Bin Laden Dead

[citdog]

This will be long forgotten by the time election season rolls around and we're still buried in 9% unemployment, depressed housing prices, a stagnant economy and mountains of national debt.

Almost exactly like the HW Bush's SOTU after Gulf War I ended - on top of the world, then the economy cratered, then Clinton won...

[Wedgebuster]

89er, your stuff is as canned as it gets. Fox news stuff all the way, and at least AZ just whines and posts his drivel for fun. You seem to take yourself pretty seriously.

Apparently you are suggesting I am somebody's parrot?

You and Jelly and hound and TTBF are FAR from independent thinkers. You're carbon copies of each other.

Lumping posters you can't agree with huh?

You need to get back on the midol and get back in bed hen, this has not been your week.

That is one dumb motherfucking statement you posted there. If you really believe I look to anybody anywhere to put ideas in my head then you just must suck a wet fart out of my asshole ASAP.

[89Hen]

Lumping posters you can't agree with huh?

You're right, that would be a bad thing to do.

Just because the conks say the economy has tanked under the Obama administration over and over again does not make it true or rewrite history, at least amongst us independent thinkers.

[Baldy]

89er, your stuff is as canned as it gets. Fox news stuff all the way, and at least AZ just whines and posts his drivel for fun. You seem to take yourself pretty seriously.

Apparently you are suggesting I am somebody's parrot?

Ummm, just take a look at your avatar.

[BDKJMU]

"Osama bin Laden was not armed when a U.S. Navy SEAL shot and killed him during the early Monday raid in Pakistan, a White House spokesman said today, contrary to previous accounts provided by Obama administration officials.

"He was not armed," spokesman Jay Carney said today while reading a revised narrative that corrects other errors from previous readouts of the operation that took the life of the world's most wanted terrorist.

The new account changes the initial claim, later withdrawn, that bin Laden had used a woman believed to be his wife as a "human shield" when confronted by U.S. forces.

The updated version says "a woman -- bin Laden's wife -- rushed the U.S. assaulter and was shot in the leg but not killed."

"Bin Laden was then shot and killed," the narrative adds at that point. "He was not armed."

At a White House briefing yesterday, counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan said that bin Laden "engaged in a firefight with those that entered the area of the house he was in. And whether or not he got off any rounds, I quite frankly don't know."

Brennan also said bin Laden was "hiding behind women who were put in front of him as a shield."

Today, Carney said bin Laden "resisted" during the raid, adding that such resistance does not require a firearm......"
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So you think the Seals had orders to not bring this scumbag back alive? Not that I have any problems with that- it wouldn't have been good to capture him and then have the prospect of spending hundreds of millions of dollars in maybe the biggest show trials the world has ever seen. A bullet to the head is a lot cheaper.

[Wedgebuster]

89er, your stuff is as canned as it gets. Fox news stuff all the way, and at least AZ just whines and posts his drivel for fun. You seem to take yourself pretty seriously.

Apparently you are suggesting I am somebody's parrot?

Ummm, just take a look at your avatar.

Yours is especially descriptive.

[Baldy]

Ummm, just take a look at your avatar.

Yours is especially descriptive.

...and that matters how?

[89Hen]

So you think the Seals had orders to not bring this scumbag back alive? Not that I have any problems with that- it wouldn't have been good to capture him and then have the prospect of spending hundreds of millions of dollars in maybe the biggest show trials the world has ever seen. A bullet to the head is a lot cheaper.

I'm not sure anyone has said this was a capture mission. I read somewhere it was a kill mission. I don't have a problem either way.

[EWURanger]

Delta Force = failed Iranian hostage resuce
SEAL Team 6 = successful Bin Laden assasination with ZERO casualties

Yeah....they're just like each other.

Now Z, you and I both know it wasn't that clear cut. Eagle Claw was one of the most, if not the most, complicated rescue missions ever attempted. The failure was partially to blame with leadership in DC and mostly to blame with whatever commander fed them the line that it could work.

Talk about a cluster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw

Delta Force had little to do with the failure. Truth be told, as much as it pains me to say it, the final failure point was a Marine Corps rotary pilot. He was put in an impossible situation.

This.

