May 2, 2011
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Bin Laden is Dead
President Obama is about to announce Bin Laden is dead.
Multiple news sources are confirming Bin Laden is dead. Foxnews is confirming Bin Laden is dead. Here is the link: Link ABC is confirming it: Link
The President announced it was in Pakistan.
Do you think President Obama deserves special credit for catching him?
Comments (152)
Oh really? That would be interesting. Does that mean all the wars in the middle east can end and America can quit thinking it is a divine messianic police force to the whole world?
Hakuna Matata
yea……………really? lol. is it on yet?
It’s all speculation still
Wow. Hmm.
That’s a big notch on the belt for Pres. Obama.
This proves that George W Bush was right all along!
I hope it’s not from natural causes.
@MagisterTom - That would be nice.
No skin off my bones…
AMERICA WINS
Dammit you beat me to it. I was seriously trying to post it before you haha. Fail
@Celestial_Teapot - I laughed aloud at that – good point.
I would say… this is speculation. I don’t believe half of what I hear on the media… who knows if he’s dead. Besides, isn’t that no longer a priority in the US government…
Now he gets to enjoy his “70 virgins”. Too bad they’re all fat!
This is the sort of thing that makes me wish I had a TV, so that I can watch the few facts known drawn out and repeated over and over for 30 minutes so I feel like I’m actually experiencing a part of history. Staring at the “Osama bin Laden dead” headline for 10 minutes on the NY Times website is a lot less interesting and eventful.
even if it’s true I don’t think it will make much o a difference. Just inflate glorification and damnation of the other side of the conflict.
@Celestial_Teapot - LOL!!!
shit. is. crazy. i feel like we’re gonna get a report a week later going “lol guyz jk. turns out it was his twin brother! our bad.”
Welp, Obama is obviously the hide-n-go seek King now!! It took George Bush like 8 years and he never found it, only took Obama about 3. Obama FTW.
So what?
10 yrs too late…
This is nothing to celebrate. Bin Laden is a casualty the United States’ barbaric foreign policy and we should mourn the fact that our government turned a once good man into a monster then spent the last ten years hunting him down, spending countless dollars and lives in the process.
Oh wait, now it’s an actual article- ACTION! Yeah!!
Dang, that was anticlimactic.
It’s kind of sad when I need to use Xanga as a form of news outlet, haha. Alright, time to start getting informed about the news in the U.S. like a responsible citizen and stop relying on my identity as a student to disregard all information pertaining to society.
Also, interesting news. Not that this is going to do anything for the state of affairs we’re in though. But regardless, justice is served.
lets hope some of the horror ends with him!
I’m watching coverage now… How incredibly naive of the media to think that this is a step to ending the war. They will retaliate and it will rage on. 10 years, $1.18 trillion and 43,000 bodies for ONE man. What a shame.
Gee Dan – which president did this happen under again?
I was 30 blocks north of Ground Zero on 9/11. I’m sorry that a human being had to die but I am glad that a murderer came to justice.
Hopefully this really is it. It would be nice. I just wish it meant the end of Al Queida (sp?) but I’m not naive enough to believe that.
@SKANLYN - Yeah! Right on man! I also am a monster made from everyone else. I have no choice in any of my decision making, I have been formed by everyone else. Personal responsibility is sooooo stupid! People like Gandhi are and were such fools.
I was at a computer store run by egyptian guy drinking dunkin donuts coffee, milk and sugar. He say to me Osama wad very nice guy with a voice so deep, the birds faint. My only regret is I never got to see his large penis.
@MC_Shann - The United States armed and trained Osama bin Laden along with the Mujahideen stupid.
@SKANLYN - A dog trained to protect, when turned on its master, is no better than a wild dog and twice as easy to put down.
@striemmy - Whatever man. All I can say is shame on President Obama. He is no better than George W. Bush, acting as jury and executioner. Bin Laden should have been captured and given a trial. There are still questions as to whether he was really even behind 9-11.
