Did Obama Succeed Where Bush Failed on Osama Bin Ladin, or Did Obama Succeed Because of Bush?

The Huffington Post has linked to this Web site. Of course the insults have followed as their readers have called it typical right wing garbage. I think it's just the opposite. The Huffington Post is typical left wing garbage and if Barack Obama had continued his mission of hope and change in Iraq and Afghanistan, Osama Bin Ladin would still be alive today.

The Huffington Post writes:

WASHINGTON -- As he announced the death of infamous terrorist Osama bin Laden on Sunday night, President Barack Obama struck an extraordinary contrast with his predecessor, George W. Bush.

That was to some degree unavoidable. Bush’s consistent failure to respond appropriately to bin Laden -- as a potential threat, as a fugitive, or as a public enemy no. 1 -- represents one of the greatest shortcomings of his presidency.

Obama has now succeeded where Bush failed. And it was impossible to hear Obama declare that "justice has been done" without thinking about how long it went undone.

But Obama also went out of his way to draw distinctions between how he approached the problem and how Bush did.

That's funny now that we are finding out from key members in the Homeland Security Committee like Peter King that waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods at GITMO led Barack Obama to Osama Bin Ladin. Wasn't one of the distinctions between Bush and Obama is the Bush administration backed the interrogation to save American lives while the Obama administration nearly pressed criminal charges against the Bush administration and ordered these interrogation tactics to end? Oh, how the Huff Post forgets these little details. Let's look at the evidence from the eyes of ABC.

The revelation that intelligence gleaned from the CIA's so-called black sites helped kill bin Laden was seen as vindication for many intelligence officials who have been repeatedly investigated and criticized for their involvement in a program that involved the harshest interrogation methods in U.S. history.

"We got beat up for it, but those efforts led to this great day," said Marty Martin, a retired CIA officer who for years led the hunt for bin Laden.

Then of course, if Obama had went down the course he and his minions desired, he would have pulled troops out of Afghanistan from day one, which means information that led to the Osama Bin Ladin massacre may not have been gathered. Bush was committed to finish the mission even though Osama Bin Ladin, he once said, wasn't the main goal. After all, as we now know, to no surprise as well, terrorism still lives even after Osama Bin Ladin is dead. I think Bush saw a bigger picture while Obama will celebrate this one day as a victory that put an end to this.