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Related: About this forumDo you think Clinton would pass up an opportunity for Bin Laden to be captured
knowing that if successful she could use it for a future presidential run to tout her foreign policy expertise?
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Do you think Clinton would pass up an opportunity for Bin Laden to be captured (Original Post)
Skwmom
Feb 2016
OP
What are you trying to prove. She was there at the time the decision was made to go after Bin Laden
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#1
Nope, people would be cackling about it tonight if it was a failed mission. We both know that.
bettyellen
Feb 2016
#6
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)1. What are you trying to prove. She was there at the time the decision was made to go after Bin Laden
Stallion
(6,476 posts)2. It Could Have Ruined Her Chance to be President as Well
she had almost as much on the line as Obama
(gee I miss Ann Richards)
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)3. If anything went wrong it would have been blamed on Obama.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)6. Nope, people would be cackling about it tonight if it was a failed mission. We both know that.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)8. Let's not even try to spin this one, bin Laden needed to be taken out
He led the 9/11 attacks and I doubt either Obama nor Hillary was thinking about is this going to affect their political future.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)4. That is a ridiculous stretch. You're grasping at straws.
Not only that, but she doesn't need the Bin Laden decision to prove her bona fides in foreign policy.
msongs
(67,441 posts)5. if hillary cured all cancer some people would still hate her in an irrational manner nt
TSIAS
(14,689 posts)7. This was brought up to discredit Biden
Who allegedly had reservations.