Bin laden is dead!

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Espy

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I do get what Charlie is reacting to though (not the brown people thing, that was... uniquely horrible, seriously, WTF?) but seeing some of the reactions from folks over this has been... eerie.
 
Gared

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Jay said:
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One of the news readers on the news radio station I listen to on my commute did just that, while talking about the celebration going on last night at Joint Base Lewis McChord. I can't remember her exact words, but it was something to the effect of "We're just happy to have finally killed Obama, I mean Osama." Talk about a slip of the tongue.
 
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I agree with that part 100%. Cheering for a death is something I find very disturbing. I even find it disheartening that another human being is dead. But to paint the people who do cheer in such a way is unfair and as much an strange unjustified judgement as racism itself.
 
Covar

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Gared said:
One of the news readers on the news radio station I listen to on my commute did just that, while talking about the celebration going on last night at Joint Base Lewis McChord. I can't remember her exact words, but it was something to the effect of "We're just happy to have finally killed Obama, I mean Osama." Talk about a slip of the tongue.
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It's an easy slip to make, especially in the current context where both names will be getting used in stories.
 
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Tinwhistler said:
I can understand all the pics of the college age kids cheering.

Hell, since these kids were little, bin Laden has been the 'boogeyman'. Some of these kids were 8 or 9 years old when the WTC came down. The war on terror has dominated a great portion of their lives, and we Just Got the Bad Guy.

I'm not surprised at all at the celebration.
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On the other hand, I really wish everyone would quit pimping reddit pictures for karma ;)
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I wouldn't say I was surprised either. Just disturbed.
 
Null

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One hopes that without his financial support, leadership, and symbolic significance, the organizations he founded will be far less effective. But that is far from certain.
 
Jay

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Gared said:
One of the news readers on the news radio station I listen to on my commute did just that, while talking about the celebration going on last night at Joint Base Lewis McChord. I can't remember her exact words, but it was something to the effect of "We're just happy to have finally killed Obama, I mean Osama." Talk about a slip of the tongue.
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The only difference between Obama and Osama is a little B.S.
 
sixpackshaker

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Null said:
One hopes that without his financial support, leadership, and symbolic significance, the organizations he founded will be far less effective. But that is far from certain.
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I keep seeing people call Bin Laden a figure head, no he was far more than that. It is good to see some one agree on that point.
 
Tress

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I saw this on Gawker and thought I should share. I'm not really endorsing it nor am I condemning it, just adding it to the discussion.

Sometimes a Little Bloodlust is in Order

John Cook — Amid all the ululation and praise for great men in the wake of Osama bin Laden's assassination, a few killjoys have emerged to shame us for celebrating a man's death. We are not barbarians!
Oh yes we are. Usually that's a bad thing. But if there is ever a time when we should give ourselves license to surrender to our animal selves and dance on the grave of an enemy, this is it.
The scolds come from across the ideological spectrum. In Salon, David Sirota warns that jingoistic cries of "USA! USA! USA!" are no better than the mad rants of the jihadis: "For decades, we have held in contempt those who actively celebrate death.... But in the years since 9/11, we have begun vaguely mimicking those we say we despise, sometimes celebrating bloodshed against those we see as Bad Guys just as vigorously as our enemies celebrate bloodshed against innocent Americans they (wrongly) deem as Bad Guys."
At the Corner, conservative Catholic Kathryn Jean Lopez worries that killing people makes the baby Jesus cry: "[D]eath is never a cause for celebration. We should always be uneasy about such things." On the web site of David Frum, another right-winger, a rabbi reminds us that "public rejoicing about the death of an enemy is entirely inappropriate." (Frum himself seems to disagree.)
Moral clarity is a rare gift, and these people want to rob you of one of the few opportunities that a conflicted, peaceful, human-rights-loving liberal will ever have to unabashedly wave the flag in joy at a vanquished foe. Don't let them! The laudable instinct to step back from tribal revelry is rooted in a sense of our common humanity, and the ease with which it is forgotten. But Osama bin Laden is a moral monster of the highest order, with gallons of blood on his hands, and he earned his fate in spades. Not because he has been cartoonishly portrayed as a villain by the U.S., or because he looks funny, or because his policy goals conflict with those of the U.S. and therefore must be destroyed—it's because he personally orchestrated the deaths of 3,000 innocents, on purpose, to prove a point. Actions have consequences!
You're allowed to comprehend that he is a person, a father, a son, with dreams and desires, and also be absolutely over the moon that he got shot in the head yesterday.
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Soooo... will there be pictures of the recently perished bin Laden? You know, Che Guevara style? That oughta shut people up.
On second thought... scratch that idea. Even Che looked like crap.
 
ThatNickGuy

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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/bin-laden-used-woman-human-shield-us-official-191106863.html

Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden used one of his wives as a human shield in an apparent attempt to try to save his own life during a raid by US covert forces, a top US official said Monday.
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Wow, if that's true, then the guy is an evil prick and a coward. Oh, and also dead. Have I mentioned "good riddance"?

Someone should make a "Hope" parody shirt with a picture of Osama with the word "Dead". :D
 
SpecialKO

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sixpackshaker said:
The pics that are making the rounds now are fake.

The White House is still debating releasing the actual pics.
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You know, I'm totally fine with them not publicizing the pics, just showing them to independent experts. I feel like publicly releasing pics of a guy shot in the head for the sake of public edification pretty clearly crosses the line into "reveling in death" territory.
 
LittleSin

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I am not American...but I'm totally okay with people celebrating a persons death.

I don't even have a good reason for it other then I'm pretty sure that's something humans do.
 
Jay

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A few pages late Sir.
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Wow, if that's true, then the guy is an evil prick and a coward. Oh, and also dead. Have I mentioned "good riddance"? :D
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Wow, the last moment of his life was hiding behind "a woman". Figures.

Either rate, it's not like they would have given him ANY opportunity to escape.
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Mathias

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@Li3n said:
Yeah, putting words in his mouth is a great way to get him to reconsider his stance...



And i'm sure they where not celebrating the death of innocent people either, they where relieved that the US wasn't immune to retribution... and it was justifiable because the US is a threat to the muslim world etc.


Seriously, stop helping, you're just making him more secure in his snugness... (the irony is that he's as self righteous as the people he's criticising for being self righteous).
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Shut up.
 
DarkAudit

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CrimsonSoul said:
BREAKING NEWS: Chuck Norris safely back in America after overnight trip to Pakistan.
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Chuck Norris is far too much of a lying coward to make that trip. (He's fucked over family members, so the dislike is personal).

A toast to SEAL Team Six, who did make the trip. :D
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