Some bone chilling food for thought

[Siwsan]

[nocoincidences]

1. too damned true!

[Leghorn21]

2. FACT

[spanone]

3. our 'president' would have been honored.

[pazzyanne]

4. Thank you, President Obama!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Yeah, I'm a little surprised it didn't say "was killed by Obama". That would sting tRumpanzees more.

[GuyNamedNathan]

18. They would just claim that Obama took credit for an "easy" decision.

At least that's what I heard some Republicans say about Obama taking out bin Laden.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. Well, if it was so easy their hero Bush would have taken him out. . . . nt

[GuyNamedNathan]

29. Real men go to Baghdad. Or Tehran! The Decider only made tough decisions...

[FakeNoose]

5. We still haven't dealt with the fact that OBL had the tacit support of the Saudi royals

... the very same people that Chump and Kushner are doing business with NOW. Saudi Arabia has walked away scot-free from all of this.

[stillcool]

10. no logic to be found..

hijackers are Saudi's, Bin Laden is a Saudi, but we bomb Afghanistan, and throw in Iraq as a freebie.

[GuyNamedNathan]

30. Some "freebie' that Iraq was.

[Fritz Walter]

32. The "oil" you say! nt

[GuyNamedNathan]

13. This!!!!

[GuyNamedNathan]

16. Also, the current Saudi King Salman and his oldest sons (MBS's half brothers) were deeply involved

in that support.

[magicarpet]

17. If my memory serves me well,...

Bush II the dumber fuck, did not spend a whole lot of time hunting down Osama Bin Laden. The instigator/perpetrator of 9/11 got off pretty much Scot free so as not to offend the House of Saud.

[GuyNamedNathan]

19. Well the Bush family and the Saudi elite are friends. And Bush needed the Saudis for the Iraq War

They needed the Saudis to not oppose the invasion, not make a stink about it to anyone else in the Arab world or anywhere, and quietly provide the US military with places to launch from into Iraq.

Nice quid pro quo there, eh?

EDIT: Oil and arms sales, as always, were central factors in US-Saudi relations in that time.

[kag]

27. If the stories were true...

Bush LET bin Laden get away. Our military had him dead to rights in Afghanistan and Bush stopped them from going in.

I agree with the OP. If he were alive, Dump would be kissing his ass.

Thank you, President Obama.

[Fritz Walter]

33. Who was really calling the shots here?

Dick Cheney.

And he needed the Iraq war and Afghanistan war to pay back (or forward) the defense contractors.

The same contractors who are still cashing in on almost two decades of military action in the Middle East.

And yet, not one shot has been fired, nor even the slightest economic sanction has been aimed at the Kingdom of Saud.

Little donnie says he can shoot someone in mid-Manhattan and get away with it. Meanwhile, the Saudis can fly two planes full of passengers into the World Trade Center (not to mention the Pentagon, and a missed target, ending up in rural PA), and they get a walk?

Have a happy and safe Independence Day, y’all.

[iluvtennis]

6. Indeed.

[cp]

7. Yup

[dalton99a]

9. .

[FailureToCommunicate]

12. Nice. But needs Ivanka butting into the photo op...

[PCIntern]

26. And in further developments:

He is re-segregating Major League Baseball

[47of74]

11. I'm stealing that one

[GuyNamedNathan]

14. Bone-Chilling Osama Bin Laden vs. Bone-Sawing Mohammed Bin Salman: which Saudi asshole is worse?

At least the US recognized one of them as a bad guy, and President Obama (Democrat, also black/person of color, JUST AS AN ASIDE) succeeded where his Saudi-loving Republican predecessor George W. Bush failed.

Now we have another Republican President who loves Saudi murderers - along with Russian murderers, North Korean murderers, murderous dictators and thugs of every sort, since he aspires to be one himself. And our current POS..sorry, "POTUS" is not even TRYING to hide it. He brags about it, how much they love him and how much he loves them.

Such a sad state of affairs.

[keithbvadu2]

21. Dubya let bin Laden escape at Tora Bora.

Dubya let bin Laden escape at Tora Bora.

[LuckyCharms]

15. Jesus, I never thought of this, but it's true. n/t

[dustyscamp]

20. OBL would have taken Trump prisoner if they tried to be friends

[Rebl2]

22. Would not

have a problem with that, but then we would have that other one, Pence.

[dustyscamp]

23. Poor Trump

XD

[grantcart]

24. He would only say "we will see what happens"

[Honeycombe8]

31. Yep. OBL came from a prestigious Saudi Arabian family (friends of the Bushes).

You can bet that Trump would have sidled up next to his bff OBL, who had more money than Trump.