Osama Bin Laden Dead!

[Richmond Clements]

Clever, richmond, so very clever. I prostrate myself before the world's greatest living wordsmith.

You cant see it, but im flicking v's at you.

SBT

You're most kind, but really- it wasn't that clever. In fact, it's what I would have said to your- or anyone else's- face.

[SmallBlueThing]

I find that highly unlikely. All mouth and no trousers, as my dear old mum used to say. And still does, funnily enough.
Anyway, enough. I dont like you, you dont like me. Lets get married.
SBT

[Richmond Clements]

I find that highly unlikely.

Really? Try me.
Or just ask anyone who know me if they think I speak my mind.

[Spaceghost]

Saying 'a very bad man has been killed by the very nice goodies' is about as simplistic and juvenile a view as it is possible to take in my opinion. What about all the hundreds of innocent people killed in Iraq and Afghanistan by the Americans? Can they just go get fucked because they don't watch the same TV programs as us?

Bin Laden isn't Darth frigging Vader, he doesn't control the terrorists of the world. How much direct influence do you think he had over the 7/7 bombers for instance? They were from Leeds for god's sake!

I'm not saying I sympathise with him or any other 'terrorist', or indeed anyone who would stoop to those cowardly tactics but it's not as black and white as goodies and baddies is it?

These people are KILLING THEMSELVES in protest at the actions of Western governments. They're not doing that lightly I wouldn't have thought.

PS. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, just a realist. All governments are cunts.

[SmallBlueThing]

'Go on, try me'? You'll be telling me i smell next, and trying to steal my crisps!

SBT

[M.I.K.]

...says the bloke who was flicking the Vs.

[SmallBlueThing]

...which was kind of a response to the tone of the insult, to be honest!

SBT 

[Richmond Clements]

Saying 'a very bad man has been killed by the very nice goodies' is about as simplistic and juvenile a view as it is possible to take in my opinion.

Careful now, Lee.
You're be getting labeled as a hand wringing student idealist (whatever the fuck that is... I'm 41 after all).

[doggettX]

Man, if the first Dredd picture practically caused multiple flame wars, I'm giving THIS thread a WIDE berth ...

-pj

Seconded.

[Ancient Otter]

No one is saying anything about where he was killed, he was in a compound two hours outside the Pakistani capital city Islamabad, not near the remote border areas where we were told for the last few years.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110502/ap_on_re_us/us_bin_laden_the_raid

I was watching Euronews and one New York citizen said something like "it's made everything worth it...Afghanistan, Iraq, we can bring our troops home now..." How many American citizens still believe Osama/Al-Qaeda were linked to Saddam Hussein and his regime and how is Osama's death will help in ending  the current conflict in Afghanistan?

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

The way I see it, he signed his own death warrant. I wouldn't say I'm pleased by his death, but I wouldn't say that I mourned the loss of that man's life. I knew it was going to happen sooner or later, hell, for all I knew it had already happened. Bin Laden wasn't going to be allowed to live.

Here's what bothers me about the whole sorry affair. What are the media going to do now that they don't have a posterboy for evil?

[JOE SOAP]

What makes them think the troops will come home? They will remain in the Middle-East until they are completely broke, fiscally and mentally, there is no 'rational' mind behind this.

[JOE SOAP]

Here's what bothers me about the whole sorry affair. What are the media going to do now that they don't have a posterboy for evil?

According to the Rand Corp. bogeyman list, after terrorism it's alien invasion as the next threat. Must've been reading Watchmen again.

[Adrian Bamforth]

I don't see any 'winners' when we consider how murky the history of all this is, even going back to BIn Laden, Mujahadeen/'Al-Qaeda' funding and training in Afghanistan by the US and Saudi starting in 1979

Due to his experience in the field, I really have to side with the BBC's John Simpson, who states that the CIA never aided Bin Laden or helped set up Al-Qaeda as an organisation.

[Matt Timson]

...which was kind of a response to the tone of the insult, to be honest!

SBT

"He started it"