First off, everyone calm down. We are being assured that Osama bin Laden’s corpse is being handled according to Islamic tradition. If there is one thing Osama bin Laden earned, it was respect for his religion. Plus, we don’t want all the moderate Muslims hearing we mistreated one of their favorite holy men.
Really, how idiotic is this constant assurance that Osama’s corpse is being handled by Islamic tradition? Who is worried about it? And isn’t the government’s official position that terrorists aren’t really Muslims? Someone is very confused, and for once it’s not me. Still, they buried him at sea, so it’s really hard to verify how he was handled. Maybe while they were issuing press releases on respect, they were tossing his body in a wood chipper and converting him to chum.
And this is really going to make the 2012 campaign different for Obama — he now has an actual accomplishment! He won’t just have vague things to promise in the future (“Change!”) or a bunch of invisible jobs he saved and created to point to, but instead he’ll have an actual thing he did that Americans like to promote himself with. He probably won’t even know what to do with himself. Some will argue over the amount of credit he gets (and apparently some of the intel used for this came from Gitmo, which he campaigned to shut down), but he did authorize a risky raid in Pakistan without waiting for anyone else’s approval. That’s the U.S. president acting as the U.S. president. He certainly gets more credit for this than the first President Bush got for the fall of the Soviet Union, because the death of Osama happened with direct action by him. Take your victory lap, Obama; you deserve it.
Which does raise the issue of Pakistan. It kind of sounds like Osama was out in the open, and there is no way the Pakistan government didn’t know about him. So what now? Are we just going to let that go? I know we already have three wars, but if we find that parts of the Pakistan government were hiding bin Laden, that is not something we can just let go.
Oh well; interesting times. Just nice to have some good news in this country for a change. Thanks to President Bush, President Obama, our military, and our intelligence services. USA! USA! USA!
No need to go to war with Pakistan; just cut off their foreign aid. See how long they can go on contributions from the Taliban.
I was so excited to hear Obama tell how he and Leon Panetta killed bin laden…then rushed back to tell us about it. Obama’s amazing.
Osama Bil Laden — Killed by SEAL Team 6 & CIA, 30-APR-2011
Adolph Hitler — Committed suicide 30-APR-1945.
Allah sure has a wicked sense of humor!
the government screw everything up so badly by saying “according to Islamic tradition” it might really mean “buried in a compromising position with a pig”
Well said, Frank J. Good for Obama. But I figure, in November 2012, when this is a happy memory but the economy still sucks and gas is six bucks a gallon, voters will tell the president, “So long and thanks for turning bin Laden into plankton!”
I smell a new movie in the works for Charlie Sheen! This time, though, he’ll reject the part of a Navy SEAL and take the role of Obama himself!
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If you use your religion as an excuse to kill thousands of our citizens, the response OUGHT to be complete and utter contempt for that religion. They should have beaten his corpse with shoes (now there’s an Islamic tradition I can support), buried him up to his neck in pig droppings, and left his head exposed for the carrion crows.
I hope that when they buried him at sea they at least chummed the water with pork, so that he stands a good chance of being disgested alongside a pig.
I keep waiting for “U S A! U S A!” to morph into “YES WE CAN!”
Since it’s becoming more apparent that enhanced interrogation at Gitmo led to a lot of this (AP has an article indicating KSM may have dropped a key bit of info), I wonder how the left will spin that. The upcoming self-congratulating contortions to come ought to be pretty entertaining.
Our Wittle Pwesident is gwowing up and becoming a Weader!
So, it’s Islamic tradition for the Infidel to toss the Muslim body over the side? Let’s remember that when we interdict the so called Iranian Navy in the next big one.
Hey did you hear MSNBC and CNN giving credit to the Bush administrations for using torture to get info that let to this success?
No, I didn’t either.
Appearantly it was literally the work of Dick Cheney’s Assassination Squad
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/05/cheneys-assasination-squad-just-killed-bin-laden?utm_source=Tweetdeck&utm_medium=twitter
I thought we were just joking about him having one of those!
Our next load of Pakistani aid should be one gross of fatback.
Mr President, we’ve found Osama
Obama..I mean bin Laden! We can either drop some nice bombs on him or go in and shoot him sohe can have a nice Muslim funeral, what should we do?
Well uhh. shoot him if you have to,Eric and I want to give him a nice …trial in NY, it will create or save 2.8 million jobs but if you say so.
I guess i can always apologize to the terrorists and as long as I don’t mention Bush helped, I can use it to pretend I did something. Go ahead, shoot him.
Fine sir, but since this is sort of a big thing and your voters in Somalia are still pissed about the last time you actually did something, we’ll need to make sure
you’re really
OsamaBarack Obama, we’ll need a birth certificate and a major credit card.And the rest is history.
As much as it pains me, I must give hussein credit for not telling the SEALS to back off and not take the shot. Who would have thought Sasquatch’s husband could make a decision.
Now if only we could have someway for him to just say yes on creating jobs and reducing spending.
Can we bury eric holder at sea as a tribute to the SEALS?
