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What is your reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden?
I am glad someone shot him. 22%  22%  [ 36 ]
I wish he had died of natural causes (i.e. cancer or another disease) 1%  1%  [ 2 ]
Good riddance. Lets party now and celebrate his death! 18%  18%  [ 29 ]
Indifferent. 25%  25%  [ 40 ]
Sad that a human being was killed. 12%  12%  [ 19 ]
Other. Please explain. 22%  22%  [ 36 ]
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02 May 2011, 10:51 am

Actually I predict this will make Osama a martyr and will increase Al Quada recruitment

grat job seals, morons :(

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02 May 2011, 10:52 am

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I just hope this accelerates the end of all of the pointless wars.

It won't.


I know it's just wishful thinking. Declaring "war" on abstract concepts (drugs, poverty, crime, terrorism, etc) only exacerbates the problems.



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02 May 2011, 10:59 am

Phonic wrote:
Actually I predict this will make Osama a martyr and will increase Al Quada recruitment

grat job seals, morons :(

sigh


Yeah..Navy Seals are " Morons"....and what brilliant rock did you crawl out from under? you think Osama was not a martyr already within the Islamic world?



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02 May 2011, 11:09 am

I'm sorry if celebrating the death of someone seems horrible. However, after 9/11 he got what he deserved. Good riddance.



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02 May 2011, 11:19 am

i saw that on news early this morning too.i would be hesitent to celibrate yet becaue people like bin laden have many doplegangers.im sure for 100%that is the real osama bin laden.im sure being a wanted as he is or was and with his wealth a military saport i would not be saprised if they killed one of his probably many doplegangers


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02 May 2011, 11:20 am

Phonic wrote:
Actually I predict this will make Osama a martyr and will increase Al Quada recruitment

grat job seals, morons :(

sigh


at least osama bin-laden now can collect his well-earned 72 white grapes at the pearly port in heaven...



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02 May 2011, 11:20 am

Sorry, I didn't mean to start a bunch of flaming wars. I just feel strongly ambivalent and conflicted about the situation. I am a former New Yorker, and have a family member who used to have an office a few blocks from where the twin towers used to be. I don't like saying this, but conceptually I think it was necessary, but it was definitely justifiable based on his actions. Emotionally I feel a bit more confused though.



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02 May 2011, 11:26 am

What do I feel? A sense of relief, mostly. Bin Laden was apparently one of the major sources of funding for al Qaeda - it seems highly unlikely that his family would permit any more diversion of the fortune to them in his absence. He was also a major figurehead, and rallying point - and now the US has demonstrated that even a wealthy terrorist, with what passes for power and connections locally, is not beyond our reach. Anyone who attempts to succeed him will be facing the same sort of opposition from the US - and without bin Laden's advantages.

Oh, and I have no doubt that bin Laden is dead. After all, his death topped the news cycles worldwide. If he weren't actually sinking into the Indian Ocean, weighed down by several rounds of steel-jacketed lead, he'd have popped up on al-Jazeera by now to mock the Great Satan.


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02 May 2011, 11:28 am

I'm sorry about the rest of you, but i'm happy. Sick animal the man was.



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02 May 2011, 11:35 am

Whatever. This doesn't affect me in any way.



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02 May 2011, 12:03 pm

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This was my immediate reaction:

"Does anybody else . . .anybody at all . . . realize that this has little to no impact? That Bin Laden has spent most of the last decade in hiding and has had very little to do with actually running terrorist operations? That his death is the death of a man who served as a conceptual head, and so loses no power in his dying? Anyway, I hate to comment, but you are all excited over nothing."

It is still my reaction.


It shouldn't be. His death demonstrates that the US has a long reach, and that's important.


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02 May 2011, 12:10 pm

paladin wrote:
Sorry, I didn't mean to start a bunch of flaming wars.

I don't think this is a flame war, just people expressing their opinions. :-)



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02 May 2011, 12:12 pm

Well, let me put it this way: I'm not going to celebrate anyone's death but I am glad that the world may be somewhat safer.



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02 May 2011, 12:17 pm

I was quite shocked, but very glad. What will happen next? Will someone take his place? Who knows...



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02 May 2011, 12:25 pm

Meh.. Surprised that it took 10 years to find him. I am a pacifist and war on any level seems ridiculous to me, I can't help it. However, as an Aspie I have a great interest in the intricacies involved in planning and carrying out a SEAL operation like this. My mind is filled with dilemmas such as this.

He is gone, and that is a positive. However, there are hundreds of thousands that remain who share OBL's hatred of America.


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02 May 2011, 12:45 pm

In a way I'm glad Osama is dead. In another it makes me nervous because there is most likely going to be an act of revenge on the US.


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