That only took forfuckingever. I’m just saying.
@SKANLYN - Common knowledge my friend. My point still stands.
@ItIsAllGravy - that would be a boner downer
@MagisterTom - Naw, we’ll just find a new scapegoat and spend 10 years saying we’re chasing him down but not really do anything to bring him to justice.
America…fuck yeah!
@SKANLYN - I haven’t investigated as much as I should have yet but did they know he was in there when they bombed him?
@striemmy -
They killed him in a fire fight according to our President. I wonder how many innocent people also died as we carried out our Tony Soprano foreign policy.
@SKANLYN - If it was a fire fight it couldn’t be helped. When you’re a terrorist you go out guns blazing. You don’t get carried off to get hung.
@striemmy -
We could have used tear gas or a plethora of other non-lethal
means to subdue him. Of course he probably knew stuff that we couldn’t afford to have the world know.
@SKANLYN - Did they have those things readily available at the time?
@striemmy - If they were interested in justice they would have had that stuff handy.
@SKANLYN - If they were interested in logistics they wouldn’t have wasted the space or energy necessary to carry something they were unlikely to be able to use on the front lines.
I am glad we finally got him but I still would not vote for him to get re-elected (that is just me though).
@striemmy - It wasn’t a military operation. It was a fucking mob hit.
Where’s your question? I think you should ask people whether their approval of Obama went up; I’d really like to know
@SKANLYN - Tell that to the soldiers stationed halfway across the planet for long back to back tours of duty.
Pakistan? The Pakistan consulate maybe. We’ve had him the whole time.
The only good I see coming out of this is that it will shut the Republicans faces…..well maybe not, but at least they wont have anything intelligent to say…….on second thought, I don’t think this will change a thing.
@striemmy - I’m not going to argue about the pointless wars we’ve been in over the last decade. We have the Hague for people like Osama bin Laden.
He had been dead for years. He details of his current “death” don’t add up. Islamabad is a military city. You’re telling me he was hiding in a mansion of all things in a military city? Really? How naive.
No more than being the Commander and Cheif. He deserves credit for actually doing his job for once.
@Celestial_Teapot - nope lead poisoning.
No. I don’t think he deserve any at all. He isn’t even in favor of the military.
@mypandabear - He’s the CIC. If he wasn’t in favor of the military every campaign we had in action would have been dead in the water years ago.
@SKANLYN - Actually, we have the Morgue for people like Osama bin Laden
Dear Dan,
I already posted this comment on another site, but I just can’t help myself…
Obama says Osama is dead. It’s official.
Hey, wait a minit. That almost rhymes…..
Ding Dong! Osama’s dead. Which terrorist? That Osama bitch!
Ding Dong! Osama bitch is dead..
Wake up – sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Osama bitch is dead. He’s gone where the bad guys go,
Below – below – below. Yo-ho, let’s open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong’ the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Osama bitch is dead!
(Obama)
As Leader of the Freedom City, In the County of the Land of USA, I welcome you most regally.
(Barrister)
But we’ve got to verify it legally, to see
(Obama)
To see?
(Barrister)
If he
(Obama)
If he?
(Barrister)
Is morally, ethic’lly
(Media Pundit 1)
Spiritually, physically
(Media Pundit 2)
Positively, absolutely
(Sheep)
Undeniably and reliably Dead
(Coroner)
As Coroner, not on a whim, I thoroughly examined him.
And he’s not only merely dead, he’s really most sincerely dead.
(Obama)
Then this is a day of Independence For all the people and their descendants
(Barrister)
If any.
(Obama)
Yes, let the joyous news be spread That terrorist Osama at last is dead!
Sorry. I had to.
(Truthfully, it’s sorta neat that he was killed on my birthday. Now May 1st will be known for something else besides May Day and me.)
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
@striemmy - Violence begets violence. I have no doubt the ensuing retaliation from Al Qaeda will far outweigh any benefit we get from killing a sickly old man who has not been a threat to us or the rest of the world in many years.
