"What More Do We Want This Man To Do For Us"

A partial transcript of video from Late Night with David Letterman. Brian Williams and David Letterman are discussing President Obama and the raid that took-out Usama bin Laden:

Letterman: “The day after the 9/11 attacks, the number 1 priority in America, if not the world, was, ‘We gotta get bin Laden, we gotta get bin Laden.’”

Williams: “Yeah”

Letterman: “So, uh, eight years go by, we still haven’t got bin Laden. Uh, George W. Bush at one point said, well, he doesn’t really think too much about bin Laden. In the interim we invaded Afghanistan, then we invaded Iraq because Cheney wanted to help out his buddies at Brown & Root and, uh, Halliburton,”

Williams: “You’re getting a little sideways here, Letterman.”

Letterman: “Yeah, OK, and grab up all the oil. I think they went soft on the project because they were worried about upsetting their Saudi Arabian royalty buddies.”

Williams: “Easy there”

Letterman: “So now Osama bin Laden, finally, is gunned down by Barack Obama... displaying great courage and great intelligence. What more do you want to lead your country than that kind of courage and that kind of intelligence?”

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Letterman: “The mission was not accomplished, it was far from accomplished. They put up a banner on the SS Lincoln air craft carrier, George flies in on a thing and he’s got his little flight jacket on; he was very cute but, you know what I mean? It makes me angry that we can’t give this president anything.”

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Letterman: “What more do we want this man to do for us honest to God?“