Osama is dead!!!

[Pablo]

Correction: They didn't watch the Soviets get decimated in Afghanistan. They, with the help of the U.S., were participants
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[Antrax]

[Pablo]

Criterion for what?
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[Johny Fake]

[Pablo]

[Thok]

Rather than making this an argument about what truth is, I just took the minute to google osama bankrupt america, and found this article for 2004. (It's a CNN article about a Bin Laden tape released by Al-Jazeera that talks about bankrupting the US.)

Remember people, it takes minimal time to use google to help your position. And doing so prevents both sides of the argument from looking like fools.

[Pablo]

[Antrax]

[Thok]

[Pablo]

[Thok]

[Lepton*]

Oh god, even in death Osama bin Laden's plan to disrupt the GL is coming to fruition! He's the Hari Seldon of radicalism!

[Antrax]

I don't remember a time in which the GL lacked radicalism (is that a word?). It just used to be more civil.
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[Death Mage]

Used to be more civil? I can't tell if your sarcasm tag is broken...

Seriously, this site used to have some pretty big blow-up fights, tons of name calling etc. It looks like things have gotten far more civil to me.
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[Zag]

And we appreciate your newfound restraint, DM.

[The Ragin' South Asian]

In case anyone hasn't seen this yet.

[Mr Nigma]

The video of the Seal who killed Osama.
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[Antrax]

BTW, Pablo, are you still tracking the story? Specifically, those excerpts from Bin Laden's diaries that talk about how he only wants to kill Americans and wonders how many he has to kill to get the US to back off Arab countries?
Of course, it's probably a hoax he planted to throw us off his real intentions.
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[Jack_Ian]

When somebody without a vested interest reports that stuff, I might begin to give it some credence.

Wife1: Don't give up. We can still win.
Osama: We can't win. America will never leave while there is still oil in the Middle-East.
Wife1: Maybe another "spectacular", derail a rush-hour train or something.
Osama: How many innocents will die? How many Americans do you think must die before they give up their grip on our oil?
Wife1: I see your point. Perhaps you're right. I'll go call them and let them know where to come to accept our surrender.

... later ...

Osama: They're here.
Wife1: OK Let's go. Remember to say the code. "Hive Hooked Ear Muddier"
Osama: I AM UNARMED! I FOOKED YER MUDDER!
<BANG!>

President: Well done men. His defence would have been far too embarrassing. This should keep the skeletons buried once and for all.

Spin: Osama was talking about derailing a train that would kill Americans and wondered how many deaths it would take to win the war.

Of course, the above scenario is all nonsense and it is far more likely that he actually was planning something, but I think expecting any more than a sprinkle of truth in reports about this is a little naïve.

[Antrax]

The alternative seems to be an Aristotelian approach to the world. I think there was a reason we moved away from that.
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[Lifeinmomland]

definition of war

–noun
1.
a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
2.
a state or period of armed hostility or active military operations: The two nations were at war with each other.
3.
a contest carried on by force of arms, as in a series of battles or campaigns: the War of 1812.

–verb (used without object)
10.
to make or carry on war; fight: to war with a neighboring nation.
11.
to carry on active hostility or contention: Throughout her life she warred with sin and corruption.
12.
to be in conflict or in a state of strong opposition: The temptation warred with his conscience.

This is what he SAID he was fighting for... but last I checked the twin towers were NOT in Saudi Arabia.

On August 23, 1996, bin Laden issued Al Qaeda’s first “declaration of war” against America, his “Message from Osama bin Laden to his Muslim brothers in the whole world and especially in the Arabian Peninsula: declaration of jihad against the Americans occupying the Land of the Two Holy Mosques (Saudi Arabia); expel the heretics from the Arabian Peninsula.”

Subsequently, Al Qaeda escalated its war against the U.S. In August 1998, Al Qaeda bombed two U.S. embassies in East Africa (Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) killing more than 200 people, including 12 Americans. In retaliation, the U.S. attacked targets in Sudan and Afghanistan. In October 2000, Al Qaeda bombed the U.S.S. Cole, an American guided-missile destroyer at Aden, Yemen, killing 17 American servicemen. It committed its most devastating attack on September 11, 2001, when 19 Al Qaeda operatives hijacked four passenger planes and drove two into the Twin Towers in New York City and one into the Pentagon; a fourth plane crashed in rural Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attack.

You may not like to call it a war, but they felt it was, and that will not end with the death of one man. There will be new faces that come forward. He was not the only leader just a familar one from his long history of warfare and terror. Remember he was 54 years old and he was involved in war all the way back to Russia's time in the middle East.
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