Do we really HAVE to give Obama credit. Ok…pouts and stamps feet on floor! I will give him credit but I’m not going to like it and I won’t eat my supper tonight! There, that will teach you!!!
So, what does Buttercup think? Did you have her in the back yard last night firing an AK into the air? Thought so! Good girl, Buttercup!
On a serious note, I would like to thank our marvelous Military personnel! From the mechanics who got the equipment ready, to the guys who flew in Seal Team 6, to Seal Team 6 who busted a cap in Osama’s ass! Well done! You are the finest Military in the World and you are all volunteer! We are very proud of each of you! God Bless you and your families!
We’re giving more respect to bin Laden’s carcass than his people ever give to Western carcasses. I don’t see anyone beheading bin Laden, or dragging his bloody corpse through the streets of New York. Yeah, I think it would be perfectly just to put his head on a pike at the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge, but that’s just me.
Some say we buried him at sea to ensure the Islamofascists don’t turn his burial site into a martyr’s shrine; I say we did it so millions of patriotic Americans can go to the beach and piss on his grave.
And, listening to his speech last night, he sure isn’t going to be shy about taking every last bit of credit for it.
I think we can tie our desire to thank our military and to see a just end for the Ace of Spades. We could have put his body in a gibbet and then award it for possession each year by the winner of the annual Army Navy game. Kind of like the Stanley Cup.
Personally, I like the idea of gibbets. They have a special way of discouraging incorrect behavior.
Burma,
After every touchdown, a designated Master of Ceremonies should fire a full thirty rounds from Osama’s old ’47. Since it is an AK-47, it could probably hold up and perform admirably in this job for a century or so. I just knew an AK would outlast Osama.
Is anyone else reminded of the sea burial that the CIA performed for Soviet sailors recovered from the Soviet sub that was partially recovered by the Glomar Explorer?
Video of Soviet Burial Conducted by CIA
The video is surreal. The service itself is long, you might want to pick up a bit around 10:44. The burial was done so that if the Sovs did find out about the recovery, they would know that their sailors were properly buried. And by “if the Sovs discovered,” I mean that if those traitorous jackasses at the NYT hadn’t blown the cover, we would have recovered the entire sub instead of just half of it.
I bet Obama’s relieved that he didn’t have to bludgeon Bin Laden and everyone else in that compound to death with his Nobel Peace Price.
what what now? More golf? Another appearance on The View? OOH!!!! Expensive vacation! – he hasn’t taken one of those in a while!
Bravo Zulu, Obama!
I’ll give Junior a chance to one-up Clinton. Clinton would’ve lobbed cruise missiles and hoped the Pakis would turn over the body (or, more historically, done nothing). Junior sent in SEALs to do the job and take the body with them. And we got to seize a good amount of information for future operations. al Zawahiri must look like he swallowed a diaper right about now.
Picked up my son from elementary school and my daughter frim high school and asked what the teachers said about OBL today. Same answer “Nothing” asked my son what he knew about 9-11. Same answer “Nothing” My daughter has never had a lesson on 9-11 or modern day terrorism. But they have both had Christianity belittled in class. I made up for their lack of formal schooling.
One down and millions to go.
Or this happened…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fm43Gfq0mE
So, he wasnt buried in the Islamist tradition
of sending a hijacked plane into his building?
I’m OK with him being a meal for scum sucking bottom feeders in the sea,
if he had surrendered,
he would have been a meal ticket for scum sucking bottom feeders
in the courts, this is better.
Let’s get real. We solved a big problem for Pakistan and Al Quaeda. Osama was pretty much neutralized long ago. He had to rely on Stone Age technology to communicate with anybody. Now that he’s dead, he doesn’t have to be supported financially, doesn’t have to be defended, doesn’t have to be listened to by people who’d rather be doing something else (like killing Americans or fattening their personal bank accounts). We just did them a huge favor and removed a liability. Am I sorry he’s now fish food? NO! But his death is not going to improve a single thing, here or there. Gasoline is still heading toward $5 a gallon, the Taliban still own Afghanistan and will kill anybody who converts to Christianity, and the US is still in the crosshairs. The only accomplishment here is that some terrorist leaders might start looking over their shoulders a little bit more.
To Seal Team IV,
Well done boys!!!! Bravo Zulu
Paul
Captain (ret)
Canadian Air Force Reserve
Not only did the administration not notify the untrustworthy and not to be trusted Pakistanis…they also did not notify the equally untrustworthy and not to be trusted Congress of the United States. One would have leaked to Bin Laden and the other would have leaked to the NYT. You can take your pick as to who would have leaked to who.
Did they at least chum the water first?
When David slew Goliath, he didn’t worry too much about treating the body with all due respect. He hacked off his head and they carried it through the streets!!! We are such pussies! I can only imagine what Seal Team 6 thought of the whole thing! At least the Good Guys won and that is what is important!
ussjimmycarter – likening this to David slaying Goliath is really not accurate. This is more like David stepping on a cockroach on any given Tuesday while talking to the store to buy some milk. Just so happened that that particular cockroach didn’t like David very much.