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Originally posted by chancemusky
I see no problem with this assassination. He's killed enough people, why let him try and take any more?
Originally posted by DarthChrisious
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Originally posted by TheRealTruth84
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Originally posted by Titen-Sxull
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They had no reason to attack him.
Originally posted by Mister_Bit
BBC news has been reporting that it was a kill mission, no plans to ever capture him and I think that was probably for the best.
Best for the reason that having him held somewhere would only cause Al-Qaeda to plan rescue missions or hostage taking missions or indeed just threaten to spark off a nuke unless he was released.
Revenge missions are of course a probablility but they wouldn't have a bargining chip.
Originally posted by MagoSA
the reality of this is that OBL is dead, he was shot, bagged, tagged, and slagged off into the ocean to never be found again.
A death photo is supposed to be coming soon, something to prove he was left-eyed and properly identified.
Now, beyond that, we got the dude. He's dead, we're not, so that means we won. That's how war works.
Anything else is quibbling at this point. Who cares if he was on teh CIA payroll? He masterminded 9/11.
Who cares if Pakistan was hiding him and using our cash to do it? He got an up-close and personal look at a US bullet. Its still on his mind, so to speak.
In the end, he was the bad guy and he got killed for it. That's the way it works. No sense in having victory remorse.
I drank a beer in celebration Sunday night. I hope someone stuck a piece of ham in with his body...
Other than the fact that he was an internationally wanted fugitive guilty of orchestrating mass murder.
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How can you say they had no reason to attack him! They had thousands upon thousands of reasons to assassinate him. There is no compassion in war...hell, this was the most compassionate option.
They had every reason in the world to attack him. He was a mass murderer of thousands of people from many different countries and religions, Muslims included.
Assassinated? That may be an accurate term.
Ambushed? No. Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed. Osama got complacent.
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
Interesting... the 3000 people in the Twin Towers didn't retaliate when they were ambushed either...
How about that... what a coincidence...
I see no problem with this assassination.