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Should we have brought Bin Laden out alive?
Flopping Aces ^ | 05-03-11 | Uncle Bill

Posted on 05/03/2011 2:06:43 PM PDT by Starman417

Apparently, the team going after OBL was instructed not to bring him out alive. I have already read several posts saying that it is a good thing OBL was killed, rather than captured alive. Donald Rumsfeld just said the same thing on the Greta Van Susteren show. The usual rationale is that it avoids the chaos and confusion that would necessarily have been the outcome of a trial.

I’m not so sure.

First, and possibly most important, consider the intelligence we might have gotten from him. The amount of crucial information he had must have been staggering. He was obviously not hiding away in a cave, as some of us suspected, so he was probably in close daily contact with whatever is left of the Al Qaida network. It’s not clear how much he would have talked, particularly under Obama’s interrogation rules, but interrogators have said in the past that sometimes arrogant prisoners will talk about anything, just to demonstrate how important they are. And, skilled interrogators have ways of getting information, even without waterboarding.

Also, don’t discount the symbolic benefit of having OBL in custody. OBL is now a martyr, even without a grave to visit. And he will be considered to have died a hero. If he had been captured, and pictured in chains, it would have been an enormous psychological blow to a society that puts great emphasis on symbolism.

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KEYWORDS: obama; obltermination; osama; terror
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To: napscoordinator
The SEALS did what they thought was immediate and did a great job.

Bingo ....nuff said.

21 posted on 05/03/2011 2:20:38 PM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: lurk

The Paks traded Osama for Afghanistan. They are throwing AlQaeda under the Bus. In exchange we get out and make a deal with the Taliban. They handed Osama to Obama on a platter. Look for a “deal” soon. We are drawing down in June. China wants the minerals in Afghanistan and is in on it. This whole thing is a set up. Does anyone really think the Paks were not aware of what was going on??


22 posted on 05/03/2011 2:20:54 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
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To: Starman417
[ Should we have brought Bin Laden out alive? ]

Not IF the real one is dead but they got a look alike...
The look alike would make them appear fools.. and tricked.

23 posted on 05/03/2011 2:22:07 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: Starman417
He was given a "brief opportunity to surrender," which he declined.

End of story.

24 posted on 05/03/2011 2:22:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Under Islam, there is no separation of church and state. The church IS the state.)
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To: Starman417

Al Jazeera reports that a White House official told them the mission was indeed to GET bin LAden out alive. And our Hussein would have LOVED it!! A nice show trial going all the way up to the election! Daily reminders that it was The One who presided over the capture!!! The hell with the increased danger for NY, DC and the rest of the nation!! Hussein wuld have been glorified even more than usual by the MSM!!


25 posted on 05/03/2011 2:23:44 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: Carley

I am actually amazed Obama wasn’t talked into Mirandizing and arresting him by Holder.


26 posted on 05/03/2011 2:23:50 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Starman417

Not just NO, but HELL NO!


27 posted on 05/03/2011 2:24:51 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Starman417


"Some people deserve killin'!"

-Marshall Matt Dillon in "Gunsmoke"
28 posted on 05/03/2011 2:25:25 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (One of these days, Alice....one of these days.....POW!! Right in the kisser!!!!)
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To: trumandogz
he should have been dropped in the ‘hog pit’, like in that Hannibal movie.
29 posted on 05/03/2011 2:25:48 PM PDT by redshawk (Hey 0pansy. I'm scratching my nose too; and not with my index finger!)
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To: Starman417

Ideally, we should have taken him alive, SAID we killed him, tortured every bit of information possible out of him, then disposed of his mangled corpse someplace lonely - like the Marianna’s Trench.

But I’ll settle for couple of bullets to his head and a haul of hard drives.


30 posted on 05/03/2011 2:26:08 PM PDT by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: Starman417

We don’t know, and the Deciever in Chief can’t make up his mind which lie he’s putting out is the most current, but if bin Laden had a weapon and pointed it at the SEALs, even if he did not discharge it, the point is moot. Were I in that SEAL’s position, I would have ventilated his brain bucket without even thinking about it. And apparently that is the very thing that happened.

I have been in that situation several times and we have a saying in the Infantry......”it’s either you or me, and it’s not going to be me, pal.....BANG”. Hesitation kills.


31 posted on 05/03/2011 2:27:19 PM PDT by NWFLConservative (Game On.......Fight Like a Girl!!...............Saracuda in 2012)
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To: Nervous Tick


Bravo! Well said!!!
32 posted on 05/03/2011 2:28:05 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (One of these days, Alice....one of these days.....POW!! Right in the kisser!!!!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
High Anxiety
33 posted on 05/03/2011 2:28:38 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (How is allowing an Army Doctor be prosecuted and sent to prison "good for the country"?)
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To: Starman417

As far as bin Laden goes, he was already dead for a long time in terms of his significance. It really didn’t matter all that much now that he’s dead, because the increasingly expensive gas and bad unemployment already matter more anyways to most of us. If there is a victory party for OBL’s death, I can’t afford to go, or care to go anyways.


34 posted on 05/03/2011 2:31:17 PM PDT by Morpheus2009 (I pity the fool - Mr. T)
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To: Starman417

Dead was definitely better.


35 posted on 05/03/2011 2:32:55 PM PDT by Ronin ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves" -- Bertrand de Jouve)
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To: Starman417
No... he needed killing and obama would have just ****ed it up more than he already has... plus we would pay for his medical and retirement funds.

LLS

36 posted on 05/03/2011 2:34:18 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH! FUbo!)
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To: Nervous Tick

They should have taken the body of that goat-loving POS to a pig farm and filmed him being eaten by starving hogs.


37 posted on 05/03/2011 2:36:07 PM PDT by WMarshal (Where is the next Sam Adams?)
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To: Nervous Tick

They should have taken the body of that goat-loving POS to a pig farm and filmed him being eaten by starving hogs.


38 posted on 05/03/2011 2:36:23 PM PDT by WMarshal (Where is the next Sam Adams?)
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To: Nervous Tick

They should have taken the body of that goat-loving POS to a pig farm and filmed him being eaten by starving hogs.


39 posted on 05/03/2011 2:37:48 PM PDT by WMarshal (Where is the next Sam Adams?)
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To: Starman417

He should be brought out alive. The public should be told he is dead. He should be held a mile underground and turned over to a team of uninhibited interrogators. Once there could be no more information gleened from him...kill him with impunity.


40 posted on 05/03/2011 2:43:01 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter ( ma)
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