14/05/2011 12:35
Bush finally talks candidly on Bin Laden’s death
ABC News is reporting that former U.S. President George W. Bush has made his first candid comments about the killing of Osama bin Laden at a conference of hedge-fund managers at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.
When asked by forum moderator Melissa Lee of CNBC how he felt upon learning the news, Bush said he was “not overjoyed,” explaining that the campaign to track down the 9/11 mastermind was done not “out of hatred but to exact judgment.”
The development is ultimately a victory for the American people, he said.
“The guy is dead. That is good,” Bush said of bin Laden. “Osama’s death is a great victory in the war on terror. He was held up as a leader.”
“The intelligence services deserve a lot of credit. They built a mosaic of information, piece by piece,” he said, claiming no credit for himself.