Santorum criticizes Obama for revealing that Osama bin Laden died

[Enrique]

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/rick-santorum-slams-president-obama-for-revealing-osama-bin-laden-died.php

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“When Osama Bin Laden was killed a lot of the intelligence community was hoping that the President would keep that close so they could exploit the information that they gained from the computer files they picked up at that residence,” he said. “But the president just couldn’t help himself, he just had to go out and take credit for it and I think as a result of that we didn’t maximize the cache of information that we gained during that mission.”

Asked by TPM whether the news would have reached the terrorists anyway given the high-profile raid in a Pakistani residential area and Al Qaeda’s internal communications, Santorum said he believed there might have been enough time to make productive gains.

“We weren’t until the president announced it,” he said. “There’s not perfect information flow in the world, as we all know, and certainly not perfect information flow out of Pakistan.”

Ari Fleischer, who served as President Bush’s press secretary, told TPM that while he believe the White House revealed too many “granular” details in its immediate account of the raid, some of which had to be retracted later, revealing the basic news that Bin Laden had died was clearly the right move.

“We should all be proud of it and you can’t hide it,” Fleischer said.

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[tabatha]

1. Santorum can't handle the truth.

[Cigar11]

2. Who?

I’m sure there’s someone on this Planet who believes what Santorum thinks is actually relevant; and it shows in the Voter Polls

[ladywnch]

14. flotsum and jetsom...... n/t

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[msanthrope]

3. Well, it's not like he had a banner made and made the announcement on a warship. nt

[Blue Owl]

4. Like Mr. Fecal matters anymore...

You tell 'em, Mr. 2%...

[Politicalboi]

15. LOL!

That's great. :rofl:

[polichick]

5. Who cares what this guy thinks?

[rurallib]

6. Santorum's source must be some spook's dog.......

[CTyankee]

7. Now look at what's coming out of Santorum's ass...

[MadMaddie]

8. Oh instead like Junior did walk around with a cod piece in

a flight suit and declare, "Mission Accomplished" and the war went of for additional years thousands of military lives?

Or does icky Ricky think that by not telling the world he and his ilk could keep their contractors employed...?

[LiberalFighter]

9. Did Bush keep Saddam's death a secret?

[AtomicKitten]

10. Bush would be wearing bin Laden's head as a hat.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. Or his head would be on a pike on the WH lawn.

n/t

[blue neen]

21. ...carrying a Crunk Cup in one hand and a pretzel in the other.

Yes. It would be time to celebrate for Dubya.

[SunsetDreams]

11. Why so they can continue with their Fear Mongering?

:crazy:

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. Yeah

like something like THAT could be kept secret for a long time anyway. Why would you not want to tell a country that suffered the loss of 3000 people in a massive terrorist attack that the architect and financier of said attack was now dead? :shrug:

[treestar]

16. So it should have been kept secret?

:rofl: How blatant. He does not want Obama to get credit for it! That's all.

And sure, a Republican President would have kept it a secret. :sarcasm:

[Ter]

17. If the any of the GOP candidates want to kick-start their campaign...

They should say "I'm not convinced Osama bin Laden was killed this May. I haven't seen a body, have you?" Many people would agree and applaud.

[Marnie]

19. The man's an idiot. But then we knew that.

[Hutzpa]

20. We're about to enter silly season again.

strap on!