Osama Bin Laden is Dead!!!

[infinite monkey]

He's deaD as...dEad.

--Lance

[plthijinx]

WASHINGTON - CIA Director Leon Panetta said Tuesday evening that he feels the Obama administration will ultimately release to the public the photographs of Osama bin Laden taken after the al-Qaida leader was killed by U.S. forces at his compound in Pakistan, but that "the White House makes that final decision."
"I mean, I think it will be," Panetta said when asked whether he thought the photos would eventually be released.

apparently the photo going around now is.....fake

oh, and love the drink beest!

[BigV]

Originally Posted by lookout123

It might be nice if he were to pop by someday and say "that is NOT what I meant!".

Originally Posted by Sheldonrs

I say the same thing regarding the Founding fathers and the 2nd amendment.

or Jesus.

Or Mohammed.

etc etc.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by plthijinx

oh, and love the drink beest!

I'll have a double. Tap.

[DanaC]

Me and J were talking about this today. Both of us reached the same conclusion: dancing in the streets and jubiliation seems off-colour, but both of us are of the opinion that if anybody deserved to die it was Osama Bin Laden. And for Americans in particular, this represented far more than the death of a man, it was the closure needed for a nation who'd been hit in a way they'd never been hit before.

I like that the decision was made to go for a ground assault rather than a missile. That was a clever move. Quite aside from the possibility that they might have been able to take the bastard alive, the death toll was incredibly low for such a high-stakes hit.

How different things might have looked if they'd gone for a missile strike and killed a dozen civilians in the process.

Hell of a brave decision though. One of those missions that could either go well and bring the praises of the whole world...or go badly and bring the relationship between the US and Pakistan to the brink.

I have to admit, much as I like Obama, this was way more decisive than I would have imagined him being.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by DanaC

How different things might have looked if they'd gone for a missile strike and killed a dozen civilians in the process.

Yeah, it would have looked like just another week in Pakistan.

[infinite monkey]

I have to admit, much as I like Obama, this was way more decisive than I would have imagined him being.

It's one of the few areas that he's been ABLE to be as decisive as he would like to be.

[DanaC]

Good point. Your legislative system seems designed to prevent actual decision making by the President :p

[infinite monkey]

[dmg1969]

Looks like Obama is NOT going to release the photos/video of OBL/UBL's body.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110504/...s/us_bin_laden

I could care either way. Although I'm a conservative Republican, I congratulate Obama for making the tough decision to go boots on the ground. And I'm certainly not one who won't believe he's dead just because I don't see a photo. Even those who doubt it can claim the photo is a fake anyway.

[Pete Zicato]

Newspaper this morning says bin Laden was unarmed.

[DanaC]

True dat. Even if they showed the photos, there'd be nutters queuing up to tell us they're faked.

[DanaC]

I was pleased by the speed with which the rumours of him using his wife as a human shield were dealt with.

We don't need to make up bullshit to show what a twat he was.

[TheMercenary]

I am against the release of said photo. It serves no purpose.

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

Newspaper this morning says bin Laden was unarmed.

It's very difficult to carry around 4 jumbo jets.