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NYT NEWS ALERT: Osama bin Laden Is Dead, U.S. Official Says

to Fox News I go!

Today is the 8-year anniversary of "Mission Accomplished".

L.O.L.

http://www.mudtrap.com/images/hogan_guitar.gif

He was living in a mansion when killed. Roll the cave videos!

Work on your singing, guys.

Nice consolation prize for not getting Qaddafi.

Also, POIDH.

http://twitpic.com/4s7aye

Good lord.

In some cases, a gif is not enough.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGuhZvO1DKg

he gone.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkjsa0vvlq1qzu2tdo1_400.gif

@darrenrovell: May 1, 1945: Hitler confirmed dead. May 1, 2011: Bin Laden confirmed dead.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkjsa0vvlq1qzu2tdo1_400.gif

best gif ever.

Now we just gotta kill the next 100 in line to take over... we'll see if this even puts a dent in ant-American hate crimes.

i like the people wondering if its ok to celebrate his death. the term is no brainer.

i think samuel said it best


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbB_HVcXpPk&NR=1

if nothing else, suddenly we can exit stage left from afghanistan.

Amusingly, the only local TV station reporting on this at 12:30pm is Channel 9/CBC.

@darrenrovell: May 1, 1945: Hitler confirmed dead. May 1, 2011: Bin Laden confirmed dead.

May 1, 2077: ZBeau confirmed dead.

http://i.imgur.com/1ZtvR.jpg

Osama will live forever as malware:

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201118/7133/Osama-Bin-Laden-related-searches-used-to-push-Malware-Update

this is probably oversimplification, but practically speaking, this is pretty much as close as we get to victory in afghanistan. im sure obl death isnt the main metric the military is using, but i dont think anything else is going to feel more like victory, and i dont see how we could have gotten out with him being alive without it feeling like defeat.

then again, how important is how it feels?

but the more i read (and believe me, very little work is getting done today), the worse this looks for pakistan. if this were ten years ago and we werent as war weary as we are now, i think the war drums would be thumping to go in there -- nuclear power notwithstanding.

as it is, i think pakistan just shoots to near the top of our shitlist. didnt we just help them out with some pretty bad floods? wtf pakistan... not cool.

Thanks Prez Obama for being the spineless person you are. Thanks for NOT having courage of your convictions to close GITMO. Thanks for not having the courage to stop enhanced interrogations as you ran on.

Thanks for being all sorts of fail so the military and our intelligence were able to kill UBL.

Keep up the bad work and we'll be fine.

@jayfeely

According to reports today, enhanced interrogation techniques led to the capture of Bin Laden. Liberals oppose those techniques, interesting 3 minutes ago via Twittelator

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/05/02/the-osama-bin-laden-trail-shows-waterboarding-didnt-work/

Wow, Mxy found a FAR LEFT Blog. Great work.

u mad

No way. Obama finally brought us together in celebration of the Bush's policies of enhanced interrogation, GITMO and all the things you voted for him to destroy.

Be Happy, Glan.

Poor Tahoe.

Wow, Mxy found a FAR LEFT Blog. Great work.

It had the best timeline analysis, AFAICT. Quite aside from the blogs, Michael Hayden (former CIA director appointed by Bush) indicated on CNN that the intelligence that led to bin Laden's demise came from CIA black sites, NOT from Gitmo.

Black sites...another vindication of Bush's policies.

Poor Tahoe.

Poor Tahoe? WTF?

Be Happy, Glan.

I'm very happy, thank you!

I think about 85% of America is happy about this, actually.

The other 15, u mad.

Not mad. Glad it happened. And so glad you are have joined Prez Bush in his policies.

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT IF PEOPLE WERE CELEBRATING ONE OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBER'S DEATHS

Well the left would have had a tizzy fit if it were Bush who did and wanted to impeach him, but the Messiah did it so its ok.

http://www.hoaxofthecentury.com/NazisDirtyLittle911SecretExposed1_files/Bushresponse.jpg

he mad

Poor Tahoe.

Also, the cheering last night was weird, just weird. The jubilation was too much, imo. I read some of what the victims of the attack had to say and it was hardly jubiliation. And that was more along the lines that I felt.

We have to remember Glan still thinks it was Bush who brought the towers down from the oval office...errr from the school in florida.

Bush isn't mad. He issued a statement. It was quality.

Sincere national pride is a travesty!

Also, the cheering last night was weird, just weird. The jubilation was too much, imo. I read some of what the victims of the attack had to say and it was hardly jubiliation. And that was more along the lines that I felt.

Agree here.

Glan's new hero. President Bush.

Bush isn't mad. He issued a statement. It was quality.

I was just referring to the pic.

Don't get mad.

Wonder if the troops thought the public show of support was weird?

Need to get Bubbles's thoughts.

Wonder if the troops thought the public show of support was weird?

From the you lefties that wanted to stop all the things that killed UBL? No. You are now a neocon. And thank you for that.

Poor Tahoe.

If you would have asked almost any liberal, prior to yesterday, if they would approve of us going in and killing the bastard without starting a war, I think you'd have near consensus.

the_ironsheik
osama bin laden, i happy you die. if i saw you i kill you myself you motherfucker gay piece of garbage

I hate Twitter.

Black sites...another vindication of Bush's policies.
True, assuming any of it can be believed. Thus far, the military folks say it was Gitmo and such that led to Bin Laden. The CIA follks say it was rendition (probably to Bagram) and such that led to Bin Laden. Seems like everyone wants to take credit and justify their past actions. Thus far, the publicly reported timelines suggest that the intelligence that led to Bin Laden's demise largely wasn't military, but of course we're not privy to all the info.

It is true that Obama hasn't done what he said he'd do with Gitmo. His position seems to be a near-180 from his campaigning and initial months as President. I think he simply gave up on that in favor of other agenda items like the stimulus, health care, etc.. It will be interesting to see how Bin Laden's demise factors into this and other aspects of "war/enemy combatant" politics.

Black sites...another vindication of Bush's policies.

George Bush doesn't care about black sites.

^ +1

No way. Obama finally brought us together in celebration of the Bush's policies of enhanced interrogation, GITMO and all the things you voted for him to destroy.

Be Happy, Glan.

Hey guys, apparently Bush killed Bin Laden in the middle of the "Obama Recession."

LOL

The more recent reports suggest that Operation Cannonball:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cannonball

and actually having CIA field agents in Pakistan was the real key to getting action-able intelligence. This was a Bush-era initiative, which reportedly occured as a result of the Gitmo "enhanced interrogations" not yielding very much on a number of fronts and having all of the Arabic agents sucked up in Iraq. There's just no substitute for "feet on the street".

Apparently, what hampered things was the reluctance to actually send the military into Pakistan. At the time Obama was running for president, he was chided as being naive by McCain and Republicans for suggesting that. Obama won and stuck to his guns, took a huge gamble and appears to have won. Had he lost, he would've been a one-term president for sure, and that might be the least of the problems if a country with nuclear capabilities decided to get itchy. This wasn't just drones sent into the grey border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_bin_laden_hunt_for_bin_laden

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/DonaldRumsfeld-gitmo-waterboarding-osamabinladen/2011/05/02/id/394820?s=al&promo_code=C30F-1

Great links. Newsmax is a joke, but the info from Rummy is interesting.

My question is, where is Bin Laden's wife now?

Which one?

The one mentioned in the story that helped the Seals identify his body.

Great links. Newsmax is a joke, but the info from Rummy is interesting.
That was deliberate, to counteract the "liberal link" bias. :)

Always one step ahead, you are.

It's so great to live in this country where a dedicated lefty, socialist, amateur, who hates America and our military was still able to do its job.

Congrats to our military and Prez Bush and VP Cheney.

And, again, welcome all of you Neocons, who now support an action in a sovereign country to murder someone.

I could only imagine if Bush did this.

Thanks to EITs, we were successful.

Hey Swami and Glan our NEOCONS. You must be happey that Obama didn't shut down GITMO. Didn't stop EITs. Didn't pull troops from Iraq. Didn't stop wiretapping. Didn't stop rendition.

Where is your outrage now?

U mad? or U hypocrites?

Hi Glan, Truth is I was coming here to post in sports and prolly something on Osama's death Sunday night, but I guaranfuckintee it wouldn't have looked anything like it does if you hadn't had to start politicizing it.

Remember how 'u mad' u got when the Repubs put a picture up of the rubble of 9-11 in the 08 GOP convention? Remember how you wanted to punch someone? Remember how you said it was despicalbe to politicize 9-11?

Well, you sir, are a hypocrite. Now you politicize the killing of UBL.

Today is the 8-year anniversary of "Mission Accomplished".

L.O.L.

Couldn't wait could you?

Second post in the thread.

All the mess you talked about the Repubs. Look in the mirror, BRO.

It's so great to live in this country where a dedicated lefty, socialist, amateur, President Obama, who hates America and our military was still able to do its job.

Congrats to our military and Prez Bush and VP Cheney.

