Bin Laden Dead

[Woodwerker]

May you rest in H_E_L_L

[Pappy]

I will pay for a pig to put in his grave beside him!

[dbhost]

I can contribute to that cause!

May his casket be lined with Bacon...

[radhak]

It's never too late, never too little. Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish.

I wonder what his face must have looked like when the special ops parachuted into his 'palatial' compound where he must have felt so safe : a YouTube moment if ever there was one.

At least we showed them that long, secret planning is not something they have the corner on : the ops seems to have been planned since last August, when they found out where he was.

One down, more to go.

[Pappy]

I wonder what his face must have looked like when the special ops parachuted into his 'palatial' compound where he must have felt so safe

Shocked, but better than it did shortly afterward.....

[TB Roye]

Hope the terrorist learned a lesson. Doesn't matter who our President is, you attack us, you will die even if it takes 10 years. We have the body so they will have no place to go and worship him. I also heard they ran out of virgins. Wonder how Mr. Kaddafi is feeling right now? He still owes us for Pan Am Flight 103. I am proud and glad it was our military who did the deed. I hope the families of the victims of his terrorism feel some closure and Justice has been served. Don't put pigs/hogs in the same class as Bin Laden, They have more class than that. Cremate him and bury his ashes in the NY City dump with the rest of the sewer plant sludge. Either that of just flush him.

Tom

[herb fellows]

That was Pan Am 103. My wife worked for Pan Am until they went under (largely as a result of that bombing) and was a grief counsellor for the families of the victims.

I hope all his virgins have vd!

[crybdr]

Good Riddance! It's all I can say - and it's probably enough.

[TB Roye]

Herb

Thanks for correcting me. I couldn't remember the flight number. Like they say Pay backs are a female dog. From what i have heard on TV, that was some special compound that was built especially for him. So much for the Pakistanis being our friends. Some one got paid to look the other way.

Tom

[BigguyZ]

I read that his body was burried at sea, and within 24 hours per muslim custom.

Kinda split on this. It's probably best to not defile his body, as that'd most likely create MORE hatred of the US. And with burying him at sea, there's no burial site that can become a attraction for future terrorists to visit. However, this also means that there will be people who deny the fact that he's dead. With no body and just pictures to show (not that the body was identifiable- apparently the shot to the head did some cosmetic damage to the bugger's face), maybe it'll be an Elvis-type thing and people will start to report Bin-Laden sightings.

Either way, there'll be more people to rise to the challenge. I don't see terrorism going away any time soon. Sadly enough.

[LarryG]

Either way, there'll be more people to rise to the challenge. I don't see terrorism going away any time soon. Sadly enough.

In terms of the big picture, I think you're exactly right. But there's got to be more than a few terrorists who are this morning thinking, "If they can get Bin Laden, they can get anybody." Perhaps that will move some of them to reexamine their career choices.

[dbhost]

In terms of the big picture, I think you're exactly right. But there's got to be more than a few terrorists who are this morning thinking, "If they can get Bin Laden, they can get anybody." Perhaps that will move some of them to reexamine their career choices.

I highly doubt it. Somehow they get the idea that they are doing the right thing... Just how intentionally killing innocent civilians is doing the right thing, I will never know...

[natausch]

Let me first start by saying I'm grateful for the SEAL teams that put themselves in harm’s way and conducted what appears to be a flawless operation, their Chain of Command that recognized that this had to be done with feet on the ground instead of a bombardment that would have been safer for us but not for the presumed innocent neighbors.

I also recognize that the security burden he would have represented if captured instead of killed would have been a nightmare; much more of a simple solution to end it then and there.

I’m even going to go out on a limb and surmise that the courier information was collected using harsh interrogation techniques. I still don’t believe this justifies the techniques used on everyone, especially innocent individuals; but the end result shouldn’t be used to measure the rightness our actions to this point in our War on Terrorism. Some of the things we have done have been necessary but not right and some have been dead wrong; expedient but dead wrong. I’m convinced the act of killing him was the right thing to do; but how we act in the next couple weeks may be horribly wrong.

Targeted assassinations have never sat well with me. They may be just and justified; but they are not justice. I'm not so naive to believe that we haven't in the past and won't in the future use this final solution tool. Problem – Solution. Even still; shouldn’t we as the Good Guys temper some of our excitement? If it saves lives in the future and provides closure to the past victims then it is the right thing to do; but celebrating the end results? Venting years of built up anger with talk of desecrating corpses? Think about how you felt after Fallujah, what they did to those men was wrong. We should hold ourselves to a higher standard.

[Woodwerker]

Let me first start by saying I'm grateful for the SEAL teams that put themselves in harm’s way and conducted what appears to be a flawless operation, their Chain of Command that recognized that this had to be done with feet on the ground instead of a bombardment that would have been safer for us but not for the presumed innocent neighbors.

I also recognize that the security burden he would have represented if captured instead of killed would have been a nightmare; much more of a simple solution to end it then and there.

I’m even going to go out on a limb and surmise that the courier information was collected using harsh interrogation techniques. I still don’t believe this justifies the techniques used on everyone, especially innocent individuals; but the end result shouldn’t be used to measure the rightness our actions to this point in our War on Terrorism. Some of the things we have done have been necessary but not right and some have been dead wrong; expedient but dead wrong. I’m convinced the act of killing him was the right thing to do; but how we act in the next couple weeks may be horribly wrong.

Targeted assassinations have never sat well with me. They may be just and justified; but they are not justice. I'm not so naive to believe that we haven't in the past and won't in the future use this final solution tool. Problem – Solution. Even still; shouldn’t we as the Good Guys temper some of our excitement? If it saves lives in the future and provides closure to the past victims then it is the right thing to do; but celebrating the end results? Venting years of built up anger with talk of desecrating corpses? Think about how you felt after Fallujah, what they did to those men was wrong. We should hold ourselves to a higher standard.

I completely disagree with just about everything you said. That said I respect your opinion.

[BigguyZ]

I agree that the security risk had he been captured would have been terrible. I can definitely see scenarios where terrorists would threaten or do bombings until the SOB is released.

I still kinda wish he was captured, but then released to another, preferably arab, country. They could try him and execute him, this removing the US's cuplibility in his death.