The reported demise of Bin Laden

**clocker** · 05-05-2011, 02:51 AM

I can understand and appreciate- and for the most part, agree- with all you say, sir.

Your mention of Carter is timely, I had just been thinking of him and the fact that he bore the brunt of the blame for the extraction debacle.
When politically expedient, the Republicans will happily ignore the military's complicity in failure and blame the White House, very unlike today when the military (and via SP, George Bush)
get the credit and Obama's part is marginalized.

I have yet to hear how Bachmann or Trump will claim credit but have no doubt my wait will be short.

**Snee** · 05-05-2011, 08:28 PM

Tbh, I don't really see him being alive and at large with that announcement having been made.

The somewhat mysterious burial at sea could mean several things though.

*Might be someone really went to town on him while he was still alive, and they didn't dare drop him off with someone else because of it.

*Or someone did the same to his body, after they killed him.

*Or he's alive somewhere, in US custody. Fun times would be had, if so.

I suppose it could be some sort of witless protection scheme, but naaaah.

Other than that, yes he was a bad man, and whoever trained him, and whoever made him into what he was, he made some terrible choices in more senses than one, and deserved to be punished for it. However, like Zed says, someone died, actually more than one someone as it wasn't without collateral damage.

Hard to feel pity for him, but some of the people celebrating it around message boards and whatnot are such douchebags it's quite astounding, and disgraceful. But not necessarily in this particular thread or on this particular board, thankfully.

**devilsadvocate** · 05-05-2011, 08:56 PM

Well I think enough time has passed by to consider this answered

Originally Posted by devilsadvocate

I'm just wondering, with the ~~presidential campaign~~ mind-blowingly stupid season upon us, how this will be spun against the president.

The usual suspects didn't disappoint and I doubt we've heard the dumbest of it yet.

**IdolEyes787** · 05-06-2011, 01:58 AM

Originally Posted by Snee

Tbh, I don't really see him being alive and at large with that announcement having been made.

The somewhat mysterious burial at sea could mean several things though.

*Might be someone really went to town on him while he was still alive, and they didn't dare drop him off with someone else because of it.

*Or someone did the same to his body, after they killed him.

*Or he's alive somewhere, in US custody. Fun times would be had, if so.

I suppose it could be some sort of witless protection scheme, but naaaah.

If the idea was to dispel doubts of his demise I find the choice of words strange . "You will not see bin Laden walking on this earth again."

**devilsadvocate** · 05-10-2011, 01:59 PM

**j2k4** · 05-10-2011, 07:43 PM

Hopefully, this "burial-at-sea" constituted whatever "washing of the body" took place.

I would've let out that he was buried somewhere in the sand, without disclosing any information whatsoever about the 'where' of things.

**bigboab** · 05-10-2011, 09:29 PM

Originally Posted by j2k4

Hopefully, this "burial-at-sea" constituted whatever "washing of the body" took place.

I would've let out that he was buried somewhere in the sand, without disclosing any information whatsoever about the 'where' of things.

Where else would you expect a seal to get rid of a dead body but in the sea?

**j2k4** · 05-10-2011, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by bigboab

Originally Posted by j2k4

Hopefully, this "burial-at-sea" constituted whatever "washing of the body" took place.

I would've let out that he was buried somewhere in the sand, without disclosing any information whatsoever about the 'where' of things.

Where else would you expect a seal to get rid of a dead body but in the sea?

Bob...they weren't real seals, ffs.

And they did have shovels available.

Ffs.