Bin Laden Dead?

who could the 35 have been...

it's occurring to me you could probably mint up a bunch of LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY bumper stickers and do brisk business at the next CPAC

that would be some p lolzy trolling

http://www.theresolve.org/lra-disarmament-and-northern-uganda-recovery-act-of-2009

btw goole that is fucking brilliant

haha. LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY - FOR OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE, maybe.

^^It would work, totally.

THINK OF THE CHILDREN would be more ambiguous IMO

So Dan, would your proposal ideally resemble UNIT, GI Joe, or the guys from "Predator"?

I'm think I'm down with this, only if Bill Duke gets to call the shots this time.

(my rationale being that it is much easier to read "FOR OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE" as something LRA is unambiguously in favor of, whereas you can more easily go either way with "THINK OF THE CHILDREN")

xp: not gonna lie, I was imagining GI Joe

i watched Salt last night and they should get her to take all these guys out. she can jump really far.

hahaha OTM

GI Joe never killed anybody! Guys from Predator were a rescue team, not assassins!

well, UNIT never killed anyone either, but that was because everything they tried to shoot was immune to bullets

except the Silurians; I guess they killed them

Bill Magill should be in on one of these teams, he wants to pull the trigger on somebody.

...anyway

re: killing unarmed bin laden

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/world/asia/04raid.html

Several experts on the rules of engagement in combat said that in a raid on a target as dangerous as Bin Laden, the Navy Seals team would be justified to open fire at the slightest commotion when they burst into a room.

“If he were surrendering, or knocked out and unconscious on the ground, that would raise serious questions," said John B. Bellinger III, legal counsel at the National Security Council and State Department in the Bush administration.

“But this is a guy who’s extremely dangerous,” he said. “If he’s nodding at someone in the hall, or rushing to the bookcase or you think he’s wearing a suicide vest, you’re on solid ground to kill him.”

At the United Nations, questions arose about the killing. The organization’s senior human rights official, Navi Pillay, called for more details.

While noting that Bin Laden was a dangerous man, she said any operation against him should have been done legally.

I like you max, you make me feel young again, with your fervor the newly radicalized so fresh and intact.

And I'm dead on about hipster girls, you know it. They cop so much style from lesbians, kind of like Madonna and the gays.

So much for the Bond villain ending. When finally faced with Cobra Commander, these guys went in itchy.

Not to necessarily make light of the situ, but pop cultural refs are the main way I process things. I'm not proud of one of my first thoughts upon hearing of the datagrab was that, "oh yeah, so these guys actually _DO_ go in looking for the briefcase aside from the bad guy. It's not just a video game thing."

Also, Bill Duke needs to be in more things.

so, next controversy: release the photos, or not? leon panetta has said they will (i think)

seems pretty grody to me, for no real benefit.

"At the United Nations, questions arose about the killing. The organization’s senior human rights official, Navi Pillay, called for more details. While noting that Bin Laden was a dangerous man, she said any operation against him should have been done legally".

The unsolvable dilemma of laws of war and international justice, in a nutshell.

Westphalia, so much to answer for

I appreciate the cautious definition of Bin Laden as a "dangerous man".

i think panetta said the photos will come out eventually, which seems right, whether or not the white house officially releases them. this is one of those things i think--how can something that so many people know exists, and is wanted to be seen by so many people, stay hidden?

max there are a lot of famous vaginas out there too

or you think he’s wearing a suicide vest

It just occurred to me that, were I bin Laden, I would have booby-trapped the house.

The Day the Clown Cried

ha I was about to say "you make it sound like Kim Kardashian's sex tape"

ok lol

Yeah, we've had camera phones for the better part of a decade, something will leak.

how can something that so many people know exists, and is wanted to be seen by so many people, stay hidden?

it has a mansion built with 7-foot privacy walls and burns all its trash

vaginas want to be free

brb, registering vaginaleaks.com

oh wait, no

Wikiginas? CuntiLeaks? SnatchSnaps?

This thread is usddenly making me the mental equivalent of wall-eyed to vision.

"...Kim Kardashian's sex tape."

"...something will leak."

Wha?

"At the United Nations, questions arose about the killing. The organization’s senior human rights official, Navi Pillay, called for more details. While noting that Bin Laden was a dangerous man, she said any operation against him should have been done legally".

The unsolvable dilemma of laws of war and international justice, in a nutshell.

― Marco Damiani, Wednesday, May 4, 2011 12:20 PM (6 minutes ago)

well there's not really a 'dilemma' afaik wrt killing someone who's unarmed and surrendering, or someone who's been captured - it's illegal. the explanation most people are giving is that it was in the 'heat of the moment' or something, which to me seems plausible and since we're never going to actually know for sure what went down, i'm fine with that, whatever

i want to know more about this woman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tomason

the "director for counterterrorism" eh? and she couldnt even get a seat at the table???

i had never heard of her before either.

not a real helpful wiki there

lol @ photo

like not only is the wiki empty, the sole photo is one we have all already seen

im saying

where are the conspiracy heads now

WAS THIS THE WOMAN WHO MADE THE SECRET DEAL WITH PAKISTAN

the explanation most people are giving is that it was in the 'heat of the moment'

now i'm imagining bin laden singing "i never meant to be so bad to you"

white house should just be hardass. press conference should have been: "he's dead. we killed him. grab some donuts on the way out. later, dudes."

that's what john wayne would have done.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/20110503/ts_dailybeast/13869_audreytomasonwhoisthemysterywomaninthesituationroomwithobama

now i'm imagining bin laden singing "i never meant to be so bad to you"

― buzza, Wednesday, May 4, 2011 12:35 PM (36 seconds ago)

i'd probably cap him in this case too tbh

i'm guessing osama's been removed from the "living person" wiki category...... or has he???

"yes, about osama being unarmed..."

"look, we killed him in cold blood and if there were any way to bring him back to life we would have done so and then killed him again and then brought him back to life again and then killed him again and we would have kept doing that for, like, a year. any more questions?"