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Osama Bin Laden is dead.

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  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Smartass...

    And I wouldn't like you any other way.
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    Ok that was just good I was ab out to take a dig at America but you pulled it before me.
  • KomodinKomodin
    The Sonic Series Wiki Curator of TvTropes
    Nice to know... 
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    More seriously, I thought Interpol had him in their most wanted list? I mean, I'm sure it wasn't just the USA behind him...
  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.
    What sort of bugs me is that bin Laden was buried according to Muslim funereal customs, instead of dumped in a lagoon of pig shit. That way, all of his followers would see that he wasn't made a martyr, and that by their own interpretation of their religion he could never go to heaven.

    That would probably be a PR fiasco for us, though. And it's a little petty. But a quick, humane death was far more than bin Laden ever deserved.
  • TheConductorTheConductor
    What difference does it make though? Yeah he was a dick, and his death is a good thing. But that's not going to stop his organisation, someone else will just take the helm.
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    It feels satisfying, is what.

    This man has been brought up in the public's eye as the man responsible for 9/11. And until now, he has escaped all punishment for it.

    With his death, the public finally sees justice as having been served.

    That's the difference now. Bin Laden hit America, and by extension the entire world, hard with 9/11, and then disappeared entirely. Now, we can rest, assured that the man we see as responsible for the incident is dead.

    Osama was a terrorist. Emphasis on the terror. With him dead, the terror he brought with his presence is gone.
  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    Kichigai birthday!!
    Yay and stuff
  • Trash_VortexTrash_Vortex
    edited 2011-05-02 06:34:51
    It feels wrong to celebrate his death, even though he was a mass murderer. I don't know. I do feel happy in a way that he's gone, but sad that this all had to happen in the first place.
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    • It feels wrong to celebrate his death, even though he was a mass murderer. I don't know. I do feel happy in a way that he's gone, but sad that this all had to happen in the first place. 


      I feel happy that the threat he carries is gone, but said that a human had to die for it.

      Is that like what you mean?
  • Trash_VortexTrash_Vortex
    I mean all the humans who died because of everyone involved- the people Osama killed, all the soldiers who died on the effort, etc.
  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    It gives the grieving people a necessary sense of resolution, but the U.S. has to be very careful about how they handle the PR. Too much grandstanding and hyperboles, and it'll make him a martyr, plus distract from the fact that the situation on the ground remains pretty much the same. Many jihadi's didn't join because of Osama, but because of omg foreign occupation.

  • KinoKino
    Quit being a whiny bitch and man up.
    Good fuckin riddance.
  • BecNoirBecNoir
    Mexican fag
    ^ This.
  • KinoKino
    Quit being a whiny bitch and man up.
    Now we just gotta kill Ayman al-Zawahiri and Mullah Omar.


  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.
    There are very few people whose deaths I would celebrate. Bin Laden's name was at the top of a very short list, alongside Ghaddafi, Kim Jong Il and Robert Mugabe.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    My dad is damn glad about this, but he then went into a "this won't mean anything as long as we have a muslim-sympathsizer president".

    He keeps saying "muslim" like it's a bad thing....
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    I agree with Trash, I guess.  I mean, I guess this is a good thing?  It's certainly made a lot of people happy.

    But it's not like he was doing anything anymore, right?  So it just seems kind of pointless.  I suppose the symbolic effect might well be positive, but, well, not to be a wet blanket, but I'm kind of nervous.  I'm apprehensive about what his followers will do in retaliation.

    I mean, there's no way they could actually nuke a European country, right?  That's gotta be an empty threat.  But I'm still kind of uneasy.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    I can see what you mean, Bobby. But there's the fact that he was doing something. He was still Al Qaeda's emir/commander. If anything, he decided to stop speaking. And keep shooting.
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    Personally I would have liked to see justice in some form of trial.

    But he is apparently dead now, so I guess not.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    edited 2011-05-02 09:26:45
    Because you never know what you might see.
    "Pointless" was the wrong word.  More like... I dunno, I think people are making a bigger deal of this than is wise.  The terrorists are still out there.  He was one man.

    Maybe I'm just cynical.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    I feel similarly. Yeah, I'm not going to mourn his death, but this doesn't really mean much. I mean, he was a sick old man anyway.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    But killing their leader has to put them in a "SHIT FUCK GODDAMMIT WTF DO WE DO KNOW" state. Hopefully, we kinda threw them completely out of whack.

    Also, yesterday, /b/ crashed due to so many patriotic threads.
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    Or a "ATTACK USA FOR THIS TRAVESTY" state. (Hence the US embassies are on alert)
  • ┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻
    Tableflipper
    "The problem is i'm a misanthrope so I have a hard time seeing anyone else including myself as any better."

    ...then why do you feel bad for this specific human's death or dislike how others are celebrating it?
  • TheConductorTheConductor
    My Dad's Conspiracy Theory: Due to the fact that 'Bin Laden' was burred at sea, that the US have actually captured him and are either now torturing him for information or have paid him off to just disappear. 
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    Out of interest, does anyone have links that actually prove it was his body or anything, please?

    As all the articles I've read so far haven't mentioned/shown anything like that.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2011-05-02 10:12:34
    You can change. You can.
    Here (Gory, NSFW)
  • SaigyoujiSaigyouji
    edited 2011-05-02 10:13:21
    But you never had any to begin with.
    ^^ Apparently, they performed DNA tests on the body, with the aid of DNA from his deceased sister.

    http://www.thebostonchannel.com/r/27739824/detail.html
  • Trash_VortexTrash_Vortex
    ^^ Fake, I'm afraid.

    Also, what does Barack Obama have to do to get the Fox Newsites to like him?
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