Sorry Kall. I guess you have to realize I work with people from the most conservative/tea party district in Texas. To give you an idea of how it is, there are multiple people who have had 9/11 desktops and Reagan calendars for years. My ability to filter jokes like that is completely gone because there's too many people who will say that with a straight face around me.

And yes, I've always been under the assumption that when our military kills someone we either leave the bodies for the opposing force to pick up, deliver them to their side, or give them an appropriate burial. I may be wrong about that but it was the impression I got.

Yeah man, the bomb funeral was totally a joke.

My point was mainly to not go out of the way either way for the guy. He's nothing. Honestly, I'm happy he's gone, but I didn't want to go party in the streets over it. I look at it as a job well done and onto the next problem now. Oh, where's his body? It's gone, so don't worry about it. XXXXXX is now on our list and our goal is the same with him.

I didn't want his body paraded around for all to see, either. I just didn't want the effort put in to "respect" him or his beliefs. His beliefs are built around terror, war, and murder. Why go out of your way to honor that? You couldn't leave his body behind, because they would use it as a shrine or a way to rally support for him, but I feel that honoring him could do the same thing in their eyes.

The less effort you put into how he has been handled, the less important he seems.

I think the most important thing here, is I'm hoping the computers and information they found in that compound will ultimately be crippling for Al Qaeda. We'll have to see what comes out of that.

 

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I wonder if there's any info found on those that may not be actionable because everyone around the world knows we nabbed Bin Laden (and his computers, drives, etc.) - i.e. if we had waited to announce this to the world, was there any intel in there we could have used to raid other Al Qaeda members first? Then again, it wasn't exactly a low-profile mission, and there's no shortage of questions about Pakistani complicity, so perhaps word would have spread among AQ folks anyway.

 

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Yeah, it would have been nice to have woken up one day and heard that Bin Laden was killed 6 months ago, which lead to all of the key players in Al Qaeda. All of their assets had been frozen and their network had been completely shut down. Enjoy your afternoon.

 

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"There's no eye in 'Osama.'"

 

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Is it too soon to make a "TLC has a new Left Eye." joke?

 

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Theres always gotta be someone believing in conspiracies.... sigh.

 

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Who said that?

 

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Hunter thought you were sincere in your sarcasm

 

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