According to the GOP,any idiot could have found and taken out Osama bin Laden.

[Swede]

nt

[Fresh_Start]

1. Then why didn't Bush succeed in 7 1/2 years? nt

nt

[Fresh_Start]

3. silly me.... any idiot could have done it

which I guess means that friend thinks the GWB was less than an idiot?

[applegrove]

7. 9 1/2 years.

[Fresh_Start]

12. Bush was only in office for 8 years

He took office January 2001, 9/11 was later that year.
He left office January 2008.

Not quite 7 1/2 years later.

[applegrove]

21. Oh so true. My bad.

[pinboy3niner]

8. You can't explain that!

--Bill O'Reilly

[Iggo]

15. Cuz Bush wasn't just any idiot.

He was special.

"It's hard." --- Dim Son.

[Confusious]

19. Because bush wasn't an idiot

He was a moron. There's a difference, see?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. That must mean George Bush isn't just any idiot.

[Tennessee Gal]

4. We had a special kind of idiot in office forced on us by the GOP.

He failed to take him out.

Shame on them all.

[Turbineguy]

6. Bush obviously wasn't just any idiot.

He took idiot to a whole new dimension.

[krispos42]

9. Then, logically, Bush and Cheney were dumber than an idiot. n/t

[malaise]

11. Ding ding we have a winner

[krispos42]

16. It takes an idiot to pull a trigger

It takes a skilled machinist days of work to craft the gun.

The Pentagon was the cocked gun pointed at Bin Laden, and The Accidental President couldn't figure out how to pull the trigger.


And Obama had to spend 3 years figure out where Bin Laden was before the situation was "idiot-ready".

[malaise]

23. Yep - still they are so terrified of this truth

that I'm lovin' it

[MichiganVote]

10. Makes sense. An extraordinary idiot like Bush never could have got him.

And didn't even try.

[Prophet 451]

13. Well, maybe

But the fact is that "any idiot" didn't get it done.

[Old and In the Way]

14. It wasn't incompetence...it was willful decision making not to find and kill him.

Not only was OBL well connected to the House of Saud and the House of Bush, but he was a useful tool alive to help justify Bush's illegal and immoral GWOT. After they gave him safe passage out of Tora Bora into Pakistan, I suspect they always had a pretty good idea where OBL was. And they were quite happy keeping him under house arrest so they could use him when it was politically expedient to remind the American people that the 9/11 boogyman was still on the loose.

Essentially, the same military, analysts, and intel were available to Bush as it was to Obama. The difference was Obama was willing to go after him, Bush wasn't.

[RobertEarl]

17. So, Bush was not an idiot?

Instead he was so smart he used OBL for his own means?

So the saying should be that if Bush was an idiot he would have gotten OBL, but Bush was too smart? According to the GOP.

[Old and In the Way]

27. Can't explain republican framing.

I'm going by the OP's statement that some republicans are saying "any idiot could have gotten OBL". As usual, I disagree with their simplistic talking point. I'd counsel these morons to ask why Bush, with the same tools at his disposal as Obama had, was unable to get him in 7-1/2 years. I think the only logical conclusion is, because he didn't want to.

I think Bush actually played up his "idiot" personna...it probably helped him to get away with some pretty criminal policies - the "idiots" that voted for him didn't have a problem voting for a guy that reminded them of themselves and the Democrats probably bought the "this guy is an idiot" because, otherwise, we'd be confronted with a very inconvenient truth - that we were dealing with a sociopath in the WH.

[RobertEarl]

30. Some folks here are saying that he was lower than an idiot

that would mean he was a sociopath criminal. And they would be right.

The GOP is right, any idiot could have ordered the military to get Osama, but since they had their socipath in the WH, Osama stayed alive all these years.

Any idiot would have ordered Osama killed but since their lower than an idiot Bush didn't do that simple thing, they are pissing themselves silly.

[MelungeonWoman]

20. I agree completely.

When the Repubs cry about how Obama has politicized his success, I think back on Cheney monopolizing my tv with his visions of OBL in the shape of a mushroom cloud, and I laugh and laugh.

[cr8tvlde]

26. Bush may have been an idiot, but don't confuse that with this handlers

who were not idiots and called all the shots. He was a useful idiot for their purposes. I mean who can forget him reading The Goat Book to elementary students on 9/11? The look of a Clueless, Useful Idiot. Or Mission Accomplished?

[Old and In the Way]

29. That's the perfect example.

The look of a Clueless, Useful Idiot. Or Mission Accomplished?

Most people reacted to Bush's "My Pet Goat" either with sympathy ("gee, I could see myself in his position&quot or with disdain "what a buffoon, why's he sitting there like a moron while the country is under attack?" but there's a 3rd option - he played his role perfectly on 9/11. Because no forceful reaction meant no military action.

[saras]

18. It's true. I took him out to dinner a few times. Got lucky once.

I think it was the cocaine.


GWB

[jenmito]

22. If people watch Rock Center Wed. night on NBC they'll see the truth. And then THAT will get some

play and get shown on other shows and the truth will get out.

[spanone]

24. well, we know of one fucking idiot that didn't.

[Autumn]

25. Their lower than an idiot couldn't find and take out bin Laden,

so fuck them. Obama did.

[flvegan]

28. So Bush/Cheney were complicit with him having done what he did?

Okay. No big surprise, but good to hear them admit.

[pinboy3niner]

31. Yet the party that is replete with them couldn't manage it. Go figure.

"You can't explain that!"

--Bill O'Reilly

[Rincewind]

32. More proof that

G. W. Bush was not just any idiot.