Osama bin Laden dead (Official)

[J. J.]

Obama is speaking tonight.  Anyone heard anything?  Strange, 10 PM on a Sunday?

[J. J.]

Maybe Qaddafi is leaving; I doubt if they could verify he's dead.

[J. J.]

Anything coming out of Europe?

[J. J.]

It sounds like something time sensitive.  Bin Laden?

15 minutes.

Bin Laden.

[J. J.]

Aliens???  I don't know.

[J. J.]

"Death will come to you wherever you may be, even if you were in strong fortresses..."

The Holy Koran Nisa 4:78 (part)

I've been waiting nearly a decade to say that. 

[J. J.]

I will expect a 10-20 point boost in the polls, but ephemeral.  It will drop out within a fortnight.

We can expect an upswing in terrorist attacks over that same period.

Pakistan may collapse in that time.

[J. J.]

"Death will come to you wherever you may be, even if you were in strong fortresses..."

The Holy Koran Nisa 4:78 (part)

I've been waiting nearly a decade to say that. 

Was it as satisfying as you imagined?

I have a big grin on my face and a warm feeling in my heart.  The plane heading for the Pentagon flew over my head and the one that went down in Shanksville flew over my cemetery plot.

I am absolutely overjoyed that he is rotting and that I am typing.  

[J. J.]

there is a point. But it is merely to make social connections. But it should never be used to end someones life and to make to seem that is ok. That makes me mad. A life is a life, and to make us think that because we are 'americans' we have to right to kill someone despite what they have done, and are 'defending our people' is crap. There is no need to lie. If you are going to kill someone it should be because he has killed many people. Not because he killed americans. Had they not been americans obama would not give a sh**t.

Simply put, Osama tried to kill me.  He was not successful.

We remain. 

[J. J.]

Please change the name of this thread to make it the official dead Osama thread. It's not clear from just Obama to speak and somebody will inevitably make a duplicate thread otherwise.

I agree.

How?  I want to as well.

[J. J.]

Okay, I got it. 

[J. J.]

Anya: A man who orchestrated the murder of almost 3000 people, plus countless other acts of barbarity, is finally brought to the permenant justice he so richly deserves after a decade of searching. Justice is served. Celebration is wholly warranted.

Well, in that case:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupsPg5H6aE&feature=related

We remain.  

[J. J.]

The feeling that I have is not celebration, but satisfaction, at least for tonight.  

My Sons of the American Revolution chapter is meeting tomorrow.

[J. J.]

"Death will come to you wherever you may be, even if you were in strong fortresses..."

The Holy Koran Nisa 4:78 (part)

I've been waiting nearly a decade to say that. 

I timed this post to hit when Obama said the word "dead."  It's there for history, a moment in time.

[J. J.]

While military experts wanted to bomb the Pakistani mansion where bin Laden was hiding, Limbaugh said, Obama may have “single-handedly [come] up with the technique” of attacking the target at the ground level. He credited the president with much more military prowess than Obama critics usually attribute to the president.

“President Obama, perhaps the only qualified member in the room to deal with this, insisted on the Special Forces,” he said. “No one else thought of that…. Not a single intelligence adviser, not a single national security adviser, not a single military adviser came up with the idea of using SEAL Team 6 or any Special Forces.”

Wow. Words to follow I have never said before, or likely ever will again:

"Ditto Rush".

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54122.html#ixzz1LDut7tN7

And Rush is absolutely right.

Obama took a risk, presumably after asking the military what was possible.  In that respect, he wasn't being Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton.

[J. J.]

Guys, Limbaugh was being sarcastic.  Some of you are really quite dense.

He might have meant it as sarcasm, but it is still right.

[J. J.]

If I may take a moment and clarify my position and the position of most Christians I know on the death of Osama Bin Laden.  We celebrate the removal of evil.  We don't celebrate the death of a non-believer.

I'm overjoyed by Bin Laden's death, but where do Christians draw the line between "acceptable" and "unacceptable" killings? The Catholic Church, for example, has said his death should not be celebrated, although I'm unaware of any official stance on the killing itself.

So serious question: how is allowed to be killed from a Christian viewpoint? A mass murderer? Any murderer on the street?

As said, I support what was done 100% here, but certainly not for any religious reasons.

I would use the rabid dog analogy.

Normally, I would not shoot a dog.  If there was a rabid dog with the potential for infecting (and killing) people in my neighborhood, I would shoot it.

[J. J.]

I thought this is now appropriate, and somewhat prophetic:

http://www.hodain.net/amuse/diplomacy7x5.html

An oldie, but a goody.

[J. J.]

Obviously there is only one solution left:

Actually... now that you mention it ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8y4RT0i4Ro

..there are alternatives.