Badmike wrote:News is reporting that Osama Bin Laden is DEAD....blown to pieces by ground forces. Good riddance, you piece of shit. Thumbs up to the military guys that are Acaeum members, whatever country you serve. Mike B.
JasonZavoda wrote:Hope they saved his head so they can hang it from the statue of liberty like a necklace.
Badmike wrote:Actually I was thinking of stuffing him and putting him in the WTC museum when it gets up and running. If they can preserve Lenin all this time....maybe our great great grandchildren will be lifting the middle finger to Osama's corpse someday!Mike B.
FormCritic wrote:I don't know why we're celebrating. We killed one guy. Tomorrow, Afghanistan will still be a nation of lunatics and we'll still be there.Granted, he had it coming. Granted, finally justice found him.I just don't feel all that much elation.
JasonZavoda wrote:Like Afghanistan isn't already a nation of lunatics?
A small team of Americans killed bin Laden in a firefight Sunday at a compound in Pakistan, the president said, and took custody of his remains. American officials said they were being handled in accordance with Islamic tradition.
FormCritic wrote:Still. Still a nation of lunatics.But my point was...While it's good that Bin Laden is dead, it isn't an accomplishment by itself. In my view, the celebration is premature.
Badmike wrote:Yeh, cause it's Islamic tradition to POP THEM IN THE HEAD WITH A BULLET AND DRAG THEIR BODY OUT OF A FIREFIGHT BY THEIR HEELS! I'm sure all the muslims out there will be happy at the "respect" we gave Osama's dead body.I swear, political correctness will be the doom of this country someday. I'd rather have heard they gave the body to feral dogs to tear at.Mike B.
benjoshua wrote:I suspect the government will try to orchestrate something similar with Bin Laden's body like the way they handled the Saddam Hussein situation. I mean, the US could have killed Hussein and perhaps gained some revenge or satisfaction from that, but what happened was ultimately so much better. Justice was ultimately administered by his own people. The way the US handled Hussein was to not make it an East vs West solution.I think an approach like this is taking on the long view that we are out to kill terrorism and Al Quaida, and pure retribution doesn't accomplish this as well. Oh, I don't know what they could do, maybe turn the body over to the Saudis, his home country, and let them desecrate the body? I'm not saying they'll do that, but there's probably some group, mosque, or country with Muslim ties that could do the dirty work.Personally, I am very excited about what's happening in Libya and Syria and what has already happened in Egypt and Tunisia. These countries and ideas are fighting with each other instead of us, and hopefully, they'll come around and become more democratic as opposed to a dictatorship based on power and guns leading to a nation of people who think power and guns are the solution to any differences.So, I am all for justice, but I am hoping they can use this in some way to further divide and conquer Al Quaida because FormCritic is right. This ain't over.
jasonw1239 wrote:Dumping at sea is just fine with that POS.You do not want to leave a physical site where his adoring worshipers can rally around.If there were any doubts about the identity the military would have hung on to the body until they had positive ID.It is nice that he was killed with the personal touch of a bullet instead of a missile.Time to bring the troops home. A continuing presence will not change the way that people think and act in that region. It just requires some observation and the occasional Tomahawk to keep things in order.
JasonZavoda wrote:Getting rid of the body was a very, very bad idea.
