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Earlier this month, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served in both the Bush and Obama administrations, said President Obama’s decision to order the raid that killed Osama bin Laden “gutsy,” saying that “people don’t realize” what a tough call it was and not everyone would have made the same decision.

In an interview that aired last night, PBS’s Charlie Rose, noting what Gates had said, asked his predecessor Donald Rumsfeld if he agreed that it was a “gutsy” call. “I don’t,” a defiant Rumsfeld quickly shot back, adding that he would have done the same thing. “It seems to me that it is a 15-minute decision and the first 14 are for coffee,” he said. Rumsfeld then, just like President Bush had done, credited himself for the raid’s success:

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We took the investment that the Obama administration benefited from. The capabilities they have were developed during their predecessors and each President –

ROSE: The predecessor meaning the Bush administration you served?

RUMSFELD: And, yes exactly.

The Obama-ordering-the-bin-Laden-raid-was-no-big-deal meme is standard fare for former Bush administration officials. Karl Rove said recently that it wasn’t an “epic achievement” despite the fact that he called it a “very tough decision” just one day after Obama announced the raid.

Rumsfeld says Obama’s decision was a no-brainer. But what would the former defense secretary have recommended? “I would have recommended what the President decided,” he told Rose last night.

But would he have? The New York Times reported in 2007 that “[a] secret military operation in early 2005 to capture senior members of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas was aborted at the last minute after top Bush administration officials decided it was too risky.”

Which top Bush official called off the raid?

Donald Rumsfeld.

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ORIGINAL: Politesub53

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGmnz5Ow-o

That was 10 years ago, not even six months after 9/11 and Bush seems nonplussed about Bin Laden. Since he was the main reason for going after A/q and therefore into Afghanistan, it makes you wonder wtf Bush was thinking.

Mission accomplished, no not by a long way George.

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Rumsfeld: Obama Call To Get Bin Laden No Big Deal, Credits Bush Administration For Raid’s Success

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Earlier this month, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served in both the Bush and Obama administrations, said President Obama’s decision to order the raid that killed Osama bin Laden “gutsy,” saying that “people don’t realize” what a tough call it was and not everyone would have made the same decision.

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Rummy is a senile old fool, he needs to climb back in his hole and stfu.

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ORIGINAL: Real0ne

lets not forget all that cancer causing depleted uranium they were sucking in with a 4 million year half life otherwise code named "gulf war syndrome".

The red cross even today asks vets where they served in afghanastan and iraq and if they were in those ares they are NOT allowed to give blood!

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ORIGINAL: SternSkipper
who gets credit for the failure that was the Occupation of Iraq?

RUMSFELD

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ORIGINAL: SternSkipper
who gets credit for the failure that was the Occupation of Iraq?

RUMSFELD
Um. Add in Bremer, Bush, and very likely Cheney.

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ORIGINAL: SternSkipper

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Rummy is a senile old fool, he needs to climb back in his hole and stfu.

Glad you agree the President is gutsy and deserves the credit for getting Bin Laden.

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Glad you agree the President is gutsy and deserves

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fucking gag me with a spoon, propganda takes no guts, time to bget on the wagon people drown on too much kolaid ya know.