So not how I thought you’d end that…but I guess it doesn’t hurt.
No, I don’t think he deserves s**t. He just happened to be president when it occurred.
3,200 people from 18 nations die in one fell swoop, countless others die in ten years of al-Qaeda terror, and the U. S. Army doggedly pursues the mastermind of the whole mess. I’m the last one on Earth who will be sad at the death of “this once good man”. The sad “Islamic” jerkwad who is weeping over this action can weep alone. Bin-Laden’s actions, and the sentiments of his apologist here on Xanga, have no place in a civilized world. GOOD RIDDANCE!!
@SKANLYN - If it does then one more death is inconsequential to the greater power struggle and true mob rules should apply. We should just bomb the entire region into a thin pile of dust.
it’s about time. sheesh.
Lets recap: The girl married her Prince. The bad guy is dead. It’s a real Disney weekend here on Earth!
LOL you know my answer.
Did you see all those typos on the news?
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkjtgnTy0i1qzv6f1o1_500.jpg
No he doesn’t. End of story. And what’s more annoying is that he feels the need to include, “Under my direction.” Who gives Obama? It’s done. Let’s thank the military.
scottie pippen looks like obama if he grew a beard, so maybe they used him to play dead in fake hollywood footage that they’ll show later to prove that obama’s dead when he isn’t. jusanother ufo sighting conspiracy
I dun beleeb.
@XxWiltedRosexX - Haha….I’m pleased to here Swahili where didn’t expect.
whoops, I meant pippen looks like osama, not obama. must’ve been a freudian slip
makes no difference (: (:
For what? I thought President Bush took down the towers.
Obama doesn’t deserve anything for this. If anyone other than our troops do, it’s Bush, IMO.
Mr. Bush, a totally class act, gave credit to Obama, who has done absolutely nothing, and to our wonderful US military, who did everything.
Meanwhile Obama is making himself the center of the effort and the victory and the credit.
This will be totally forgotten by election time and will do nothing to derail Obama’s fast track to oblivion.
still not sure that I believe it……and no I don’t think Obama should take all the credit….it took 10 years and he just happened to be in office when it happened
Um, hell no. I don’t think Obama should take credit for it all. He came into office AFTER this war was started. If anyone, Bush should have the credit for it!! But that’s just my two cents.. And it took the NAVY SEALS to do it..
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You know the U.S amped up security at airports and bridges after hearing this alleged death, right?
Obama caught him? Wow he really got back to the white house fast then huh…
@ArmyWife4Life2007 - Yup
no, the navy seal that took him down deserves spec. credit
My son woke my husband up last night to tell him the news. My husband in turn told me this morning.
My first thought was about not rejoicing when the wicked fall but that God is just nevertheless. My second thought was that Obama and the democrats would use this for political expediency just like the incident with Congresswoman Gifford.
He’s really dead and his body is disposed of like garbage in the vast ocean. And in this, Presidents Obama and Bush should both receive the credit for starting, persisting in and finishing the job! Kudos to our Commanders – in- Chief!!!!
Bin Laden was a scapegoat. And they immediately dump his body in the ocean after he was allegedly shot in the head. He was dumped in the ocean with respect to his religion…? Respect? This man deserves respect?
i said this once but i am embarrassed by the mobs filling the street outside the white house. they’re celebrating a man getting shot in the head, not the end of a war. countless people will still die. it’s so fucking morbid.
I kinda wonder how many people who are giving a whole lot of credit to Obama for the killing of Osama bin Laden gave no credit to Bush for the capture of Saddam Hussein.
@Me_LeaderoftheWorld - Hide and seek king? I’m sure someone walked right up to Obama himself, told him where Osama was and in 3.5 hours he was holding a gun to the terrorists head execution style. Right? Not even Obama himself takes credit for the capture. You’re sure putting one man alone up on a pedestal.
@randomneuralfirings - haha, true this.
