The world’s most accessible terrorist is captured in only two years. The timing is very curious.

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In Disney’s delightful movie “Up” there is a dog named Doug who, with the help of a special collar, can speak. Doug has an inclination toward a short attention span and is easily distracted.

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Doug is a metaphor for the US press. And democrats.

Barack Obama is becoming more and more predictable. Every time he is in a bind, he looses a squirrel for the distraction of the press. Just as the VA scandal was reaching a crescendo Obama announced the retrieval of Bowe Bergdahl from the clutches of those into whose arms Bergdahl chose to go. This was by design. I am hardly the only one to believe this:

Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) told KCWY in Casper that he thinks the prisoner swap for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl may be an attempt to divert attention from the VA scandal. Enzi also stated that he believed the five detainees released for Bergdahl were no longer in Qatar.

Today as the IRS scandal was exploding Obama, desperately needing a squirrel moment, announced the capture of the world’s most accessible terrorist.

“With this operation, the United States has once again demonstrated that we will do whatever it takes to see that justice is done when people harm Americans,” Obama said in a written statement. “We will continue our efforts to bring to justice those who were responsible for the Benghazi attacks.”

Let’s crank up the Wayback Machine again and review some history. October 18, 2012. The Wall Street Journal knew who Khatalla was and where he was.

BENGHAZI, Libya—The founder of Libya’s Islamist militia Ansar al-Sharia was at the U.S. consulate compound during the deadly attack here, Libyan officials say, but he remains free a week after those allegations were disclosed to Libyan political leaders and U.S. investigators in Tripoli.

Ahmed Abu Khattalah—who current Libyan officials and former Islamic militants describe as propagating an al Qaeda-style ideology—was seen during the Sept. 11 attack at the diplomatic mission where two of the four Americans died, said two senior Libyan security officials familiar with the investigation.

The officials’ allegations provide the most direct link so far between the assaults and Mr. Abu Khattalah’s militia. They also may fuel a political controversy in the U.S., where the Obama administration faces questions over security at the consulate and its response to the attack.

To steal a line from one of Glenn Reynolds’ readers, Ahmed Abu Khatalla was sipping a pina colada at Trader Vic’s. His hair was perfect.

If Ahmed Abu Khattala is worried about being arrested, he’s doing a good job hiding it. The man authorities believe helped lead the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi has given interviews to both Reuters and the New York Times. “Here I am in the open, sitting in a hotel with you,” he says in one. In another, he smirks at the idea of Libya’s army arresting the culprits, calling it a “national chicken.” He admits being at the consulate, but denies being a ringleader. He’s also sticking to the story that the attack grew out of a spontaneous protest over The Innocence of Muslims.

Now you know where Obama and Rice get their “intelligence.”

For a laugh, read this. The NY Times soils itself with what has to be one of the most idiotic corrections of all time.

Khatalla knew he was a suspect. US authorities knew he was a suspect. Reuters and the NY Times had found him. In 2013 CNN found him and he granted them an interview.

The only person who couldn’t seem to find him was Barack Obama.

This wasn’t lost on Jason Chaffetz.

“One of the pertinent questions today is why we have not captured or killed the terrorist who committed these attacks?” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told reporters. “News out today that CNN was able to go in and talk to one of the suspected terrorists, how come the military hasn’t been able to get after them and capture or kill the people? How come the FBI isn’t doing this and yet CNN is?”

Chaffetz was referring to CNN’s recent interview with Ahmed Abu Khattala, who Libyan and U.S. officials have described as the Benghazi leader of the al Qaeda-affiliated militia group Ansar al-Sharia — one of many groups that filled the vacuum of authority following the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi.

Unless he is a complete moron, Obama has had this guy in his pocket almost since the attacks. Everyone knew who he was. Everyone knew where he was. Obama pulled him out of his pocket when he needed the distraction from the IRS scandal. Obama wagged the dog.

USA Today:

WASHINGTON — In the months after the 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attacks, Ahmed Abu Khattallah always seemed to be hiding in plain sight.

Khatallah, a key suspect in the attack who officials say was captured Sunday in Libya, was famously spotted just weeks after the deadly assault that left four Americans dead, sipping a strawberry frappe on the patio of a Benghazi hotel.

