Osama Bin Laden Is Dead

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Originally Posted by janvanvurpa

what's the difference?

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Oh great, another idiot.

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Originally Posted by Roamy

You guys will have no appreciation until you are attacked like we were.

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According to wikileaks, Al Qaeda has threatened to detonate a nuclear bomb in Europe if Osama is killed. Fellow Europeans, let's all say "THANK YOU, AMERICA".

I guess you Americans have no chance to understand that they will attack you (and thanks to you, now maybe also us) as long as you give them excuses to attack.

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Originally Posted by cali

Iraq was/is all about oil money .... actually .... these missions are all about money or to gain profit and nothing else

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That is cheap talk. In Kuwait that was a known fact, but give some sort of proof for profit in Afghanistan or oil in Iraq.
It is actually rather obtuse rhetoric at best without proof.

Who in the U.S. or Europe has made this big oil profit and just who made big money in Afghanistan.

If you are saying all politics is driven by money, including relief efforts, you might have straw to lean on, but let's see some proof to your specific claim.

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Originally Posted by Dave B

it would have been far preferable if he'd been put on trial. .

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Why?

It would be impossible to give him a trial that wasn't biased, and what would be the point anyway? There wasn't a more guilty man on the planet.

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

Why?

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Because by killing him we risk sinking to his level. We're better than that, supposedly.

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It would be impossible to give him a trial that wasn't biased, and what would be the point anyway? There wasn't a more guilty man on the planet.

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I fail to see how a trial would be biased, as you say the evidence is pretty damning. He should have spent his days rotting in a cell, now he's a martyr. At least they had the sense to bury him at sea.

Still, what's done is done. It just repulses me that the country which acts as the world's policeman is so hypocritical that it runs illegal torture facilities and breaches international law on prisoner detention. And, as I aluded to earlier, I'm disappointed that a president who campaigned on a platform of "change" has gone against a clear election pledge, although as a UK resident I'm well used to that!

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Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo

"The United States invasion of Panama was launched on December 20, 1989. Losses on the U.S. side were 24 troops, plus 3 civilian casualties. Statistics of the number of Panamanian civilian deaths remain disputed; the New York Times and Newsweek magazine reported between 202 and 220.[citation needed] The conflict also caused some considerable internal displacement, with 20,000 to 30,000 having been rendered homeless.[citation needed]

On December 29, the General Assembly of the United Nations voted 75–20 with 40 abstentions to condemn the invasion as a flagrant violation of international law.[19][20] According to a CBS poll, 92% of Panamanian adults supported the U.S. incursion, and 76% wished that U.S. forces had invaded in October during the coup.[21] However, others dispute this finding, claiming that the Panamanian surveys were completed in wealthy, English-speaking neighborhoods in Panama City, among Panamanians most likely to support US actions"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Noriega

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Quote Originally Posted by Bob Riebe View Post
Please give me a net link to their deliberate attacks on civilians not connected to a war in progress-- if it is on the net it has to be true..

So you are saying they attacked with the sole purpose to kill those civilians supposedly killed?

] According to a CBS poll, 92% of Panamanian adults supported the U.S. incursion, and 76% wished that U.S. forces had invaded in October during the coup.

Try again you made your claim look silly.

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Originally Posted by Roamy

You guys will have no appreciation until you are attacked like we were.

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Oh please. :rolleyes:

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http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/SRR/Vo...ridBombing.jpg

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Originally Posted by Dave B

I find it rather distateful that people are celebrating the death of Bin Laden, it would have been far preferable if he'd been put on trial. That said I won't exactly lose any sleep that he's dead, but I do wonder at the sanity of people who believe the world is somehow a magical safe place where the biggest risk to our safety is tripping over a rainbow and stabbing yourself on a unicorn's horn.

Talking of trial, I hope that now the USA has disposed of its supposed main threat it will close Guantanamo Bay and either charge or release the inmates. They have no right to call themselves a civilsed society while they operate an illegal torture facility, if any other country acted in such a way it would be described as a War Crime. The failure to follow through with this election promise is, for me as a foreigner, the biggest single disappointment of the Obama administration.

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Are you actually saying, you are naive enough to think that Osama is the only, much less the real, threat out there?

Good grief, Osama has been a bench player for a long time, it is ONLY good that Pres. Obama had the balls to show that if, for any reason. the U.S. Gov. truly wants you dead, you are like a girdled tree, you are dead, you just do not know it.
One down, time to clean the weapons before the next search and destroy mission.

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Originally Posted by theugsquirrel

Of course, but his death is much more preferable to him being alive and on the run. We can only hope with the hard drives found at his compound that other senior Al Qaeda members can be captured and put on trial.

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Shoot the *******s dead and save the circus atmosphere and a lot of money.
Eric Holder made an ass out himself, Obama and the U.S. by putting a terrorist on trial, I think, hope, Pres. Obama learned his lesson. Sometimes learning the hard-way is the best way.

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Originally Posted by Eki

According to wikileaks, Al Qaeda has threatened to detonate a nuclear bomb in Europe if Osama is killed.

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SO?