Bin Laden Dead?

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

im not crazy about the US being in afghanistan

The military data show that 2,537 civilians were killed and 5,594 were wounded over the past two years, attributing 88 percent of those casualties to insurgents.

this is quite difficult to analyse, though

i guess you could say they were all really killed by obama

or that if he had pulled out it would have remained an incredibly violent and unpleasant place

shrug

no its all pretty black and white

waging a pointless war is, yeah

http://i.imgur.com/ZiaQb.png

Don't know if anyone has posted this, but the famed MLK quote of yesterday is 2/3 accurate:

http://www.salon.com/news/osama_bin_laden/index.html?story=/opinion/walsh/politics/2011/05/03/obama_osama_mlk

yea it was briefly discussed upthread. surprisingly most of my friends caught it before I did this morning on FB.

man's capacity for embracing compassionate statements surpassed only by capacity for engaging in joyless pedantry

A local radio station just played "Right Here, Right Now," which should underscore the lager louts outside the White House.

well in this case the pedantry was pretty warranted, nothing to me is more annoying than people putting words in the mouth of dead figureheads.

also supposedly the Mark Twain quote was fake too.

whoever plays Jesus Jones is clearly in league with the enemy

A local radio station just played "Right Here, Right Now," which should underscore the lager louts outside the White House.

― more horses after the main event (Eazy), Wednesday, May 4, 2011 1:44 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

love this song. i bet the SEALS were listening to it too

WWJJD

i assumed we were talking abt FBS

lol

heres hoping whiney makes fun of me for this one

Charlie Savage on the case as usual, this time regarding torture.

At a press conference in Kabul, special envoy Staffan de Mistura called particular attention to the increased number of casualties among women and children.

But he said numbers only tell so much of the story. "The figures indicate that the international forces have made an effort to reduce civilian casualties," he said. "However let's not forget that the whole purpose of the engagement in Afghanistan is the protection of civilians.

"That's why we understand and we feel all together that while we are sending out one message to the Taliban and to the anti-government forces, we are also requesting and reminding the internationals that one victim, one civilian victim, is one too many."

special envoy Staffan de Mistura otm

wish ppl would err on the side of being big softies for whom one pointless death is an outrage instead of realistic men of the world

when if not now does a death cease to be "pointless"

"Nothing to me is more annoying than people putting words in the mouth of dead figureheads." -Kurt Vonnegut

haha!

The Taliban were/are pretty much the most indiscriminately assholish people on the planet, so I have no deep grief in seeing them marginalized or hopefully even swept away by whatever the hell the end game in Afghanistan ends up being. I remember signing petitions by school womens' groups in 1998/1999ish urging the US government to act, by at least boycotting trade and stopping payoffs, in order to diminish their influence.

These were the guys who had weekly beheadings in former soccer fields for "offenses against Islam" and thought that lining up a bunch of gay guys against a brick wall and then driving a tank over the other side of the wall were great ideas. Seriously, fuck those guys.

one of the worst things about the Taliban fiasco in 01 is that they caused Americans to embrace the Northern Alliance as if they weren't also piece of shit warlords and thugs too.

For some reason every time I see "Northern Alliance" I get confused and think it has something to do with Ireland.

The Taliban are a high quality enemy, to be sure.

I remember thinking in 2001 that fighting with the Northern Alliance made it sound like we were in Star Wars

God I woulda killed to hear Dubya tell someone they were part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor

I hope they don't end up showing this picture they keep talking about.

me too. I really have no desire to see it, it's grotesque

and it's not like it's gonna allay any of the conspiracy theorist's doubts

"SHOPPED! LOOK, THOSE BULLET HOLES IN HIS LEFT CHEEK LOOK TOTALLY DIGITAL, FUCK THE GOV'T"

if they release the photo i hope they do it during my shift

can't stand "Right Here, Right Now"

nothing to me is more annoying than people putting words in the mouth of dead figureheads.

yeah esp when we know King would've been all WAY TO GO, TRIAL-AVERSE DOGGS

It seems likely that nobody "put words" in MLK's mouth, it just got conflated with the first sentence in endless pasting. But you have your fun demonizing due-process monkeys.

i'm glad we've exhausted all the other related topics that we can now fight about whether the mlb misattribution on fb status messages was intentional or not.