President Obama’s campaign is using Bill Clinton to argue Mitt Romney would have launched the raid to capture Osama bin Laden last year.
The argument is being made to coincide with the one-year anniversary of bin Laden’s death.
In extended, previously unreleased footage taken from an interview with former President Bill Clinton for the 17-minute pro-Obama film “The Road We’ve Traveled,” the campaign suggests that the presumptive GOP nominee would not have ordered the mission to kill bin Laden.
“[Obama] took the harder, and the more honorable path,” Clinton said in the interview, describing the behind-the-scenes process that went into the decision to okay the raid. “He had to decide. And that’s what you hire the president to do. You hire the president to make the calls when no one else can do it.”
“The commander-in-chief gets one chance to make the right decision,” reads the text in the video. It goes on to ask: “What path would Mitt Romney have taken?”
The campaign suggests Romney would not have ordered the raid by pointing to a 2007 interview with the Associated Press in which Romney said: “It’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”
Vice President Biden also attacked Romney this week on the same issu.
“I think nothing speaks more powerfully to the differences between President Obama and Governor Romney than one of the defining moments in the past four years, the hunt for Osama bin Laden,” Biden said Thursday at a campaign event in New York City.
He quoted Obama’s pledge as a candidate to making crushing al Qaeda “our biggest national security priority.”
(Source: The Hill)
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This is the ultimate chutzpah.
a/ Clinton had numerous chance to get Bin Laden after the 1993 WTC bombing and did NOTHING; he never even visited the WTC site after the bombing.
b/ It was Jamie Gorelick in the Clinton administration who put up the “Chinese Wall” preventing the CIA from sharing data with the FBI that led to 9/11. She did this to stymie an investigation into Chinese bribing/donations of the Clinton campaign, but it prevented the Feds from acting on the Saudi bombers before the attack but whilesome of them were being tracked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Gorelick#cite_note-13
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Gorelick#cite_note-15
And of course the Dem stooges in Congress actually had her WRITE PART OF THE 9/11 Commission report
c/ Finally, giving Obama credit for getting Bin Laden is like giving Nixon credit for us going to the moon.
Romney isn’t perfect, but
Remember in November…
NøBama.
Obama probably didn’t even give the order. He waffled on it for 16 hours, consulting with Valerie Jarrett and his other far-left advisers, and in the end the rumour is that it was Panetta who gave the order without Obama’s knowledge.
More probably, Romney would have left it to the professionals in the military, and not turned it into a media event. Frankly, secret military operations should not be televised or blogged about. The Bush/Obama idea that a war is a photo op for a president is quite misguided. Sucessful presidents such as Roosevelt, Lincoln, and Wilson outsourced wars to the generals – the sorry results we’ve encountered the last 60 years could be attributed to micromanagement from the White House.
Here’s the truth about 0bama’s so-called “gutsy call”. It was in fact a cowardly dodge, in which Obama laid the groundwork to blame the military if the raid went wrong.
Akuperma, Bush did not behave like this. Just compare Bush’s speech when Saddam Hussein was captured to 0bama’s speech when bin Laden was killed. The contrast is clear.