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Obama claims personal credit for a victory that wasn’t his
Intelligence officials say alleged terrorist plotter Najibullah Zazi was caught not thanks to domestic surveillance but by CIA tracking of al-Qaida. The White House says the president did it.
Imagine you,or perhaps your father,were one of the five Marines who raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. Then imagine seeing Joe Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of that iconic image.
But then you read the caption below the photo. It says that according to the White House,what those Marines were doing was the result of "President Roosevelt’s deep involvement in the war effort."The claim is that the Marines only had sketchy information about Iwo Jima,but the president sensed something and held "an intensive three-week White House focus"on the impending attack.
Wouldn’t it sound fishy? Wouldn’t you feel as if the real heroes had been dishonored for the sake of an oversized presidential ego?