Osama bin Laden – Kit Stolz

“Mission Accomplished,” eight years later

From Dan Froomkin, exiled from the Washington Post to Huffland: Ironically, Obama’s announcement [of the killing of Osama bin Laden] came eight years to the day after Bush famously and prematurely declared "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq after landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier. Looks like Mike Lukovich sees the same irony:

Now that Bush Has Threatened Our Kids with Osama, Can We Ask Him About Global Warming?

John Dickerson in Slate notes that when his Iraq strategy was questioned in a press conference, the Prez resorted to threatening the children of reporters with al-Qaida: "They are a threat to your children, David," he said to NBC’s David Gregory . It’s an understandable instinct [writes Dickerson]. To persuade, we try to appeal toContinue reading “Now that Bush Has Threatened Our Kids with Osama, Can We Ask Him About Global Warming?”