Too bad he didn’t have time to suffer, like so many people did on 9/11
Osama bin Laden was shot above his left eye and the bullet blew away part of his skull, a U.S. official says. He was also shot in the chest.
The precision kill shot was delivered by a member of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team Six during a pre-dawn raid Monday on bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.
He got off easy.
Lew Rockwell has a hissy fit over this
The latter explanations all are evidently government-sourced. They all give no weight to any semblance of rule of law, whether ordinary or under conditions of war. They mirror the kinds of police injustices that Will Grigg reports to us on almost a daily basis. They mirror the conclusion of Paul Craig Roberts that the rule of law is dead.
Anyone else getting the feeling that Liberals are, less than 48 hours later, coming out with their real feelings, and would have preferred Osama standing trial in a civilian court (with a preference in a court in lower Manhattan) so that he can tell the world how bad the United States is?
Another thought: Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize based on what he might do. Remember, he said “I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the challenges of the 21st century.”
Um kay. How’s that resume working out?
- Followed the Bush plan for leaving Iraq
- Escalated the war in Afghanistan, both with troops and drone strikes
- Did not close Gitmo
- Supposedly, rendition and black holding sites are still operational
- Launched a war against Libya – without consulting Congress
- He has continued the policy of indefinite detention by Executive Order
- He asked for the power of “preventative detention“
- He has a policy of “targeted killings”
- And, now, he has ordered the US military to cross the border of a sovereign nation on an assassination mission
It’s not that I don’t agree with how Obama is handling the War on Terrorism, I do. He says one thing, but then does something else, and that something else tends to be good. I’ll give him a double thumbs up. But, shouldn’t he be giving back that Nobel, because his call to action is anything but peaceful.
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Obama’s Assassination Ring
One-stop call to assassinate that neighbor that builds his 3-story house in front of your view.
Can’t take your neighbor to court? Just call Obama’s Assassination Ring and have him taken out. It’s quick. It’s easy. And for 3 easy monthly payments of $499,999 we can eliminate all your problems in 4-8 weeks.
Sorry, no P.O. Boxes.
And, yes, you are able to charge the expense to your filthy rich neighbors account!
Believe it or not I’m actually grateful to Obama.
No winner of the Nobel Peace Prize has done a better at making the selection committee look like the utter LOSERS that they are really.
His “win” was a laugh when it was made and the committee is an even bigger joke today!
Just think, Teach, of how many leftists have their panties in a real twist over this one. Enjoy the moment, I am.
It now seems the lefties are up in arms over the actual name of the mission : “Geronimo”.
And I can bet you too, that they will be soon be complaining about Obama’s use of deadly force without a search warrant, without prior permission, without a court trial, and without announcing themselves with a knock on the door. I can bet you too that pretty soon we will be seeing massive protests by Code Pink and other anti-war\leftists\socialists\union members proclaiming “No Blood For Oil” and comparing Obama to Hitler, putting Hitler mustaches on pictures of Obama, decrying Obama’s killing of innocent children, calling this an unjust killing, that there was no UN involvement, etc.
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Ok ok.. sarc off.
Welp, looks like they are not going to release the photo. Despite the claims that they would.
Once again… “most transparent administration in history”
It now seems the lefties are up in arms over the actual name of the mission : “Geronimoâ€.
There is something odd about the name though. Usually, such operation names are chosen by computer to be randomized and to be sure that the name doesn’t tip off the target or compromise the mission.
Even the name “Geronimo” has the connotation of an airborne operation because that is what people typically yell when jumping out of an airplane.
The fact that SEAL Team 6 was inserted by air, makes me wonder if someone in the administration went with a “cutsie” name rather than allowing a computer to choose a safer, non-descript name.
I admit this is close to tin foil hat territory, but the name for the operation smells like a change in policy for naming operations.
More “hope and change” I guess.