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.
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.
Dead was definitely better.
LLS
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.
Levins idea really hit home with me...slowly dropped into a wood chipper!
And let eric, My People, holder f it all up.
This guy can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.
Heck no. Dump him at sea — fine with me. Let the sharks have him. A quick prayer, a bag, bye bye OBL.
Maybe he is alive. Perhaps they are just saying he is dead so he can be tortured like he so richly deserves. Then they dispose of the body as chunky treats for pigs to eat.
I’m sick of self defeating approaches.
Have no problem with killing Bin Laden, but it sounds like we could have captured him. I wish we did and kept it secret while we sweated him for information.
How many times has Obama been to NYC as POTUS? Has he ever been to the WTC site before tomorrow?
This is something I’ve been thinking about since yesterday. I remember we brought out Saddam Hussein alive. I wonder what the reaction would have been had he been shot on sight?
Regarding OBL, I’ve now heard four different versions of what transpired, that he was armed and putting up a fight, that he wasn’t armed, that the mission called for his capture and that the mission called for his death.
As Rush spoke of earlier, it’s interesting that there are very few Liberals, who normally would be appalled at our actions, complaining.
Nooooooo!! Dead and gone and hopefully soon forgotten.
We got his computer - no need to keep him alive as far as intelligence goes.
Since our goal is to either discourage or kill all terrorists, killing OBL is ultimately the right thing. Obviously, if the only chance to get him was by predator drone, we would have done so without wasting a second. By killing him we show the rest of the terrorists what their ultimate fate will be. Killing him will demoralize many of them. They don’t want to end up with a bullet smashing into their brainpan.