[BartSimpson]

Hmm.

So anyways...Reuters is publishing pictures of Osama's son with his head acutely perforated and with a couple of other perps lying in pools of their own blood. Given the pallor of the corpses and the bright color of the blood I'd say the pix were taken within an hour of the deaths of the respective individuals.

[raydan]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Hmm.

So anyways...Reuters is publishing pictures of Osama's son with his head acutely perforated and with a couple of other perps lying in pools of their own blood. Given the pallor of the corpses and the bright color of the blood I'd say the pix were taken within an hour of the deaths of the respective individuals.

You watch way too much CSI.

[Public_Domain]

[DerbyX]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

Yea, Derby, who's side are you on? It seems to me you were all for the Soviets and Bin Laden, or are you just looking to argue for arguments sake?

I don't understand how one could be both for the Soviet Union and Bin Laden.

I would not accuse Derby of being for the Soviets and bin Laden, he's just anti-American even when we're right.

Hardly in both regards. Your country has been wrong in this regard so often that the laws of probability say you would have been right more often simply by acting at random.

Far from being anti-American I have always defended the US when it comes to your rights in your own country, your own borders and immigration.

Your countries foreign policy is simply awful is all.

[DerbyX]

Thanos Thanos:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

That forum represents what some on this forum unflinchingly defend.

Well, aside from (occasionally) Derby and that idiot who's cut off the flow of blood to his brain by having his hockey helmet on way too tight I really don't think that this applies to too many other posters.

The main objection among most of us right now appears to be the way the war was mishandled and then unjustifiably expanded by the Bush Administration, i.e. the Iraq portion of it.

I seem to recall Bart saying that about you.

[DerbyX]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

That forum represents what some on this forum unflinchingly defend.

Not quite but frankly you unflinchingly defend some attitudes I consider to be not only racist but genocidal in scope.

From an ideology you steadfastly defend:

http://www.afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147505704

$1:

The only thing that will give us a shot at building a democracy in an Islamic land is a mass conversion of its people to biblical Christianity. If we want to see freedom come to those darkened, benighted lands, we should be sending missionaries in, right after we send in the Marines to neutralize whatever threat has been raised against the United States.

[PostFactum]

No, of cource he was weared in body armed suit with ak-47 on his shoulder and TNT pack in his teeth waiting for Americans .

[herbie]

He was shot unarmed?????
Well they shoulda kept shooting until he was unlegged and unheaded and unnutted....

[ShepherdsDog]

You have to wonder how the real estate agent is going to sell that place.

[Gunnair]

$1:

Joe O’Connor: Osama bin Laden and American bloodlust

Images are powerful. They shape opinion, and form pictures in our heads that might not be entirely accurate, but often stick.

Picture this: a suicide bomber blows up a restaurant full of Israelis; a jihadist beheads a Westerner with a hunting knife; a jet plane slams into an office tower in downtown New York.

Horrific acts. Jarring. Violent. Bloody. Repugnant.

Our horror is then magnified by the spectacle of Muslim extremists, Palestinian nut jobs, or Taliban trolls, or whomever they may be, rushing into the streets of some far off, dusty place to ululate with joy, fire rifles into the air, Praise Allah, torch American flags and chant that old standby: “Death to America!”

Joyous celebration in the wake of violence is disgusting. It makes us think: how barbaric. It makes us think: we are not like them.

But maybe we are like them, and maybe Osama bin Laden is the reason why.

The devil has brought out the devil in us. Turned back our evolutionary clocks to another time when the public execution or a good old-fashioned lynching was a festive affair. Death as spectacle was the frontier way. It was cheap entertainment for the masses, and it brought people to their feet.

News of bin Laden’s bloody end in the backyard of an American ally brought Americans to their feet. At major league baseball games, in New York city, Washington D.C., and other burghs, a ripple of joy washed over our good neighbours to the south.

