do u need to see a photo of bin laden to prove he is dead?

[mick e]

It's a good thing that this country's leaders, intelligence agencies and military personnel don't have the same attitude toward terrorism that kj has.

[kj]

mick e wrote:
It's a good thing that this country's leaders, intelligence agencies and military personnel don't have the same attitude toward terrorism that kj has.

It probably is, Mick. kj.

[Mac1337]

Anyone notice a pattern here? Obama is once again not releasing something he claims he has.


Donald.............

[Carnos Jax]

[GGD]

Grace62 wrote:
...and a new meme emerges.

Deathers
People who refuse to believe OBL is dead without photographic evidence. Would a long form death certificate do? Copy of the DNA test results? Time will tell. 8-)

No amount of evidence will convince some people. After more than 40 years, with thousands of photos, hundreds of hours of video, the first hand accounts of 12 men, the vehicles they returned in and hundreds of pounds of returned samples, there are still many people who are not convinced that man has walked on the moon.

Does anyone really think that a single photo will satisfy the doubters?

[$tevie]

However, it seems to be super easy for people to believe in "Hell" even though there is no evidence whatsoever!

A CNN poll found that 61 percent of Americans said they think the al Qaeda terrorist is in Hell

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet...th-circle/#

[Grace62]

Dakota wrote:
I am questioning the driving policy for future actions. If an identical situation happened in Yemen, or anywhere, and the host country was not cooperating and the target was juicy enough, do we go in just the way we did and whack the guy? I say yes and have been saying it since 2001. No midnight conversions here.

There has not been a person like OBL in our country's life before, nor a situation like 9/11. It's unprecedented, and so was the response.
"an identical situation?" Not likely.
The military mission that resulted in his death was not an assassination, he was a valid military target, the world's most wanted man, and considered extremely dangerous. The troops apparently were authorized to kill him unless they found him naked. (bad visual, sorry.)
Could Pakistan have fired on our troops had they discovered them? Yes, and that would have been legal. That was part of the immense risk of this mission. I don't expect another like it anytime soon, maybe not in our lifetimes.

[Black]

$tevie wrote:
However, it seems to be super easy for people to believe in "Hell" even though there is no evidence whatsoever!

A CNN poll found that 61 percent of Americans said they think the al Qaeda terrorist is in Hell

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet...th-circle/#

LOL!

[Black]

Grace62 wrote:
[quote=Dakota]
I am questioning the driving policy for future actions. If an identical situation happened in Yemen, or anywhere, and the host country was not cooperating and the target was juicy enough, do we go in just the way we did and whack the guy? I say yes and have been saying it since 2001. No midnight conversions here.

There has not been a person like OBL in our country's life before, nor a situation like 9/11. It's unprecedented, and so was the response.
"an identical situation?" Not likely.
The military mission that resulted in his death was not an assassination, he was a valid military target, the world's most wanted man, and considered extremely dangerous. The troops apparently were authorized to kill him unless they found him naked. (bad visual, sorry.)
Could Pakistan have fired on our troops had they discovered them? Yes, and that would have been legal. That was part of the immense risk of this mission. I don't expect another like it anytime soon, maybe not in our lifetimes. Not so sure-- if we really did collect significant intelligence from the raid, and if it's going to be of any use, it's going to have to be acted upon =very= soon.

[Grace62]

The president would not take those types of risks for a lower value target, and that's all of them.
Will we continue to have missions against terrorists, as we have for the past, I don't know, 25 years? Of course. They're probably happening in Iraq and Afghanistan as we speak.
But I don't think they'll look like this most recent one.