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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:31 PM
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I'm sad he was assassinated
I know this is an unpopular position, but I can't help the way I feel. After all, he was a fellow human. And I think it's in bad taste to gloat and further criticize his life.

Anyway, firing Gary Busey over Meatloaf should be etched somewhere on the headstone. It was a bold move with considerable risks.
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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:35 PM
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1. Assassination is the wrong word
The only reason to send in the Seals is to try and capture Osama alive. If they had just wanted to kill him they could have very easily just sent in some drones and blown the hell out of the building. Military operations don't always go as planned and this is probably one of those. I'm sure the Seals had orders to try and capture Osama alive, but they also had permission to use deadly force, which they ended up using because they felt threatened.
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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:40 PM
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3. I'm sorry
I should have use sarcasm face.
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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:41 PM
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4. Still a valid point even if the post was in sarcasm.
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:57 PM
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13. I don't believe any sarcasm was intended. Not for a minute.
Unrecommended emphatically.
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inademv Donating Member (738 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:41 PM
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5. Regardless of the intent, it was an assassination
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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:51 PM
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9. Ok then every German soldier that was killed during WWII
was assassinated or was it an assassination because Bin Laden was a "big name" rather then a no name soldier? Even if Bin Laden had been taken alive, he would be been brought to Gitmo, convicted under a military court and executed. It would have be the same result, he would still be dead.
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guruoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 07:08 PM
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18. as·sas·si·nate


assassinate
- 3 dictionary results
as·sas·si·nate
   /əˈsæsəˌneɪt/ Show Spelled Show IPA
–verb (used with object), -nat·ed, -nat·ing.
1. to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/assassinate
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:40 PM
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2. Not all human life is sacred.
Not all lives are worth celebrating.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:42 PM
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6. Some don't deserve to live with the rest of us
I'll not be the judge of that though
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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:42 PM
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7. I'm being too cryptic
Donald Trump was also "assassinated" by the President.
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:54 PM
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12. oh, get lost.
The President has never threatened Donald Trump in any way. For you to proclaim that Obama wants to assassinate donald Trump, is beyond disgusting. Take that attitude to freeperland.
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sibelian Donating Member (543 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:51 PM
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10. You made that aphorism up just now did you?

What does it mean? What are its consequences?
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:53 PM
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11. And who decides who is celebrated and who is not.
And do you see a discrepency between the decisions of the media, and money, and other groups.

Why that descrepency?

Because they have different goals and reasons.


They don't want me to have the beer and travel money that is due, and believe they can take something and will not be held to account.

Why don't they want me to have that? Because they think they can take without consequence.

Side note, there are some better uses that create the conflict of better effects, versus balance of correction, but they get no reward for repeating what is said, without proper attribution and compensation, then claiming they are farming. But while good effects occur, it is allowed. It is also why you see some go from East to North to West to South.



Alexi Murdoch -Breathe- Time without consequence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MthPr9ew80c

Lake of fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quZ5rE8ujcA




I like this song.
Eagles - Peaceful Easy Feeling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Y1izRUTpk



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happyslug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:59 PM
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15. That is Nazi Logic, something we shoudl avoid.
"Not all life is sacred" means some lives are better off dead. In the eyes of the Nazis that was the Jews and other sent to the camps (and the various "mental patients" killed in the 1930s and 1940s). Stalin had a similar attitude to his minions (it was more dangerous to be one of Stalin's minions then to be anyone else in the Soviet Union). Stalin's view all of them could be replaced by others among the lower members of the Communist party.

I point this out for that logic is dangerous, it can be used against anyone opposed to whoever is in power just like the Nazis did and
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:43 PM
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8. OK. Thanks for sharing that.
He wasn't a fellow of mine, I assure you. He was a mass murderer, and an enemy. It's a war, you know.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 06:57 PM
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14. I hate killing...
I really do. I'm working through this one though... OBL's karma bank went bust the day he ordered those planes to be hijacked. He begged for this. I'm okay with it. Especially now that so many are using this to beat Obama about the face and head. Stooping that low shined a whole new light on this for me... damned if you do, and damned and maybe killed yourself if you don't. I'll take the damned if you do!

Was Meatloaf crying? I don't watch that show. I feel I get enough of the story watching the morning "what used to be news but is now just more tabloid stupidity" news shows while I get ready for work. I stood there with one shoe on and the other in my hand, asking no one, "Is Meatloaf crying? Really? Do people take this Trump asshat that seriously to cry?"

Meatloaf is much better looking than he was beneath the dashboard light, but he still creeps me out!
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guruoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 07:05 PM
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16. "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"
Very true, but I'm still glad we got this ex CIA asset.
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Mike Nelson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 07:07 PM
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17. Neither happy nor sad
but I understand the emotions. President Obama handeled it well, I thought.
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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 07:13 PM
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19. I'd have been okay with it had they given him the code name "John Wayne".
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zappaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 07:15 PM
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20. I would be up in arms!
I am indirectly related to the DUKE and would demand an apology cuz my feelings would be hurt!!!
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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 08:03 PM
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22. I bet you'd post 20 threads about it too...
:hide:
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 07:27 PM
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21. I'm just glad he's no longer on the planet.
I didn't jump for joy, but I experienced relief. He reaped what he sowed - well, actually, he got much better than he deserved, because many of his victims were burnt alive, suffocated and/or crushed under tons of rubble or they jumped to their deaths. I save my sympathy for the guy who got life in prison for selling pot. Not for the piece of shit that was bin Laden.
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roody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 08:07 PM
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23. I'm sad that my country is not ruled by laws.
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pintobean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 08:08 PM
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24. They should release the picture
on a forever stamp.

How's that for bad taste?
I'll gloat. You do your thing and I'll respect that.
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WatsonT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 08:14 PM
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25. There are 7 billion people on this earth
millions will die due to preventable diseases every day. Millions more due to starvation or war.

I won't shed too many tears for this guy who died in luxury after starting a conflict of his choosing.
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