In the hotel scene, detailed by the New York Times, Khattallah is wearing a fez and sandals and accusing U.S. leaders of “using the consulate attack just to gather votes for their elections.”

Indeed. With the IRS scandal erupting and Hillary having a bad week, the timing of the capture of the world’s most accessible terrorist was very convenient.

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When the so-called Arab Spring was young there were many secular people hoping to assist in ruling places like Libya and Egypt.
But because Obama dithered in assisting them the more violence-prone and Islamist-leaning groups took power away from those secularists and multi-culturalists.
Now, instead of drone-bombing the head of al Qaeda in Libya, Obama has gently collected him and swept him away from any Sharia-style trial.
He will probably walk after his case is thrown out of the DC court.
If he is tried, the DC courts will probably find him not guilty by reason of inadmissible evidence and inability to call ALL witnesses.
(That’s the law in DC.)
So, two birds w/one stone for Obama.
His Islamist buddy lives AND walks free.

Like a three ring circus…Obama (or his handlers) will come out with a ‘new trick’, a new ‘side show’ when he/they don’t want us to focus on the same scam scandal for too long…hoping we will ‘forget’ what ‘just happened’…and move on…nothing more to see here…

In this instance it seems there may have been some toe draggin’ going on…again hoping it would just go away…

I heard Helliary briefly on a show today…( now that this guy has been caught?) she is focusing like a laser on Cairo Egypt, and their protesting against the now infamous and evil video (earlier the same day as Benghazi). She went so far as to say “we didn’t know what was happening we were all trying to figure it all out” she said during the interview. I say huh?? Wait a minute, wasn’t there calls for help coming from the Embassy being attacked? Wasn’t everything happening in real time?…. And didn’t Helliary just the other day say how she was tired of lying and how ‘honest’ she was going to become…even if the truth hurt? Now THAT didn’t last too long…did it?

I guess the same protests (in Cairo, about a video) somehow made it all the way to Benghazi only the Benghazi ‘protesters’ came well equipped with hand held ‘rocket launchers’ and lots of fire power…(sarc)

This guy seems pretty proud of what was accomplished….a little too cocky…will this guy cough up any ‘secrets’? What really happened in Benghazi…so we can get to the bottom of this murderous story?

You wingnuts are so predictable with your asinine spin and conjecture.

I call these moments “shiny objects” but the intent is the same. Change the direction of the spotlight. BHO is very good at this and the press just lumber along with him.

Yes, seems odd that Obama, the “man tracker” who single-handedly found and killed bin Laden, couldn’t find this guy by now. Perpahs if he had sent Candy Crowley in after him, he could have nailed him?

Great claims require great proof
If what you pose is true then you also must realize that the entire US military is also supporting Obama either that or they have no honor
Don’t you think that if Obama was as despicable as you imply that there would have been wholesale resignations in our officer corps ?

At some point, in some interview or testimony, this guy will tell the world how his passions were inflamed by a video seen on the internet. This will take place before the 2016 elections, perhaps before the 2014 elections. He will then receive a carrot for his cooperation.

Be hard to spike the ball on this turd!! CNN interviewed the guy before we could catch him?? Give me a break. We let 5 9/11 Terrorist Masterminds go free, it takes two years to figure out who hated the video that caused Benghazi, Iraq is now lost due to mismanagement, and we slap our Veterans in the face!! Well done 0-blama!!

@Common Sense: #8
Perhaps the MSM should do an interview with the head of ISIS who is leading the slaughter of thousands in Iraq — you know, that very same guy with multiple AKAs that Obama released in 2009.

. . . Or maybe the MSM should just point that fact out to America.

@John: I doubt any officer that has endured combat and worked hard for his commission would simply resign because of one idiot.

Hey, this guy said he was innocent and didn’t do it; since we are expected to believe Obama & Co. every time they make the same claim, shouldn’t we just believe this guy and let him go?

@Bill:

I doubt any officer that has endured combat and worked hard for his commission would simply resign because of one idiot.

It’s called “outwaiting”. Those officers are not going to throw their careers away thinking they can just wait another two years and the idiot’s gone.

