I wanted to take a scalp, but the kill was not mine.
Very fitting sig line. Does O deserve credit for this? Yes, but obviously not entirely, just as most things that happen, especially for/to a first term president are not entirely his own making/doing.
One thing I can't help thinking when reading some of the more credible sounding text about this event, if a conservative had called in the troops based on "high confidence" that they had their guys, the libs would have taken them to task for it. In this case, the president (whom I don't generally think a whole lot of) made a very gutsy call, and it was a good call. I say, 'good for him and his administration', but praise is due where it is deserved, and Bush's hand is all over the intel that initiated much of the successes it took to bust this guy out. And some of that intel was not without great criticism from the left, the very same people who used that intel to advantage in order to accomplish this mission.
