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In reply to the discussion: "Osama bin Laden will never walk on this earth again" is the rhetoric we want to represent us? [View all]aikoaiko
(34,169 posts)26. I can live with it.
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"Osama bin Laden will never walk on this earth again" is the rhetoric we want to represent us? [View all]
Bonobo
Jan 2012
OP
The 2 principal war criminals won't have to come to trial and I'm very happy they are out of the way
phleshdef
Jan 2012
#10
I said Truman's statement was an example of a Democrat using the same kind of rhetoric.
phleshdef
Jan 2012
#35
The circuit board is impeached by one person. Other evidence shows that Libya had possession
Bolo Boffin
Jan 2012
#60
Edwin Bollier? The guy who also claimed Gaddafi offered him $200M to get Megrahi free?
Bolo Boffin
Jan 2012
#72
Really? I've been proven wrong? I'm not noticing a lot of responses to my #94.
Bolo Boffin
Jan 2012
#107
JackRiddler I used to think Megrahi did bomb the plane, but your logic and facts are solid.
Zalatix
Jan 2012
#64
" Libya was framed for the Lockerbie bombing is MSM sourced" Gross overstatement
Bolo Boffin
Jan 2012
#61
Who in the world releases someone who kills 300 people for "Compassion" reasons? Really?
Zalatix
Jan 2012
#68
And despite all this overwhelming evidence, a re-trial was planned for him. How do you explain that?
Zalatix
Jan 2012
#82
Because the defense wasn't told about the CIA offer to Gauci. A technicality.
Bolo Boffin
Jan 2012
#84
Apples & Oranges. Ted Stevens was accused of political corruption, not terrorism/mass murder.
Zalatix
Jan 2012
#90
Don't you know? He had OVERWHELMING evidence against him. Yet a re-trial was approved.
Zalatix
Jan 2012
#83
You know, when you put it in ALLCAPS like that, it feels more overwhelming!
JackRiddler
Jan 2012
#88
Here's another good point - the actual summary of referral from the Scottish review board
Bolo Boffin
Jan 2012
#94
US or international politics of it all aside, bin Laden's demise was bluntly necessary, imo.
pinto
Jan 2012
#12
Bluntly necessary? To shoot rather than capture the best source of intelligence?
JackRiddler
Jan 2012
#55
If osama truly was the criminal mastermind behind deaths of thousands and thousands of innocents
Muskypundit
Jan 2012
#14
Personally, I'm glad that particular shithead is dead. If that makes me a bad man, I'm a bad man.
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2012
#21
This is the first I've heard of this particular statement by the President
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2012
#25
I considered the capture or killing of Bin Laden as a worthy goal of our government.
MilesColtrane
Jan 2012
#27
Right up there with Americans screaming, USA! USA!, teeth clenched and veins
truth2power
Jan 2012
#41
Don't like that phrase, but winning the war against terrorism sounds pretty good...
JCMach1
Jan 2012
#46
Just run Gingrich as a (D)--if we are EXACTLY like them, they won't be able to criticize us!
Romulox
Jan 2012
#57
Not if Gingrich (D) is the nominee, as I suggested earlier. How could they criticize ANYTHING,
Romulox
Jan 2012
#104
Yep! He was directly responsible for ordering the deaths of thousands of people
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jan 2012
#58
First off, their is no such thing as a soul, but to go ahead and continue your thought process...
snooper2
Jan 2012
#66