How many years did it take the Bush administration to get Osama bin Laden, one of the most recognizable persons on the planet? (Careful. It’s a trick question.)

@Greg: Your so ignorant it’s hardly worth a discussion but Greggie, was Benghazi a spontaneous reaction to a video like Hillary and 0-blama said within hours of the attack or was it a planned terrorist attack as they are indicating now as 0-blama tries to once again spike the ball with this miraculous capture of the “master mind” now?? Now that’s a trick question!! I doubt you will answer just as you believed 0-blama didn’t say you can keep your health insurance and/or doctor period!! Even though o-blama admitted to it!! BTW did you see the latest polls on your boy’s competence?? Once again your in the minority!!

@Greg:

How many years did it take the Bush administration to get Osama bin Laden, one of the most recognizable persons on the planet?

How many years did it take the Clinton administration to get Osama bin Laden, who was behind all the attacks on American interests between 1993-2000, who even then, was one of the most recognizable persons on the planet?

Hey, maybe republicans can subpoena Ahmed Abu Khatallah for one of their televised Benghazi question and answer sessions! Then they can ask him whether anyone was angered by the video or not. They really should try to get this done before the midterm elections.

Ahmed Abu Khatallah was captured and removed from Libya by Delta Force commandos. Apparently the right also considers that action to have been so simple and free of risk that it’s more worthy of ridicule than commendation. I tend to take the opposing view on that as well. I suspect that this was no cakewalk.

@Greg: Ahmed Abu Khatallah was captured and removed from Libya by Delta Force commandos. Apparently the right also considers that action to have been so simple and free of risk that it’s more worthy of ridicule than commendation. I tend to take the opposing view on that as well. I suspect that this was no cakewalk.

Just because Ahmed Abu Khatallah could have been taken at any time over the last couple of years doesn’t mean the men taking him were not subject to risk, Greg.
They were.
But Obama waited to pull the trigger until he needed a clear win-win diversion.
Had Obama sent him on a plane to Gitmo for a military tribunal, he’d have gotten his win-win.
But a slow boat to a civilian trail turns his win (of capturing the creep) into a win-lose.
See, Obama is ignoring the Geneva Conventions as regards prisoners of war.
Is this creep merely a gangster-like thug who killed 4 Americans like Obama’s constituents in Chicago do weekly?
Or was he the ”mastermind” of a terror attack who should be swiftly taken to a military prison?
Mostly the capture of Ahmed Abu Khatallah is a diversion from Obama’s bigger problems.
Bowe was Obama’s most recent failure of a diversion.
That failed because Obama is so tone deaf that he thought all America would be happy to trade 5 top terror planners for Bowe.
As the thread title points out, the timing is very curious.
BTW, did you see the list of White House visits by those 6 IRS employees whose computers all ”crashed” destroying all their relevant emails regarding IRS targeting of conservative groups?
Not on the front pages now.
That’s the timing issue.

@Greg: I think a better question would be, after Bush gave Obama bin Laden’s address, why did it take Obama 2 years to get him? After Obama had the plan placed before him to get bin Laden, why did it take him two days to decide what to do? After he knew Abu Khatallah was STILL in Benghazi, out in public and giving interviews, why did it take two years to get him? I mean, bin Laden was lost in the mountains of Tora Bora and Abu Khatallah was on CNN.

Why is Obama such a failure?

Why are otherwise rational people incapable thinking rationally about Barack Obama?

Hey Greggie, did you look in the mirror and have this epiphany?? Only an irrational individual would VOTE for Barack 0-blama!! I agree with your comment!! Of course you DO forget how the Liberal Left including yourself did and still do speak so irrationally about President Bush!!

@Greg: You want to discuss rationality when you have just repeated (one of) the most stupid assertions made by the left, that Bush could not find bin Laden but Obama did? Really?

At the time of the war in Afghanistan, we had very little intelligence assets on the ground in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East. Clinton saw to that. So, while fighting the Taliban, fighting al Qaeda and hunting bin Laden, we had to also rebuild an intelligence network in Muslim areas. We also had to use enhanced interrogation (what you leftists that benefited so from the fruits of that effort like to call “torture”) in order to get as much information as quickly as possible.

