Who Wouldn't Make the Decision to Kill bin Laden? George W. Bush That's Who

Birther and former GOP candidate for president Donald Trump tries to deride President Obama and his successful operation that killed the most wanted terrorist in world history by asking Fox News "who is not going to make that decision?".

As if Trump needs to look very long or hard for that answer.  George W. Bush flinched when he was put to the task of tracking down Osama bin Laden.  When the U.S. military had bin Laden cornered in Tora Bora in the Fall of 2001, George W. Bush refused to let our troops finish the job.  In 2005, because Bush was not concerned the least bit about bin Laden, he fully dismantled the anti-terrorist unit tasked with tracking him down.  It wasn't until 2009 when Barack Obama took over the White House did the United States revamp its efforts at finding and killing bin Laden.  Last May the president and his operation was successful.  George Bush failed.  Get over it.

*Update:

How much more amazing can the Republican Fantasy World really get?  In their world it was George Bush that led the charge in killing bin Laden.  Fox News and Sean Hannity make sure history gets rewritten to fit their very messed up narrative.

In Sean Hannity’s world, President George W. Bush succeeded in killing terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.

The Fox News host on Thursday noted that bin Laden was dead “thanks to George Bush.”

During a segment on Time magazine’s top 10 news stories of 2011, Democratic consultant Joe Trippi lamented that the death of the al Qaeda leader didn’t make the list.

“Thanks to George Bush,” Hannity interrupted, ignoring the fact that bin Laden had been killed under President Barack Obama’s watch.

“You’d give credit to Bush?” he asked Trippi. “Because if Obama had gotten his way we wouldn’t have gotten bin Laden, you know that.”

In no world where oxygen is breathed is Hannity's interpretation of history even remotely valid. Bush had been out of office for two years.  As noted above, in 2005 he ordered the anti-terrorism team tasked with hunting and killing Osama bin Laden disbanded.  In 2003, he ordered an American invasion into Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 forcing us to officially take our eyes off bin Laden.  In 2001, Bush ordered a halt in the execution of Tora Bora where the U.S. military had cornered bin Laden, officially allowing him to escape.

Bush's actions did anything but lead to the killing of bin Laden.  His actions (invading Iraq, dismantling units tasked to kill him, and allowing him to escape in 2001) all helped bin Laden to live a life of luxury in a mansion in Pakistan.  But not in the Republican Fantasy World.  Bush is responsible for all that is good in the world.  No one with all their chromosomes would ever watch Fox News and trust it.  Yet this kind of make-believe talk by Sean Hannity gets touted in GOP circles as tough guy, Super Patriot talk.  It's scary that the Republican Party is even a major national party in any country let alone America.