Bin Laden Dead?

ummmm the media has a history of doing things like that

"one man was holding up a t-shirt that said, Thank You President Bush."

Misread this as Osama:
"One man was holed up in a t-shir that said, Thank You President Bush."

also proof that no one, given the resources, wants to spend 10 years living in caves

ya, even hardcore terrorists love suburban sprawl

ESPECIALLY hardcore terrorists amirite?

There was fringey but perceptible speculation on "Was That Hitler's Body?" well into the '70s, so this is more than made to order for plenty o' that.

They hate us for our suburbs.

These frigging people.

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Would make sense if they'd hate you for

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xp

tbh the he was 'living in a dope secret mansion' aspect made me happier about this than I'd otherwise be...if we just threw a grenade in his cave or whatever it would be more 'eh whatever'

Let's see, here are all former Pres. Bush's notable interactions vis a vis Osama bin Laden:

1. Failed to react to intelligence advisory regarding his wish to attack the US.
2. Failed to capture him in Afghanistan when it was remotely possible to do so.

THANKS, DUBYA!

yeah that whole thing is kind of sickening

Obama even credited Bush, and secondly why does it really matter which president ultimately "took him out"

it matters if the black Democrat did it

he was 'living in a dope secret mansion'

foresee the Michael Mann film

If Bush had taken out Osama, than Obama never would have caught him. So Bush gets the bizarro-world assist.

If Bush had taken out Osama, it would have been sometime in the 80s and it would have been to a steakhouse

haha

"do u liek baseball"

At least from now on the absurd right wing "Obama is soft on terror" meme can now be met with this news.

and it wouldn't have been quite so teal and orange xp

lol, terror is like the one thing Obama is unambiguously firm on

Well.

The President’s Speech
May 2, 2011 9:16 A.M.
By Mark Steyn

I know, I know, if you can’t blog anything real nice it’s better not to blog at all, that’s my advice. Nevertheless:

Personally, I would have liked bin Laden’s death to have been announced by whatever lowest-level official was manning the night desk at the Department of Nondescript Bureaucrats, preferably reading it off the back of an envelope. But, if you’re going to put the head of state on TV to announce it himself, it would have been better to have been all brisk and businesslike – “At 0800 hours American military assets entered an address at 27b Jihadist Gardens, etc” – and finish off with a bit of Churchillian sober uplift about it not being the end or the beginning of the end but maybe the end of the beginning.

Instead, as Stephen Hunter, the novelist and Washington Post film critic, writes:

Any joy one might feel in the intelligence of our analysts and the bravery of our door kickers was significantly diminished by Obama’s malignant narcissism. The first part of the announcement, evoking 9/11, was vulgarly overwritten as per Obama’s view of himself as some kind of gifted orator. The adjective bloated compote was unworthy of the subject, banal and self-indulgent.

I was, I confess, a little stunned by the first part of the President’s speech. It was, as Mr Hunter says, overwritten. It managed to be both overwrought and generic – all that telepromptered overload about cloudless Tuesday mornings was not only tackily over-prettified but came over as unfelt and hand-me-down, like a course exercise in some third-rate creative-writing school’s Soaring Oratory class. Or, at any rate, as if they’d loaded up a first draft of September’s tenth anniversary speech into the machine. The official announcement was delayed for all this? If ever there was a moment for the commander-in-chief to be real, plainspoken and off his glassy-eyed follow-the-bouncing-ball routine, this was it. It’s as if nobody around him knows how to write except in the one tinny key.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m happy to rally round the flag, and rally round the President, but rally round this speech? No thanks.

I almost called the local Cuban right wing station to correct a geriatric who said this happened "in spite of" Obama's "elimination" of the military. I was going to remind her about Afghanistan and drone rockets but I think she died while talking to the talk show host, so I shut up.

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heres the powerline blog steyn quotes:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/05/028948.php

with the very, uh, telling last line:

That said, God bless the commandos! Man, I would have like to have been on that entry team!

How does Obama know the area Osama was hiding in so well? Makes you think.

I would have like to have been on that entry team!

is that gay slash fic?

it is now

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Previous #11 not yet added to the list.

i keep replying "Bin Laden IS dead" to this thread title, Linguo style

he was 'living in a dope secret mansion'

foresee the Michael Mann film

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Swift Boat Veterans for Truth saying US strike force shot into empty house, buried marionette at sea

Any joy one might feel in the intelligence of our analysts and the bravery of our door kickers was significantly diminished by Obama’s malignant narcissism.

Sure he prefers the modesty of the former White House occupant.

http://schizoamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/bush_hero_flight_suit.jpg

my wife went to bed before the news broke last night. i seriously had a debate with myself about whether to do something in the morning like go "so you know who died last night? Obama! [wait a few seconds for her to react, ask questions] ohhhh no wait sorry I mean Osama, Osama Bin Laden is the one that died."

couldn't go through with it, though.

Clearly you value your life.

Countdown to the cries of "THIS NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF NOT FOR WATERBOARDING" begin now.

I suggest we replace waterboarding with boogieboarding

ha Yeah, they're already crediting the intelligence they got from Gitmo prisoners

these fuckin guys with their "the speech was overwritten" constant ad-hom shit

graceless, racist, juvenile sons of bitches

h8 them h8 them h8 them all day

Graceless and juvenile, definitely. But how is it racist?

Oh the sons of bitches you mean, n/m

Stephen Hunter, the novelist and Washington Post film critic

Thankfully Hunter's prose re movies is not in the Washington Post much these days. Hunter's had his own share of embarrassing incidents that suggest his writing should not be given much credence.

Also, there's no evidence confirming that waterboarding of detainees is what got some of the intelligence

One courier in particular had our constant attention," the official said. He declined to give that courier's name but said he was a protégé of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a "trusted assistant" of Abu Faraj al-Libbi, a former senior al Qaeda officer who was captured in 2005.

"Detainees also identified this man as one of the few couriers trusted by bin Laden," the official said. The U.S. intelligence community uncovered the identity of this courier four years ago, and two years ago, the U.S. discovered the area of Pakistan this courier and his brother were working in.

In August 2010, the intelligence agencies found the exact compound where this courier was living, in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The neighborhood is affluent and many retired Pakistani military officials live there.
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/05/01/the_timeline_of_the_mission_to_kill_osama_bin_laden

two interesting things:

1) it seems like they waited good and long before deciding to attack this compound

2) it doesn't seem they were 100% sure they'd find OBL there

or even 90% sure

Great for Pakistan that OBL was basically caught in their iteration of West Point.

2) it doesn't seem they were 100% sure they'd find OBL there

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yeah this is kinda troubling isnt it? not surprising tho. they sent a big ol helicopter to a mansion with no real intent of seizing their target alive. this couldve turned out way worse!

wasn't waterboarding off limits by 2005?

What will Pakistan's explanation be for how a compound right near their West Point somehow went under the radar?

it really is "you are black; I will find fault with everything you do." I know that if you're black this is like an obvious daily reality but I'm naive and have this deep need to believe that people aren't as awful as they are, so when it's as obvious as it is in a time like the commander in chief of your country just got the guy you spent the last ten years making a big deal about getting & all you can do is "'he's reading from a teleprompter!' 'he's making it all about himself!' 'He didn't credit the white guy who failed for eight consecutive years, where's the credit for the white guy?'" fuckin...h8 h8 h8

i thought his speech was, you know, presidential. i've read that people like that sort of thing from their president.