The Glade 4.0

Statements incoming.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp ... 6#42852646

I hope it is true, go US Military!

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

So who gets to be #1 on the Most Wanted list now?

It's good. I'd rather we'd have gotten him alive, cowering in a hole ala Saddam, but hey.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Nice.

Obama should get a 2nd Nobel Peace prize for this.

Hey, cheers! About **** time. Almost makes me wish I believed in an afterlife, though. To quote Keelor and Cuddy...



Would it be poor taste to put the bastard's head on a pike and plant it in the main city square of Kandahar?

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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And then, not a damned thing changed.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

1 terrorist down, 1385318 more to go.

Perhaps not right away, and maybe not at all. But i find it odd that a person who focuses so much on the individual over the collective would underestimate the importance of one man. Whether as a symbol of victory for the west, or a martyr to continue the cause for extremist Islam, or simply to show the world you followed through after being attacked, there are plenty of reasons this could change things for better or worse. Never underestimate the importance of a single man with an idea and a receptive audience.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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That was some awkward phrasing by the reporter right after the speech:

"apparently his body was taken by special forces...to our chief correspondent Chuck <Somebody> we go"

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Osama had the equivalent of 7 wanted stars on him from GTA... he wasn't escaping.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

This brings us back to the Medieval ages when the King was judge, jury, and executioner...

Remings me of Obama speaking about Bradley Manning:

Some people just need killin'. It's all fine to bring someone in if you can catch them alive, sure. This was a military operation, not a police one. And nobody can argue he didn't have it coming.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not going to be convinced until I see the long form death certificate.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

I agree, but his viewpoints still are rather Medieval. He could have said "We had difficulty apprehending him, and in the ensuing fight he was killed".

Instead he made claims about justice, which the President should know is only after an impartial court trial.

Oh look on the bright side. At least you didn't have to endure Bush speaking about it. Obama can, at least, pronounce his own language. (No,I don't mean Bantu.)

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

Also it was a total KS. Bush was camping the spawn area for 8 entire years.

I heard a radio talk show host actually say ... right after Obama's speech, that 'A special forces unit led by President Obama killed Osama Bin Laden, and took possession of his body....'

Representative Norm Dicks, from Washingtons 6th Congressional district then came on the same station, and basically pronounced that the war on terror was over and we won.

Don't get me wrong... I'm happy the guy is dead, but lets not look at his as anything more than what it is... a revenge killing of a powerless figurehead.

Bin Laden hasn't been a force in Al Qaeda for many years.

Repercussions will come in many places in many ways. I am not saying we should not have done it, I'm very much in favor of this hellion going to Allah for his sins, but he goes in the eyes of his people as a martyr. We claim this is not a war against Islam, but many of that faith consider the presence of US troops in the Arab world just that.

Vigilance should remain very high for months to let our forces take advantage of the high emotional state brought on by bin Laden's death to help his organization reap the whirlwind in their attempts to avenge his death.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

A figurehead still has influence. If nothing else, a few thousand families have a bit of closure right now.

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Glad they made the announcement only its several years late.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Look at this way. Many people who have loved ones murdered don't find justice until they go through the appeals process while on death-row.

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Guess they just had to wait till they killed a guy who looked like Osama did a decade ago.

Beggars can't be choosers...but I can Mr. Burton.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville