Bin Laden Dead

[pjmuck]

Sorry if I'm a bit passionate about this, or if I offend anyone, but may the motherfucker rot in hell.
It only took 10 years, unfortunately, and there's still plenty of his disciples out there, but I'm glad it's over as far as he's concerned.

[andrew]

Link to news story?

[pjmuck]

It's all over the TV news now. Obama's to give a press conference any minute.

[Jeroen]

It's all over the news here too. But:

[JOE UMAN]

Buried at sea within 24 hours?

[pjmuck]

Buried at sea withing 24 hours?

According to Islamic tradition. There's definitely going to be some controversy surrounding that decision, and I can't say I find it very satisfying either. I would think if his body's floating somewhere out there that there'd be a free-for-all feeding frenzy treasure hunt to find him.

[AzWhoFan]

I'm betting he's weighed down by a 200 lbs piece of concrete and dropped into the Mariana Trench.

[JOE UMAN]

I'm betting he's weighed down by a 200 lbs piece of concrete and dropped into the Mariana Trench.

or a Peavey T-40.

[Retag]

or a Peavey T-40.

Too damn funny!

[Addison]

My friend, Kyle, who is a marine and contract worker, had this to say... for whatever reason I feel like it held more weight than anything I could possibly add to the discussion.

I feel strange. I didn't expect to care much about his death. I always just assumed he had been killed years ago in some cave, or had died of natural causes, or infighting, or whatever. I never expected to get any sort of closure about him at all, or have the satisfaction of knowing an American looked him in the eyes and then shot him in the face.

Despite my low expectations, it feels like a weight has been lifted from me now that he's dead. I didn't really know I was carrying it; everything just feels better now. I didn't enlist specifically to get him and I never expected to have him in my sights by any stretch of the imagination. His actions affected the course of my life dramatically for sure, but I never really paid him much mind as an individual. He was just some semi-omnipotent fuckhead whose minions and sympathizers I would slay. And I did, and that was good. But his death has cheered me more than I really could have imagined.

Fuck that guy. Today is a great day.

[frankenjazz]

i feel conflicted about this, on the one hand here is the man the symbolized evil to my generation (i was in 9th grade on 9/11 and watched it all live in my class room) and i clearly remember life before it and how things in america changed, and how he single handedly turned muslims into america's new bogey man so on one hand f*ck that guy and good that he is gone. but at the same time, simply put, i cannot celebrate the death of any human being, maybe im a hippy maybe im a liberal but the taking of a human life is still that, the taking of a human life, and no other person should decide who live and who dies,if he would have offed him self then i would have no problem going to the party a friend of mine is throwing tonight in celebration but.....i dont know, to be happy about a human being killing another human being is something i just dont get, now if i had it my way they would have captured him and put him in super max with the worst american criminals alive for the rest of his life so one of those giant serial killers can rape him with his own dialysis machine. death is too easy, they should have let him live out the rest of his life and filled it with as much pain and suffering as possible....ok rant over

[Frenchy-Lefty]

Bin Laden is not dead until Donald Trump gets to look at his death certificate

[Jeroen]

[AzWhoFan]

Bin Laden is not dead until Donald Trump gets to look at his death certificate

Brilliant! you must tweet that one to CNN.

[Jeroen]

[PunkRockBassist]

[Agent00Soul]

I found this to be fairly sobering reading on the subject:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_exclusive ... r-15-years

[JOE UMAN]

I found this to be fairly sobering reading on the subject:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_exclusive ... r-15-years

It publishes all the money related statistics but it leaves out the most important one, over a million people died in the last decade of war.

[derevaun]

That is a very expensive revenge narrative. At least it's a big step closer to approaching the conclusion

[JOE UMAN]

That is a very expensive revenge narrative. At least it's a big step closer to approaching the conclusion

With the current excursion into Libya, it won't be over anytime soon. I don't think the goal of the 'wars' was just to get Bin Laden who was pretty much defunct and ineffective as any kind of 'leader', if you can say Al Qaeda even have one, it's a bit like saying the internet has a leader, Al Qaeda is a belief not an organization.