Osama Bin Laden

May 1st, 2011 Osama Bin Laden is pronounced dead.
SO much has been going on since then. Some still think that he's not really dead and that it's some publicity stunt to get Obama re-elected. Maybe so, maybe no. I personally think that's crazy. Other's think that it was a waste of the government's time because Osama apparently had nothing to do with 9/11. That too I can't agree with.
But what is driving me up the wall is all of this talk about where the credit should go.
I posted a status that I saw a friend of mine post [whose husband is in the Navy I believe] that says, "Let's be clear on this: OBAMA did NOT kill Bin Laden. An American soldier, whom Obama just a few weeks ago was debating on whether or not to PAY, did. Obama just happened to be the one in office when our soldiers finally found OBL and took him out. This is NOT an Obama victory, but an AMERICAN victory!! REPOST IF YOU AGREE!" 
But then my best friend sent me this message from her friend who is a military mom and used to be in the Army, "Just an FYI for the civilians (and perhaps the overworked service-members out there). First - the video about Osama's killing is a virus. Do not open. Second - the viral post about it being a soldier who killed him and not Obama needs to be revised. It was a Navy Seal... not a soldier (always refers to Army). Third - it was a handful of Senators and Representatives that didn't want to pay our service-members, deeming them non-essential. (They should now know exactly how essential they really are!)
Lastly - we are a team. Obama was in office the day last Aug. when he made the order to act on Intel regarding Osama. He was also on duty last night when he made the order to use a handful of Seals to enter Pakistan and take out the target. He may not do everything right, but he's a part of the TEAM that made that operation possible.  You cannot credit one President and not the other based on your political stand point. If that were logical, I could give all the credit for 9/11 to Daddy Bush and Clinton for letting some of these terrorists go when we had them years ago, and for ignoring threats to do exactly what they did.  Fact is - they all do their best. And both Presidents deserve kudos for sticking to the right thing, the hard thing, and tenaciously sniffing these guys (Osama and Saddam) out and landing blows to middle eastern terrorist regimes."
And it makes me feel bad for posting the first status... Part of me wants to try and revise it so that it's more accurate but honestly I think I'm finally to the point where I'm just DONE.  I hate discussing politics and it seems like when I feel like I agree with something I get proven wrong and then feel bad for what I thought before. I know this is just apart of becoming informed, the whole getting shown a better way to see it, etc, but still. I'm sick of it for now.
I'm glad Osama Bin Laden is dead. Whoever is responsible for it doesn't matter to me anymore (or at least for now...). I'm glad that our Navy Seals could pull it off, and I'm glad that Obama gave them the go. But I guess for now what really matters to me is that a bad man can't hurt people anymore. I hope that the rest of the military men and women over there are not faced with more danger because of retaliations and I hope that all of this drama cools down in the near future.
Why can't we all just get along?