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Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani commend Obama for ordering bin Laden raid but say president shouldn’t play politics on anniversary

By Callum Borchers

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 01, 2012

Mitt Romney paid Twitter tribute to President Obama Tuesday morning on the one-year anniversary of the raid that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. “I commend those who planned and conducted the bin Laden raid a year ago, and I applaud President Obama for approving the mission,” Romney tweeted. How much credit Obama deserves for the strike and whether Romney would have issued the same order have been hot topics since the Obama campaign released a controversial video.

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