Capture Osama Quietly?

How many floors of the building did Osama live on?

Anyone here seen those creepy home videos? Somehow gave me the impression of the middle-aged guy still living in his mother's basement, sitting around in a darkened room playing war video games.

Oh, and I wonder if the reason they killed him is they knew they couldn't convict him at a trial.

LadyJazzer wrote: The wives can provide information about places they hid; how they traveled; who was in and out of the house; who may have helped them and provided support in Pakistan, (since the Pakistani government isn't cooperating); information that may help them track down other Al-Queda hit-list targets... Duh...

Maybe we should waterboard the wives, since you love torture so much.

So, all of a sudden you clowns are experts on what the CIA thinks will be useful information? rofllol

I don't think you should call Archer a clown. She wouldn't do it to you.

AspenValley wrote: How many floors of the building did Osama live on?

Anyone here seen those creepy home videos? Somehow gave me the impression of the middle-aged guy still living in his mother's basement, sitting around in a darkened room playing war video games.

Oh, and I wonder if the reason they killed him is they knew they couldn't convict him at a trial.

They killed him so they wouldn't have to read him his Maranda Rights and look like complete fools. Bin Laden knew there would be no more harsh interogations as does the rest of the world and he knew he would have the "right" to remain silent. A jail cell would probably be about as comfortable as where he was living anyway.

So we can't waterboard terrorists anymore, but we can just kill them....that's the new more humane American way.

CriticalBill wrote: So we can't waterboard terrorists anymore, but we can just kill them....that's the new more humane American way.

I can't see how justice could possibly have been done in any other way.

Kinda goes against the new Obama way though don't you think? I thought we were going to show the world that "innocent until proven guilty" applies to everyone, not just American citizens. There are lots of ways to instantly disable someone without killing them. I'm glad he's dead and that was proper justice imo, but it's hypoctical of this administration that seems to flip flop often on this issue.

CriticalBill wrote: Kinda goes against the new Obama way though don't you think? I thought we were going to show the world that "innocent until proven guilty" applies to everyone, not just American citizens. There are lots of ways to instantly disable someone without killing them. I'm glad he's dead and that was proper justice imo, but it's hypoctical of this administration that seems to flip flop often on this issue.

This was bound to be the outcome once we declared a "war" on terror. There is no presumption of innocence when you are talking about your enemies in a state of war. The only way Obama could have avoided your charge of "hypocrisy" would have been to UNdeclare the "war" on terror. And I doubt that would have been in any way possible with Osama still at large, don't you?

I guess we should have just killed KSM too instead of keeping him for intel. Then they wanted to give him a civilian trial.....he must be one of the "less evil" terrorists.