Slowly but surely, the evidence mounted and, finally, bin Laden was found. Then Obama struck. Obama didn’t find him; an accumulated effort did. Yet, when Obama is faulted for basically waiting 2 years to go get a guy that was giving media interviews in Benghazi, you want to call THAT irrational while you take the, by your assessment, “rational” stance that Bush could not find bin Laden but Obama did.

If Obama is so good at it, why hasn’t Obama found Zawahiri? Is he just not looking for him, does he just not care, is he no good at it OR is it difficult to find one guy in the vast expanse of the terrorist world and it takes a long time, hard work and a LOT of luck.

Yeah, let’s try rational for a while. That would be nice.

@Common Sense: You just gotta really love an argument bashing Obama for capturing the Benghazi attacker with a lead in of “Your so ignorant ” while resorting to the “you can keep your health insurance” mantra and has a name called “Common Sense” and then ending the diatribe with ” Once again your in the minority”.

FA political punditry at it’s finest!

The Bush administration not only failed to kill or capture Osama bin Laden, but early on downplayed the importance of doing so. The video was recorded only 6 months after the 9/11 attack.

While the importance of this was also played down by the right when it was finally accomplished 2 1/2 years into Obama’s watch, the former President at least acknowledged that this was, in fact, a significant accomplishment. For that honesty I give him credit. I also give George W Bush credit for that fact that, unlike Cheney, he has not done everything possible to impair his successor’s efforts as President.

@Ronald J. Ward: It’s NOT a mantra my friend it’s the truth!! The liberal left bashing Bush is the truth!! I was responding to Greggie’s irrational comment about Barack O-blama with Common Sense!! Nice Cherry Picking on my Common Sense feedback though!!

@Ronald J. Ward: I’m flattered that you took the time to read my comments, disappointed that you can’t understand it but then again NOT surprised!!

@Greg: OK Greegie what power does Cheney possess to do what you are accusing him of??

@Ronald J. Ward: once again teabagee boy you sound like a demochump

@Common Sense, #25:

What power does Cheney possess to do what you are accusing him of?

Whatever power might reside in still being able to influence people who apparently haven’t learned anything as a result of having listened to him the first time.

4,486 U.S. dead, a couple of trillion dollars down the drain, and what do we have to show for it? What does Iraq have to show for it? That’s all the result of faulty neo-con thinking. I don’t see where we need any further advice from Mr. Cheney, let alone his condemnations of the President who’s still trying to deal with the mess he left behind.

Well Hillery needs to be shown to be right about that “movie” being the cause of Benghazi to take the pressure off. Now we have this guy, that was hiding in plain site for two years, affirming it was the movie. The left is good at this! They save the big guns until they actually need it. It’s past time for people to see right through this garbage. Like fast and furious, before the poop hit the fan the administration was complaining about American guns getting into Mexico. They are good at talking up a problem, then try to pass legislation off of the propaganda. Only problem it was shown just how those guns got into Mexico. Same thing here, movie caused the attack, now they are trying to prove the lie with more lies.

@Greg: Hey Greg prove that Obama killed him!!! Where’s his body? Oh I forgot they threw it out of plane into Ocean, and then seal team 6 was eliminated in a chopper being shot down. Now tell me again prove they killed Osama, and not a look alike. Prove it!!!!

Prove that you’re not another sock puppet out of the sock drawer.

@Greg: Prove that Romney lied on his tax returns or tell me your not just another Dumbocrat sock puppet!! PS don’t bother to blame Bush or the Koch brothers, Reid will manage that one for you!!

@jainphxJust when you think the level of intelectual lazinesss has hit an all time low, out pops jainphx rationalizing his unhinged conspiracy theories lest one proves otherwise.

How would one aquire this “proof” you demand and why would one expect that proof to satisfy you? Wouldn’t you demand verification that of the proof? Would you be able to identify the body and accept that as proof? Who would prove the DNA is in fact proof?

You simply employ an elementary argument of buffoonery which is no more than an admission that the dog ate your homework and that you’re not about to let reality impede on your illogical hate fest.

