Let's be honest here. Bush failed to get bin Laden. He failed miserably at it. He put Afghanistan and the hunt for the person responsible for 9/11 on the back burner. Then in 2005, Bush turned the back burner completely off by dismantling the CIA team responsible for hunting bin Laden. Bush's war in Iraq was way more important to him and his cronies than was September 11th and the destruction wrought by Osama bin Laden and his terror organization. It took a president that was focused and competent enough to handle the mission to actually accomplish the task.
Republicans know this and it irks them to their core. They know failing to get bin Laden was always going to be a dark cloud over their reign. But they thought if their Great Leader Bush couldn't do it then no one could. They were wrong.
Because they were so wrong and so incompetent they want to treat the killing of bin Laden as they treat every other issue, pretend history happened differently. They want to pretend Bush deserves credit for bin Laden's killing because of his torture program, which is just absurd. They want to pretend they never publicized the attacks of 9/11 and didn't keep America in a permanent state of fear to keep power, as Serwer so aptly reminds us.
The president who actually led us back to being focused on the terror organization responsible for 9/11 has every right to tout his success.
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