The best day I'd had for a decade following 9/11 was five years ago, when it was announced by the Obama administration that U.S. forces had killed Osama bin Laden. Finally, this man was eradicated and finished. The outpouring of emotion, and celebrations, across the country, and the world, was enormous and we still appreciate what our soldiers risked in accomplishing this mission. Obama talks about Osama bin Laden's last moments - CNNPolitics.com
They said the same thing about Hitler, lol. As for bin Laden, a number of military people were there when it happened, evidence was shown to leaders in Washington, and there was DNA sent out and examined by experts which was compared to some of his living relatives, which was found to match, and the periodic videos from him stopped. Hey, anything's possible, but unless he rears his ugly head again I'm going to accept that he's dead.
Terrorists still abound at all levels of American society, heavily biased amongst the top. Yet, they have you convinced they protected you from the boogeyman. Oh thank you dear leaders, what would we ever do without you? We gleefully abandon our liberties and give you full power to protect us. You may spy on us, detain us without trial, torture us, put us on no-fly lists, declare martial law, enact curfews, confiscate our weapons, whatever you wish, just save us from the boogeyman.
Implying he's dead. They won't show his body because supposedly SEAL Team 6 mag dumped him, which is something SpecOps do pretty regularly but it's fishy. Personally, I think he's dead or was dead before we "got him".
Bin Laden's death was for justice as a result of his causing the murder of 3,000 innocent people on 9/11, not because we were afraid of him.
Soon after Sept. 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden promised worse attacks, by his organization, on America - but it never happened. Despite his success on 9/11, he failed except as a symbol of extreme Islamic fundamentalist militancy. We made many mistakes in the War On Terror, there's no denying that, but killing the number one man in charge of 9/11 was a hard-won victory. I was beginning to doubt that we'd ever find him, but fortunately we did.
LOL @ the polarity between garrisons posts and that of others. Yes! Thank big brother the boogeyman had been terminated. Only to sprout more hate. Sent from my SGH-I257M using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Garrison lives in New York City and as a denizen of that dump and an older, devout member of the Church of the American Government, I believe he may have a little bias in this issue.
Would have been a great trial if they had captured and brought him to justice. New Yorkers didn't get justice, it is an insult to the memories of the poor sods who lost their lives on 9/11. You should be outraged over this Garrison, I'm surprised at you to be honest. Propagandist for Propaganda
Bin Laden's was a scape goat of 9/11, not the planner or executioner... He was nothing more then a CIA puppet imo
Virtually nobody here wished him to be brought back alive for a trial. Would it have been a regular federal case? Would you expect citizens to be forced by law to sit on a jury, knowing that if they convict him, they'd be targets of revenge by those who followed bin Laden? It would have cost millions to pull off, and the risk of an attack wherever the trial was held would have been enormous. If he were convicted and sentenced to death, all of Europe would have had an attack of diarrhea because they're against capital punishment, no matter how heinous the crime was. Killing him quickly was the best possible way - maybe not the worst punishment, but for safety, and the well being of survivors and families of those who were killed. I would have liked to have seen him tried, convicted and executed, but this piece of garbage was simply not worth the trouble of keeping alive long enough to do any of this.
If bin Laden had surrendered peacefully, and made his case in a courtroom, that would have been a different story. There is no question that he could have had the best legal team in the world, for his defense. He had 10 years to do that, but he actually admitted his guilt on camera and said that he'd never stop. He vowed to not be taken alive, and his aids were instructed to kill him in the event of imminent capture. He was also a jihadist himself, so the stakes were not the same as with the average dangerous criminal. He could have had a bomb on his body, or the whole house booby-trapped, but fortunately this wasn't the case. There were no major riots or outpourings of grief for him when he died, the world knew that his acts were what led to it.
