Philips Books are a good start...but there's so much more that's a teasure trove in waiting in the wings.

Obama might not want to touch it all, though. It opens "cans of worms." Better to let it disappear and move on.

American Dynasty by Kevin Philips: (Excellent...I'm re-reading it NOW)
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=American+Dynasty&x=9&y=15

Wealth and Democracy by Kevin Philips
http://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Democracy-Political-History-American/dp/0767905334

and:

Russ Bakers recent:

Family Secrets: Bush Dynasty

http://www.amazon.com/Family-Secrets-Dynasty-Powerful-Influence/dp/1596915579

That ignorant fucker started a war then immediately declared "mission accomplished". That means the mission was to start a fucking war! Bush/Cheney will always be criminals in my eyes, and they have no right to say anything about anyone.

seriously.

I'm just frankly surprised he's still around and hasn't drunk himself to death yet.

for all his other fuck-ups. Such ingratitude!

If GW hadn't dismantled the team looking for him I would say he has a point, but the only one he has had is the one on top of his head.

Daily Mail? OK, but when did they interview this unnamed source?

so it must be true ...... BTW i have a friend who in a Nigerian Prince and he has
$10,000,000 in gold certificates tied up and if you can just ...... :rofl:

I know a guy who didn't do so well with that. He only got $5 million, instead of the $15 million he was promised. Watch out for tricksters!

All this effort to try to make Obama look bad this week doesn't seem to be paying off. Resorting to posting from The Daily Mail?

Here's a popular little ditty from London folk and what they think of that publication. Hope you all appreciate British satirical humor!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI

"It's absolutely true because I gather all my views from The Daily Mail"

That could have been YOUR victory lap on YOUR watch, Georgie, but you didn't apply yourself. You could have heeded the warnings and continued Bill Clinton's campaign against Osama bin laden, but you didn't, you could have nailed the SOB at Tora Bora, but you outsourced the work to local warlords instead of using highly-trained, motivated US troops, you likely could have nailed him anytime during your second four years, but you didn't bother.

Tough rocks. Your "gentleman's C" mindset doesn't count.

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If he had done his job and captured OBL.

Obama did in 2 1/2 years what bush couldn't in 8.

Go away little man, go away!

We commend you for turning our Constitution into toilet paper! I bow down to you...so you can wipe my ass with it.

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That's the team that Bush disbanded.

-wingers around him.

go eat a pretzel.

:thumbsup:

Just think about it ... capturing or killing Osama in 2001 (or during his years in office) was not in Bush's political interests.

Bin Laden was the bogeyman for justifying the whole "war on terror", the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act, etc.

My conspiracy theory on this at:
http://www.earthside.com/earthside/2011/05/bush-knew-where-bin-laden-was-all-along.html

Bush probably cut a deal with Musharraf to hold bin Laden; Bush may have know where bin Laden was all along.

stupid man he should be in jail.

C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden

WASHINGTON, July 3 <2006> — 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.

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


* h/t http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/05/04/teacher-smirkily-tells-9th-grade-muslim-student-i-bet-you%E2%80%99re-grieving-for-uncle-osama/

YOUR neglect made 9/11 possible, you fucking piece of criminal shit.

the put-options. Maybe that one was announced in one paragraph and minus coveragein during the same year?

Not less than a year after 9/11, GWB responded to a reporter's questions about OBL that he didn't know where he was and didn't think much about him. Then, as per this post, the team assigned to searching for him was disbanded.

So Bush has no claim to Obama's success in tracking OBL down and killing him.

But the GOP always wants to take credit for positive things they don't do but want to run away when the things they do turn sour.

"Bush has no claim to Obama's success in tracking OBL down and killing him."

Bush fucked it up, and now he wants credit when someone else succeeds. Fuck him!

Sorry W, you had your chance, you blew it a long time ago. A reflection of your administration.

Now indict his ass.

to be the one shining moment of his miserable Presidency.

because if the bastard would have LISTENED to President Clinton's team before he was inaugurated, or he would have LISTENED to the 8/6/2001 briefing titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Within U.S." and then he would have taken action based on those warnings, the buildings that were there when he was inaugurated would be there today.