[AZGrizFan]

Global warming has become irrelevant. We won't have to worry about it since we won't be around as a country if we keep going down the path we're headed down since Mr. Blank Check took office.

Where do you suppose we would be right now if Mr. McCain and Mrs. Palin were heading us down their road there Z, honest answer.......

Hard to say...our projected national debt wouldn't be 1/2 what it is now...we wouldn't be saddled with Obamacare....

[Wedgebuster]

And the country celebrated-


Yes, even Rush Limbaugh praised Obama-


But where was our own Baldy and 89hen at the apex of our nations hour of victory??

[89Hen]

But where was our own Baldy and 89hen at the apex of our nations hour of victory??

And now you've become a 93 parrot.

[Wedgebuster]

But where was our own Baldy and 89hen at the apex of our nations hour of victory??

And now you've become a 93 parrot.

89er-

[89Hen]

89er-

Shit, now you're a broken record parrot. Using the same joke in two threads?

[Wedgebuster]

89er-

[89Hen]

Wedgie

[houndawg]

"Osama bin Laden was not armed when a U.S. Navy SEAL shot and killed him during the early Monday raid in Pakistan, a White House spokesman said today, contrary to previous accounts provided by Obama administration officials.

"He was not armed," spokesman Jay Carney said today while reading a revised narrative that corrects other errors from previous readouts of the operation that took the life of the world's most wanted terrorist.

The new account changes the initial claim, later withdrawn, that bin Laden had used a woman believed to be his wife as a "human shield" when confronted by U.S. forces.

The updated version says "a woman -- bin Laden's wife -- rushed the U.S. assaulter and was shot in the leg but not killed."

"Bin Laden was then shot and killed," the narrative adds at that point. "He was not armed."

At a White House briefing yesterday, counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan said that bin Laden "engaged in a firefight with those that entered the area of the house he was in. And whether or not he got off any rounds, I quite frankly don't know."

Brennan also said bin Laden was "hiding behind women who were put in front of him as a shield."

Today, Carney said bin Laden "resisted" during the raid, adding that such resistance does not require a firearm......"
http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... ot-armed/1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

So you think the Seals had orders to not bring this scumbag back alive? Not that I have any problems with that- it wouldn't have been good to capture him and then have the prospect of spending hundreds of millions of dollars in maybe the biggest show trials the world has ever seen. A bullet to the head is a lot cheaper.

Who cares? Obama got him and that's what counts. Now it's time to declare victory and gtfo.

All praise to mighty Obama, the compassionate, the merciful. Does in two years what Bush couldn't do in eight.

[89Hen]

All praise to mighty Obama, the compassionate, the merciful.

I wish I thought you were being funny.

[houndawg]

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Waaaaahhhhh! It wasn't Obama that got bin Laden! It was waterboarding!

[AZGrizFan]

All praise to mighty Obama, the compassionate, the merciful. Does in two years, with an entire antiterrorism and interrogation methodology established by Bush, what Bush was flamesprayed for doing and now Obama gets sucked off for.

[Bronco]

Now the story is Osama reached for a gun when they entered the room.

Helicopters landing on the compound...gun fire downstairs and he only reaches for a gun when they come in the bedroom?

It will be nice when they finally settle on a story


I wake up when a pine cone falls on my deck.

[blueballs]

The SEALs (heroes by any definition) did the right thing in killing bin Laden. The last thing we need is to see video of some hooded terrorist holding an American hostage's head with a knife at his throat demanding bin Laden's release.

As for President Obama, good on him. The operation was a success by almost any imaginable standard and he is the COC. He supervised the mission, gave the orders, and deserves all the credit in the world for this as does every person who had a hand in the search and destroy mission going back to October 2001. Heroes all and great Americans.

President Obama's political fortunes insofar as his re-election bid won't be determined by this great victory. It will be determined by independent voters on the second Tuesday in November 2012 who will likely vote with their pocketbooks, and there is a LOT of water to go under the bridge between now and then. I don't even care about that in the context of what happened Sunday night, that was a wonderful thing for us all.

I have been saddened to see partisan political bickering between members of this board in a time when we should all be celebrating and honoring the heroes who made the mission a success. Damn it guys we are Americans first and foremost, not democrats and republicans. We aren't each other's enemy, al Qaeda and radical Islam is ALL our enemy.