@Greg: “4,486 U.S. dead, a couple of trillion dollars down the drain, and what do we have to show for it? What does Iraq have to show for it?” If Democrats did not go out of their way to show what cowards and ideologues they are, over and above national interests and national security, we would have a friendly, stable Iraq.

“let alone his condemnations of the President who’s still trying to deal with the mess he left behind. ” That “mess” was a victory. Obama turned that into defeat, catastrophe and failure.

@Bill: Trying to get an honest answer from Greg is futile but I admire the effort. I always think it’s also interesting to ask if any Democrats looking at the same information President Bush had prior to Iraq supported his decision, specifically Democrat Senators. Watch him stumble on that one!!

@Common Sense: Senate Democratic votes for the Iraq War

If you remember that day, it was a day of speeches. And at least out among the Littles, the final count wasn’t known until the roll was called. Here are your brave warrior Dems, those who voted Yes, covered in testosterone (or confusion) and glory. I’ve highlighted a few names to note:

YEAs — 77

Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Breaux (D-LA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carnahan (D-MO)
Carper (D-DE)
Cleland (D-GA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Daschle (D-SD)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Edwards (D-NC)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)

Hollings (D-SC)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Miller (D-GA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Schumer (D-NY)
Torricelli (D-NJ)

Dodd’s not around today, nor is Edwards, and Harkin is retiring. But the rest are still there — or in the case of Biden and Clinton, in position to do even greater damage.

USMC Gen Dempsey said that many months of work went into this capture. I guess Dr John thinks that the whole USMC from the top down are now all Obama minions with no honor

@john: Not quite sure I understand how criticizing Obama for waiting almost two years to capture a suspect that gives regular public interviews is somehow dispariging the entire Marine Corps (pronounced “core”, not “corpse”).

@Greg:

Bush nor Obama found/killed bin Laden. Our Armed Forces and Intelligence Aparta did.

@mossomo: I stand corrected!! Wonder why 0-blama spiked the ball then!!

Even the Left’s Soros’ financed Think Progress admits the timing was odd.
As long ago as his first interview the Libyans were loathe to capture him themselves (for POLITICAL reasons).
Obama merely had to tag a CIA or FBI man along behind any major media who got interviews from Ahmed Abu Khattalah.
He wasn’t hiding.
Obama covered his own dithering (waiting for an opportune time) by blaming the Libyans.
He always claims to want to ”lead from behind.”
But when he NEEDED the diversion he acted unilaterally like he did with his drones and Kill List.
So, Obama dithered and rationalized, waiting for the best time to let loose his Special Forces.
Those teams could have had Ahmed Abu Khattalah within 24 hours of whenever Obama allowed them to go for him.

@Nanny G: #40
That’s what happens when you have an Admin that doesn’t do the right thing, but does what is IDEOLOGICALLY purposeful.

This is a hateful and sick bunch now in the W.H. — we don’t need much more proof than the very serious IRS scandal, worthy of bringing down an Administration. They smile, and they lie, and everything’s OK.

All Americans should be outraged, and yet there are still 40% supporting this mindset. This is a very broken society.

@Common Sense, #35:

That sort of vote and such speeches are exactly what we should expect of our Congressional representatives, after being convinced by by the Bush Administration that Saddam Hussein was in possession of stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and was actively pursing the acquisition of a nuclear weapon.

The problem, of course, is that it was all a deliberate fabrication, designed to convince Congress, the American people, and our allies of the need for a totally unnecessary war.

A point I keep trying to make (and maybe I don’t very well) is the vast difference in standard a Republican is held to by liberals as opposed to what they expect of a liberal. For instance, right after 9/11, when we had very little in the way of intelligence assets on the ground, Bush was expected to find bin Laden somewhere in the wilds of Afghanistan or Pakistan and bring him to justice. Yet, Obama is given a pass, replete with a list of lame excuses a mile long, for failing to even question Abu Khatallah, much less capture him.

@Greg: Deliberate fabrication?? I need proof of that, I am calling you a liar straight up until you prove yourself!! BTW, what about all the Democrats who failed to read 0-blamacare before they voted for it?? This will end up costing much more. BTW, WMD do exist in Iraq even if you don’t want to admit it!! Are you saying the Democrats who voted in favor are NOT responsible for their vote?? Nice try but your lies won’t work with me. How you coming on proving that Romney lied on his tax returns??

