bin laden is dead

[Anonymous]

I agree with the people who say the celebrating in the streets might not have been the wisest decision. Maybe a vigil to remember those who were killed in 9-11 might have been a better way to go. I am afraid images of us celebrating shown around the world are just going to provoke the extremists.

I do wish Obama credited the troups more as others mentioned. However, I do think he has a right to take some credit. Plenty of presidents have taken credit for things that happened under their watch.

I don't care if Bin Laden was killed a few days ago and we didn't find out until today. Maybe they needed to make absolutely sure it was him and/or prepare to defend the nations capital and other places in the US as well as our troups abroad in case there is an attack of retaliation.

I am alarmed Bin Laden was living so lavishly in a suburb, but I do wonder. Did the Pakistan governement help us, but they want no mention for fear of retaliation? Or were they actually efing us over. I think it's complicated.

I am nervous about an attack and have a right to be nervous. That said, life goes on and this is part of living in the DC area.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Military base didn't agree with this operation not Obama base. Obama gave order. Republicans bring up birth certificate again

[Anonymous]

Hot damn!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I am alarmed Bin Laden was living so lavishly in a suburb, but I do wonder. Did the Pakistan governement help us, but they want no mention for fear of retaliation? Or were they actually efing us over. I think it's complicated.

Well, given where Bin Laden turned out to be, it is obvious that the Pakistanis have been protecting him for quite some time. Our options for dealing with that in the manner it deserves are probably pretty limited, but I hope we have some idea who the key players responsible for that are, and that there are some.....unfortunate accidents.....involving those people in the not too distant future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As long as we're clear that America is now in the business of meting out Old Testament justice. Due process is definitely on holiday here, college kids! They shot him in the head. This was an execution.

You know what? He wasn't an American citizen nor on American soil, so due process doesn't apply. F&^% him!

[Anonymous]

wikileaks reporting that some guantanamo detainee said there is a nucelar bomb to be unleashed if osama is ever killed or taken into custody. i wonder if that's maybe all hyperbole - part of the myth osama created...

in other news, i'm pakistani and want to point out that suburb of islamabad is not the same as suburb of washington - roads are not like they are here - there's aren't highways like you're thinking of. the psycological distance from islamabad to abbatobad is like DC to a random hillside in west virginia - yes, its not that far, but its certainly not on my radar.

and i appreciate POTUS's calling the Pakistani president (corrupt he may be, but he is still an elected leader), but i hope, hope, hope (for the sake of pakistan) that it will come out that the pakistanis were HELPING our forces find ubl.

[Anonymous]

Liberal here. Glad Osama is dead. Agree that he was resisting arrest/it was in essence, suicide by cop. The first thing I thought as I heard the news driving in today was, "hope this isn't the signal for a retalitory attack". Not that it stopped me from going to my job in DC. But it's a reasonable worry, I think.

And it's so funny how I can tell the Dems from the Republicans on FB - Democrats are happy Osama is dead. Republicans are thanking "our military". Conveniently ignoring who the head of our military is.....

I don't care who did it or when. I don't care that Bush didn't do it - it wouldn't have happened without the last ten years of hard work by ALL involved. I think this is one moment when we can try not to be partisan, people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Liberal here. Glad Osama is dead. Agree that he was resisting arrest/it was in essence, suicide by cop. The first thing I thought as I heard the news driving in today was, "hope this isn't the signal for a retalitory attack". Not that it stopped me from going to my job in DC. But it's a reasonable worry, I think.

And it's so funny how I can tell the Dems from the Republicans on FB - Democrats are happy Osama is dead. Republicans are thanking "our military". Conveniently ignoring who the head of our military is.....

I don't care who did it or when. I don't care that Bush didn't do it - it wouldn't have happened without the last ten years of hard work by ALL involved.

I think this is one moment when we can try not to be partisan, people.

totally agree.

didn't POTUS say we need to be united?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Liberal here. Glad Osama is dead. Agree that he was resisting arrest/it was in essence, suicide by cop. The first thing I thought as I heard the news driving in today was, "hope this isn't the signal for a retalitory attack". Not that it stopped me from going to my job in DC. But it's a reasonable worry, I think.

And it's so funny how I can tell the Dems from the Republicans on FB - Democrats are happy Osama is dead. Republicans are thanking "our military". Conveniently ignoring who the head of our military is.....

I don't care who did it or when. I don't care that Bush didn't do it - it wouldn't have happened without the last ten years of hard work by ALL involved. I think this is one moment when we can try not to be partisan, people.

Conservative here: I'm not an Obama fan, and will oppose him in 2012, but everyone in this country ought to be grateful for what he accomplished and give him full marks for a job very well done on this.

[Anonymous]

Obama did in 2 years what W couldn't do in 8. What else is there to say?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
@jsteele, if you read a few of the posts, they're complaining that we did kill him. It's not unreasonable to assume that a sizeable percentage of liberals truly are, at their heart, uncomfortable with the manner in which bin Laden died.

It is absolutely unreasonable to assume that a sizable percentage of liberals are uncomfortable with the manner in which bin Laden died. That's exactly like saying that there is a sizable percentage of conservatives who are unhappy that UBL was killed because Obama will get credit. Sure, there are examples of both, but they hardly constitute sizable percentages and, in the case of the liberals, they don't constitute Obama's base. Obama's base is not the far left. The far left gave up on Obama a long time ago.

And, for the poster who said this was reported on CNN, I think it's time to switch channels.

Actually a few of the posts I read on Facebook were complaining that Obama will just use this to make himself look good. Some of the posters on Fox News, etc., are theorizing that bin Laden was really killed in 2002.

Something like 30% of Dems think 9/11 was an inside job and 40% of Republicans think Obama wasn't born in the USA.

So it's not unreasonable to think of people viewing life through such politicized lenses.

[Anonymous]

Republicans don't find objectivity in anything

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:
Something like 30% of Dems think 9/11 was an inside job

Do you have a source for that? I think that is complete BS.

[Anonymous]

For those of you that have posted about this happening days ago, I was watching live footage in the middle of the night (I can't remember what channel, cause we were flipping) that showed the mansion still in flames. It may have gone down late Saturday night, into Sunday U.S. time, but still May 1st in Pakistan.

[Anonymous]

Actually a few of the posts I read on Facebook were complaining that Obama will just use this to make himself look good. Some of the posters on Fox News, etc., are theorizing that bin Laden was really killed in 2002.

Something like 30% of Dems think 9/11 was an inside job and 40% of Republicans think Obama wasn't born in the USA.

So it's not unreasonable to think of people viewing life through such politicized lenses.

That's about the dumbest thing I've ever read. These "posters" (who are presumably Republicans or, to paraphrase Anthony Bourdain, their Hezbollah-like splinter group, Tea Partiers), believe that OBL was killed during Bush's presidency, and he never publicized it? Okey-dokey.