For once can we be big enough and show enough character to put our mutual goals first? To lift up those who we rely on and trust with our safety? Or are we such a petty, selfish, and small minded nation that we seek fault and cheap political points in what are our greatest victories as Americans?

[AZGrizFan]

The SEALs (heroes by any definition) did the right thing in killing bin Laden. The last thing we need is to see video of some hooded terrorist holding an American hostage's head with a knife at his throat demanding bin Laden's release.

As for President Obama, good on him. The operation was a success by almost any imaginable standard and he is the COC. He supervised the mission, gave the orders, and deserves all the credit in the world for this as does every person who had a hand in the search and destroy mission going back to October 2001. Heroes all and great Americans.

President Obama's political fortunes insofar as his re-election bid won't be determined by this great victory. It will be determined by independent voters on the second Tuesday in November 2012 who will likely vote with their pocketbooks, and there is a LOT of water to go under the bridge between now and then. I don't even care about that in the context of what happened Sunday night, that was a wonderful thing for us all.

I have been saddened to see partisan political bickering between members of this board in a time when we should all be celebrating and honoring the heroes who made the mission a success. Damn it guys we are Americans first and foremost, not democrats and republicans. We aren't each other's enemy, al Qaeda and radical Islam is ALL our enemy.

For once can we be big enough and show enough character to put our mutual goals first? To lift up those who we rely on and trust with our safety? Or are we such a petty, selfish, and small minded nation that we seek fault and cheap political points in what are our greatest victories as Americans?

It'd be nice, but don't hold your breath, blueballs.

[93henfan]

The SEALs (heroes by any definition) did the right thing in killing bin Laden. The last thing we need is to see video of some hooded terrorist holding an American hostage's head with a knife at his throat demanding bin Laden's release.

As for President Obama, good on him. The operation was a success by almost any imaginable standard and he is the COC. He supervised the mission, gave the orders, and deserves all the credit in the world for this as does every person who had a hand in the search and destroy mission going back to October 2001. Heroes all and great Americans.

President Obama's political fortunes insofar as his re-election bid won't be determined by this great victory. It will be determined by independent voters on the second Tuesday in November 2012 who will likely vote with their pocketbooks, and there is a LOT of water to go under the bridge between now and then. I don't even care about that in the context of what happened Sunday night, that was a wonderful thing for us all.

I have been saddened to see partisan political bickering between members of this board in a time when we should all be celebrating and honoring the heroes who made the mission a success. Damn it guys we are Americans first and foremost, not democrats and republicans. We aren't each other's enemy, al Qaeda and radical Islam is ALL our enemy.

For once can we be big enough and show enough character to put our mutual goals first? To lift up those who we rely on and trust with our safety? Or are we such a petty, selfish, and small minded nation that we seek fault and cheap political points in what are our greatest victories as Americans?

Well-stated.

And unfortunately, I think we know the answers to your last paragraph: nope, nope, and yep

[Wedgebuster]

The SEALs (heroes by any definition) did the right thing in killing bin Laden. The last thing we need is to see video of some hooded terrorist holding an American hostage's head with a knife at his throat demanding bin Laden's release.

As for President Obama, good on him. The operation was a success by almost any imaginable standard and he is the COC. He supervised the mission, gave the orders, and deserves all the credit in the world for this as does every person who had a hand in the search and destroy mission going back to October 2001. Heroes all and great Americans.

President Obama's political fortunes insofar as his re-election bid won't be determined by this great victory. It will be determined by independent voters on the second Tuesday in November 2012 who will likely vote with their pocketbooks, and there is a LOT of water to go under the bridge between now and then. I don't even care about that in the context of what happened Sunday night, that was a wonderful thing for us all.

I have been saddened to see partisan political bickering between members of this board in a time when we should all be celebrating and honoring the heroes who made the mission a success. Damn it guys we are Americans first and foremost, not democrats and republicans. We aren't each other's enemy, al Qaeda and radical Islam is ALL our enemy.

For once can we be big enough and show enough character to put our mutual goals first? To lift up those who we rely on and trust with our safety? Or are we such a petty, selfish, and small minded nation that we seek fault and cheap political points in what are our greatest victories as Americans?

Knocked out of the park, black and blue.




Baldy, 89er, and JBB..............