Rumsfeld admits that Obama made the Right Call on bin Laden Takedown.....Sort of

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Bush administration would have used the same strategy to kill terrorist Osama bin Laden had those circumstances arisen years ago, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told The Associated Press in an interview Friday.

Rumsfeld said President Barack Obama made the right decision in sending Navy SEALs to raid the al-Qaida leader's compound in Pakistan earlier this month. But he declined to say how much credit the Obama administration deserves.

"The capabilities to do it were developed over time by previous administrations, and they benefit the country, and the intelligence had been gathered over a long period of time," Rumsfeld said. "And it came to fruition in the Obama administration, to the credit of the intelligence community. ... I don't have a doubt in my mind but that President Bush, if he had information as to the location of bin Laden, would have done exactly the same thing, and I thought the forces executed it brilliantly."

Most information about al-Qaida that led to bin Laden's hideout came from three detainees after the CIA used "enhanced interrogation techniques," including the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding, Rumsfeld said. Bush approved those techniques for the CIA's use only on high-value targets and were never done by the Defense Department or on any Guantanamo Bay detainees, Rumsfeld said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/20/donald-rumsfeld-obama-made-right-decision-bin-laden_n_865017.html

Excuse-mongering as always, eh, Rummy? I'll bet there were plenty of "circumstances" where you and Georgie and Dickie could've erased OBL's ass, but he wasn't the guy you were obsessed with, now was he?
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Still, one must give him a little credit here for candor.

...is the day the fucking Rapture really will occur!!!

He lied to everyone about every single aspect of everything the bushies did and they still drag him into national spotlight as an "expert" on foreign affairs. I guess if foreign affairs is to see how much bull shit you can say in a 10 minute segment, he would be a worldclass expert.... :eyes: :crazy:

Enough said

he'd plug his mouth so no one has to ever hear the vile that comes out of it

But I share your wish.

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of Afghanistan and became distracted with Iraq and Saddam.

Or at least used rubbers, for Pete's sake!

These people are so full of shit! Don't let them fool you for a second, they had the same chance if not a better one in Tora Bora and they left the job to the Pakistani and Afghani armies. They botched it so horribly that they then had to launch a disinformation campaign that said Usama was no threat any longer when he was running Al Qaeda this whole time and could not have been a bigger threat.

Bin Laden was not a priority to Bush or anyone in his administration, that's why they couldn't even find his courier for years after learning his name.

Bush and Rumsfeld should be thanking Obama for finishing the job they first botched and then ignored for 7 years. they contributed nothing to Bin Laden being brought to justice, nothing!