Maybe Osama bin Laden is dead. Maybe he isn’t. Hard to say.
Which says something in itself, doesn’t it? I mean, if we can’t tell whether or not he’s dead or alive, then what’s the difference between being alive, and being dead? Might as well call him Osama bin Dirtnappin’ if he’s maybe dead and it can’t be either confirmed or denied.
Oh, certainly it doesn’t have the made-for-TV drama of seeing him in the dock, nor the richly-earned finality of watching him strapped down to the gurney with a needle in his arm, twenty or thirty years of appeals down track. But in terms of being a threat to us, if he’s too scared in his hidey hole to step out and protest, “I’m not dead yet,” then he might as well be for all the good it’s doing him or his cause.
Still, the rumors are that he caught a “water-borne disease,” which wouldn’t be unlikely for a child of privilege, poseur guerrilla stuck hiding in a Wahiristani cave. The implication being that he shat himself to death, in other words.
There would be a kind of poetic justice to that.
Yes, poetic justice in defecating himself to death but does not offer the satisfaction of confirming his demise using a miniscule bit of un-atomized flesh and DNA testing. After some of our guys put the lazer designator on the bridge of his honker.
As poetic as it would be for him to have diarrhea until he died, it wouldn’t prevent him from his “just rewards” as accorded by his brand of “faith…”. I want him to suffer, and in such a way that prevents him from the 72 virgins.
Oh yeah, and I want his body desecrated and dragged thru the streets of NYC, through the Pentagon and Shanksville PA.
I never thought in terms of bringing him to trial and then having him spend years on death row. After watching the footage of the Towers coming down, what I really wanted was for him to be taken the top of Empire State Building, set on fire, and offered a choice of burning to death or jumping. Since that seemed unlikely, I was (and am) willing to settle for an American soldier shooting him right between the eyes and having his dead body displayed on tv around the world. I wonder if he’s felt like the strong horse all these years, fleeing from cave to cave, unable to step outside for fear of being identified and obliterated by one of the Great Satan’s Predator drones.
I’ve wondered this too, lately, since there has been a dearth of videos in the past year.
As for retribution – I’m all for a fair and public trial. I refuse to let him make monsters out of us.
Kris & Kristin, I suggest you both try to be a little less circumpect in your comments so that we gentle types might gain a more fulsome insight into your true feelings concerning the fate of OBL.(insert cloying happy face here). Best
Eric, I’m with you… now to convince Kris & Kristin before its to late. Best
Mmm. Well, I’m not 100% sure that I could actually set him on fire. I’ve never held a gun, but I’m reasonably sure that I could pull the trigger if the gun were pointing at Osama. The world would be a far better place without him, and I would rather have swift justice than the circus that the American justice system would turn into for his trial. I understand Eric’s moral rebuke, but I don’t accept it. I will accept Snake Eater’s teasing though. I’m fairly sure he’d pull the trigger for me if I couldn’t do it myself.
I’m with Kristen on this one. I understand the moral position but when it comes to OBL, no can do. His actions lead to the murder of our dearest friends’ daughter. Too personal for me. There isn’t any retribution that will be “just” enough.
“…gentle types…” with a name like Snake Eater? Methinks the good gentleman is teasing for sure… (no cloying smiley face today).
Ladies, if you really want to go “whole hog” on denying UBL his 72, bury that iddy biddy piece of flesh with a pork chop. Better yet, pour a bag of pork rinds purchased from a convience store close to ground zero over his remains and then fill in the hole.
Kris, You said, (# 2 above) ” I want him to suffer, and in such a way as prevents him from the 72 virgins”. The precise meaning of this sentence is unclear to me …did you mean to say that you (Kris)… want him (OBL) to suffer, and in such a way that prevents him (OBL) from knowing, in the Bibical sense, the 72 virgins. Please advise.( insert cloying happy/smiley face here) Best
I want OBL to be denied access to the 72 virgins that his “faith” supposedly promises him he’ll have. Biblical sense, common sense, any sense.
I’m with Spook.
I want our guys to kill him. Then I want his body desecrated with pork of some kind.
HOWEVER
I don’t want his blood anywhere NEAR Ground Zero. That’s *ours*.