They got him.
Huck, I usually like your posts and comments but this real Debnbie Downer stuff. Why don’t you take a couple of weeks off and clear your head then come back. You are taking this FR thing way too seriously. There are more important things in life.
Start your own message board and only let in people that conform to your standards. Problem solved.
There’s just the reality factor. Knowing that someone who despises the US, even its military, is leveraging the event to do even more damage to the US, well, here at FR it tends to be said when the emperor has no clothes.
This was absolutely our military at its finest, but we also know that a hater of the US was in the situation room, and his only interest in the success is political and not the best interest of the US. Has this President ever attended a patriotic event and not been prune faced?
I sort of think the President only acted because a recent WikiLeaks forced his hand. I believe he was really hoping Osama would move on and he would not ever have to offend his Muslim brothers and engage in a confrontation.
Well said, although I don’t think it is an issue of younger Freepers, I believe it is the older ones (age not sign up date).
Well deserved and well said. There is a pettiness and a nastiness that has taken root here. It needed to be called out. If you wind up leaving FR because of what you said in this post, I will be right behind you.
There seems to be a knee-jerk reaction now to any and all events- the lack of thought, the lack of letting an opinion form rather than leading with it may be reflective of the speed with which we participate in the world these days.
I came here immediately when I saw the news on tv and was struck by the various reactions of my fellow freepers. There was a sense, that has only grown, that this is all a grand conspiracy and UBL has actually either a) been dead for years or b) is alive and being waterboarded at Gitmo as we speak. Suggesting that scenario would require willing participation by hundreds of GI’s and you’re met with scorn or avoidance.
I do not trust the president even a little bit. I have profound dislike for his policies and his world view. However, for one day I had to credit him with the guts it took to make this call - I don’t know why he did the right thing and I frankly don’t give a damn.
Instead- what I know is UBL is dead and it was an unpleasant death and the last thing he saw was the face of an American with a gun. Completion.
There was great celebration in my family and amongst our friends and for my son and his army buddies. He said “now my buddies can rest in peace”...
Undoubtedly there are some mysteries surrounding this event- and in time I hope we are able to learn the truth. But frankly- the bigger truth is that the evil wicked man responsible for the horror of 9/11 has met his maker!!
After 9/11, some people were terribly upset. Some of them couldn’t stand it that everyone in the world wasn’t as upset as they, themselves, were. It’s odd, really, that there should be a need for “my response to event X” to be validated by the rest of the world’s having the same response.
I disagree, FRiend.
FReepers were quite upbeat ... and praising the correct Heroes.
Are you suggesting that there is something wrong
with invoking "Trust but verify"? With this Administration?
Birther mentality? Which side are you on? They are PROOFERS.
The impostor has not provided unimpeachable evidence of HIS birth
or Osama's death.
By your recounting of your trail to yesterday, you should be even more offended by the behavour of Zero and his minions. ZERO DID NOT “get” OBL. It has taken hard and dangerous work by dedicated Americans for close to 10 years to finally get OBL. Your gratitude should be reserved for those people, and the lions share to the brave People of the CIA and NAVY SEAL TEAM 6 that went into the asylum of murderers to get OBL.
Funny I have yet to see anything that indicates FDR took credit for D-Day or the defeat of Germany (he died before the end of the War with Japan).
Maybe your right, your lack of ability to look at an issue indepth seems to support your unhappiness at FR.
Your knee-jerk reaction, ready to give BHO ALL the credit, is irrational and indicative of a failure to look at the real picture.
Yes, I agree with your assessment. I am very pleased the SOB is dead. However, I knew this administration and the LSM would elevate The Won even higher on the pedestal for political gains, when “O” and everybody in the current administration spent 8 years bit**ing, whining, pi**ing and moaning against just the type of operation by the SEALS (aka “Cheney’s Assassination Squad”) that was undertaken. Obama can take all the credit he wants...and shove it!
Regardless of the question of when Osama died, the current shenanigans have achieved one thing only:
Assured that America has exchanged one O*ama for a worse one.
Enjoy.
Thank you for the post Huck.
I thank our troops for dispatching this man and any others who threaten our country.
I wish I could find "joy" in his departure but I don't. I've tried to figure out the "whys" and part of it must be the amount of time that has passed (along with the sanitizing of the media of the images of 9-11).
The spectacle of Obama preening for this is so repulsive, that any expression of "happiness" about it is muted. I had to turn off the TV. Listening to everyone praise Obama was too disgusting.
This president will milk this as his platform, massage it for a ratings "bounce," and make photo-op rounds for personal enrichment.
That is the spectacle I see.
Don't blame FReepers. Blame the man in the White House.
Our lives really will not change with bin laden's death -- the terrorism he championed is still with us. The people he helped kill are still dead. It will be the generation that comes after us -- who are more removed by time from 9-11 to feel "good" about the U.S. military action (that we are so "fortunate" to see was watched -- WH official photos -- by the administration as it happened).
My energy will be used to get Obama voted out and someone who wants a strong U.S. and loves this country voted in.
Huck...you are just plain wrong. Obama in his speech said the word “I” twenty four times, and mentioned the brave troops who conducted the mission only three times.
Of course we are elated that bin Laden may be dead (I want proof)...but this would NEVER have happened had it not been for GITMO and Bush...yet, the self-absorbed power hungry destroyer of our land will take full credit and give no salute to those who made it possible....it was an ugly day because of Obama, not because of Free Republic.
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.
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.
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.