People poured into the streets, strangers slapped high fives, climbed utility polls, snapped photos on camera-phones and chanted “U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”

It was as though they had just beat terrorism 2-1 in triple overtime. It was, well, weird, and disturbing, and it felt wrong.

“Certainly Osama bin Laden, who lived by the sword, received the world’s form of justice,” Scott Appleby, a historian at Notre Dame, told CNN this week.

“But do we really think that violence, even a justified act of violence, has the capacity to heal the wounds inflicted by violence — or to end the cycle of violence?”

We get it: we don’t live in a Kumbaya world. Bad people with bad intentions abound. And bin Laden ranked as the Commander-in-Chief of wicked deeds. He deserved to die. Really, he deserved to have his head paraded around Times Square on a pike.

But we are better than that, right, unless of course we are not. Osama is dead, and we are different than we once were. And sadly, that might be his lasting victory.

Interesting read.

[Canadaka]

this is an interesting point.

[Brenda]

Gunnair Gunnair:

$1:

Joe O’Connor: Osama bin Laden and American bloodlust

Images are powerful. They shape opinion, and form pictures in our heads that might not be entirely accurate, but often stick.

Picture this: a suicide bomber blows up a restaurant full of Israelis; a jihadist beheads a Westerner with a hunting knife; a jet plane slams into an office tower in downtown New York.

Horrific acts. Jarring. Violent. Bloody. Repugnant.

Our horror is then magnified by the spectacle of Muslim extremists, Palestinian nut jobs, or Taliban trolls, or whomever they may be, rushing into the streets of some far off, dusty place to ululate with joy, fire rifles into the air, Praise Allah, torch American flags and chant that old standby: “Death to America!”

Joyous celebration in the wake of violence is disgusting. It makes us think: how barbaric. It makes us think: we are not like them.

But maybe we are like them, and maybe Osama bin Laden is the reason why.

The devil has brought out the devil in us. Turned back our evolutionary clocks to another time when the public execution or a good old-fashioned lynching was a festive affair. Death as spectacle was the frontier way. It was cheap entertainment for the masses, and it brought people to their feet.

News of bin Laden’s bloody end in the backyard of an American ally brought Americans to their feet. At major league baseball games, in New York city, Washington D.C., and other burghs, a ripple of joy washed over our good neighbours to the south.

People poured into the streets, strangers slapped high fives, climbed utility polls, snapped photos on camera-phones and chanted “U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”

It was as though they had just beat terrorism 2-1 in triple overtime. It was, well, weird, and disturbing, and it felt wrong.

“Certainly Osama bin Laden, who lived by the sword, received the world’s form of justice,” Scott Appleby, a historian at Notre Dame, told CNN this week.

“But do we really think that violence, even a justified act of violence, has the capacity to heal the wounds inflicted by violence — or to end the cycle of violence?”

We get it: we don’t live in a Kumbaya world. Bad people with bad intentions abound. And bin Laden ranked as the Commander-in-Chief of wicked deeds. He deserved to die. Really, he deserved to have his head paraded around Times Square on a pike.

But we are better than that, right, unless of course we are not. Osama is dead, and we are different than we once were. And sadly, that might be his lasting victory.

Interesting read.

Especially that last sentence.

[EyeBrock]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

Yea, Derby, who's side are you on? It seems to me you were all for the Soviets and Bin Laden, or are you just looking to argue for arguments sake?

I don't understand how one could be both for the Soviet Union and Bin Laden.

I would not accuse Derby of being for the Soviets and bin Laden, he's just anti-American even when we're right.

That's so funny and so obviously true! I was looking way too deep.

You do continue to impress.

[ShepherdsDog]

And you thought he was just a simple jar head.

[GreenTiger]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

You have to wonder how the real estate agent is going to sell that place.

Make a point of it being pre-disaster-ed(after replacing the Carpet he bleed on) , nothing like it will happen again and it is in a good locations and near schools, well Military Academy. It will sell.