UBL IS DEAD!!!

[dalegg 143]

No pics yet?Body buried in the sea?How convenient!We got Sadam's pics left and right, and no pics for this one?

I have seen it printed many times here on VJ-

"Pics or it's not true". This policy can't just refer to Turkish playmates or nude midget mud wrestlers, right?

[Pooky 3,774]

No pics yet? Body buried in the sea? How convenient! We got Saddam's pics left and right, and no pics for this one?

Saddam had no-one left to follow him.

Bin Laden has a horde of crazies out there, to keep his legacy of death and destruction going. Why make them even crazier?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I will leave the "o" an "u" arguments to those smarter than me.

Bin Laden needed "two in the head" worse than anyone and I am glad he got it. I think Obama is making a mistake (thoug maybe not a political mistake) to do what he did, the announcement, parties, etc. Why not just burn a Koran and dance around (you guys can argue over how to spell "Koran" also)

The Russians would have shot him in the head with a small caliber handgun with pointy bullets that tumble around inside the brain cavity, so as not to leave much of a blood trail, then would have dumped his body in the Neva river for someone to find and identify. Oops! How did that happen? "We had nothing to do with that"

I kind of wish we would do things like that sometimes. Hoepfully there will not be a lot more Americans die in attacks because of this...but I have to admit that trying to act innocent with people that just want to kill you anyway is probably not very productive.

[peejay 327]

I will leave the "o" an "u" arguments to those smarter than me.

Bin Laden needed "two in the head" worse than anyone and I am glad he got it. I think Obama is making a mistake (thoug maybe not a political mistake) to do what he did, the announcement, parties, etc. Why not just burn a Koran and dance around (you guys can argue over how to spell "Koran" also)

The Russians would have shot him in the head with a small caliber handgun with pointy bullets that tumble around inside the brain cavity, so as not to leave much of a blood trail, then would have dumped his body in the Neva river for someone to find and identify. Oops! How did that happen? "We had nothing to do with that"

I kind of wish we would do things like that sometimes. Hoepfully there will not be a lot more Americans die in attacks because of this...but I have to admit that trying to act innocent with people that just want to kill you anyway is probably not very productive.

I'm glad that ####### Bin Laden is dead. He needed to be killed. However, it really nauseated me to see the idiots on TV singing and carrying on in the streets like fools in celebration as if it was an idiot festival after a sports event.

Believe me...there is nothing to celebrate...yet. Bin Laden's death does not end terrorism or the threat of it. There is more work to do until the USA can really celebrate.

[Vi-Jay 218]

I'm glad that ####### Bin Laden is dead. He needed to be killed. However, it really nauseated me to see the idiots on TV singing and carrying on in the streets like fools in celebration as if it was an idiot festival after a sports event.

Believe me...there is nothing to celebrate...yet. Bin Laden's death does not end terrorism or the threat of it. There is more work to do until the USA can really celebrate.

I did not dance, shout or sing when I learned UBL was dead but, I was happy and felt some satisfaction and pride as an American.

I don't have a negative opinion 'bout those that did celebrate in the streets. I imagine the people living in New York have been affected by UBL, on a much deeper emotional and intellectual level than I. I imagine the troops after learning that UBL was dead, felt an exhilirating sense of team success.

I felt happy for those that celebrated 'cause I thought they had finally been given some relief and closure.

I say, let them celebrate the moment and then let us all brace ourselves tommorrow.

Edited May 3, 2011 by Vi-Jay

[ready4ONE 5,400]

I just wish they had stuffed his mouth with pickled pigs feet before the sent him off to sleep with the fishes.

[Captain Oates 911]

I just wish they had stuffed his mouth with pickled pigs feet before the sent him off to sleep with the fishes.

Thinking like that you must be a christian ? - a follower of Christ and exponent of his creed ?

Ever considered a career at Guantanamo ?

Actually, all this about cutting off the head of the organization didn't quite work for the Romans when they crucified the leader

Some of his followers are still around 2,000 years later but they have not won because some of his flock still have depraved thinking

[The Dude 206]

I will leave the "o" an "u" arguments to those smarter than me.

Bin Laden needed "two in the head" worse than anyone and I am glad he got it. I think Obama is making a mistake (thoug maybe not a political mistake) to do what he did, the announcement, parties, etc. Why not just burn a Koran and dance around (you guys can argue over how to spell "Koran" also)

This was a war against terrorism, not Islam. We aren't waging a war against muslims, that's just your wet dreams.