@FallingSafely - did i say that Obama was the one that killed him? did i say that “OBAMA DESERVES ALLLLLLLLLLLLL CREDIT!”. No obviously not, it was a joke I made. Sorry your right i should have said, obama, navy seals, army, marines, fbi, cia and all other intelligence agencies and couriers and every person that saw osama are hide and go seek kings. Sorry my joke wasn’t politcally correct for you.
A little behind aren’t you? It’s only been on the news for like 12 hours.
NO! Obama should not get credit. Our troops have been working on this for years, they deserve all the credit. Obama wanted to close GITMO, which is where they discovered the location of Bin Laden, if he would have closed it this may never have happened.
I would also like to point out how everyone shown on television celebrating are all cheering for the U.S. not burning other peoples’ flags like the terrorists and anti-Americans do.
Yes, Barck Obama deserves credit as the head of the USA.
Why should Obama get credit? Pretty sure he wasn’t running around the house where Bin Laden was hiding carrying a machine gun.
Obama gets credit because it happened during his tour. Thats how the chain of command works. Though he didn’t have a direct hand in it. He gave the order so he gets the credit. Maybe civilians just don’t understand how that all works out.
@MomWithoutaMinivan - Not to mention the millions of Iraqis and Afghanis that have died as a result of all of this.
@Me_LeaderoftheWorld - ”Sorry your right i should have said, obama,
navy seals, army, marines, fbi, cia and all other intelligence agencies
and couriers and every person that saw osama are hide and go seek kings.”
You’re right, you should have. Thanks for realizing this.
@FallingSafely - I really hope you noticed the sarcasm in that post, but are just choosing to ignore it… that would give me hope for the stupidity of americans.
i love the Obama picture!! haha.
Give credit when and where it’s due. Obama did the right thing by continuing Bush’s policies in the middle east, in spite of it breaking his campaign promises.
@juslitome - Don’t feel bad, I found out on facebook, haha
Anyway, am I happy that he’s dead? Yes. Am I rejoicing about it and gloating about how awesome the U.S.A is? No.
Osama bin Laden killed a lot of people. 3,000 in the 9/11 attacks, and in total a little less than 10,000. When we, the heroic U.S. army went into Afghanistan and Iraq to look for him, we killed 15,000 innocent people.
We’re a bunch of hypocrites, and somehow nobody seems to understand that.
Obama didn’t find anyone, it was the CIA. either way, glad he’s dead.
@Me_LeaderoftheWorld - stupidity of Americans? Nahhhh… Americans aren’t stupid. We’re smart enough to know what the government and armed forces are. Well… most of us.
@FallingSafely - smart enough to know what the government and armed forces are, sure. smart enough to recognize a joke doesn’t need to be politically correct, no.
Ive been waiting on this story for a long time, Bin Ladens death is the perfect way to bring everyones mind off of gas prices and the economy. Seems like when the world starts going to hell, the higher ups release something to rally the hopes and support of the common people.
@Me_LeaderoftheWorld - HE SURE BEAT ANNE FRANK AT HIDENSEEK
@carolmariee - MR OBAMA got the tip in august. MR OBAMA made sure the tip was verified. MR OBAMA planned the attack and MR OBAMA gave the order.
AND BTW THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATE OBVIOUSLY ISN’T GOING TO GO INTO A FIRE FIGHT, THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SUPPOSED TO ARE. SO SHUP. Bush did fuck all but Obama has done it right.
@onjerusalemhill - Exactly! He got the tip and done it all right. So YAY FOR OBAMA!
He found out, he verified, he planned, he ordered and it was a success. Could we have done this without him? The answer(which some people don’t fucking get) NO WE COULD NOT . GO BARACK OBAMA !!!!!
It took long enough
Why did they not put his head on a pike and parade it through the streets?
Ezekiel 33:11 says “Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live.’”
I think it is terrible that Obama is using this to further his political career.
