Yesterday Guy Benson posted an aritlce at Hot Air detailing how intelligence gathering by the George W. Bush administration paved the way for the discovery of Osama Bin Laden’s compound. 

In a prior column written for Townhall.com, Mr. Benson points out:

“Osama bin Laden was found because the United States military exploited actionable intelligence extracted by subjecting terrorists to enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs) in secret CIA prisons, by questioning enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, and by capturing a top al Qaeda source in Iraq.

“As long as some liberals remain intent on keeping political score, it must be pointed out that all three sources of these indispensible data points were direct or indirect results of Bush policies – EITs, Gitmo, and the Iraq war – that much of the American Left, including Barack Obama, fought tooth and nail.”

The things the Democrats made political and disdained provided the information that led to the killing of Obama Bin Laden. 

Mr. Benson further points out:

“In short, Al-Kuwaiti’s existence was flagged by at least one Guantanamo Bay detainee, his role and pseudonym were confirmed by KSM and al-Libi, and his true identity was spilled by an Al Qaeda terrorist operating in Iraq.  It’s no exaggeration to assert that all three of these intelligence “strands” may never — or perhaps would never — have materialized absent the controversial Bush administration policies listed above.  These facts are not historical footnotes.  They eviscerate a number of core left-wing articles of faith, including the flawed notions that President Bush “took his eye off the [Al Qaeda/bin Laden] ball,” that Iraq was unrelated to the larger war on terror, and that EITs are not effective — not to mention the ongoing obsession with shuttering Gitmo.  As I conclude in the Townhall piece, Presidents Bush and Obama deserve significant credit for this massive accomplishment, and it would be intellectually dishonest to suggest otherwise.”

Please read the entire article at Hot Air.  The details are very informative.  President Obama deserves credit for deciding to rid the world of Osama Bin Laden, but he had nothing to do with gathering the information that made that mission possible–in fact the politics of the Democrat party did everying possible to prevent America from ever obtaining that information.  As you enter the voting booth in 2012. keep that in mind.