The Russians would have shot him in the head with a small caliber handgun with pointy bullets that tumble around inside the brain cavity, so as not to leave much of a blood trail, then would have dumped his body in the Neva river for someone to find and identify. Oops! How did that happen? "We had nothing to do with that"

More likely, Russia would have sold them weapons and fuel cell technology for decades. Upon failure to make payment, maybe they would have killed him.

I kind of wish we would do things like that sometimes. Hoepfully there will not be a lot more Americans die in attacks because of this...but I have to admit that trying to act innocent with people that just want to kill you anyway is probably not very productive.

I'm glad I live in the United States and that we still have a national conscious. There is a difference between vengeance and justice that you don't seem to grasp. I am grateful to live in the U.S., where we follow our laws. Maybe you long for a lawless time where people still live in fiefdoms, not me.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Thinking like that you must be a christian ? - a follower of Christ and exponent of his creed ?

Ever considered a career at Guantanamo ?

Actually, all this about cutting off the head of the organization didn't quite work for the Romans when they crucified the leader

Some of his followers are still around 2,000 years later but they have not won because some of his flock still have depraved thinking

No to your first three questions. Not sure Christ if he ever actually existed was any sort of mass murdering terrorist so your parallel falls considerably short of the mark. Osama, if the O is incorrect or offensive I prefer it, was a duesche of the highest rank. He deserved death and not a religious burial, thus my jest you took just slightly too seriously.

Do carry on!

[Captain Oates 911]

This was a war against terrorism, not Islam. We aren't waging a war against muslims, that's just your wet dreams.

More likely, Russia would have sold them weapons and fuel cell technology for decades. Upon failure to make payment, maybe they would have killed him.

I'm glad I live in the United States and that we still have a national conscious. There is a difference between vengeance and justice that you don't seem to grasp. I am grateful to live in the U.S., where we follow our laws. Maybe you long for a lawless time where people still live in fiefdoms, not me.

Quite right ! It's ironic that the people who advocate depravity are the most opposite to the high ideals of the USA and yet claim to be the country's strongest supporters

It was always so of course and this dirty little hate has shown itself in all wars.

In France at the end of the war, girls who had had German boyfriends were stripped naked in the street, beaten and had their heads shaved in public and much more. Women urinated on Mussolini's dead face. The 'sow his body up inside a pig' people are of the the same ilk and much closer to Bin Laden's thinking than to that of decent, evolved people.

I am just glad my mind doesn't work at that level and the model for me are the dignified statements of the 9-11 relatives and Prez O who got it just right. Quiet, low-key, determined, satisfied, and yet civilized - unlike the enemy who do all the things that the 'pigs feet' people advocate

Edited May 3, 2011 by Alan the Red

[Zero Sum 305]

I'm glad that ####### Bin Laden is dead. He needed to be killed. However, it really nauseated me to see the idiots on TV singing and carrying on in the streets like fools in celebration as if it was an idiot festival after a sports event.

Believe me...there is nothing to celebrate...yet. Bin Laden's death does not end terrorism or the threat of it. There is more work to do until the USA can really celebrate.

Agreed. The celebratory mood seemed like a frat party.

This revenge, while necessary, will give closure to the people that need it; a sense of retribution and justice for others, and a sense of revenge paradox (see psychological literature on this) for most.

[Captain Oates 911]

Agreed. The celebratory mood seemed like a frat party.

This revenge, while necessary, will give closure to the people that need it; a sense of retribution and justice for others, and a sense of revenge paradox (see psychological literature on this) for most.

What would Jesus have done with the body ?

[thongd4me 69]

What would Jesus have done with the body ?

As Mohammed's birth took place just under 600 years

AFTER Jesus was born, I think an Islamic burial would

probably be out of the question...

[Little_My 464]

Equating justice with revenge and closure with retribution is a slippery path. There is a quote floating around that is attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr., but I think it is actually an anonymous quote - but for me, this gets to the core if this issue. I am not sad that Bin Laden is dead, and I also don't think that he ever would have allowed US troops to capture him alive - but celebrating his death in the manner it has been celebrated is saddening and scary.

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

[Zero Sum 305]

What would Jesus have done with the body ?

Some here might speculate on that... show him 40 virgins first, then show him the 40 Americans that will be his companions in hell?