That's interesting... Assuming he didn't leave a will leaving his money and assets to someone else supporting AQ or someone (not sure who) freezing his accounts. As for his connections, well, did they support him or the cause? I hope you're right though.
They do know, in fact they took the skull and confirmed it was his by matching it to his dental records. I know it's true, I saw it on the History Channel
Hitler was buried, but then fear of the spot becoming a rallying point for loons forced the following: So basically, Osama and Adolf are fish food. Also, figure-head, figure-schmed, this motherfucker should have been the target since day one. Instead, Iraq got mixed in. There will always be radicals in the world, but don’t ignore the popular/democratic revolutions in the Middle East: People there are not standing for crap anymore. The lack of popular support for reforms is what helped protect assholes like this. It’s not like a on and off switch; it's a change in attitude. And having Obama lead this and order this to happen—and assassination on the soil of a non-enemy country—is massive. No wonder the guy was at the head of the class at Harvard Law School! He really does know how to work his role as a leader and how to play things for the long haul. The U.S. needs a guy like this. And the fact that Trump got his egotistical head in the middle of this thanks to the “birther” nonsense is icing on the cake. Suck it tea party folks and Republicans because you have nobody who can compete in 2012 now. He got Osama. He needs 4 more years. He’ll get that. And I have faith that in that second term is when the “change” will really kick in gear.
Evidently, they might be releasing photos of bin Laden's corpse soon. I guess that means the one that's been floating around is 'shopped, maybe. Who knows.
The one floating around I saw IS shopped, there's side by side examples of it and the actual pic of him alive they used as a source.
clearly, none of this was priority to the POTUS. I bet he was about to pull off a wicked head shot on the guy to the right of him...
Because if you give the Nobel Peace Prize to the Commander in Chief of a military who's stated mission over the past decade has been tracking down and killing OBL, you shouldn't expect him to give it back when they succeed.
Well, this and the recent US-Nato bombings in Libya make me at least think of it. I wouldn't expect him to give it back but that's just because he's a politician. Besides the fact that OBL has been killed (and not arrested, trialed and condemned), I still find the way this announcement was dealt with unworthy of a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Mike Judge should hire this guy. Just to do this in a traveling show across the country. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxVdU2eVYSg
I kept thinking if the flag got in his face one more time that ho-dunk might accidentally shoot himself in the head. Now THAT would have been funny.
Well put scottygee! I think that Lawrence Wright ( author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road of 9/11) made a really interesting suggestion to the CIA, prior to Usama Bin Laden’s death, when he was asked how they should deal with Bin Laden in the event he was captured. A suggestion that certainly wouldn’t have stopped terrorism but may have a least quelled the unfounded legacy Bin Laden will be leaving behind by becoming a martyr. Quote; “If you catch him, don't kill him because he'll become a martyr, which is what he seeks to be. But don't take him to America just yet. First of all, take him to Kenya, where on August 6, 1998, he set off a bomb in front of an American embassy, killing 224 people and wounding, blinding 150 Africans. Let him sit in a courtroom in Nairobi and tell 150 blind Africans that he was just striking at a symbol of American power. And then you could take him to Tanzania, where on the same day, he set off another bomb in front of another American embassy, killing 11 people, all of them Muslims. And bin Laden excused that because it was Friday, and good Muslims would be in the mosque. I think that would be a wonderful venue to talk about what a good Muslim actually is. And then you could bring him to America and have him answer for the death of the 17 sailors on the USS Cole in October, 2000, and the 3,000 Americans who died on 9/11. But you don't have to stop there. You could take him so many places. You know, Casablanca, Madrid, London, Bali. But just take him one last place. Take him home and try him under Sharia law, which is the only law that he and his followers would respect. And if he's convicted, he would be taken to a square in downtown Riyadh, and the executioner is a big man with a long sword, and it's Saudi custom for the executioner to go out and ask the crowd, which is composed of the victims of the condemned man, to forgive him. And if they couldn't do that, then the executioner would do his job, and bin Laden would be taken and buried in an unmarked Wahhabi graveyard. And I thought in that manner, you could begin to roll back some of his awful legacy.” End quote. You can listen to the entire interview here; http://www.npr.org/2011/05/02/135917389 ... -in-coming Also, this is certainly going to alter our relationship with Pakistan. They obviously used Bin Laden to cash-in on the billions in foreign aid we gave them for their “help” so they hid him in plain sight for as long as they could. Hopefully congress will begin to take a much needed closer look at all the questionable foreign aid we spend. Yeah, I’ve felt like I’ve been in the “We’re all fucked!” category myself scottygee. So much happening in the world and all the nonsense in our own backyard with big oil companies and Wall Street laughing all the way to the bank. All the while people, including; teachers, policeman, firefighters etc... all losing their jobs and homes. What, it’s OK for Wall Street to want to be big capitalists when they’re making profits but when their very own schemes backfire, they want to be socialists?! Our government helps them yet they can’t take care of the rest and majority of citizens! Big companies get humongous tax breaks or avoid taxes by the KA-Billions by creating offshore accounts! In liew of all this, I am becoming more optimistic, and here’s why; I’m seeing more and more folks being conscious about their dependency on oil. I know it’s because of current prices, but the buses I take everyday have become packed! Hopefully they’ll stay that way although people yaking on their cel phones is driving me just nuts! Like I really want to hear about someone’s canker sore or pregnant daughter moving to Alaska! I literally want to snatch their phones from their hands and smash them on the friggin bus floor! The uprisings and changes in the middle east in which people are fighting to liberate themselves from monarchs and autocracies. The importance of manufacturing and buying from here is becoming more prevalent, not to mention more folks/companies seriously considering the effects they have on the environment. Then there’s the speed at which technology is moving and the affects and opportunities it’s having on independents and people from all over the world. A lot of “ahem” folks interpret 2012 as being the year we all get our pink slips or the apocalyptic end of days, but without sounding all “New Age” like, I’m more in the camp of another theory; as the Mayans believed, its the end of earth’s cycle and a new one commences, one in which I want to believe, where humanity will be on a positive trajectory or come into a collective consciousness and understand that everything we do affects all of us and the planet. And that we have to change the way we live and do things...or we’ll be chucking rocks at each other from rafts and end up like Kevin Costner in “Waterworld!” I look at 2013 as our renaissance and I think these next few years leading to it are going to be incredibly interesting, that’s what I’m excited about (along with the new red Ollie!). My cheesy optimistic viewpoint as of today. ; )
