They got him.
Posted on 05/03/2011 4:46:53 AM PDT by Huck
Yesterday should have been a glorious day around here. There should have been fireworks and celebration. There should have been somber remembrances. There should have been patriotic tributes. There should have been shared joy at the news that our guys had finally gotten Bin Laden.
Instead, when I visited the site, what I found was a lot of carping. I found people focused more on the political spin than on the great news. I found people transferring their birther mentality onto this event, talking about Obama faking this news, photoshopping information, etc. It wasn't everybody, but it was a LOT of people. It made me sick.
Yesterday Free Republic seemed like DU. It makes me wonder what the hell is going on. Are Freepers getting younger? I always assume that DU is so pathetically immature because they must be younger. Free Republic has always been a place dominated by great class, and wit, and decency. Not this time. What I saw yesterday was a pathetic embarrassment and totally unworthy of this great forum.
As some of you may know, I was in lower Manhattan on 9-11. I was just across the street from the WTC when the first plane hit. I still remember the beautiful clear blue sky that day. I remember walking in between the towers just a minute or so before 8:46am, on my normal route to work. I remember my co-workers screaming in panic when they watched from an office window as the second plane hit the south tower. I remember women crying and screaming hysterically. I remember not being able to contact my wife to tell her I was OK. I remember people jumping to their deaths. I remember seeing the north tower go down with my own eyes, hearing it with my own ears. I remember fleeing Manhattan. I remember it was a Tuesday.
I remember returning to work the following Monday, riding the ferry passed the site, noxious smoke still billowing from the wreckage. I remember armed troops on the sidewalks. I remember wearing a breathing mask inside my building because the foul odor was seeping in through the ventilation system. I remember thinking we'd really gotten kicked in the teeth. They had killed innocent people, they had traumatized our women and children, and I really wanted revenge. I hung a picture on my wall of the American eagle sharpening his talons.
It has been a long time since that day. It's hard to believe how fast time flies. Then again, if you lost your loved one, I imagine time hasn't gone so fast. I love my wife so much, I can empathize with anyone who has lost the one they love. I can't imagine how that would be, and don't want to know, but I can cry for those people because I know what it is like to find your one true love.
I'm not an Obama fan. I hate socialism. But I am so happy that Bin Laden is killed, and that we have exacted some real revenge. It's about time. The politics don't even play into it for me. I still have the little flag, now tattered, that I flew on my car antenna after 9-11. I want to take it out of storage and put it on my car. I want to see American flags on cars like we saw back then. But it's not going to happen, and partially because the normally patriotic conservatives such as the ones here on Free Republic are instead focused on the politics and the fact that a socialist Democrat was president and will get some of the credit.
I guess you all would have been pissed on D-Day too. FDR was as big a socialist as anyone. I guess VE day and VJ day would have chapped your hides, since Truman was a DEM. I don't mean to paint with a broad brush. I know it wasn't every Freeper acting this way. But when I went on the board, that was the general impression, and it was really disappointing. It should have been a great day here. Instead, I saw a lack of patriotism and a lack of class. Free Republic should be better than this. If conservatives lose their patriotism and class, then what will happen to those virtues? I hope we can get them back soon. In the meantime, thanks for reading.
Respectfully,
Huck
A dead OBL is a very good thing. After more than 2 years in office for Obama, this is really the very first thing I can think of that I agreed with him on.
That being the case, after all he has done with the seeming intent to wreck this country, it is hard for me to imagine that Obama authorized this action for the well-being of the country. It makes me wonder what motivated his decision. Maybe we will learn that sooner rather than later.
They got him.
Here is what I am seeing over and over. I belong to several military groups on FB:
Let’s be clear on this: OBAMA did NOT kill Bin Laden. An American Troop, who Obama just a few weeks ago was debating on whether or not to PAY, did. Obama just happened to be the one in office when our Troops finally found UBL and took him out. This is NOT an Obama victory, but an AMERICAN victory!!
Opinions are not “supported”. Opinions are just what they are, “opinions”. They are just reflections on how a person views something. Fact is supported, although some choose to ignore fact.
Without opinions we are no better than mindless sheep.
It would be in OBL's interest to stay hidden and have people think he was dead. Then he could live in peace rather than die in pieces.
