# bin Laden is dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 2, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436 "2011-05-02T02:46:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/21 "2011-05-02T03:31:40Z")
Shit. I didn’t have him in my dead pool. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/22 "2011-05-02T03:37:26Z")
To paraphrase Bette Davis, “You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Osama Bin Laden is dead. Good.” ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/23 "2011-05-02T03:39:04Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > Obama’s dead? This was actually my first thought. I was watching CSI: Miami when the screen popped up with “CBS News Special Report” and my reaction was fear and “OMG Obama or someone has been assassinated.” Speaking of CSI Miami, they could have finished the last 10 minutes of the damned episode, when is this thing going to start? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/24 "2011-05-02T03:41:06Z")
If this is true, it’s gonna knock [David Wilkerson](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=606620) out of the headlines. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/25 "2011-05-02T03:48:37Z")
Good riddance! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/26 "2011-05-02T03:49:08Z")
Is it too soon to bring up the President for Life Amendment? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/27 "2011-05-02T03:53:24Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Is it too soon to bring up the President for Life Amendment? 🙂 Probably. The shot I just saw on CNN of the crowd outside the White House showed someone trying to wave a “Bush” sign. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/28 "2011-05-02T03:54:54Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Is it too soon to bring up the President for Life Amendment? Nuh-uh. Let’s put that puppy up for a vote now before someone demands to see the real death certificate… ;)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/29 "2011-05-02T04:02:48Z")
I am absolutely sincere in raising my glass glass and drinking to the death of our enemies. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/30 "2011-05-02T04:03:10Z")
Don’t we have volunteer scouts to check out the Newsmax/Freeper type cites, report back how they’re reacting? I’d do it myself, but I’ve got delicate sensibilities… ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/31 "2011-05-02T04:05:52Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > 🙂 Probably. The shot I just saw on CNN of the crowd outside the White House showed someone trying to wave a “Bush” sign. “I don’t know where he is, nor do I c.. spend too much time thinking about him [Osama Bin Laden]” - George Bush (The lesser) 6 months after 9/11 [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4PGmnz5Ow-o/hqdefault.jpg "Bush: Truly not concerned about bin Laden (short version)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGmnz5Ow-o) ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/32 "2011-05-02T04:06:25Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Don’t we have volunteer scouts to check out the Newsmax/Freeper type cites, report back how they’re reacting? I’d do it myself, but I’ve got delicate sensibilities… What’s the Over/Under on the Number of Muslim Who Will Die in the Resultant Riots? > **[What's the Over/Under on the Number of Muslim Who Will Die in the Resultant...](https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2713400/posts)** ---
**Author:** ![hansel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@hansel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hansel)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/33 "2011-05-02T04:10:22Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Don’t we have volunteer scouts to check out the Newsmax/Freeper type cites, report back how they’re reacting? I’d do it myself, but I’ve got delicate sensibilities… **“Where are the Black people?” celebrating at White House?** [QUOTE=["Where are the Black people?" celebrating at White House?](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2713401/posts)] Anyone notice that the crowd in front of the White House celebrating Bin Laden’s death is almost entirely white? I saw one black man. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/34 "2011-05-02T04:10:40Z")
They’re gonna have to release pictures, because the right is going to deny it. The story will be that Obama is not a competent enough CinC to have got him. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/35 "2011-05-02T04:11:17Z")
Oh for Christ’s sake. Now I’ve got the “OMG BIN LADEN WASN’T REALLY BEHIND IT IT WAS THE AMURKAIN GUBMINT” folks all up in my facebook feeds. And these people are Australians. Not loony left-wing Bush-hating Demmycrats from Cali-for-nigh-ay ---
**Author:** ![hansel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@hansel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hansel)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/36 "2011-05-02T04:11:32Z")
> [@](#): > > retaliation from OBL’s death will lead to many more innocents being killed than any nut job pastor burning a Koran. > > Obviously Obama should never have killed Osama. Innocent blood will be on his hands Awesome ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/37 "2011-05-02T04:12:44Z")
A lot of times I think Australia is the Texas of the Pacific. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/38 "2011-05-02T04:13:30Z")
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems really creepy to have big crowds gathering to cheer someone’s death – ANYONE’S death. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/39 "2011-05-02T04:14:59Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > A lot of times I think Australia is the Texas of the Pacific. I want to argue with you, but the fuckwits on my friend list are vociferously proving otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bin-laden-is-dead/580436/40 "2011-05-02T04:15:40Z")
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