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  • [Bill Clinton] That's one thing George Bush said that was right: The President is

  • the Decider-in-Chief. Nobody can make that decision for you.

  • Look, he knew what would happen. Suppose the Navy SEALs had gone in there and

  • it hadn't been Bin Laden. Suppose that they had been captured or killed.

  • The downside would have been horrible for him.

  • But he reasoned: "I cannot, in good conscience, do nothing."

  • He took the harder, and the more honorable path.

  • And the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result.

  • [Wolf Blitzer, CNN] (Reads quote)

  • He was referring to the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

  • What did he mean by that? Because it's generated a little controversy, given Osama bin Laden's

  • role in killing - what? Three thousand Americans on 9/11?

  • [Bill Clinton] He had to decide.

  • And that's what you hire a president to do.

  • You hire the President to make the calls when no one else can do it.

[Bill Clinton] That's one thing George Bush said that was right: The President is

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