Bin Laden dead

Just yesterday I was day dreaming about what it would be like to be a sniper who tagged Bin Laden in the cragy mountains of the border region. How one would track his pathways, etc. Then bam, waxed by seals in a helicopter raid.

**** you, pay me.

Good for us.

I watched about 20 minutes of Fox News this morning (4 am or so) and they went 20 minutes without saying Obama's name or running it in text (they did show a billboard with 'Obama' and 'Osama' stacked and punctuated by a 1-0, or something). They showed footage of Bush at least three times and mentioned him in every segment. All the news that's fit!

Burying him at se according to Islamic principles (including w/in the first 24 hours) is a good show (I suspect that he got whacked a day or so ago with a lag for DNA ID and then some cosmetic misdirection so that we can claim to have treated the body correctly according to Islamic tenets). No physical rallying point for his adherents, no trial, and no claims that we are attacking Islam rather than radicals. He is as isolated in death as he could possibly be. Smart.

This is a big political windfall for Obama, and he deserves it for pursuing Pakistan and the 'right war' rhetoric that was part of his campaign platform. But the big test will be how the Arab street responds. If the clamor for democratization continues, and if protests against the US and the killing of Bin Laden are scattered and contained, it is a notable step toward vindication of whatever is going on in the ME that might be considered the Obama Doctrine, including his ongoing and varied overtures to Islamic culturalists.

I don't know how effective Bin Laden was in leading AQ, or even parts of it. AQ has reformulated over the intervening decade so, as everyone knows, still work to do.

Momentous day, though, and one which should have caught the attention of Quaddafi, if he wasn't paying attention already.
 
You can be a bit skeptical, but how about being a bit patriotic. Some of you are really showing your asses this past week.
 
Good news!

Way to go USN Seal Team 6
I hope this aids in dismantling Al Q and its ability to cause terror and death.
Get our troopsout of Afghanistan now.Bring them home

Have any Pics of OBL dead been released?One would make a nice bullseye
 
I am ecstatic- this is awesome news. It's nice to be happy and celebrate something for once.

Let's hope the people in DC and here on the board can view this for what it is rather than getting their politics in the way.
 
It's like the Berlin Wall. The actual event is the result of work by different administrations of both parties over long years of time, it didn't just happen in one day. Obama can be proud, but so can former President Bush-this is a non-partisan victory for America.
I think it would have been difficult to take Bin Laden alive, and attempt a trial in the United States, or at Guantanamo. Even bringing his body here would have been problematic, although disposing of it right away brings out the crazies, as we can already see on this thread. But they would make the same claims regardless of any facts or evidence, so I suppose that shouldn't be a consideration.
 
I was thrilled to hear the news but after seeing all the commotion and applause in New York, I can't help but think that at least 50% of New York residents are against the death penalty yet seem to justify this death. While personally I agree with capital punishment, what makes it "right" for this douche bag but wrong for another murderer?

Regardless, great day for the Seals, all military personnel, and all the families of 911 victims.
 
Even bringing his body here would have been problematic, although disposing of it right away brings out the crazies, as we can already see on this thread.
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it's not the people on this thread that will believe this, it will be the people in the middle east. osama will live elvis like status in the middle east. this is evident from the interviews i have already seen and read of people over there. they do not like us over there, never have, never will. they consider any news coming from us as lies and propoganda. its why obama's silly notions of not trying to offend muslims will always fall on deaf ears. its not going to change anyone's mind. we should have piled all the dead in the compound with osama on top and dropped pigs blood on them and sent the video to al jazeera.
 
I was referring to the ME....do we bring the troops home now?

I think it would be good for BO to address the nation this week or early next with what our goals are in the ME (without giving away our secrets of course). We cannot afford to be there, so what is our end game there?
 
general, they will say America is lying and the UBL is still alive. f them and they will always say that regardless.
 
this would be a great time for obama to claim victory in afghanistan and bug out. keep a base there which we will do anyway despite what anyone says and pay a few nomads off to keep giving intelligence reports and send drones out to destroy any suspected terrorist bases.
 
This is good news - but at the same time, I do wonder how much this will really change things. It's justice, and that's always something to be celebrated, but at the same time, the reality is that this probably isn't going to change much in terms of terrorist activity.

If anything, I would expect Al Qaeda to try something big to show that they're still relevant. Still, as has been mentioned, this is a non-partisan victory, and everyone involved should be pleased that they got their guy.
 
This is a great day for the USA and props to Obama for having the balls to order the operation.

However, after learning that the key intelligence was gleaned from Gitmo detainee's (one of the courier's nicknames) back around 2005, I think it is highly likely that intel came from a waterboarding session or was the result of fear of further waterboarding sessions. If that is the case, can we expect the same outcry from all the libs, or does that only apply when Bush is in office?

Just wondering.

For the record, I'm glad we waterboarded the guys we did, and if this intel came as a result of waterboarding, then obviously Obama had no problem using it and frankly I'm glad he did.
 
A bi-partisan victory for all Americans indeed, but this is clearly the best thing that could happen to Obama's re-election campaign. I would think that the odds of him being President for another four years just increased significantly.
 
I would imagine we have plenty of video and pics of this and Bin Laden's dead corpse. Likely released in due time but no matter which way stuff is released some will always claim hoax, forgery, etc.

We could have even stuffed and mounted the guy and people would be coming out on both sides of the Atlantic claiming falsification.
 
American's have short memories. The best thing that can happen to a re-election campaign is $3 or less gas, unemployment significantly under 8% and the dollar better than 1.5 to 1 from the Euro. You can only ride the OBL pony so far and it's early 2011.
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All very true, but this is a feather in Obama's cap that can't be taken away from him.
 
Ask Bush 41 about those feathers.

Of course if Ross Perot had not entered the fray, Bush 41 is likely reelected.
 
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