How does Bush deserve credit? In 2005, Bush shut down the CIAs unit dedicated to finding bin Laden in order to shift resources to Iraq.
Bullshit.
Where's your source????
IMO neither Bush nor Obama deserve credit for killing OBL. The CIA finally tracked him down, after 10 years of NONSTOP investigating. The fact that it took us so long to find him, and being that he was living right next to the West Point of Pakistan for years, indicates an extreme intelligence debacle, but they did finally locate him.
The mission itself was easy as pie. We had surveillance on him for 6 months prior, even a carbon copy model of the compound itself to train with, and all types of back up units in place at the time of the mission.
The media saying it was a "risky mission" and "gutsy call", were doing so to sensationalize the story and help their guy out. C'mon the POTUS has a academic background ( i'm being kind), and never talks about the wars we're in or in respect to military policy in general. Now because Bin Laden was killed on his watch we're supposed to think of him as a great military or CIA mastermind.
The American people look at it as Bin Laden was killed on Obama's watch, so the best thing to do is not fight it and give the guy credit, but that doesn't change the fact if Bush was serving a third term it would be on Bush's watch, minus the Muslim burial and with proof for the American people to see, instead of treating it like his personal crime scene.
And don't give me that spiking the football nonsense. He'll be spiking the football as much as he can right before the election.