Posted on 05/12/2011 10:41:54 AM PDT by MissesBush
Somehow I doubt any of us are likely to find ourselves on the government's sh-t list to such an extent that we're going to find Navy Seals knocking down our doors. None of us flew planes full of civilians into building full of the same---and our military heroes at the Pentagon.
But seriously, you're really crying about Bin Laden being killed, armed or unarmed, suicide vest or no suicide vest? Cry me a river. This POS got better than he deserved. I trust our SEALS to make this decision, even if it was just because they wanted to waste the bastard for revenge. But none of us were there to say we know what happened that made the SEALS decide to pull the trigger on this guy. We don't even know that he was found in his underwear. Those were taken later at Bagram. He may have been stripped down by then. But like I say, I'll trust our military heroes to make the proper decisions when they're the ones in harm's way, as opposed to those of us Monday morning quarterbacking from the safety of our own homes.
OBL certainly didn't seem to mind the suffering of the 10s of thousands he was responsible for murdering including 3,000 on 9-11. Trust me, OBL wouldn't feel the remotest pang of guilt over killing you and your family. Why are you wasting energy feeling any regret for justice being done and giving this bucket of pus what he claims to have wanted the most, martyrdom? It's not just the government that wanted this dirtbag dead. We all did. Well, apparently MOST of us did. This is justice done. Refocus your worries, concerns and guilt on a more worthy cause.
Look, none of us can stand Obama. I really wish this had happened on Bush's watch so he'd get the credit he deserves for digging up this SOB. But hey, I'm glad OBL had justice dispensed to him, regardless of the president it occured under. In the end I know the facts are that the intel. that lead to OBL were developed on Bush's watch and he gets most of the credit for finding Bin Laden. But let's not let our antipathy towards Obama blind us to the only good news this country has had in a long, long time and to see it as the positive development it is for this country's national security.
How harmless? Only if he had already been dead. Putting aside the counter-factual about what might have happened over Rabaul in some alternate universe, I'm gonna go with the notion that it was perfectly OK to go to Pakistan with the only plan of killing the SOB, whether he put up a fight or not, whether he was armed or not, whether he was bear-ass nekkid, or wearing his ratty old BDU's. He needed killin. Not a trial. Not a lawyer. A bullet to the brain, which is exactly what he got.
I do owe an apology to Isoroku Yamamoto who was by all accounts a brave and honorable warrior, a man we would have vastly preferred as an ally, rather than an enemy.
OBL, on the other hand was a cowardly, dirty, craven low-down POS who I, for one, will not cry a tear over.
“...Then we took pictures of the native women..they’re not developed yet,but we’re going back in a few years....”
I understand your position. On a gut level, I agree with your position.
But keep in mind that your position is that, under some circumstances, which have not been defined, our government has the authority to assassinate whomever it wants, wherever it wants.
By the estimates of even the liberal pollsters, 80% of the people in this country agreed with killing him. When somebody works that hard at getting that many people to want him dead, eventually one of them is going to do it. That's reality. OBL wasn't assasinated, he committed the international equivalent of "suicide by cop".
Like I said, I am one of those 80%. I’m surprised there are 20% on the other side.
But the notion that it is permissable for our government to kill certain people, wherever and whenever, for whatever reason, seems to be a strange thing to see advocated on FreeRepublic.
This is a bad case to be using as a basis for that discussion, because the decision to kill him was anything but arbitrary.
Well, as they say, “Tough cases make bad law”.
Dead, check this out. Watching OSL should be a piece of cake for you
You're tsalking apples and oranges.
There is no need to have a security clearance to see a dead Bin Laden.
Why should Senators be able to see something I cannot? I paid for that mission and so did you. And Bin Laden was the enemy of all of us.
And a Senator with a security clearance is a non sequitur. They are the biggest security leaks known to man.
Like it or not, Senators have clearance.
What does a picture of a dead Bin Laden require any clearance for?
Nothing.
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