Osama Bin Laden is Dead

[sweetiepie]

Originally Posted by gomer_tree

I can get behind limiting its use, just like I can get behind saying we should almost never issue a "shoot to kill" order.

I thought the "hundreds" claim was shown to be quite exaggerated, but in any case that isn't my point. Some here have basically said, "We should never waterboard. But it was OK to shoot OBL in the head." I see that as inconsistent.

Why? I would say the use of torture is obviously worse than "shoot to kill" orders, because to be effective at all, torture has to be worse than death.

[Harry]

Originally Posted by sweetiepie

Why? I would say the use of torture is obviously worse than "shoot to kill" orders, because to be effective at all, torture has to be worse than death.

He still hasn't grasped the difference between a handcuffed prisoner and a possibly armed and resisting mass murderer hiding out for years.

[gomer_tree]

Originally Posted by Harry

He still hasn't grasped the difference between a handcuffed prisoner and a possibly armed and resisting mass murderer hiding out for years.

Actually, I know exactly what both situations are.

[Harry]

Originally Posted by gomer_tree

Actually, I know exactly what both situations are.

That's obvious.

[Standtall]

Originally Posted by Harry

He still hasn't grasped the difference between a handcuffed prisoner and a possibly armed and resisting mass murderer hiding out for years.

Lets blow the heads off anyone that is possibly armed.

Oh and resisting was also something Harry imagined.

[2pac Shakur]

Originally Posted by Lucy

I didn't say that. I did imply that in this case, a trial would not have increased anyone's certainty as to bin Laden's role in the terrorist attacks.

You can take that any way you want.

Trials are no longer necessary.

[Standtall]

Originally Posted by Harry

He still hasn't grasped the difference between a handcuffed prisoner and a possibly armed and resisting mass murderer hiding out for years.

Osama was going to pull a 747 out of his pocket and launch it at the Sears tower?

[Harry]

Poor Osama.

WASHINGTON – Though hunted and in hiding, Osama bin Laden remained the driving force behind every recent al-Qaida terror plot, U.S. officials say, citing his private journal and other documents recovered in last week's raid.

Until Navy SEALs killed him a week ago, bin Laden dispensed chilling advice to the leaders of al-Qaida groups from Yemen to London: Hit Los Angeles, not just New York, he wrote. Target trains as well as planes. If possible, strike on significant dates, such as the Fourth of July and the upcoming 10th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Above all, he urged, kill more Americans in a single attack, to drive them from the Arab world.

Bin Laden's written words show that counterterrorist officials worldwide underestimated how key he remained to running the organization, shattering the conventional thinking that he had been reduced through isolation to being an inspirational figurehead, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110512/...s/us_bin_laden

[The Left]

Originally Posted by Harry

Poor Osama.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110512/...s/us_bin_laden

I hope no one comes to kill me over things I wrote in my journal.

[Standtall]

Originally Posted by Harry

Poor Osama.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110512/...s/us_bin_laden

The same US officials that just blew his head off without a trial confirmed he was bad? Shocking revelation. Thanks for the update!