Osama Bin Laden is Dead

**Strike For The South** · 05-02-2011, 07:39

Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger

Already a moral equivalency drawn between Americans and Osama bin Laden on page one. I guess it was to be expected, but I am still

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I am of the opinon we are better but am perplexed by the celebrating....DO I MAKE YOU CRY

**PanzerJaeger** · 05-02-2011, 07:41

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

I am of the opinon we are better but am perplexed by the celebrating....DO I MAKE YOU CRY

If you cannot understand it, I don't know what to say.

**Strike For The South** · 05-02-2011, 07:44

Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger

If you cannot understand it, I don't know what to say.

I think everyone here is smart enough to realize Bin Laden was at best a figurehead in Global terror at this point

And all the cheerleading in the world won't change that

**PanzerJaeger** · 05-02-2011, 07:49

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

I think everyone here is smart enough to realize Bin Laden was at best a figurehead in Global terror at this point

And all the cheerleading in the world won't change that

I don't think the celebrating has anything to do with what he is, or was, today, but instead, what he put into motion 9 1/2 years ago.

**Fragony** · 05-02-2011, 08:01

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

I think everyone here is smart enough to realize Bin Laden was at best a figurehead in Global terror at this point

And all the cheerleading in the world won't change that

True that, in the end it doesn't really matter. Good riddance but don't make him more important than he is.

**ajaxfetish** · 05-02-2011, 07:45

Well, I stopped expecting to hear this news years ago. I'm glad that the world's number one manhunt is finally over, and for the message it sends that we won't let up on something this important. Good work to Obama and US intelligence. I hope this will be a serious blow to AQ morale.

Ajax

**Dâriûsh** · 05-02-2011, 09:43

One head off the monstrous hydra he helped create.

Liquidation no less, no time for all that silly courtroom nonsense, witness testimonies, trial, etc.

I'd liked to have seen him explain why his ideology makes 12-year-olds strap on suicide bombs.

But anyway, now what? NATO can pull out of Afghanistan and save face. Cool. But what about the Afghans? Will the world allow the Taliban to return to power and oust that douchebag president/restaurant owner in Kabul? And what will Pakistan's excuse be? Don't tell me ISI didn't know OBL was living where he did.

Oh, and to whoever collects the reward on this one, thanks for the tip.

**Hax** · 05-02-2011, 09:50

@Banquo: Fair enough.

**Beirut** · 05-02-2011, 10:44

Goldstein is dead?

Hmmmmmm...

**Fisherking** · 05-02-2011, 10:56

I don’t know how anyone else feels about the news that they buried his body at sea, only a couple of hours after they said they killed him but to me it makes no sense.

It can not be a stupid error either.

I think I smell a rat.

**Ronin** · 05-02-2011, 11:03

Originally Posted by Fragony

Aparently his body was dumpen in the sea, DNA will be investigated. Que?

sniff sniff what's that smell

Originally Posted by Fisherking

I don’t know how anyone else feels about the news that they buried his body at sea, only a couple of hours after they said they killed him but to me it makes no sense.

It can not be a stupid error either.

I think I smell a rat.

there is no way for the US government to win on this discussion....if they buried him at sea people will claim it sounds fishy....
If Obama had Bin Laden's ass stuffed and posed on the oval office people would claim the body was a fake.

parading his body around would probably send the wrong message.....the man's importance was a symbolic one...and there is the whole martyrdom angle....

**Banquo's Ghost** · 05-02-2011, 11:07

Originally Posted by Fisherking

I don’t know how anyone else feels about the news that they buried his body at sea, only a couple of hours after they said they killed him but to me it makes no sense.

It can not be a stupid error either.

I think I smell a rat.

It strikes me as a perfectly intelligent thing to do.

Islam permits burial at sea and it has been done within 24 hours as required. It removes any possibility of shrines etc or the diplomatic problem of no-one (especially Saudi Arabia) wanting his body.

If you refer to the possibility that people will question his death, there are already enough photographs of the body available to convince the skeptic. DNA has been taken. And those who would concoct conspiracy theories will do so anyway - one awaits Mr Trump's interpretation of events with popcorn.

A good decision among many good decisions by the President and his advisors (if it proves true as reported).

**Ronin** · 05-02-2011, 11:00

a symbolic death of a symbolic figure....he was no more than a figurehead to inspire nutjobs...now the nutjobs will claim he's a martyr...the game goes on.

Step up the security for a few months I guess....a few retaliatory terrorist action attempts are to be expected.

P.S. - Donald Trump says he isn´t buying this and wants to see a verified death certificate!

P.S.S. - Any one like me who is a wrestling fan knows what might have pushed Osama over the edge last night...

**The Celtic Viking** · 05-02-2011, 10:54

Great news to start up your day with! America, **** YEAH!

@ACIN: Sorry, old chap, but your question is disingenuous. We did not hate Osama because "he celebrated death". We hated him because, amongst other reasons, he was a massmurdering terrorist. Of course its right for us to celebrate him being brought to justice with our bullets.

@The Mad Arab: Your attempt to invoke sympathy for a massmurdering fascist who wished to destroy everything that is culture and reinstate an old oppressive empire is telling.

**Fragony** · 05-02-2011, 11:05

Originally Posted by The Celtic Viking

@The Mad Arab: Your attempt to invoke sympathy for a massmurdering fascist who wished to destroy everything that is culture and reinstate an old oppressive empire is telling.

Awww common he didn't do that, dead people just don't make him happy, budhist thingie

@Ronin, show pics and dump him in an anonymous grave, presto, no problems

**Fisherking** · 05-02-2011, 11:12

It does make some sense to burry him at sea to deny him a martyrs grave site but to do it so quickly raises too many questions.

It makes me think that this is world class political grandstanding.

Did they kill him?

Was he already dead and this just a way to gain political points?

Is it all a lie?

Also this would have been known at the time of the first anouncment, why not tell us then?

**a completely inoffensive name** · 05-02-2011, 11:23

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**Viking** · 05-02-2011, 11:37

CHECK Osama bin Laden killed
CHECK Disastrous tsunami
CHECK Nuclear disaster
CHECK Revolution in Tunisia
CHECK Revolution in Egypt
CHECK Civil war to oust Gadaffi
CHECK Mass unrest in Syria
CHECK Yet another Western military intervention

It's been an eventful year thus far, alright. Looks like the world is going to end in 2012, after all?

So, he's gone - but whether it matters much, remains to be seen.

**TinCow** · 05-02-2011, 15:36

Some people simply deserve to die. I have no moral problems with celebrating the death of people like Bin Laden, Hitler, Pol Pot, etc. Point out the hypocrisies all you want, as they are certainly there, but it doesn't change the fact that in this specific case I believe this specific man deserved death.