It's been roven that Osama was NEVER affiliated with the CIA.

A variety of sources—CNN journalist Peter Bergen, Pakistani ISI Brigadier Mohammad Yousaf, and CIA operatives involved in the Afghan program, such as Vincent Cannistraro—deny that the CIA or other American officials had contact with the foreign mujahideen or Bin Laden, let alone armed, trained, coached or indoctrinated them.

Bergen and others argue that there was no need to recruit foreigners unfamiliar with the local language, customs or lay of the land since there were a quarter of a million local Afghans willing to fight; that foreign mujahideen themselves had no need for American funds since they received several hundred million dollars a year from non-American, Muslim sources; that Americans could not have trained mujahideen because Pakistani officials would not allow more than a handful of them to operate in Pakistan and none in Afghanistan; and that the Afghan Arabs were almost invariably militant Islamists reflexively hostile to Westerners whether or not the Westerners were helping the Muslim Afghans.

According to Peter Bergen, known for conducting the first television interview with bin Laden in 1997, the idea that "the CIA funded Bin Laden or trained bin Laden ...[is] a folk myth. There's no evidence of this. ... Bin Laden had his own money, he was anti-American and he was operating secretly and independently. ... The real story here is the CIA didn't really have a clue about who this guy was until 1996 when they set up a unit to really start tracking him."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_qaeda#Alleged_CIA_involvement

Ur right let's put it this way the military should take 100% credit only thing politcally credit that can and should be take is greenlight to attack but other than that military those that went in and those that investigated for years tracking him down....

switch it up, had we had a leader who set on the info and didnt end in a capture,,wouldnt he be blamed?

I say the president and the 12 seals he tapped to do the job are the reason there is no more bin laden

..they can have all the credit they want..i just want the reward...

You have to give credit to the administration the put the policies in place to gather the info that led to the operation. Give credit to the administration that didn't change those policies. Give credit to the CIA and Navy for gathering the intel. This administration for giving the green light. But most credit goes to the CIA and Navy Seals who completed the mission with no American casualties.

A pretty fair assessment. All the resources and intel that led to the courier was done between 2003 and 2007 during the Bush administration and the "waterboarding" apparently had a lot to do with it. Obama gets no credit for this portion. I would subtract 20 points from Obama and give it to the military.

Bush Administration-40
U.S. Intelligence - 5
Obama administration-10
Foreign Powers- 5
U.S. Military- 40

The buck stops where the buck stops. Obama.

We assassinated Bin Laden.

I wouldn't be worried about his "Al qaeda" organization too much. They can't even get an underwear bomb to go off.

Worry about the Chinese. They are shooting down satellites and hacking google networks. They are dumping American dollars by spending them by buying large expensive corporations with dollars.

Credit should go where the credit is due.

Osama bin Ladin...

For poking the sleeping giant.

the end result was inevitable...

No matter how long it took.

Ummmmmm Obama sat on the infor for months, and it was over 30 SEALS that he didn't tap, who made it through BUDs and progressed to the most elite special forces unit in the world.

I'd cut the Obama by 5 and give it to the CIA and give the CIA 10 and Obama 5.

AND the people with Military experience put the team together, which Obama has none neither does Biden or Hitlery.

You couldn't possibly prove anything of the sort. The CIA does not go around telling everyone what they are doing and whom they are affiliated with. They train people to over throw governments all the time, and have been doing it for years. Where have you been? Under a rock?

Things don't seem to be working out very well for Obama-haters. Here's an article on the latest CBS poll about what is happening with Obama's job approval.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/04/us-binladen-usa-polls-idUSTRE7433UI20110504

Those 33%ers are having a bad day.

"A New York Times/CBS News poll showed the bump in Obama's performance rating -- which it warned could be short-lived -- but also found that more than six in 10 Americans believed the threat of extremist attacks against the United States was likely to increase."

You must have missed the "short lived" part.

Wow why would any less then 99% go to the Military only 1% should go to those that finally said go ahead and do your thing!!!!!

No, I read the entire article. Everybody who is rational expects that, as concerns return to jobs and the economy, Obama's ratings will drop. The point is that President Obama can chalk the OBL issue up as a win in his column. Sorry about that.

So the recipient of the Nobel peace prize gets credit for authorizing the murder of a human being hmmmmm.

Looks that way. Afraid you're going to have to learn to live with that.

Don't be afraid. It doesn't bother me.