Osama Bin Laden dead - Page 14

**Team Sergeant** · 05-02-2011, 07:19

LOL, body buried at sea... now that is funny.

24 SEALS against four bad guys.

No prisoners. All dead, one woman dead. 5 dead total.

I'm sure it was one hell of a firefight with a 65 year old man.

I ain't buying it.

The photo is great, total fake.

Enjoy the moment........

98G · 05-02-2011, 07:19

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Originally Posted by Richard

Because (1) that is not who we profess to be as a nation and (2) it demonstrably counters the 'narrative' used by those who would deny us our freedom.

Richard

Agreed, but not without a measure of poetic justice...

It is the high road that has a built in tribute to the Americans gallantly responsible for his death. Since SEAL's were involved, they fittingly gave him a burial at sea.

Is it too good for him? Of course. IMHO, it is more about who we are rather than the [no words foul or obscene enough] ass he was.

33army · 05-02-2011, 07:28

All the reports I have read report that he was shot at least once in the head.....maybe I missed it but I saw no holes in his dome. Feel free to correct me.

Wiseman · 05-02-2011, 07:33

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Originally Posted by 33army

All the reports I have read report that he was shot at least once in the head.....maybe I missed it but I saw no holes in his dome. Feel free to correct me.

The photo you saw is a fake.

Sigaba · 05-02-2011, 07:33

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Originally Posted by Pete

And [the presiden]t could have taken the easy way out.

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The question now becomes how this event is used politically in the next 18 months.

FWIW, I agree that the president deserves credit for authorizing the raid.

As for the political dimensions, I wonder if the White House set up the Birthers and others who question the president's citizenship. While some spent the last few days showing what they think they know about PDFs, the president was crushing an enemy of the civilized world.

In any case, I think three significant political consequences are that the White House is in a stronger position to argue that GWOT is primarily an intelligence/CT affair rather than a conflict centering around UW. Second, the president has shown that he can make tough decisions and deliver. Third, Panetta can now claim to be more than a political hack.

delta6 · 05-02-2011, 07:39

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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

LOL, body buried at sea... now that is funny.

24 SEALS against four bad guys.

No prisoners. All dead, one woman dead. 5 dead total.

I'm sure it was one hell of a firefight with a 65 year old man.

I ain't buying it.

The photo is great, total fake.

Enjoy the moment........

I agree with you 100%.

Surgicalcric · 05-02-2011, 07:40

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Originally Posted by Sigaba

I agree that the president deserves credit for authorizing the raid..

...the president was crushing an enemy of the civilized world...

Credit... Credit for what, sitting behind a desk making a decision which by all rights should be made at the tactical level to begin with... Give me a break!

It was the men involved in the execution of the operation (to include the support personnel) who crushed the enemy, not the president.

Five-O · 05-02-2011, 07:45

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj

I was at the Philadelphia Phillies game last night when the news began to hit everyones cell phone around the 9th inning. Amazing event as the news spread across the stadium..even though the Phils lost. I got chills at the unity and patriotism displayed by the crowd.

Hand · 05-02-2011, 07:48

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Originally Posted by Sigaba

... Second, the president has shown that he can make tough decisions and deliver.

With Respect,

I very strongly disagree that his long term record of hesitancy and inability to commit to a decision or plan or strategy or policy has been counteracted by what for a President is an easy win. He has no skin in the game on this one. If it works out well, he grabs some popularity rating points, if it doesn't, well, he was just following the path that previous Presidents had laid.

While I celebrate with the rest of the country today, and am excited that our military in general and the special operations community in particular gets to chalk up a huge win, I can give Obama no more respect than I could last night before this news came out.

We still have a horrible unemployment rate, we just raised the debt ceiling, we almost had to shut down the government over budget issues, we still have Obamacare to deal with, we have car cars and drug czars and gun czars and air czars. His horrible track record has not gone away.

BrokenSwitch · 05-02-2011, 07:52

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dadof18x'er · 05-02-2011, 07:56

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Originally Posted by Five-O

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj

I was at the Philadelphia Phillies game last night when the news began to hit everyones cell phone around the 9th inning. Amazing event as the news spread across the stadium..even though the Phils lost. I got chills at the unity and patriotism displayed by the crowd.

goose bumps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahAz4c2H3Sw

Guy · 05-02-2011, 08:01

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Originally Posted by BrokenSwitch

Your post...

Don't need that dribble!

Stay safe.

hydrashok · 05-02-2011, 08:03

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kgoerz · 05-02-2011, 08:18

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Originally Posted by hydrashok

Pic

Ouch

echoes · 05-02-2011, 08:21

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Originally Posted by spherojon

To those who have served and to those still serving, to those who gave all for this great nation, thank you from the bottom if my heart. I toast, we live in the land of the free BECAUSE of the BRAVE.

Well said!!!

Holly