The majority of Democrats in Congress voted against authorizing an invasion
The majority of Democrats in the Senate voted for it.
So do you hold the Democrats who voted for it accountable even if you let the rest of our party off?
It was Bush "the decider" who pulled the trigger costing 5000 American lives
As I said, you give Democrats a pass because you are a welfare whore. Just stop pretending your issue is the war, it clearly isn't.
If you were actually against the Iraq war we'd be on the same side. But I only want people who genuinely believe the US should get out of the world policeman's business on my side, not political hacks like you who only do it to support your political party.
Democrats who voted to give Bush approval paid dearly....ask Hillary Clinton
In any case Congress gave Bush the authorization if he thought it was necessary. Bush and Bush alone pulled the trigger
I favored the invasion of Afghanistan as necessary to fight terrorism. I considered Iraq not to be a threat and thought abandoning the war on terror to nation build in Iraq was a massive blunder
Yes....Bush gave the nod and bin Laden laughed at him
If I were in Congress at the time, I probably would've given the President the authority to use force in Iraq as well.
At the time, we were being told that Saddam Hussein had the capacity to unleash either a dirty bomb or a nuke.
The term "imminent threat" was used by the administration numerous times.
Hillary Clinton and others who gave Bush the authority to use force did end up paying for it because they were serving at a time when we just started to believe without question what our leaders were warning us about.
In time I would have admitted that my vote for the use of force was a mistake because it was abused by the administration. They took it to mean, "Let's just go in and kick-ass" and went in without an actual plan for success.
As for President Obama's role in getting Bin Laden, he must be given credit for re-authorizing the search for him, which had been called off by the previous administration. That's not a statement of blame, just the facts.
And then the President had 3 options he had to give a nod to, 1) drone the compound but lose all the evidence, 2) ask Pakistan to arrest him, or 3) plan to go in on a midnight raid and get him ourselves.
He only gave the nod on the most difficult of the three choices. That choice failed us in the hostage crisis, and then failed us again in Somalia and both Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton paid for it politically.
Well, this time it worked, and it's due in part because the President ordered a second chopper to go in as back-up and gave the CIA and the SEALS all the time they asked for to re-create the compound on a plot of land in Afghanistan that they used for practice for months before they went in and did the job.
It's one of the most unqualified successes in American national security history and a cause for a tip of the hat to all involved, from the Commander-In-Chief on down.
Getting Osama Bin Laden is not a partisan issue to me. Props to any American President for helping to get that done.