The Glade 4.0

“The code name for Bin Laden was ‘Geronimo.’ The president and his advisers watched Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, on a video screen, narrating from his agency’s headquarters across the Potomac River what was happening in far-away Pakistan.

“‘They’ve reached the target,’ he said.

“Minutes passed.

“‘We have a visual on Geronimo,’ he said.

“A few minutes later: ‘Geronimo EKIA.’

“Enemy Killed In Action. There was silence in the Situation Room.

“Finally, the president spoke up.

“‘We got him.’”

Imagine if the Pakistani's flew helicopters into the U.S. to raid a house and assassinate someone...

RT @SteveMartinToGo I was fishing yesterday in the North Arabian Sea, when, I swear, Osama Bin Laden's body fell on my head. That settles it. NO MORE POT.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

No, it's prefect. Obama can not lose politically. If the admin is theoretically lying, they've created a win win situation. If he was already dead, they snatched up the credit for Obama's term in office. A person in AQ that might know Osama died some other time isn't going to risk outing themselves to say otherwise. If he's not dead, Osama would be risking capture by coming forward and if he did come forward, the admin can just say it was a ruse to get him to denounce his own death. If they're lying and destroyed the evidence, or are just saying they are, it's **** brilliant.

If they got him and then buried his body at sea for some reason they are **** retarded.

I guess people just need to put their hand in his side and feel the nail bullet marks in his head.

"You hear Osama is dead with no proof of a body and you celebrate. You hear Christ died and rose with no proof of a body and you speculate?" Nicholas Massey

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Might have somethign to do with the fact that the first requires only a faith in the rather exacting sciences of physics, ballistics, biology etc . The second requires a complete suspension of belief in physics, biology, etc.

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Osama bin Laden didn’t win, but he was ‘enormously successful’
By Ezra Klein, Published: May 2

Did Osama bin Laden win? No. Did he succeed? Well, America is still standing, and he isn’t. So why, when I called Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a counterterrorism expert who specializes in al-Qaeda, did he tell me that “bin Laden has been enormously successful”? There’s no caliphate. There’s no sweeping sharia law. Didn’t we win this one in a clean knockout?

Apparently not. Bin Laden, according to Gartenstein-Ross, had a strategy that we never bothered to understand, and thus that we never bothered to defend against. What he really wanted to do — and, more to the point, what he thought he could do — was bankrupt the United States of America. After all, he’d done the bankrupt-a-superpower thing before. And though it didn’t quite work out this time, it worked a lot better than most of us, in this exultant moment, are willing to admit.

Bin Laden’s transition from scion of a wealthy family to terrorist mastermind came in the 1980s, when the Soviet Union was trying to conquer Afghanistan. Bin Laden was part of the resistance, and the resistance was successful — not only in repelling the Soviet invasion, but in contributing to the Communist super-state’s collapse a few years later. “We, alongside the mujaheddin, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt,” he later explained.

The campaign taught bin Laden a lot. For one thing, superpowers fall because their economies crumble, not because they’re beaten on the battlefield. For another, superpowers are so allergic to losing that they’ll bankrupt themselves trying to conquer a mass of rocks and sand. This was bin Laden’s plan for the United States, too.

WHITE HOUSE TO RELEASE BIN LADEN DEATH PHOTO
Tue May 03 2011 10:22:50 ET
President Obama decided Tuesday morning to release at least one photo showing Osama Bin Laden's death, a top source claims.

The images, being described as 'graphic', are bound to stir emotions in the east and the west, and will likely become the most viewed photographs in modern history.

One image shows a bullet wound to his head above his left eye.

Will it remove all doubt about the death?

The exact timing on the release is being debated.

Developing...

So how will you explain when the next tape is released? Because we know its going to be.

Oh yeah? We know this? And just how do we know this?

Just adds to my statement that this administration is purposely trying to feed the nuts. I think its to give the media sensational news to report rather than the economy, broken promises, or how in hindsight that Bush was right.

Code Name: Operation Distraction!

So, I'm wondering if anybody in Washington has had their opinion altered on whether waterboarding is torture, or whether torture is effective.