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DATE: April 30, 2011

LOCATION: Unknown (Afghanistan)

SEAL TEAM LEADER: Are we all here? Good. Door closed? Okay. Listen, how long have we been training for this? Some of you guys have been with me for ten years now. Tonight is the real thing. We are going in to get Osama Bin Laden. We have known where he is for the last nine months or so. The orders came down from above, that we are going tonight and our explicit instructions are to take him alive. You all understand that, right?

SEALS: Yes sir.

SEAL TEAM LEADER: I am not going to ask anyone if they are not willing to do what I am going to ask, because I know you all will. We have trained together, slept together, eaten together, froze together, suffered together and on a few occasions, have almost got killed together. We know each other well enough. That is why I am not asking, I already know you are on board for what I am going to ask of you.

We are not bringing that son of a bitch back alive.

I don’t care who issued what order. We aren’t going to do it. These people who judge us from the other side of the ocean have never slept in the open at ten thousand feet with only a poncho while keeping one eye open for some damned Afghan tribesman who wants to make his bones by sneaking up on us and firing a RPG into our ass.

I am not going to bring him back, because that would be the worst thing in the world for our country with the current bunch of clowns in charge. Those dimwits want to give this bloodstained beast the same rights that our fathers, our mothers, our wives and our children are afforded, the US citizen’s right to a trial by jury. They want to extend those sacred rights to HIM. They view what he did as a criminal offense. Same as swiping a car or stealing someone’s stereo. It WASN’T a crime.

It was a barbaric act of war.

But these numb-nuts in Washington want to give him a trial. They want to give him some sleazy-assed lawyers, lawyers who HATE our country and would like nothing more than to see this self-confessed butcherer go scot free. They WANT to give him a platform to talk about how evil and depraved our country is, and how we deserved what we got on 9/11, how we have stolen from other people, oppressed them and killed them indiscriminately with our “war machine”. They will drag this process on as long as they can, forcing us to spend tens or hundreds of millions of dollars we don’t have, while dragging out military and intelligence services through the mud. They will have hearings, and people in the field will be exposed. Our military will be weakened, defunded and corroded from within the whole time. And it will be those people giving us these orders, those same people will be the ones doing it to us.

If we have Bin Laden in a jail, it will be open season on America. Every scumbag named Mohammed who has a hard on for Obama and his buddies is going to gather hostages, set off bombs and kill innocent people to force us to release him.

I am not going along with it, any of it. It is going to stop with me.

I have exposed my neck to all of you. If you want to get up and walk out to tell someone higher up the food chain, I won’t stop you. But I don’t think any one of you will do that. I am not going to put cuffs on that wretched excuse for a human being. He is not going to get a clean room, three halal squares, a Koran and a Mecca facing prayer mat for for the rest of his days.

I haven’t forgotten how I felt on 9/11.

I haven’t forgotten how I felt as I saw those innocent Americans clinging to the side of the World Trade Center as the smoke billowed past them.

I haven’t forgotten the horror of seeing them decide that the long fall to the ground was preferable to staying where they were.

I haven’t forgotten the stricken, anguished cries of the people around me as the buildings crumbled.

I haven’t forgotten the policemen and the firefighters who died in the stairwells of those buildings shepherding people to safety as the buildings came apart around them.

I haven’t forgotten the people on those planes who knew their lives were over, and tried to call their loved ones.

I haven’t forgotten those brave men on Flight 93 who fought to the end, in the most elemental hand to hand, tooth to flesh combat any of us will ever see, the plane bucking and plummeting to the ground as their lives ran out.

I haven’t forgotten the broadcast of the people in the Arab world dancing in the streets, handing out candy and shouting out their love, admiration and support of Osama Bin Laden. I haven’t forgotten. Any of it. And I will be damned if will give them a martyr to mourn, and a living cause to rally around. If I spot him, he is getting two in the eye, and one in the chest where most humans have a heart. If any of you encounter him before I do, I fully expect any of you to do the same.