https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1188456266009628672?s=19
He would be really pissed off in 2019.
bin Laden had a legitimate gripe that the US was bombing civilian buildings at least, it wasn’t just xenophobia or religious insanity.
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Would love someone to source the pre WTC attack where Trump warned the world about Bin Laden.
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Trump is a legitimate terrorist.
Trump’s Misleading Claim That He Warned About Osama bin Laden
One day we’re all assured that Iraq is under control, the U.N. inspectors have done their work, everything’s fine, not to worry. The next day the bombing begins. One day we’re told that a shadowy figure with no fixed address named Osama bin Laden is public enemy number one, and U.S. jet fighters lay waste to his camp in Afghanistan. He escapes back under some rock, and a few news cycles later it’s on to a new enemy and new crisis.
Mr. Trump['s ghostwriter] continued:
Dealing with many different countries at once may require many different strategies. But there isn’t any excuse for the haphazard nature of our foreign policy. We don’t have to reinvent the wheel for every new conflict.”
Wow, he sure warned us and didn’t write off bin Laden as a made up threat.
Who says American troops had a right to be in Saudi Arabia or even Kuwait? Neither had anything like a legitimate government. And then if they did have a right to be there in 1990, how did they have a right to stay for the next 11 years?
Can’t watch. Let me know if it is the killing the Isis guy thing please.
Bin Laden had a gripe with the West ever since Saudi Arabia had to call in French troops to break the siege of Mecca in 1979. That some of the arguments he might have proposed had some basis in facts, does not mean, his position was “legitimate”.
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The situation room picture will be him stuffing a burger into his face while looking at his phone at the club restaurant.
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It is. It’s a 1 minute video grab of the beginning of the speech from Fox News.
Oh, and we didn’t liberate Kuwait. It’s a God damned slave state.
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I don’t think this will do much to move the needle except in the very short term. The thing you have to understand about why Bin Laden’s death invigorated America is the state of mind the United States was in following 9/11. We needed a decisive symbol of justice for the two towers. Our wound was inflicted in a burst of fire, and it would take something equally visceral to ever heal.
That’s done with now. It’s part of why people who could say they were against the war still felt an overwhelming relief when it was announced Osama had been killed. The killing of al-Baghdadi is different. It’s the difference between the stunning come-from-behind after eighty-six years of LOLYOUSUCK by the Boston Red Sox in their 2004 World Series victory to the Lakers winning yet another game.
The only people who will feel more than a moment’s satisfaction from this are the die-hard racists and warmongers. Those people were already supporting Trump no matter what he did or didn’t do.
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I went back and checked Gallup poll released after bin laden.
Right after Obama jumps 7 but it goes back to where it was like 6 weeks later.
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This. The difference is 9/11. Bin Laden attacked the US. The ISIS guy mostly killed Iraqis and Syrians. Most people won’t care.
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We are very serious men. Do you see how serious? SO SERIOUS WITH THE GRAVITAS WE ARE
