Bush, Obama and “Mission Accomplished”

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President Barack Obama delivers a statement in the East Room of the White House on the mission against Osama bin Laden, May 1, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Andrew Sullivan, conservative pundit:

What’s staggering to me is how the right insisted, immediately after Obama’s inauguration, that all responsibility in the war on terror was now his, just as responsibility for the debt was now his, and the near-depression was now his. Any errors, even minor ones, were plastered on his face.

But more than two years later, the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden is primarily George W. Bush’s doing.

Unfuckingbelievable. Except, of course, it isn’t.

The economy, having been pulled back from the brink, grew for the seventh straight quarter, we haven’t suffered a terrorist attack and now, eight years to the day later, we really do have “Mission Accomplished”— albeit not dramatically announced from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier.

President George W. Bush delivering his "Mission Accomplished" speech, May 1, 2003 (Photo: Wikipedia)