Bin Laden is Dead, nee Gay topic

[Xander Ashford]

Just to give people an idea of what it was like across the country last night:

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These remind me of the end of Return of the Jedi (Special Edition) where everyone is celebrating and taking down all the Emperor Palpatine statues/memorabilia.

It's good that this chapter in world history is finally closed; I feel like Bin Laden's death probably gave some sense of closure to some Americans. True, it will never bring back loved ones from 9/11, but it does give peace of mind.

The only problem is another will rise up to fill Bin Laden's shoes at some point. It may be naive to say, but really, why can't people just learn to co-exist in harmony? I hate your religion, you hate mine...Agree to disagree. It's not that hard. Look past the differences and just see people as people.

[Wrathborne]

And now Musharraf is bitching that we violated Pakistan.

url]http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/2/musharraf-bin-laden-mission-violated-pakistan/[/url]

What an asshole. This guy was in charge or Pakistan for years and most likely knew about where Bin laden was but didn't do shit. Now he's saying we shouldn't have finished what Bin Laden started and let Pakistan do it instead. Pakistan is an incredibly corrupt place from what I understand and whenever the CIA has to do a mission in Pakistan, the Pakistani government are the last people notified due to them leaking information to a target before the CIA can get to them.

God, the world really is a huge mess isn't it?

Interesting that it says here that Bin laden tried to use a woman as a human shield as he open fire on the commandos before they shot his ass up. Loser really did die a cowards death.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/2/intelligence-break-led-to-bin-ladens-hide-out/

[Bertha]

Interesting that it says here that Bin laden tried to use a woman as a human shield as he open fire on the commandos before they shot his ass up. Loser really did die a cowards death.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...dens-hide-out/

The woman was one of his wives. Given the situation, she may have willingly tried to shield him, or he could have done just as you said and used her against her will. Both are highly possible. And according to one news interview with a former spec-ops man, when a team like that goes in, they shoot anyone that doesnt drop to the ground. Situations are such that they dont have time to really access if a person is unarmed or not (and seeing as how terrorist organizations arent afraid to use women, children, or people with mental disorders as suicide bombers, I dont really blame them).

[Mr. Spencer]

I think what we'll do is um, just sit here and um, just go home and just probably go straight to bed and keep out of trouble.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOIpaKwUzn0

[Wrathborne]

That Steve Coogan?

[Mr. Spencer]

Indeed it is!

Felt like this topic was getting too heated so provided some lighthearted humour.

[Stu]

I'm not naive, I'm just sick of how multiple people on this site can't help but look down their nose at Americans and show it in their posts. The amount of preachy snobbiness is disgusting.

So basically, you can react how you want, but no one else can react how they want. Fair point obviously!

[Trent]

Politics aren't your thing kid, sit the next few plays out.

You mean "more rationally thinking people" surely?

Put the handbag down sweetheart.

Aaaw, Betha and Vector together. Kinda cute don't you think?

Why though? It's not like any lines have been crossed?

Word of advice; it's a no-no here at THIA to single attack members while trying to argue for something. Either you have not learned the rules (which I find quite odd), or you are on a massive troll streak.

Obama is going to become public enemy number 1 for arabs. He is hated by terrorists, because of him(not only but because of him too) Kadafi is under attack.

So the Arab demonstrators in Libya think that Obama is their public enemy? No. The problem here is that if you are on the Western side, it is hard to see how people in Libya are actually suffering. They need all the help they can get. These people have a tyrant who is slaughtering their basic human rights. Obama and NATO are the heroes to these people, and they are loved for their actions to support them. The world can not sit idly by when thousands of people are getting killed by a tyrant who wants to protect himself and his family. Obama is loved by many Arabs - by any Arab that believes in freedom in his country. Politics will remain politics, but that does not change the fact that NATO finally woke up and lent their hands to help the Libyan people. No one person should have ultimate power to control peoples' way of life.

Does it mean we won't acknowledge the bigger picture? No.

You see arguments like this that I do not understand. Vector clearly stated in his initial post that him and Americans like him do understand the consequences, but still they want to celebrate the ending of an evil individual. Therefore, I do not understand your point of dragging it further.

[Stu]

Wasn't aware you'd been appointed a moderator, congratulations on that!!

And i "drag it further" (your spin, not mine) based on not being convinced by him being aware of the bigger picture. I think that's pretty obvious.

Being someone apparently aware of the bigger picture, once that bigger picture had struck me, the last thing i would be concerned with is showing people photos and videos of people celebrating, i'd be wondering about the knock-on effect.

[Jill4EverSTARS]

And now Musharraf is bitching that we violated Pakistan.

url]http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/2/musharraf-bin-laden-mission-violated-pakistan/[/url]

What an asshole. This guy was in charge or Pakistan for years and most likely knew about where Bin laden was but didn't do shit. Now he's saying we shouldn't have finished what Bin Laden started and let Pakistan do it instead. Pakistan is an incredibly corrupt place from what I understand and whenever the CIA has to do a mission in Pakistan, the Pakistani government are the last people notified due to them leaking information to a target before the CIA can get to them.

God, the world really is a huge mess isn't it?

Interesting that it says here that Bin laden tried to use a woman as a human shield as he open fire on the commandos before they shot his ass up. Loser really did die a cowards death.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...dens-hide-out/

CNN confirmed he was unarmed so he didn't fire at the SEALs

[Mr. Spencer]

I think what I'll do is I'll take over Osama bin Laden's old job and try and do it better, and not get killed. Being a white male I can walk through airport security without so much as a single official batting an eyelid, I'd have to adopt an entirely new approach to terrorism too.

No blowing stuff up since that doesn't seem to work. What we'll do instead is get everyone round a table, and put together a solution package : perhaps over tea and biscuits.

[aris13]

No blowing stuff up since that doesn't seem to work. What we'll do instead is get everyone round a table, and put together a solution package : perhaps over tea and biscuits.

[Mr. Spencer]

You can't fight in here, this is the war room!

[Humor Tumor]

He showed his birth certificate in 2008. That version, however, was declared not good enough by his critics. The long version, the one he had to get a special release for, was because of this.





So he literally had to ask special permission to break the rules to shut people the hell up. Of course, now it's really a fake. Or something. People believe what they wanna believe. And too many people apparently think a black guy can't actually be American.

Huh, guess that means I'll never see my english birth certificate...

[ANDYARKLAY]

So the Arab demonstrators in Libya think that Obama is their public enemy? No. The problem here is that if you are on the Western side, it is hard to see how people in Libya are actually suffering. They need all the help they can get. These people have a tyrant who is slaughtering their basic human rights. Obama and NATO are the heroes to these people, and they are loved for their actions to support them. The world can not sit idly by when thousands of people are getting killed by a tyrant who wants to protect himself and his family. Obama is loved by many Arabs - by any Arab that believes in freedom in his country. Politics will remain politics, but that does not change the fact that NATO finally woke up and lent their hands to help the Libyan people. No one person should have ultimate power to control peoples' way of life.

NATO is so helpful. But why NATO is "helping to Libya" there some other conflicts in the world but by unknown reasons nobody showing them on TV, and nato not helping to resolve this problems. Heroes are ready to help to countries with tons of oil?!