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Election 2012: Obama – Marking bin Laden death isn’t ‘celebration’
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
The 1980 mission ultimately embarrassed the nation, ending with the death of eight servicemen and the loss of several American helicopters. The hostage crisis lasted more than a year and helped deny Carter a second term.
If the bin Laden raid had gone similarly awry, Obama would have been badly damaged by a military debacle on top of the country’s economic woes.
A spokeswoman for Carter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press
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