Bin Laden Dead?

spending my times burning couches in the street and repeatedly yelling, "USA!"

i can just imagine you doing this, anyway

"Ppl are swine, generally."

otm

Bush waiting seven minutes for any intelligence when events were currently happening versus Obama waiting 16 hours after hearing very probable intelligence, with nothing currently happening.

his courier's name had just been outed by WikiLeaks

apparently it's not likely to be the same guy - the wikileaks info dates back to 2003. but obviously that's the least of that guy's problems.

yep

"we were just attacked" + 7 minutes vs. "he's probably in there."

Bush is still waiting for intelligence to visit him, fnarr.

I instantly thought burial at sea was a shrine avoidance move, but cordially invite the overly jingoistic to go and dance on OBL's grave after they're done beerbonging at Ground Zero.

Am I incorrect in recalling that quite a few people involved with this on the 'right' phoned up their go-to press guys on Sunday night to 'spoil' the news?

I am not so high-falutin' that I don't get the warboners/public spectacle aspect of this and I'm not so censorious as to kick the administration in the nuts over it but when the dust settles on this, it's not all that significant; he was essentially under house arrest anyway and the real issues are what to do in the long run about Afghanistan, its corruption, tribal politics, poppy production and the threat from the Taliban, the ingerence of the ISI, etc...

i'm pretty sure 150 years from now when a future earth grad student is writing their lame dissertation about whatever trendy theory bullshit of the 2160s and the assassination of Osama Bin Laden they'll include in a footnote the apocryphal story of him using a wife as a human shield that some ppl believe but doesn't seem to be historically validated and that'll be that.

best url ever

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8490567/Osama-bin-Laden-dead-Pervez-Musharraf-jogged-in-area-during-military-training.html

So, after 16 hours of vacillation

Forcing the narrative. Your vacillation is my weighing the pros and cons from a broad perspective in light of intel that shows he's not going anywhere and making sure that we do it right. Maybe not feckless at all. Maybe just not a shoot from the hip and take of your foot rush to be a stupid, rash braggart asshole.

are we going to start clowning year 2235 hipster chicks for their gravity uggs?

bush would have found a way to fuck it up. big time.

Western paranoid narcissism about retaliatory attacks DO NOT NEED.

one of the scary things about obama is that he's reinforced the security-state apparatus that bush put into place but he actually seems competent enough to make it work

^^^ I had that complaint in 2008.

are we going to start clowning year 2235 hipster chicks for their gravity uggs?

Please tell me you mean anti gravity uggs 'cause I can't imagine uggs being any more plodding than they already are.

I forgot who wrote recently that Obama did with expanded executive authority what Eisenhower did with the New Deal.

I can't believe Obama took time to think before taking a major decision.

plus i always figured that cheney or someone would have told bush NOT to kill osama if he had the chance just cuz alive he was good for business or something. but i'm cynical like that.

i'm of course accounting for the year 2134 asteroid completely fucking up newton's law, mw

Ah, okay, omar. Just checking.

btw, resistance = "He didn't hold up his hands and surrender."

i think its a given that he was never coming out of there alive. there's no way they would let him live. it would have been a nightmare. and i think almost everyone on earth is good with that.

so, really, case closed. good job, dudes. have a bud on me. or something.

George Bush was relentlessly mocked for waiting seven minutes (actually waiting for his security detail to ready the exit and for his vehicle to be readied) before leaving the school he was visiting. He calmly finished reading My Pet Goat for the kids before going to his now-ready helicopter.

what BS article did this quote originate in?

I believe it was in his autobiography, right before he suited up and led the first sortie in Afghanistan.

can we invade Texas next? after we get all the civilians out first of course

Is that where Bush is currently hiding?

latest intel says he's at Six Flags

Panetta confirms the mission was to kill bin Laden unless he immediately and fully surrendered, which he did not.

(reading lightening fast from a card) "Osamabinaldendoyousurrender?No?"

Blam.

lightning fast that is.

whoever upthread said 'more like 300 bullets' is on it i think, like how can you be delta force guy in that room with obl and not fire a shot

i mean i know its not like these guys aint disciplined as fuck but you know at least they all wanted a trigger pull

i didn't know that osama actually had that house built! and had lived there for 6 years!??

hahaha! oh pakistanpaws.

being totally delusional, i'm of course hoping those 10 hard drives etc. will lead to the capture of at least a few other Made men, giving any rational president the cover he needs to say "Mission Accomplished-ish we're outta here"

whoever upthread said 'more like 300 bullets' is on it i think, like how can you be delta force guy in that room with obl and not fire a shot

i mean i know its not like these guys aint disciplined as fuck but you know at least they all wanted a trigger pull

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, May 3, 2011 10:55 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think to be these guys u have to be pretty damn disciplined actually

i think hoos actually already said that, unless there a substantial difference between being disciplined as fuck and pretty damned disciplined.

how about "they are prob the most disciplined motherfuckers on the planet"

I am challopping that this hit was a "gimme"* courtesy of some level of Pakistan ISI/mil/gov cooperation, a culmination of 3-4 weeks ramped up power broker meetings between Petraeus/envoy diplos and various Pakistan military/intel chiefs. (*rather than the primary result of Bush/Obama interrogation and intel.)

i dunno, whatever, your sources are pretty flimsy, and it seems unlikely to me the US will now stop drone attacks -- but how is this a challop anyway?

never trust a guy who doesnt know what a challop is

i think hoos actually already said that, unless there a substantial difference between being disciplined as fuck and pretty damned disciplined.

― estela, Tuesday, May 3, 2011 11:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha. i didnt notice that. regardless, this kind of surmising makes me o_O

Would be a good time to hear from Tombot.

Obama-Osama typo is a little less funny when you tote up who's killed more civilians in the last 2 years. L'il bit.

do you actually know

well the underachiever likes publicity about it. so pretty sure

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12413469

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/25/suicide-bomb-pakistan-scores-dead

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/09/pakistan-suicide-bomber-k_1_n_833413.html

troll

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/10/obamas-afghan-legacy-more_n_833915.html