No, I don’t think he deserves credit. But I believe that he’s been dead for years. After all, there is not solid concrete proof that he died then. Yea they have DNA ‘proof’, but I seriously think this is a set up for Obama to have more approval (since his approval rating was tanking). And also to cause more problems in the Middle East.
We haven’t had visual proof it was him and they buried his body at sea so soon after, since when has the government respected Islamic burial law for casualties?
All of it seems sketchy.
But hey, at least he’s finally ‘dead’. BTW. He worked for the CIA during the cold war against the Soviet Union under the handle name Tim Osman.
@Faolann – Any president would have decided to attack as soon as they were sure, this doesn’t make Obama special, he was just doing his job. He wanted to shut down one of our main sources of information on terrorists that would have been a major mistake. Obama just got lucky he was in office when this happened so he can take the credit.
I found out driving home from a friends. She called me 30 minutes into my drive to inform me she heard it over the news, I don’t have a T.V so if she hears something of interest she will inform me ( gotta love her for it! ).
Shortly after my phone exploded with calls and text messages from my military family and my ex who I was with when 9/11 happened as he was sent over the very night to fight the good war.. We cried together, talked and he relived some of the tragic memories he suffered.
I hope this helps him sleep easier tonight, at least once.
No, Obama does not deserve the credit and I hope this doesn’t secure his next election. Our men in Uniform deserve the credit for this, as do their families. And frankly. George W. Bush deserves some of this credit too.
@Faolann -
They have been following Bin Laden since before 9/11 and the “tip” wasn’t given in august..
I highly recommend doing a little research before you go spouting again.
@carolmariee - You say that as if he is taking advantage of the credit, If any president would have done that then any president should deserve the credit.
@HopeWithinReach - Nice one, as if i didn’t know they weren’t looking for him since 9/11, i didn’t say ANYTHING to do with that. What i’m saying is that bush failed for 8 years and Obama wins in 3. And yes, Obama was briefed about where Osama may be back in august. I’ve done my research.
@SKANLYN - actually, it’s his fault for never leaving the middle east to study abroad like every single one of his siblings did. Look at you, thinking you’re so hip for pitying the wolf.
The credit goes to all of the people that have been looking for him. Which includes the President.
@BlackPoetrybyFG - The people who deserve pity are the innocent people who were killed by our military and the innocent people who will die when Al Qaeda seeks vengeance for this. 9-11 was ten years ago. There has not been another major attack since then. They made their statement and went away. We should have mourned our dead and moved on. Instead we perpetuated the cycle of violence.
Osama Bin Laden Meets His Inevitable Fate.
On current events: By his own thoughts, words and deeds, I feel that Osama Bin Laden had foolishly directed very substantial hostility toward himself, and as such it were then just a matter of time. Two wrongs don’t make a right, so I don’t see the causing of his demise as too noteworthy an accomplishment. Anger is blind, and when we act out of anger, the wrong person always seems to suffer the consequences. More often than not, that wrong person ends up being ourselves, so I wouldn’t be too surprised if this didn’t rear-up and bite us all back on the bum.
It may shock you to know who just said that.
Today one of my friends came to school with patrotic pinwheels and a shirt saying “Relief to Sep 11 famlies and victims, No-Sama! the day of America” and lots of other kookie sayings. All I can say is he really dead with that berial at sea? Was there really any conformation that it was his body in the coffen at sae or just someone who really looked like him.
@BB61 - Amen to this comment!
Today one of my friends came to school with patrotic pinwheels and a shirt saying “Relief to Sep 11 famlies and victims, No-Sama! the day of America” and lots of other kookie sayings. All I can say is he really dead with that berial at sea? Was there really any conformation that it was his body in the coffen at sea or just someone who really looked like him.
@SKANLYN - It is obvious how high you are on your egghead cloud just by reading your comment. If you have read anything about Osama you would know that he wasn’t going to stop, that the only thing stopping him from carrying out another 9/11 was the fact that our Marines and soldiers are hounding his ass 24/7 making sure he’s never settled enough to carry out another attack.
