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Topic: Osama dead!! - and some people disaprove??!!!
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Pieter
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Member # 4233
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posted 05-04-2011 07:13 PM
   
Finally we got the bastard!! As an OEF Veteran, I'm cheering! But I'm listening to some idiot on a radio talk-show, lamenting the demise of Ben-Ladin and the methods we used, calling it "murder." Unfortunately, he is not the first to do it. I cannot believe that there are people who actually think this way. All my friends, on either side of the political spectrum, both Democrat and Republican, think it is a good thing. Well - I guess there can be no law against mental illness and an obvious lack of anything vaguely resembling common-sense. Let me first start by saying - I'm sure no one here could possibly be so sick in the head to actually think that it is a bad thing that we finally got the bastard!! So I'm sure I'm not offending anyone. - If I am then stop to think for a moment. Is it not offensive to those who have lost loved ones on 9-11-2001, and those of us who have been part in the long fight against the Taliban and Al Quaida? I just got back from Afghanistan, where I spent all of 2010 as an Infantry team-leader and NCO. I had the opportunity to actually do an air-assault on a compound (as well as regular dismounted assaults). Regardless, I have been glued to the TV watching BBC, CNN, Fox etc.. I have not yet heard a single 9-11 family member lament his death(and they have been on). So who is lamenting his death and finding it offense? Well other than these few mentally diseased idiots, I have heard on the radio, it would seam the Islamic fundamentalist/Jihadist knuckle dragers. As I have said - there is no law against stupidity and thank God no law against freedom of speech. So, this would seem to be where this PC culture of ours has brought us!? Oh well, there is no law protecting us from being offended - or offending others. I wonder if this idiot on the radio and others like him were offended by the numerous people who ended up getting their last moments televised on Al Jazeera as they were getting their heads slowly cut off? Or the mutilated bodies of Americans hung from a bridge in Falujah. I'm sure these champions of morality would quickly change their minds and scream for SEAL Team Six to pull the trigger if it were their own precious lives on the line. It must be nice to live these comfortable lives of ours, where we are so far detached from reality, delaying adulthood indefinitely. I often thought to myself, as I lay in a ditch looking up at the star filled Afghan night, "How many people back in the States even stop to think for just one moment, that someone is fighting over here?" Oh well - I just thought it rather amusing (despite the serious nature of whats going on), that there are people like this. Just my opinnion
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Fire Stryker
Admin & Advocatus Diaboli
Member # 2
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posted 05-05-2011 07:49 AM
We thought about you everyday and still think of all the other folks that are still so very far from home.As I was sitting in my car in the parking lot at the museum last Saturday, I looked at the American flag whipping in the wind against a gray, cloud laden sky and thought about the military from different parts of the world and felt very insignificant and almost guilty about being able to spend the day with family and friends on silly fun and games and other silly activities. I was thankful that I was here, so very far from the troubles of the world. Then I started thinking about that those folks protecting us and fighting for a cause, call it the war on terror or the PC'd version, and our freedom from those who would seek to destroy our way of life; wondering where they were and what they were doing and praying that they stayed safe so that they could once again join their families and enjoy the terror free niceties of daily life that the rest of us take so much for granted. We're glad you're home, and that your son will get to know you, and I really wish all the other folks could come home too. I do not lament OBL, nor will I gloat about his death. I also will not criticize those who celebrate his death by taking some "holier than thou" attitude that I've seen expressed elsewhere.
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