Don't Be Hopin'
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Well, the latest jobs report has unemployment up to 8.2 per cent, which
isn't good news for the country or a president seeking re-election. True,
it's har...
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AMEN!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWas it worth it?
ReplyDeleteWhatever, I'm more worried about the jobless and how both parties seem to be doing their best to ignore them.
ReplyDelete@Boris: Whatever it was worth, it was not worth 4,452 American KIA in Iraq.
ReplyDelete@Messenger,
ReplyDelete-True. That will be the job of historians to make sure that the Foreign Policy shell game of the 2000s by the Bush administration isn't forgotten.
But today in New York, Pennsylvania and at embassies around the world, people are breathing a sigh of relief. This asshole spent millions murdering people at whichever places he could score the most international media coverage. OBL was a fundamentalist thug who wanted to throw the world back to 15th century because he feared exactly what is happening right now in the middle east: people challenging theocracy.
In the 1990s he told the ABC News' John Miller that the US base's proximity to Mecca in the first Persian Gulf War was the real reason for his war on the West: This affront was worth "40 million" American lives to Bin Laden.
So fuck him. He's dead now.
Hopefully Bin Laden's fortune, estimated in the billions will effectively be seized as well.
-SJ
Show me the body. I want to see his head on a stick. I don't like this burial at sea crap.
ReplyDeleteGood point about the bin Laden money, SJ. I sure hope it's seized.
ReplyDeleteThis should discredit once and for all those claiming Obama is a Muslim or is soft on terrorism. He succeeded BRILLIANTLY where Bush and Cheney failed miserably!
ReplyDeleteYes, Jack! Guys like Petro are ex-birthers; now they have become deathers!
ReplyDeleteYes, there's still a lot of problems, but damn this sends a sweet white light of relief through my brain and justice and hope and excitement and a longing for a time when Americans were comfortable not fearing Muslims. This is a GOOD DAY FOR AMERICA! Our whole country will feel it and I can't believe how tides of goodness can flow from one evil man's death, but they will.
ReplyDeleteYes, Pinks! And I want to echo sentiments from Messenger and Beach, too!
ReplyDeleteFrom the L.A. Times lead editorial:
ReplyDelete...For weeks, the nation's political discourse has been dominated by the silly and stupid. Donald Trump has challenged the president's legitimacy, only to be humiliated by Obama's provable birth certificate. Now, it is clear that while Obama was contesting that fatuous challenge to his leadership, he was simultaneously sifting intelligence of the most sensitive nature and authorizing an action of stupendous consequence....
If Geo Bush were still in the White House, he would have diverted the seals (just in the nick of time) to work a regime change in Libya, hang Gaddafi in Tripoli and hie himself off for a photo opportunity on a San Diego aircraft carrier.
ReplyDeleteLook at this, folks!
ReplyDeleteGetalife, see Myth #10 in Juan Cole's Ten Myths About the Killing of Usama bin Laden.
ReplyDeleteOBL had spent his last five years in virtual house arrest, cash-strapped. Makes me happy to think about his suffering. Was his death a release for him? It certainly is for me!
ReplyDeleteI hope the wives he had with him were ugly and bitches.
ReplyDeleteIn my humble undersea community, there is a controversy raging about whether it was best to kill bin Laden or capture him for trial. I've stayed away from these discussions - seeing merit in both sides of the argument and a reflection of my own ambivalence. Given a choice between performing seals versus kangaroos holding court, perhaps this is a final irony fit for our times: Carp got the last of bin Laden.
ReplyDeleteOcto, just imagine just how many hostages would have been taken by now if OBL had been captured instead of killed? BHO's cold-blooded kill of ex-bin Laden was the best way.
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