What is your reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden?

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"Ding Dong! Bin Ladens' dead, Bin ladens' dead!
Ding Dong! Bin Ladens dead and gone....."

Seriously Bin Laden was a squanderer of biblical proportions right up there with Haman and his sons. Al-Qaeda is a loose network that was made possible by the
internet and its only purpose was to create carnage and terror for the sake of carnage and terror. Other groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah have built hospitals and
established trade unions and gained some legitimacy in the eyes of the rest of the Arab world. Al-Qaeda killed as many Arabs and Muslims as Westerners. They will never
rise up to what they were before Bin Laden's demise.
Iran, Syria and Lybia are going to be our next major thorns in our sides.

I am totally against the "eye for the eye" philosophy. However, with this parasite, he ordered his guards to shoot him if he was close to being captured. When he opened fire against the SEALS during the raid, he sealed his fate.

I am relieved he is removed from this world, but I did not celebrate his death unlike the people in the streets of DC. Which is why I chose the Other option. I am against executions, but sometimes scum like Osama leave you no choice and no one else deserves to die due to his actions.

Osame Bin Laden was definitely not a good person, but I wish they had captured him instead and brought him back for trial, instead of just shooting him in the head. Even the Nazi war criminals all got trials --ie. Judgment at Nuremberg-- they weren't just summarily executed. Now we will never really known what happened. I just do not feel much joy at the spectacle of someone's house being invaded and someone being shot in the head --not matter how bad a person they are alleged to be --that's what that's why we have courts and a justice system.The government refuses to bring the detainees at Gitmo to court for trial --just locks them up and throws away the key.Now everyone is celebrating whenever allegedly bad people are shot or bombed--not just bin Ladenn but also Khadafy's grandchildren who were killed this weekend while doing nothing more threatening than playing with their toys. And they say that Muslims hate us and want to kill us. Gee, I wonder why.

Riddence and whatever. One less butt ugly idiot.

If you deal in death, your payment will be in death. His ending was consistent with the things he did. If he just lived his life as the rich man who kept to himself, this would not have happened.

However, I question the lack of a body. So it was dumped over seas? No pictures of the body are around? I am not going to infer anything from this, but I am concerned.

My reaction is that he already died in 2001, "conveniently" was resurrected, and now "conveniently" died again.

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICL ... a_dead.php

The alleged attacks against the above site, on the 1st of May, makes this even more interesting. Maybe a dirty bomb soon explodes in a big American city, and the blame is put on "terrorists" - which, of course, "whoever behind it" *would* be.

The war is over, bring the troops home.

I see the raid as an unpleasant but necessary means of self defense. Unpleasant because the thought of violence is always unpleasant. Unpleasant because I found myself unable to rise to the level of those who are completely free of violence. I admire those who would die before defending themselves, rather than harm another person. Even if that person was attacking them. I suspect those people are very rare. Jesus, Buddha, etc.

Osama bin Laden called the USA a "Paper Tiger" when he was gloating after 9/11. He was basically saying that we can be attacked without significant repercussions. Ending his life (which could also be seen as a police action, since he resisted "arrest") reduces the chance that others who think like him would attack us with impunity.

I agree with DeaconBlues- if OBL was not killed, he would put out another video holding a current newspaper to prove that we didn't end his life.

The reason we did a covert operation was because Pakistan would never let us send troops into their territory.

While the death of bin Laden is only one step in the war on terror, it would very likely deal a psychological blow to al-Qaida and other groups in the region. If we get rid of Zawahri, Mullah Omar, the Haqqanis, and the Mehsuds, that would be just as big.

Plus if Assad is overthrown in Syria, and the protests in that region reach Iran on a much larger caliber than they did in June 2009, that would deal a serious blow to Hamas and Hezbollah