[ThinkDifferent]

It's actually better than I expected. It could easily have ended with ten times as many hostages dead.

[listenhillary]

The U.S. would be howling if it happened here and 67 dead.

[Neets]

It's actually better than I expected. It could easily have ended with ten times as many hostages dead.

Hence, your screen name!!!! ;-)

But yes, you are right of course.

[riley1992]

It's actually better than I expected.

I agree. I had fears of it being much, much worse when it ended.

[Aquinasfan]

It's actually better than I expected. It could easily have ended with ten times as many hostages dead.

It's nothing short of miraculous. Thank God. I can't figure out how a gas could be delivered so quickly, especially without killing a lot of people.

Now that the word is out though, terrorists will be carrying gas masks the next time around.

[Hila]

So grateful for the the minimal loss of life; indeed, everyone had feared many more innocent lives cut off. May the free governments always combat terrorists in a swift and powerful manner like the Russians did this time.

[RightWhale]

It could easily have ended with ten times as many hostages dead.

ABC Radio news, or whichever news service it was this morning said the big bomb in the middle of the theater was not detonated, and had it been, everyone would have been killed.