It might have helped the moral in the CIA if Plame had not been outed by her own bosses.

Somehow though, I'm sorry but I don't quite believe this story. I think Bush and Rove are just partisan through and through, and it isn't what Obama did or did not do but simply that Obama is a Democrat that riles them.

yup

For sweeping bin Laden under the rug after the Tora Bora fiasco, then keeping him at large for another 7 years? Obama graciously invited Bush to ground zero, which is more than he deserved. But the contrast would have been staggering so Bush is staying away. Oh, he was there once with a bullhorn all right, posturing away after his administration had ignored the warning signs and dropped the ball, allowing the 9-ll attacks to come off unhindered. Months later he shrugged bin Laden off as someone who was no longer important, marginalized, and someone he didn't think of much. Bush is apparently distressed that another nail has been driven into the coffin of his "legacy".

...what a turd.

He runs this country into the ground and then whines?

Again...turd.

I don't think Bush deserves it, but Obama's been extremely careful about not slighting anyone over their past failures in the hunt for Osama.

The real masterminds of 9/11. IMO.

9/11 took place on George's Watch.
Give credit where its due, so to speak.
Obama nailed Osama George.
And all of Daddy's money won't
change it this time.

You had 7 years to do it, but just
like going to Vietnam, you had 'other'
priorities.

" It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

mission accomplished bullshit. Fuck shrub.

nuff said.....

I don't give a shit who set up the intelligence network. All I care about is that the bastard Bin Laden is fucking dead now.

:eyes:

You give it to whoever led the team to their super bowl championship.

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Fuck him!!!!

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It's because of your incompetence and ignoring the PDF that August that helped to CAUSE the terrorist attacks. Then, you sat on your ass and did nothing while the attacks were taking place. Then, you started an illegal war with Iraq, which had NOTHING to do with 9/11. THEN, in 2002 (I believe) you claimed that you no longer spent any time thinking about Bin Laden.

You and your cronies deserve absolutely NONE of the credit for this man being killed. NONE. So, STFU and STFD, you miserable piece of excrement!

He just makes a bunch of assertions and gives no facts to back them up. The Daily Mail is not a credible source of news.

If he hadn't dropped the ball and let Bin Laden off the hook,

he could have had another big dress-up event with banners and everything. :sarcasm:

You know how he likes to dress up and throw out some catchy one liners.

GW was invited and didn't bother to come ... what a desperate stooge ... at a time like this it's ALL about HIM .... ROTFLMAO! ... bet he ran home and cried to Laura and MOMMY too ...

But really, everyone was already totally aware of that.

What annoys me the most about this approach the right wing idiots are taking is; they don't express gratitude for finally getting this guy, they play politics as usual, and worse, while whining about President Obama taking a victory lap they actually have the unmitigated gall to suggest that their failure of a president isn't getting credit, thereby attempting to take their own victory lap for failing to get bin Laden!

GET THAT? THEIR GUY COULDN'T GET THE JOB DONE. OUR GUY DID. BUT THEY'RE PISSED THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA IS GETTING CREDIT FOR A JOB WELL DONE EVEN THOUGH HE IS KEEPING WHAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED BY ANY RATIONAL PERSON TO BE A LOW PROFILE, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME THE REPUBLICANS ARE TRYING TO GET UNDESERVED CREDIT FOR THEIR GUY WHO CONTINUALLY FAILED AND ULTIMATELY GAVE UP GETTING BIN LADEN, GOING SO FAR AS TO PUBLICLY ADMIT HE HAD NO DESIRE TO FIND BIN LADEN AND ACTUALLY DISBANDING THE CIA GROUP WHOSE JOB IT WAS TO GET BIN LADEN!

Only from the warped minds of Republicans.

I hope Bush loses what little mind he has or ever had over this. I hope from this day on when the idiot looks in the mirror he sees the face of bin Laden staring back at him. I hope the Republican Party is so demoralized and criticized and castigated for not only this latest ridiculous nonsense but their entire anti-American, anti-U.S. citizen agenda that they never win a majority in any federal, state, or local election ever again.