@Greg: “The problem, of course, is that it was all a deliberate fabrication, designed to convince Congress, the American people, and our allies of the need for a totally unnecessary war. ”

I guess the left will never tire of using this gigantic, dishonest and completely unfounded lie. Obviously, anyone that continues to use it is nothing but a liar. Sorry, but it must be so.

The intelligence was gathered by numerous intelligence organizations from numerous nations. Most of it was gathered during the Clinton administration and both Bill and Hillary supported it fully (uh-oh… not making my case against liars very well). All those voting for the resolution to use force had all this information and, as you or anyone else interested in the facts and truth can see, were satisfied and in agreement.

No, Greg, the problem with Iraq is that Obama snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, preferring to golf instead of maintain our national security interests. Continuing to try to explain away the hypocrisy of the leftists who voted for the war then, upon the moment it became convenient, tried to pretend they opposed it by claiming they were snookered by the mean, old, mind-melding Republicans is, well, just stupid.

@Bill, #45:

I guess the left will never tire of using this gigantic, dishonest and completely unfounded lie. Obviously, anyone that continues to use it is nothing but a liar. Sorry, but it must be so.

Lie? The Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq, released on July 9, 2004, indicates otherwise. It was a bipartisan investigation and quite thorough. It covered the issues of questionable intelligence point by point.

There’s also an article concerning the document on Wikipedia, if anyone is interested.

Then there’s the committee’s official report on the second phase of the formal investigation, which focused on the intelligence community’s own pre-invasion conclusions and assessments of what the proposed war would likely entail. Many of these conclusions and assessments were totally ignored by the Bush administration. One of the conclusions on page 7 of that last document is interesting:

“The intelligence community assessed prior to the war that al Qa’ida probably would see an opportunity to accelerate its operational tempo and increase terrorist attacks during and after a US-Iraq war. ”

That pre-war assessment point should have been recognized as a dire warning. In fact, where al Qaeda was not previously even present in Iraq, they now threaten to take over the country entirely. It was the U.S. invasion that ultimately brought the current situation about. We created the opportunity for them, exactly as the intelligence community had warned.

@Bill: Well said Bill but waiting for any proof of outlandish statements made by Greggie will be futile. None the less your framed the argument very well!!

Like others have said, the timing of the capture (note; not the killing) of this terrorist will conveniently give Hilary an excuse to dodge any and all questions about Benghazi before, during, and after the next dictat… er… Presidential “(s)election”.

This clearly, and undeniably, defines the difference between the killing of Bin Laden and the capture of this particular terrorist.

No amount of lib twisting, turning, hand-wringing, and/or cheap talk can alter this fact.

@Greg: I guess I missed the part where the reports, the hearings, the investigations and anything but rabid leftists said that Bush lied to go to war. Further, indeed, al Qaeda WAS definitely in Iraq before 9/11 and the war. It was even reported by both CBS and NBC. Now, this does not mean that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 or that they were in league, but they were there, they were cooperating and, as the intelligence showed WMD’s in Iraq, there was a real and present danger that Iraq would supply al Qaeda with them. Just as was advertised.

So, consistently, reliably and predictably, you are wrong, wrong, wrong. While you deem observers seeing the administration stonewalling and destroying emails to cover collusion between the White House and the IRS as some sort of fantastic conspiracy theory, you continue to invent your own conspiracies about Bush inventing WMD threats, lying about the danger presented and going to war for fun and profit, to avenge Daddy or whatever else the excuse of the day might be. Totally stupid.

We had a severe shortage of intelligence sources on the scene and that was repaired greatly under Bush. Obama has systematically squandered that to grandstand and chest-thump, even outing an acting section chief (as opposed to a pencil-pushing desk jockey like Plame), losing him and all his contacts and sources.

In other words, Bush was a leader that took action while Obama is a “leader from behind” that will not make a move unless he is guaranteed the he personally will politically profit (i.e., “loser”).

IIRC – after being convinced by Every Western Intelligence Agency that Saddam had WMD.

Fixed it for ya. That is a more truthful statement.