And, again, welcome all of you Neocons, who now support an action in a sovereign country to murder someone.

I could only imagine if Bush did this.

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Poor Tahoe.

And, again, welcome all of you Neocons, who now support an action in a sovereign country to murder someone.

I could only imagine if Bush did this.
He did do that. Twice. There weren't too many folks objecting to Bush invading Afghanistan to get Bin Laden. Iraq was a different story.

Hi Glan, Truth is I was coming here to post in sports and prolly something on Osama's death Sunday night, but I guaranfuckintee it wouldn't have looked anything like it does if you hadn't had to start politicizing it.

Remember how 'u mad' u got when the Repubs put a picture up of the rubble of 9-11 in the 08 GOP convention? Remember how you wanted to punch someone? Remember how you said it was despicalbe to politicize 9-11?

Well, you sir, are a hypocrite. Now you politicize the killing of UBL.

Surely you can see the difference between celebrating a flat out crazy successful operation by our military (with no American casualties) where not only did we kill pretty much the most evil person on earth, a man that killed thousands of citizens on our own soil, and the displaying footage of the aftermath of these attacks, people crying and dying as a fear mongering tool, right?

Also I'm a lil drunk so that may not make sense, but that's how I feel right now, lol.

Hey Barry,

Why did you make sure to release pics of Abu Graib?

Hey Barry why did you release pics of soldiers caskets?

But now you are worried about the 'sensitivities' of Islamic Jihadists?

Surely you can see the difference between celebrating a flat out crazy successful operation by our military (with no American casualties) where not only did we kill pretty much the most evil person on earth, a man that killed thousands of citizens on our own soil, and the displaying footage of the aftermath of these attacks, people crying and dying as a fear mongering tool, right?

The hypocrisy continues.

So politicize away.

Hey Glan,

Do you want to explain again how Sarah Palin having her family on stage is different than Prez Obama having his family on stage?

You politicized Sarah Palin and her special needs child. Really sick.

U another Jack Stuef?

Keith Olberman even busted Jack. KEITH FRICKIN OLBEMANN.

You hangin you hat with Jack Stuef still?

To be honest, I don't even know who Jack is.

And IIRC, the thing that was so over the top was the passing around of the baby, the showcasing, almost like he/she was a trophy. It was also late at night, a time when a newborn's best interests are not being passed around on a stage as he/she struggles to sleep.

So yes, I politicized her parenting skills, her wisdom and her motivation for passing a newborn around on stage/worldwide tv, for political gain.

I don't think that I am the first one to politicize the questionable actions of a politician during a political campaign.

Poor Tahoe.

To be honest, I don't even know who Jack is.

And IIRC, the thing that was so over the top was the passing around of the baby, the showcasing, almost like he/she was a trophy. It was also late at night, a time when a newborn's best interests are not being passed around on a stage as he/she struggles to sleep.

So yes, I politicized her parenting skills, her wisdom and her motivation for passing a newborn around on stage/worldwide tv, for political gain.

I don't think that I am the first one to politicize the questionable actions of a politician during a political campaign.

Jack is a piece of shit that no one should want to associate themselves with.

Hey Barry,

Why did you make sure to release pics of Abu Graib?

Hunh?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/05/06/abu_ghraib_decision_guided_obama_on_bin_laden_phot os_109774.html

He releases pics. Campaigns and gets elected on all this 'idealogical' bullshit. Then the truth hits and now the sheep follow him...prolly over a cliff but follow him nonetheless.

My bias is towards releasing everything.

When it comes to the costs of war we put the treasure on the credit card to numb the economic pain. An all-volunteer army compartmentalizes the cost in blood away from most of the public. Sanitized images and reporting hide the horrors it inflicts on human beings.

How different would the political calculus of necessary war be if the costs were paid in the present, the sacrifices shared and the human damage visible?

I don't want the pics released now. He should have done it the night story broke. Obama's brains are out on the golf course, not doing what he should be doing.

Porn found inside bin Laden's compound, officials tell Reuters http://usat.ly/jyOOIZ

i have no opinion whether they really did find porn, but i definitely think the cia would say they did even if they didnt.

I want to see the long-form porn certificate.

I wonder if the porn will appear in the upcoming Disney movie:

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/disney-trademarks-seal-team-6_b35689

I wonder if the porn will appear in the upcoming Disney movie:

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/disney-trademarks-seal-team-6_b35689
yes, animated seals visiting caves and foreign authorized hideouts... it's a love story... birds chirpin'... a new frontier... welcome American envaders to our doorstep we love the west.. tweet tweet n shit.