A: apparently, half non-white
Behold the butt-monkey. The monkey that says, "Gee, I'd love to...
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oberliner (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 03:25 PM
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Should bin Laden have been captured and tried?
While many world leaders applauded the U.S. operation that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, there were concerns in parts of Europe...
Anyway, let loose the alibis no white president would ever get away with:
RZM (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 03:27 PM
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1. Nah . . .
Why turn it into a major show that would only garner him more sympathy? Best to get rid of him and leave it at that.
Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 03:27 PM
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2. If possible, safe, and feasible, yes.
emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 03:27 PM
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3. Per Richard Engle, mideast is "Bin Laden is Dead. And now, todays weather"
Botany (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 03:28 PM
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4. no n/t
Deep13 (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 03:31 PM
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7. If it had been feasible, that would have been the prefered option.
As it was, he was enemy personel legitimately killed in battle. He was probably also probably out of uniform which means he was liable to be hanged as a spy.
hamsterjill (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 03:31 PM
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8. No. It's best to have it simply be over with.
spanone (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 03:32 PM
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11. moot point.
When moral expediency fails: blame every one else:
BlueCaliDem (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 03:35 PM
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15. No. Congress refused the President funding to close Gitmo and bring
detainees into the United States citing "danger of threats". This happened back in June 2009, I believe. If they're unwilling to do that for unnamed detainees who deserve a fair trial and are mostly innocent, they would certainly NOT do it for OBL who took credit for 9/11.
Beside, then we'd have the Repubes and their bullhorn, American corporate media, attacking the President with their usual one-sided viciousness, and give CorporateDems an excuse to scramble away leaving Pres. Obama pretty vulnerable.
TRANSLATION: **** what I believe in, there's an election coming!
leftynyc (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 03:59 PM
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34. I saw that crap
It came from Pam Geller's site. I wonder if she realizes she's accused the military of treason?
Thank goodness we have DU to defend the military's reputation.
tritsofme (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 03:35 PM
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16. I don't see how the ICC could even theoretically have jurisdiction.
Neither US, Pakistan, nor Afghanistan are parties to the Rome Statute.
damntexdem (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 03:50 PM
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27. Can you imagine the circus?
Check out these next two bloodthirsty bloodmongers:
leftynyc (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 03:53 PM
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29. No - it would have shut down
the entire downtown area in New York for up to a year because of security. It's bad enough the National Guard is walking around now with helmets and rifles. Forget the ICC - no way anybody but the US was going to put him on trial for 9/11 and the US Cole. The prick is fish food - **** him.
JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 03:56 PM
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32. Where could you find a judge or jury without a preconceived idea?
The man admitted to, rejoiced in, and was exceedingly proud of his mass murders. Seems to me he sealed his own fate.
The difference a high melanon count can make.
kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 03:57 PM
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33. Anybody who feels like that was welcome to try it themselves...for nine years.
They had plenty of time to coax him out and get him to come peaceably.
blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 04:00 PM
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38. Would I have preferred it? Yes. Would it have made a differnce? No. Am I gonna lose sleep
over him being gone? No.
Yours is not a black and white question.
Neither is the answer to why you people just shit all over your professed principles.
Raffi Ella (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 04:06 PM
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47. Nope
He shoulda been shot in the face by SEALS and dumped in the ocean. And by the order of a Democratic BADASS President who held the course and found the motha****er? That's exactly what happened.
And now, for the sake of completeness, we go from butt-monkey to batshit crazy:
Cleita (1000+ posts) Tue May-03-11 04:01 PM
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39. Yes. Putting him on trial, if it had been possible to
capture him alive, would have given the world, particularly the Islamic world, a window into his evil soul and organization. [Which the Islamic world idolized, BTW --SSB] Whatever popularity that he now holds with his death would dissipate. Now that he has martyr status there will be those who will attack us because of it. Also, we might have found out more about his ties to the BFEE and the Saudis complicity in the schemes of the Bush administration. That opportunity is gone forever. It was the same with Hitler. The allies wanted Hitler alive to put him on trial for his crimes for all the world to see at Nuremberg. Hitler knew that and killed himself as did some of his top henchmen. I'm sure Osama bin Laden had similar thoughts and probably couldn't have been taken alive.
Your Link-O-Hypocrisy:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1025828