There’s honestly nothing i can do to make this clear to your privileged, pampered civilian ass; I have had more buddies blown up by IEDs and rockets than you’ve had fingers and god damn you for sitting in the safety of your home shitting on what service members are giving their lives for just because you want to justify your aloof “hip” position and sound fucking wise.
What the fuck do you think Al Qaeda had planned after 9/11, a vacation retreat to the bahamas you daft idiot?
Sure, Obama deserves some credit. But I don’t sense the energy in my community celebrating this victory. I’m glad Osama is dead and can’t hurt anyone anymore, but his demise came too late after Americans have stopped caring.
nope… He happened to be the guy who did it… that is alllll
Obama doesn’t deserve any credit. Credit goes to the people in the intelligence community who found bin Laden and to the Special Forces operators who carried out the mission.
Personally I’m fucking glad we put a bullet through that SOB’s head, but I’m not going to go out and celebrate in the streets.
No, I am not pleased by all the death.
sorry.
I don’t put too much stock into the media, however, politically speaking, this is very good for Obama.
Yeah, because Obama PERSONALLY did it. He went out there and single handedly hunted him down. Yup. That’s exactly what happened.
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Not really. He deserves credit for staying out of the military’s way and not fucking up anything.
@Faolann - Bush didn’t fail, if you’re wanting to say that anyone failed then it would be the intelligence agency and everyone else who was in charge of searching. Bush wasn’t the one out looking obviously but Bin Laden was a powerful man unfortunately, who had the means to be well hidden with many follows willing to help and support him throughout his hiding. They just happened to get good enough information on his location to actually follow through with a plan this time.
Although hes dead, all we could all do is wait around and see what happens next. Will rights be given to the people? Will airport security finally loosen up? Will troops finally be able to come home?
It wasn’t him who caught him. It was our troops. But i guess he can get some credit.
I no longer believe Obama (or any outside forces) were behind 9/11. Too much evidence to the contrary.
So, a person in another country died. This happens all the time.
My life hasn’t changed since Osama was killed.
@kayoto - I agree. Where’s the proof. There never seems to be much of it.
@ItIsAllGravy - They never specified that it would be women. For all you know, heaven could be a small-scale Star Trek convention.
@MagisterTom - I wish. Sigh.
@PervyPenguin - I didn’t specify either
I hope they’re whatever he’s not attracted to
@ItIsAllGravy - and nerds playing WOW
I’d say the Royal Wedding deserves much of the credit for the “capture”, & Magnavox for the camcorder he uses when he makes his next tape.
You mean Obama grabbed a gun, flew to Pakistan, and shot Osama?
OHHHHH! You mean soldiers doing the same job that they’ve had for the last decade found him and shot him – ok. Yea, no. Obama didn’t do a damn thing. This was a matter of luck finding him and then the soldiers who actually killed him.
But just like how Obama got a Nobel Prize for being black, people want to give him credit for “catching” someone without doing anything.
The Janitor was right!
(Scrubs clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhCdlygmSJ4)
@carolmariee – I think that’s a fair point to settle on, the only problem I had is that people were saying Obama didn’t deserve any credit. Thanks
@Me_LeaderoftheWorld - Saying Bush took 8 years to find him compared to 3 is really unfair. Why don’t you just add that it took 11 yrs to find him?
@DrTryHarder - Obviously, there is no such thing as a “Hide-N-Go Seek King”, so I thought that was appropriate enough to show that what I was saying was indeed a joke. If I wanted to make my joke politically correct, which by the way jokes don’t have to be, I would have said “the marines, navy, army, past and present presidents, cia, fbi, any intelligence team, curriers & anyone else how has ever seen Osama were the hide and go seek kings”. Somehow that doesn’t have the same ring to it, so next time you decide to nit pick what I am saying, either go all out with deconstructing my response/joke or just don’t say anything at all.
Justice is served? What kind of justice? Retributive justice? Restorative justice? or distributive justice?
obama had nothing to do with catching him. this isn’t an obama victory.
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