The Obama "To Make Important Statement" MEGATHREAD

[Berkut]

I hope Obama can leverage this into something functional - like use it to drum up more US support for the Arab Spring uprisings.

[Caliga]

I want to see a picture of his carcass. Plus, they should have had him stuffed and mounted in the Oval office, not thrown to the sharks.

Yeah, seriously... if McCain had been elected he would have walked into that briefing holding Osama's head like Perseus and Medusa in Clash of the Titans.  Then it'd be mounted on a pike in front of the White House.

[garbon]

So end of an era.

[C.C.R.]

Cool -- I got home from work last night, showered & ate then went straight to bed with a movie, so reading this thread this morning is the first I've seen of Osama's demise.  My only regret is that he went down fighting instead of being taken out unawares while on the crapper or something else humiliating along those lines...

[MadBurgerMaker]

"Buried at sea" eh?  Yeah, they tossed him over the side with the leftovers of that morning's breakfast and the cigarette butts from the fire cans.  Go Navy.

[Zeus]

It kinda sounds like a ploy. Not sure I believe it, and skepticism isn't my shtick

[Valmy]

It kinda sounds like a ploy. Not sure I believe it, and skepticism isn't my shtick

It is about as real as the moon landing.

[Alcibiades]

Cool -- I got home from work last night, showered & ate then went straight to bed with a movie, so reading this thread this morning is the first I've seen of Osama's demise.  My only regret is that he went down fighting instead of being taken out unawares while on the crapper or something else humiliating along those lines...

"Bullet to the side of the head."


Wouldn't be at all surprised if he was executed.



On a side note, twitter of some guy that lives in abattabad or what ever.  Sort of play by play starting 18 hours ago.

http://twitter.com/#!/ReallyVirtual


Doesn't sound like the Pakistanis were in on it to me. 

P.s. I hate twitter.   

[Faeelin]

I went down to Ground Zero to see what was going on. I wish I'd had miniature American flags to sell

[The Brain]

  RIP Augusto.

He was wanted dead or alive and he was shot down in a blaze of glory. While he did give Islam a bad name he was our little runaway for 10 years.

[Duque de Bragança]

Bon débarras !

[KRonn]

I found out this morning; I wasn't watching or listening to any news last night. Thanks and grats to all those hunting down this nasty thug, and his kind, for the last many years. Lots of hard work and risks taken. Islamic radicalism isn't over because of this, but one despicable figure head is down for a big symbolic victory.

[garbon]

what a day. First I see Fast Five and now this. 

WHAT THE FUCK

great action, hot women, hilarious acting and dialogue.

spoiler alert: they need to bring the team together for one last job

Fuck you.  Those movies are the worst thing for the classic musclecar market with every one they destroy.  Fuck Vin.

It was a terrible, terrible movie. Pissed that my sister made me see it for her birthday.

[Ideologue]

I went down to Ground Zero to see what was going on. I wish I'd had miniature American flags to sell

You could've offered abortions.

[KRonn]

OBL had a huge walled in compound in a city, near an army base? So, apparently he must have had some Pakistani support and help in keeping it all under wraps. It's like he was under Pakistani protection with that ostentatious, but out of place, fortified villa. Well, no surprise, I guess.