They have the body
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The body has already been buried at sea. They are hoping Al-Qaeda will atten the funeral.
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Doug Goulden wrote:
I think the hassle of a trial and the idea of 100 networks covering that guy with Eric Holder wanting to have it in Manhattan........ we were way better of spending the 25 cents on a bullet.
# Capturing him and brining him properly to trial would have been better, the US would have kept the moral high ground totally, you are now open to accusations (not that I agree with them, he set himself up as a military leader and has met the death of a military leader) that the US State-Sponsors murder. There's going to be a spate of revenge attacks, and the nut-jobs now have a new martyr to worship. To be fair they did try to capture him, but he resisted, but that's not how it'll play out in the media in the East.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]Keith Barrow wrote:
the US would have kept the moral high ground totally
Our "moral high ground" was so high that the pig-sucking creep could have been slowly choked to death on feces without us losing it.
Never mind who, where is John Galt when we need him?
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Doug Goulden wrote:
I think the hassle of a trial and the idea of 100 networks covering that guy with Eric Holder wanting to have it in Manhattan........ we were way better of spending the 25 cents on a bullet.
# Capturing him and brining him properly to trial would have been better, the US would have kept the moral high ground totally, you are now open to accusations (not that I agree with them, he set himself up as a military leader and has met the death of a military leader) that the US State-Sponsors murder. There's going to be a spate of revenge attacks, and the nut-jobs now have a new martyr to worship. To be fair they did try to capture him, but he resisted, but that's not how it'll play out in the media in the East.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]High moral ground is fine in a civil case, this man and the people in his organization don't deserve the civil rights and processes we give criminals in our country. As for due process, he already confessed, so what good is it to have himm and a bunch of high paid lawyers calling for side bar discussions with a hand wrining judge?
Uptight Ex-Military Republican married to a Commie Lib - How weird is that?
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I read they buried it at sea. Sounds odd since the world would expect a lot of proof.
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fat_boy wrote:
Sounds odd
Kinda hard to turn an ocean into a memorial sight. All the little Islamists won't be able to pray to their new saint.
Never mind who, where is John Galt when we need him?
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Doug Goulden wrote:
we were way better of spending the 25 cents on a bullet.
No doubt but I expect the true cost to the USA is significantly more than the single bullet that finished him, we should always remember those who gave their lives in the search for him. I hope the 'celebration' is refrained.
Way more than 25 cents overall, I just look at it as 25 cents worth of punctuation to the story.
Uptight Ex-Military Republican married to a Commie Lib - How weird is that?
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High moral ground is fine in a civil case, this man and the people in his organization don't deserve the civil rights and processes we give criminals in our country. As for due process, he already confessed, so what good is it to have himm and a bunch of high paid lawyers calling for side bar discussions with a hand wrining judge?
Uptight Ex-Military Republican married to a Commie Lib - How weird is that?
Doug Goulden wrote:
As for due process, he already confessed, so what good is it to have himm and a bunch of high paid lawyers calling for side bar discussions with a hand wrining judge
Because a highly public trial will bring out his attacks on fellow Muslims, which would deal a huge amount damage his reputation here. Not only that his US victims would become "real people" rather than "the enemy" in the minds of at least some of those who think that way. The propaganda potential was huge.
Doug Goulden wrote:
High moral ground is fine in a civil case, this man and the people in his organization don't deserve the civil rights and processes we give criminals in our country
And you can make that judgement? Where do you draw the line? Terrorists? People suspected of terrorism? People who disagree with your way of life? People who demonstrate? I've lived with terrorism all my life thanks to the [erstwhile largely US-funded] IRA, and I'd want any of them and the Islamist terrorists who followed, brought to trial in preference to outright killing. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy you got him, it would have just played better in the rest of the world if he'd been captured and brought to trial.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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Keith Barrow wrote:
the US would have kept the moral high ground totally
Our "moral high ground" was so high that the pig-sucking creep could have been slowly choked to death on feces without us losing it.
Never mind who, where is John Galt when we need him?
Agreed, don't get me wrong. But in large parts of the world it won't play that way, and that's the war you need to win IMO. Actually capturing him would have been a huge coup and I think it could have been manipulated to the US's advantage more.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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Doug Goulden wrote:
I think the hassle of a trial and the idea of 100 networks covering that guy with Eric Holder wanting to have it in Manhattan........ we were way better of spending the 25 cents on a bullet.
# Capturing him and brining him properly to trial would have been better, the US would have kept the moral high ground totally, you are now open to accusations (not that I agree with them, he set himself up as a military leader and has met the death of a military leader) that the US State-Sponsors murder. There's going to be a spate of revenge attacks, and the nut-jobs now have a new martyr to worship. To be fair they did try to capture him, but he resisted, but that's not how it'll play out in the media in the East.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]Keith Barrow wrote:
US would have kept the moral high ground totally
Another myth about the US. We always concede the moral high ground whenever our 'national interests' are concerned. If our media did their job they'd show us how truly hypocritical our leaders were in their actions and words. Not even 2 years ago people were congratulating Gaddafi, specifically McCain. It's hard to have the high ground when your really only concerned with yourself, but say you're a great humanitarian. He was trying to push through an arms sale, just like Saddam. If we really wanted to create some moral high ground we'd stop selling weapons to two bit state sponsoring terrorists posing as leaders of legitimate sovereign nations. But I digress, that won't happen anymore likely than pigs flying and me getting sucked into a computer generated world like Tron.
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
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Trollslayer wrote:
The body has already been buried at sea.
Sewn into a pig-skin shroud.
Never mind who, where is John Galt when we need him?