Thanks to Mitt Romney for pointing this out. Apparently, Mexico’s former president Vicente Fox, issued praise and thanks to Rick Perry for allowing Mexico’s “migrants” the opportunity to be educated in Texas.
Of course, Mitt Romney says now that he disapproves of Perry’s immigration policy, but with the way Mitt flip-flops, we’ll have to wait and see when/if he changes his mind.
A great read by Jake Tapper. A list of some of the terrorists killed or captured under the leadership of the Obama Administration. This is something the Republicans would not want the American people to know about. Although September 11th happened under the Bush Administration, Republicans will still try to claim some special authority when it comes to protecting the American people.
This list complements Jake Tapper;
There’s Osama bin Laden, of course, killed in May.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Anwar al-Awlaki as of today.
Earlier this month officials confirmed that al Qaeda’s chief of Pakistan operations, Abu Hafs al-Shahri, was killed in Waziristan, Pakistan.
In August, ‘Atiyah ‘Abd al-Rahman, the deputy leader of al Qaeda was killed.
In June, one of the group’s most dangerous commanders, Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in Pakistan. In Yemen that same month, AQAP senior operativesAmmar al-Wa’ili, Abu Ali al-Harithi, and Ali Saleh Farhan were killed. In Somalia, Al-Qa’ida in East Africa (AQEA) senior leader Harun Fazul was killed.
Administration officials also herald the recent U.S./Pakistani joint arrest ofYounis al-Mauritani in Quetta.
Going back to August 2009, Tehrik e-Taliban Pakistan leader Baitullah Mahsud was killed in Pakistan.
In September of that month, Jemayah Islamiya operational plannerNoordin Muhammad Top was killed in Indonesia, and AQEA plannerSaleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was killed in Somalia.
For the rest of the list, click here.
Another of Al Qaeda’s highest ranking leaders was killed on Friday by the CIA. Anwar al-Awlaki, an American, born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents in 1971 became a radical preacher and used his teachings to recruit followers in the US and Britain. Investigations showed that al-Awlaki was influential in the Fort Hood shooting, where 13 people died at the hands of gunman Nidal Hasan.
CBS News reports;
Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born radical Islamic preacher who rose to the highest level of al Qaeda’s franchise in Yemen, was killed in a CIA-directed strike upon his convoy, carried out with the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command’s firepower, according to a counterterrorist official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence.
Al-Awlaki had been under observation for three weeks while they waited for the right opportunity to strike, one U.S. official said.
Already, Fox News is trying to credit George Bush and his policy of waterboarding for this capture/killing. On the so-called news network Fox, Gretchen Carlson said that under President Obama’s administration “it seems that we don’t prosecute or ask the same questions that we might have under the Bush Administration, so would we get anything out of him anyway if we captured them?”
Fox was also instrumental in framing the lie that Osama Bin Laden’s capture was solely because of Bush. Somehow, this is not surprising.
What do you do when you’re the first lady and have everything at your disposal? No, you don’t go to Disney World, you go shopping… at Target! And that was exactly what Michelle Obama did yesterday, when she was spotted cruising the aisles of the department store.
“This is a victory for the United States military, for our British and French allies, for NATO, for the president of the United States, but most importantly for the Libyan people. …” Kirk said in a conference call with reporters from the Libyan capital. “Unquestioned kudos goes to the president and his team, but the challenges are not over yet.”
“This was a success by President Obama and his team. Any military conflict has ups or downs or things you might have done differently … but we have all the makings of a very strong U.S. ally in Libya.”
Those are the words of Republican Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), who criticized the President at the beginning of the conflict for not getting congressional approval before joining forces with NATO to help the Libyan people. Now, after touring the war-torn country, Mark Kirk is singing a different tune.
Kirk traveled to Tripoli with three fellow Republican senators – John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida – to meet with members of the National Transitional Council, comprised largely of the opposition movement that removed Qadhafi from power.
The congressional delegation toured a hospital and the U.S. embassy, and spoke with civilians in Martyr’s Square, the site of protests and fighting earlier this year.
While driving through the streets of the city, Kirk described seeing “spontaneous graffiti” that was overwhelmingly anti-Qadhafi. Billboards which had previously displayed the Libyan leader’s image had been ripped down.
“The age of Qadhafi has definitely ended,” Kirk said, though the ousted leader still remains at large.
Now only if Kirk could spread those words to the rest of the Republicans in Congress, and don’t be surprised if we find out that Republicans are now trying to come up with a way to credit George Bush for Libya’s success.
