Bin Laden Dead, Obama Says He Gave the Order. He Should've Said "I Inherited This from George W. Bush" One More Time

President Obama announced tonight that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in an operation by U.S. Special Operations forces. This is a great victory for America, its military and the Obama administration. Unfortunately President Obama could not resist his usual narcissism. He liberally sprinkled "I" throughout the announcement, making it sound like he did everything personally, and making special effort to reassure Muslims. He did very little to give credit to the military, and nothing whatsoever to give credit to the people who made this victory possible: George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld.

It was in fact the military that Donald Rumsfeld built and the war that George W. Bush started and fought for the length of his administration that made this possible. Osama Bin Laden has spent the last ten years of his life moving and hiding because George W. Bush made war on Al Qaeda no matter where they were. His widely panned war in Iraq has drawn huge numbers of Al Qaeda fighters and commanders into the open to be killed and drawn money out of Al Qaeda's accounts. His efforts at nation building in Afghanistan kept Bin Laden exiled to remote locations and unable to launch another attack on America.

Donald Rumsfeld led the push to expand Special Operations forces, particularly in terms of helicopter aviation. Rumsfeld angered many in the defense community by cutting heavy forces in order to expand the manpower and aviation assets available to the Joint Special Operations Command, a force which the liberal media are "suddenly" discovering tonight. It was Rumsfeld's efforts that led to the capture or killing of many of Al Qaeda's leadership assets, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11.

It was the boosting of Special Operations forces and the relentless pressure over the last ten years that led to the death of Osama Bin Laden. President Obama gave the order, but George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld created the circumstances that made giving the order possible.

History shows that President Obama was against going to war in Iraq, opposed the surges in both theaters, and even opposed the spending for those wars as a U.S. senator. President Obama has repeatedly fought to cut military budgets and imposed ridiculous and deadly rules of engagement on our troops. The American military has suffered the highest casualty rates in Afghanistan since President Obama took over direction of the war, and even Iraq, where the President has convinced the country our troops are no longer in combat, has produced its deadliest month since the President's announcement of our "combat" troops' withdrawal.

Now President Obama takes credit for Bin Laden's death. President Obama has spent the last two and a half years blaming President Bush for everything under the sun. For the first time, George W. Bush's name is appropriate to mention.

President Obama "inherited" this victory from George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld.