Bin Laden Dead?

Washington Monthly:

In June 2009, Obama directed his CIA director to "provide me within 30 days a detailed operation plan for locating and bringing to justice" Osama Bin Laden. By August 2010 intelligence officials had identified the suspicious compound where Osama lived.

Dickerson's description of the president's efforts as "hands-on" seems especially apt given what we know. It was Obama who instructed the CIA to make targeting bin Laden a top priority, breaking with his predecessor. It was Obama who oversaw five national security meetings to oversee plans for this operation. It was Obama who chose this mission, made final preparations, and gave the order.

oooh, big brave obama!

i wonder what, if any, benefit there would've been to bringing this guy in alive.

1. we could make sure his execution happened october 2012

The benefit to the right wing would have been enormous!

really, think of all the things you could do with an osama bin laden

lot of deathers out their on the internetsz today...

out there

Whoever figured out an angle on getting the most viewers for media coverage of his incarceration/trial would be a bazillionaire.

The rightwingers would want to personally waterboard him before allowing a military tribunal proceeding with guest judge Donald Trump or Antonin Scalia

didn't we have a thread after MJ died about what the biggest celeb death news story could be after that point?

did anyone mention OBL?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110502/ts_yblog_thelookout/after-bin-laden-death-middle-school-teacher-finally-free-to-shave-beard

"Looks like someone we know."

One underreported angle is that Whitney Houston lost a megafan.

All the celebrating is a little weird.

http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/21/2100/TYQ2D00Z/posters/times-square-on-vj-day-1945.jpg

this was after we dropped atom bombs on two Japanese cities when Japan had actively been seeking to negotiate a surrender treaty since April

so I mean "gruesome" ok but "weird," no, it's what we do

Ha, you have a point!

Go USA!

fubar.

didn't we have a thread after MJ died about what the biggest celeb death news story could be after that point?

― some dude, Monday, May 2, 2011 4:48 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

did anyone mention OBL?

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yeah iirc he was one of the big ones agreed upon in the thread but i thought it'd be interesting to re-read now, just have no idea what it was called

it's what we do

yeah, the "we" = human beings

people like to party

they like, they like to party

http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2011/5/2/0/enhanced-buzz-18374-1304310822-12.jpg

haha damn dude

damn!!!

lol

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQxwYpC0W78GD6JtxSrbEFMKidSYLCf-Fk6vO2rvUZYhd6Zallz

30 ppl liked that? smdh

xp lol

"Unlike" is a nice detail

lol omar

for the love of god never post about rebecca black or justin bieber on facebook

Obama should have killed you too.

(j/k <3)

Historical analogies can so often be misleading, but consider
(1) The first Gulf War was also considering hugely symbolic at the time: America is Back, Bitch! Our Long National Nightmare of Post-Vietnam Syndrome and OPEC Buggery Is Over! Plus, Western Civilization would grind to a halt if Hussein kept Kuwait, so there were also practical considerations. Also practical, if a pisser: after building up all that war fever, he didn't actually try to take over Iraq. (2) This smoldering pisser aspect added to the evidence that he wasn't really One of Us (sound familiar?), a notion long nurtured on the left and right. Conservative Michael Barone's class-paper-handy Almanac Of American Politics had long since summed up the view of New England aristo/Texas oil baron/Republican waterboy/DC apprachnik Bush as not really representing anybody (ie, the responsible centrist, to his admirers and and sufficient voters in '88). As such, lots of professional, necessary asskissing and mantras, of course. But going from "Read my lips: No New Taxes" toasted him, Gulf War or no. Reagan said, " He doesn't seem to stand for anything." Of course, when peace, prosperity and a BALANCED BUDGET appeared in the bubblicious Clinton years, the Republicans then said Bush's taxes had made all this possible. Maybe so, but either taxes undid the done deal of his re-election. The point: no matter a moment's glory, it all comes down to the mon-nay. Sorry for being so obv, but still.

xp not without a warrant, he'd be deported to whatever his home country is

xp: who are you talking to

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/5680724572/in/set-72157626507626189/

that story i linked upthread has this headline on yahoo's frontpage that makes me lol every time

"Teacher’s vow to keep beard finally ends with bin Laden’s death"

What would have happened if Bin Laden and, I dunno, Bob Dylan died at the same time? I think the world would have exploded.

xpost Is that a joke? Does the dude have a 10 year Rip Van Winkle beard?

*considered* not "considering", going from "Read My Lips: No New Taxes" *to taxes* but either *way* (sorry)

http://mit.zenfs.com/102/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-02-at-3.37.50-PM.png

obama in that pic (and more and more often these days) has a look that says "a man shouldn't have to see this shit"

Wow, that beard is downright ... Bin Laden-like.

http://media.komonews.com/images/110502_gary_weddle.jpg

xp to Dow: Obama did the whole No Tax Cuts for the Rich instead (but he didn't turn it into a catchphrase I don't think)

http://www.thetoque.com/images/stories/osama_bin_laden_shave_beard.jpg

I get (music) press pix just like all of those all the time (ditto like J. Loughner, or however you spell the name of Giffords' shooter)

omigod Osama is John Turturro!

for the first time (that I've seen), today of all days, the pimps outside (3 of them) are walking around with strollers with actual babies in them, and tied to the strollers, are colorful balloons

9/11 is officially over