When someone does something out of character most people are left feeling uneasy and confused. Obama did something out of character and a lot of us are wondering “Why?” as well as “What’s in this for Obama?” Something doesn’t seem right and I for one am wondering “What’s next?” Everything seems to have gone smoothly, God Bless our Troops. Even convincing Obama to agree and authorize the operation appears to have gone smoothly. I think this was the biggest diversion he could make to keep the media from examining the constitutional aspect of his presidential eligibility.
You are absolutely correct.
Agree 100% Huck.
Right on!
I agree that people here weren’t as excited as they might have been had this operation been conducted by someone other than a vehemently anti-war president. I too was in NYC on 9/11 (in midtown) and my husband worked on Wall St. at the time. I remember how relieved I was when his call finally came through and I heard his voice. Three people we knew weren’t so lucky. I am still working in midtown and I have to tell you Huck, I am not seeing that sense of euphoria among the people that you would have expected. After 9/11 when President Bush went to war the country rallied around him. We might have been in and out of Iraq had the Congress and other nations supported us as they are apparently doing in Libya. Saddam actually used chemical WMD’s on thousands of his people and after the anthrax attacks there was no way of knowing that it didn’t come from him. Now because obama takes down osama, I have a hard time rallying around him. I find it hard to support and forgive the democrats in congress, Obama and the media for undermining President Bush’s war effort every step of the way. Their actions over the past decade have taken away from the victory that President George W. Bush tried to achieve in the face of extreme adversity.
Huck, you are absolutely correct. Your post echoes the thoughts of many.
Huck, this whole thing IS political. It’s to glorify the 2012 Communist/New World Order candidate for President, so he can finish destroying America.
Whether Bin Laden was killed two years ago in Afghanistan, killed Sunday in Pakistan or not killed at all is secondary. The primary thing is Obama prancing and strutting in his usual narcisistic manner, taking ALL the credit for what Bush and Cheney and Guantanamo and the Seals did.
You can’t trust a government that lies, Huck, and that’s our government in Washington
If it is true you are exactly right. The problem here is that Obama and company, with support from his media, are using this event as an election boost just as they did with Giffords.
Obama going to the WTC is just another stunt. His wife Michelle has never appeared at a 9/11 Memorial Service. She didn’t even show up in 2008. Instead she attended a small fundraiser northeast of Indy.
I agree. I came on here in the am and it was not bad. By the evening I could only read a few minutes of the stuff posted here and then went back to watching the ball game.
There is a reason I rarely post or lurk anymore.
Intelligent discourse on this site left long ago.
While I can sympothize with your feelings, I don’t completely agree with them.
Are there too many conspiracy peeps around, probably, but is it understandable, yes.
I don’t even blame obama for it, although he sure hasn’t helped. I blame both sides, because the dems and the gop are SO busy spinning every single thing in their favor that it makes it almost impossible for normal people to know what the truth is.
I think osama was killed just as was reported, but if I found out later than he had died of natural causes months or years ago, and this was all a scam, I wouldn’t be surprised much at all.
The trust level of our govt. is zero with me, and they have earned it. I don’t blame anyone for having any “conspiratorial” views, if they are honest thoughts from a calm head. I happen to not believe the latest obama BC, but I don’t see the truth coming out till long after he leaves office.
I guess the only thing that happened yesterday that got under my skin was obamas speech. It was as classless as it could be. He barely mentioned the troops at all, and never mentioned Bush at all, if I’m not mistaken. UBL would still be alive if not for Bush, and osama should have thanked him for his effots. I guess obama just can’t help but be obama.
Gotta love the SEALS!!!! :-D
I agree. I am proud of ALL involved in killing Bin Laden and I am proud to be an AMERICAN. I will leave it at that.
I don’t think he would be able to resist a “in your face Obama” moment if he were alive.
I think people are rightly cynical about many of these matters -- for reasons that can be attributed to this current administration as well as the last one. It's hard for me to imagine why people would get all excited about the demise of Osama bin Laden nearly ten years after 9/11 . . . and almost seven years after the 9/11 Commission was officially closed . . . the same 9/11 Commission whose members included people who bore much of the responsibility for 9/11 (Jamie Gorelick, for example) . . . after "Islam is a religion of peace" and all that lame sh!t . . . after 3,000+ American lives and hundreds of billions of dollars were p!ssed away on a nation-building campaign in Iraq that resulted in the establishment of a "government" in which Islam is enshrined as the official state religion . . . etc., etc.
Oh, did someone mention that Osama bin Laden was hunted down and killed like a rabid animal the other day? Well, that sure changes things . . . let me get my fireworks and my American flag out and celebrate!
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