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To: tejek who wrote (805794)	9/9/2014 12:50:53 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579893

Since Obama took over, he has taken out bin Laden and other key al Qaeda operatives..........which begs the question once again........where do you get your news? Obama took over in January, 2009. In October, 2010, bin Laden wrote a 48-page memo that "surveyed the state of his organization," according to Peter Bergen (this document was captured during the bin Laden raid). According to Bergen, "The U.S. efforts to root out al Qaeda had been too successful and bin Laden had grown despondent." So, your claim would presumably be that bin Laden arrived at this despondency sometime between Jan, 2009 and October, 2010 -- just over a year and a half. The troop surge began in December, 2009 and was regarded as an abject failure in a report by NATO Afghanistan military command. From just before the surge July, 2009 to just after the surge, insurgent attacks increased by 33%. All of this is inconsistent with your claim that Obama had anything to do with "decimating" al Qaeda. It had been done before he first stepped foot into the Oval Office.

To: tejek who wrote (805794)	9/9/2014 7:29:49 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Recommended By i-node Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579893

Ted, let me put it this way. If Bush's war against Al Qaeda was a failure and Obama had the formula for turning it around, which culminated in the death of Bin Laden, then Obama would have had an easy answer to the question of a strategy against ISIS. "My strategy is simple. I'll do what I did against Al Qaeda." Instead, Obama said he had no strategy. He doesn't know WTF he's doing, just like he didn't know WTF to do against Al Qaeda except continue Bush's strategy. Tenchusatsu