Posted on 05/03/2011 4:46:53 AM PDT by Huck
Amen
Hey! Let's not disparage old hippies! There are hundreds of us on FR.
Very good point!!!!!!!!!!! (a hundred more !!)
Wow. Your post deserves its own thread. Thank you for your service, and thank you for speaking up.
That, in a nutshell, nails it. And too many Freepers are all too willing to be manipulated.
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:) We think alike and what amazes me is that some on here think that if OBL doesn’t come out and make a video tape to show Odumbo lied that means he is dead.
How ludicrous is that? If you have been hunted for years and had to spend your life hiding, and someone announced to the world that you have been killed and that you now sleep with the fishes, would the first thing you did be to announce that you weren’t dead so they would continue to hunt you down? Logic always rules.
One of the issues I have, and this is personal, that I did not in any way feel joyous.
I can’t.
I take satisfaction that OBL is dead, but this whole business, from beginning to end, is not something I can bring myself to whoop at. It just isn’t me.
This is grim. Not to say I haven’t found certain grains of humor during this time, but when I found out, all I could muster was: “Good. That’s done.” Was it a “Good thing”? Without any doubt whatsoever. Would I have felt like singing if I were in a crowd? I doubt it.
I have thought a lot about this over the last few days. As a Christian, I struggle with the concept of forgiveness. Many times over the last decade, I have thought to myself: “If presented with the situation, could I forgive someone like Bin Laden for what he has done? Could I do that?”
The obvious answer (to me, at least) is, that forgiveness is not mine to give. But even putting that aside, lest anyone think I have gone soft, I don’t think that it is impossible to forgive someone, but fully expect they bear responsibility and pay in full for their actions, up to and including the forfeit of their life. I am a unshakable supporter of the Death Penalty.
But I know the Bin Laden is now facing his maker, and it isn’t the one that dangles the 72 virgins in front of him.
And that fills me with a grim satisfaction.
I did not comment on this event yesterday because I did not know what to say.
I was so proud of our seals and so thankful none of them were killed. I was so disgusted with Obama and media taking credit when I expect the CIC to be classy and honorable and give credit to the soldiers who actually risk their lives to carry out our dirty work.
I have to hesitate to say what I just said because I wanted to say the soldiers “who protect our freedom.” I can’t say they “protect our freedom” anymore because we have lost so much freedom and even while they are sacrificing their lives. Petraous thinks he is in a country under Shira - denouncing free speech and blaming politically incorrect speech for the state of the never ending murderous snit of the Muslim “street.” There is a reason we are at war with Islam and it’s not free speech.
I am thankful to our soldiers and worry about them because our military and civilian leadership have become politically correct to the point where playing around with Muslim sensibilities has over-ridden protecting the lives of our soldiers, our lives in the country and our constitution. I will never get over the brass letting that known jihadist counselor Hason mentally torment and then murder our soldiers at Fort Hood. I wonder how many they are killing with the same betrayal on the battle field that we don’t know about while no one is watching and reporting. I know the rate of the body count is rising. It reminds me of what my brother told me about Viet Nam.
I wanted to feel and express pride in our country yesterday but I could not. So I did not say anything.
I am guilty of the FR/DU comparison as well. I haven’t looked at that site in years. Thanks for taking the bullet for me. I’ll stop the comparison talk.
Hey, I love old hippies who wised up. There ain’t any of those on DU!
Outstanding post. Many here should listen carefully to what you say.
when it was the SEALS who killed UBL under GWB’s policies that The Won ran against!!Furthermore, Peter King says the *water-boarding* is the reason we got the information in 2007 which led to UBL’s location!
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AMEN!!
The supposition that Osama's death might not be real, due to the fact that Obama is the one giving you the news. It's totally stupid arrogant and wrong for the Obama administration to not real dead Obama photos yet, but doubting this event is not 'healthy skepticism' it's nutty. And PS, Obama is eligible. That's a dead end.
I noticed a few things missing form your post.
You didnt mention that Obama gave himself 99 percent of the credit, the military 1 percent, and Bush none. You evidently want us to be blind to this childish, narcissistic marxists co-opting of the raid, and act as if he didnt slight the very men who risked their lives to make it happen.
No mention of the degree to which Obama opposed every resource that made Osamas demise possible. No mention of the hateful degree to which Obama would have undermined our national security with his Post-American vision, if wed taken his advice (during the Bush years) on Gitmo, enhanced interrogation, etc.
No mention of the fact that Obama has spent the last three+ years demonizing Bush and blaming him for EVERYTHING, and yet couldnt muster the modicum of human decency to thank Bush for his role in this major success.
You want us to forget just weeks ago, when Obama used the SEALS as bargaining chips in the budget battle, and promised to withhold their pay if he didnt get everything his way.
You want us to pretend Obama isnt rabidly anti-military, and you dont want us to see the Planet Jupiter sized hypocrisy in undercutting the military at every turn, and then crowing like the king of the world as if THEIR bravery, skill and success was his and his alone.
No mention of the toxic poison Obama has been injecting into the national dialogue since even prior to the election, when he treats conservatives as less than second class citizens, and mocks us, lies about us and revels in governing against us. In your rose-colored world, all that viciousness just disappears, so we can applaud the man [its his idea, after all, that this is HIS victory, not the SEALS] who disdains us.
No mention of the fact that Obama has given more than half the constituency the middle finger since the election. A president should be for the whole country, but this one gloats in using his power to punish conservatives. But in your unicorns and skittles world, we should ignore the fact that hes elbowing the SEALS out of the way, so he can politicize and capitalize on their victory.
I could go on, but you get the picture. Youve got a steaming truckful of blame for FReeper, but not a teaspoonful for the man who has purposefully divided the country to a nearly unprecedented degree, and who seeks to benefit politically not only from this military operation but from the very deep schisms he has worked so hard to create.
Iow, you couldnt spare even one sentence to place even one percent of the blame at Obamas door. No, its all FRs fault.
Screw that.
I love you too! Some great comments on this thread. And he also ramrodded fags into the military and messed up the ROE getting OUR GUYS KILLED!
That was an excellent post. Excellent! :)
There are some GREAT comments on this thread. NFHale - a couple headlines today said NO BUMP in the polls for the Zero! I don’t think this will help him at all. :-)
Monica Crowley said on the radio Sunday, paraphrasing, "The brouhaha about the BC and skepticism of Obama in general is that he comes across as not anti-American, but un-American." So people doubt, . . a Trust but Verify Reagan attitude. It's a shame, but everything is suspect from this CIC because of his background and how he comes across.
That's funny, I read right over that without blinking an eye. It's so confusing Osama Obama Obama Osama.
You're sure it wasn't a Freudian slip?
I’ve read that “Obama” is the name “Osama” in Swahili or whatever the language is in Kenya, probably a number of tribal dialects.
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