Bin Laden Killed? Who's buying it?

[jmdrake]

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4672216/what-is-navy-seal-team-6
Scheuer interview

I'm still not sure why we put so much faith in this former CIA operative.

That said, it is interesting that the reporter pointed out that OBL's compound was < 100 yards from a Pakistani military compound and that Scheuer pointed out that this means Pakistani intelligence was probably protecting OBL all along or at least knew he was there. (Well duh!)

 

[PatriotOne]

I'm happy with a 75/25 percent split. In 2007, 75% would have believed it so substantial progress has been made on these boards. Wish I had made the boards public now so we know who needs to go to special ed classes...hehe.

 

[jclay2]

I'm happy with a 75/25 percent split. In 2007, 75% would have believed it so substantial progress has been made on these boards. Wish I had made the boards public now so we know who needs to go to special ed classes...hehe.

Don't be to harsh. They are slowly coming around.

 

[nate895]

I think it's pointless to argue about this now. Bin Laden's dead, whether he was dead 10 years ago, 5 years ago, or yesterday is beyond the point. Getting the troops home will now be even more of a cause celebre than it was before. That means that if Obama doesn't start taking the troops home soon, it will be the golden opportunity for Ron Paul to be swept in on a populist uprising.

 

[Matt Collins]

 

[Dreamofunity]

When it first happened, I was surprised given I had believed him dead for some time. But, when they were claiming they had the body and all, I thought, "Oh, okay, maybe he was alive. Good thing we got him."

Now with the whole 'throw him in the ocean, that sounds like a good idea' thing, I lean back to my original belief of him being dead for sometime.

 

[nate895]

That idiot with his shirt off is, well, an idiot.

 

[JohnGalt1225]

No, the government is just orchestrating an easily falsifiable lie which would necessarily involve hundreds of people keeping quiet for the rest of their lives...

Don't you realize it doesn't matter? Now that the government has made it the official story that bin Laden was killed last night in a scene straight out of a Tom Clancy novel and then dumped in the ocean. That's that. Anyone who questions it, even with legit information will be a "conspiracy theorist." They'll become "deathers" along with truthers, birthers, etc. Even if Osama bin Laden comes out with a video (assuming he still may be alive), Uncle Sam will have a parade of "experts" and Karl Rove types to inform us it's a fake.

 

[jmdrake]

I think it's pointless to argue about this now. Bin Laden's dead, whether he was dead 10 years ago, 5 years ago, or yesterday is beyond the point. Getting the troops home will now be even more of a cause celebre than it was before. That means that if Obama doesn't start taking the troops home soon, it will be the golden opportunity for Ron Paul to be swept in on a populist uprising.

How many troops came home after this happened?

Yes we should make the case that this should end the GWOT and we should get our freedoms back. But I wouldn't hold my breast on that happening spontaneously.

 

[jmdrake]

That idiot with his shirt off is, well, an idiot.

Yeah. But there are millions more just like him.

 

[PatriotOne]

Don't be to harsh. They are slowly coming around.

That was me being nice! I could have been alot ruder to people who believe osama was thrown in the ocean and that that's normal procedure for the most wanted man in the world. hahahahahahahahahaha

 

[nate895]

How many troops came home after this happened?

Yes we should make the case that this should end the GWOT and we should get our freedoms back. But I wouldn't hold my breast on that happening spontaneously.

The difference is that Hussein wasn't "enemy no. 1" like Bin Laden was. The entire stated reason we were anywhere in the Mid East was to put pressure on Bin Laden's terror network. Now that he is dead, our stated reason for being there goes by the wayside. People are already starting to talk about using this for the purpose of bringing the troops home. Even Charles Krauthammer was talking about that.

 

[vita3]

Rube long weekend.

Royal Wedding phoney-baloney & the osama shot in the eye the next Sunday & tossed him in the ocean bit

How can this ever be topped?

 

[jmdrake]

The difference is that Hussein wasn't "enemy no. 1" like Bin Laden was. The entire stated reason we were anywhere in the Mid East was to put pressure on Bin Laden's terror network. Now that he is dead, our stated reason for being there goes by the wayside. People are already starting to talk about using this for the purpose of bringing the troops home. Even Charles Krauthammer was talking about that.

Ummm...technically the reason for 9/11 was because we were in the middle east. And by the time Hussein was captured he had become public enemy number 1. Bush had gone on TV and said he wasn't even "thinking" about OBL. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and that was admitted by the Bush administration....after they first lied about it. I'm glad Charles Krauthammer is talking about this. I'm glad Michael Steele came out against the war in Afghanistan before getting canned. But at the same time people are using this to push for expanding the GWOT.

 

[nate895]

How can this ever be topped?

Ron Paul gets elected and brings the troops home.

 

[nobody's_hero]

They'll become "deathers" along with truthers, birthers, etc. .

Already starting.

But, I'm convinced that one day my grandchildren will think very poorly of the folks of my generation for believing anything the government said.

 

[ClayTrainor]

 

[Freedom 4 all]

President of Pakistan said he was dead, a few days before she was assassinated. I'm sure those things have no connection whatsoever.

 

[nate895]

Ummm...technically the reason for 9/11 was because we were in the middle east. And by the time Hussein was captured he had become public enemy number 1. Bush had gone on TV and said he wasn't even "thinking" about OBL. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and that was admitted by the Bush administration....after they first lied about it. I'm glad Charles Krauthammer is talking about this. I'm glad Michael Steele came out against the war in Afghanistan before getting canned. But at the same time people are using this to push for expanding the GWOT.

Some people are, but I don't think the American people in general are up for it. We have been at war for ten years, it can't go on for much longer. Our treasury is empty and more men shed blood by the day. Bin Laden being dead is the perfect excuse for what everyone wanted to do in the first place: Go home.

 

[nobody's_hero]

Clay, I feel that the folks who believe that this announcement has secured Obama a second term are seriously discounting the short-term memory of the American people. If Obama wanted this to help him in a re-election, he should have saved the announcement for mid-October 2012, at the earliest.

A lot can happen in the next 18 months. $6/gal gas. Currency crisis. Another bubble pop. Natural disaster. Superbowl.