Osama bin Laden: DEAD!

[CoreyB]

He was unarmed, we killed him because we could. I couldnt care less about what we did with his body.

[HilbillyHomeboy]

So, you think the way we handled the remains has nothing to do with the absolute lack of any appreciable negative sentiment? I've read one negative story so far; a Sunni educator said that burying at sea is a sin. Hell(pun), the guy didn't even seem mad, just pointing out that even when someone drowns that the body is to be searched for so they could be buried in the ground if possible. In turn, I've also read of specific treatment dealing with burying at sea for their religion. I am not well versed in their religion to say either way. All I know is we could have done much worse, or a lot less, depending on how you want to look at it, and that we definitely came out on top the way we handled the body.

There's absolutely no way you are going to convince me that the way we dealt with his body and the lack of backlash isn't related. Yes, we killed him. Afterward, we again reaffirmed our stance that this action was never religous discrimination by affording our worst enemy a proper burial according to his religious belief. What can the extremists of his religion say to this? What part of this can they use to bolster up new recruits? Right, pretty much nothing. I think the design, and ultimate intent, of our action(s) is very obvious.

It's not that I think the most extreme of the bunch said "oh well they did give him a nice burial, call off the jihad boys, for real we're all good, pip pip cheerio". I damn sure think it quelled what would have been holy hell had we done what a significant portion of the world anticipated we would have done. I guarantee there's a whole bunch of dolts out there scratching their heads..."but, but it's the Americans...wait...what...I don't even this".

Jeremy

[green-lantern]

[UTRacerX9]

So, you think the way we handled the remains has nothing to do with the absolute lack of any appreciable negative sentiment?
Jeremy

Hard to say. I would argue that the lack of negative sentiment primarily stems from Al-Qaida's suicide bombings over the past decade on fellow Muslims. In fact, there have been surveys done several times over the past few years regarding the perception the Muslim world has for the US and for Bin Laden. While the US has always scored fairly low with the populace over there, Bin Laden's numbers have been slipping since 2003, when AQ in Iraq claimed credit for a lot of mass killings.

In short, they were ok with Bin Laden and AQ when they were bombing us on our own soil. After they started blowing things up around the world (Iraq, Spain, etc...) and killing their own people, public sentiment among Muslims largely turned against OBL. Not to mention, what country is going to speak out against this? If they do, they will immediately be branded a country that is a terrorist sympathizer, and no country wants that label, regardless of whether they agree with the US being attacked or not.

[mb7050]

so this is the reason why the playstation network is down.

[onebadmollafolla]

so this is the reason why the playstation network is down.

So it turns out. Apparently PSN went down so Obama could use it to kill Osama. Funny world we live in.

[Telionis]

Anyone expect this /\ to challenge this \/ next year?

[UTRacerX9]

LOL @ the Trump Death Certificate.

[GTOJOE]

so yes, although my personal sadistic side would gleefully enjoy making a shrine for him & sniping people who come to pay homage...what was done was the correct course of action. and gtojoe, making said "shrine" would be no worse than the booby-trapping of our soldiers bodies with IED's--or strapping IED's to kids. yes, it's a deplorably insensitive idea. and so is putting osama's head on a pike; using his body to recreate the fallujah debacle, or creating a national "piss on osama's grave" day on the national mall. they're all bad ideas. still...it's cathartic to dream what we'd wish we could do to someone as inhuman as osama.

That's right it would be no worse. In fact it's the same thing and your OK with it??? That sort of thing is the reason we have been fighting Osama. To stop behaviour like that. I know your not being 100% serious but I still think we need to stop and think about things before we say them. We are talking about human life here afterall.

Anyway I for one won't believe anything till we have independant proof. I don't doubt he's dead. I personally think he was probably killed long ago [and kept it quite] and they have just been using it to stay in the middle east "looking for him".

[n2nsanity]

"Breaking news: Chuck Norris has recently returned from his family trip to Pakistan."