I know, there are those Americans who are stupid enough to vote for these idiots anyway but I can still dream, can't I?

oh the sweet burn. May he have ever more reason to melt down along with the rest of his loser cronies. He is just so irrelevant... finally. :D

....what way is the right way to rub a bush?

....hey chimpy, where were you when the mission was decided and the plan executed? You're just jealous because the Mission is actually Accomplished under a real president, President Obama....

....be fair chimpster, you had seven years to capture OBL and all you accomplished was to run red ink and crash the economy....

bu$h, you are useless :puke:

Go to your library and play with your pistol, young man.

Mummy come to wipe your snot later.

And now he's complaining because he's left out? I thought it was very gracious of Obama to even make the offer. I sure as hell wouldn't have.

Your miserable eight years in the white house finally came to an end after an eternity of worry, distrust and anguish for people like me.

You aren't the President anymore, and no one cares what you think.

Regular people ... Mom and pop down the street ... The Reese's across the road and Old Fowler at the Dollar Mart are happy to have a 'Victory Lap' ....

The GOP are so tone deaf .... As much as some DUers are so pissed about this, it has definitely raised Obama's profile in 2012 ....

The extremists on both sides are angry ... The middle of the bell curve is thrilled ...

There is "debate" as to the type of interrogation that lead to the killing of OBL. The early facts say that detainees at GITMO eventually lead to the killing of OBL.

OBL is dead. I'm torn on the overall events, but the evil fuck is dead and I can only moarn those lost in the fight to make that so.

If I had to trade a shutdown of GITMO for the death of OBL.... I would shut down GITMO. Two wrongs don't make a right. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.

OBL has caused enough death and torture. It MUST stop. We MUST be the ones that step up and end the KILLING!

:sarcasm:

Direct quote, Georgie Boy. Now FUCK OFF you cowardly piece of shit.

have done the job. You are claiming it was your torture that allowed this to happen. If you knew all these details way back then why didn't you go after him yourself? You lie and your lady friend lies also.

He was so negligent, and I believe he and his cabal let it happen as an excuse to go into not only Afghanistan but Iraq.

:eyes:

He set something up. Like letting the Bin Laden family fly out of the country when all airways were closed. Hmmm, I wonder what that was all about.

Kennedy the one that challenged America to send a man to the moon and return him safely by the end of the decade!

check out this poll

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/05/04/2011-05-04_expresident_bush_feels_obama_undermining_his_staffs_role_in_osama_bin_laden_stri.html

He falsified intelligence to justify an unnecessary war and prisoners were tortured under his orders. Bush is a war criminal.

he can rot in hell

. .. . He was not not a player in the game so why he trying to claim any kind of victory??

Damn! I missed it.

Land on the deck of an aircraft carrier within sight of shore and strut around with your cod hanging out? Republican double standards. Go f*@k yourselves. You didn't go after Bin Laden because the neo-cons would have had to go through all of the trouble to create another Goldstein.

And pissy-pants declined. So this is a load of shit.

Because I read the entire article & it did not have one positive thing to say about Obama...And it repeated over & over the same few negative things it could to make it sound like there were more negative opinions than there really was.

Oh yeah, all the negative coverage was quoting FOX "News"...Is this publication owed by Murdoch?

The comments at the bottom were disgusting!

closing of Alex Station, Iraq, "I don't think about much anymore," "Mission Accomplished" and similar disgraces.

Please see Replies 40 and 134.

and he, Bush, did not get it done in 7 years.

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We love thoughtful people of all types ..... please keep posting and you will find yourself
in good company here.

Every time they let him out of his cage he does something bad.

For a "Mission Accomplished: photo op. Dumbya's "victory lap" was quite expensive, and was utter bullshit...

That Osama would be left alone. Now he looks bad.:eyes:

:boring:
rocktivity

:rofl:

Poor bush. :rofl:

As for his "arguably setting up an intelligence structure," I believe he set it up ILLEGALLY, too.

:eyes:
rocktivity

He was the worst fucking excuse for a president this country has ever had. Asshole.