The SEALs were reportedly the ops who carried out this mission. For an example of their previous work, keep in mind that these were the guys who rescued the captain of the *Mersck Alabama * while he was in a tiny lifeboat, and they were prone on the deck of a ship, while both craft bounced around on moderate swells. When they got the chance, the SEALs took out the three remaining pirates despite the conditions with one shot each.
You are ignorant about the plan to flood the middle east with pastel Izod’s and left-over Ocean Pacific t-shirts? It was a devastating blow to fundamentalists who reject all things western.
When I saw the cheering I was uncomfortable…cncomfortable because I knew there would be some folks expressing their “concerns” over the celebrations of the killing of a mass murderer…a murderer of men, women,k children, elderly…christians, Jjews, Muslims, Buddhists, Athiests…bnlack, white, asian, hispanic…We set out and killed a specific mepratrator of a deliberate act of evil, we are not celebrating the mindless killing of an innocent or inoocents or people without discretion.
I’m not an expert at this stuff but I think we had enough intelligence and preparations in place that we were SURE things would go off without a hitch. I am pretty sure that Obama wasn’t going to risk something like what happened to Delta Force during the Iran hostage crisis.
Exactly. Americans should be proud and joining in celebration over our having finally located and killed Osama bin Laden. Some posters have expressed dismay at seeing crowds of Americans celebrating his death like crowds in other countries have done upon learning of attacks on us, but it should be remembered that we aren’t cheering terrorist attacks that deliberately target innocent citizens, we are cheering having gotten the person who did that to us.
Osama bin Laden is directly or indirectly responsible for all the lives lost, both ours and Arab, not only in the attacks of 9/11 but in the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars and in terrorist attacks committed by al-Qaeda in most other regions of the globe. Hundreds of thousands of people all over the globe are dead - many of them totally innocent - who wouldn’t be dead had bin-Laden died as a young man.
So cheering that asshole’s death is not only understandable but justified and appropriate.
(And I, for one, am glad that bin-Laden lived long enough to know it was coming. According to reports, the assault took around forty minutes, with the SEALS clearing rooms in the house floor by floor, with bin-Laden killed on the top floor only during the last five or ten minutes. So for half an hour he knew his fate was at hand. Most gratifying.)
I also was hoping to eventually see OBL and Obama hug it out on live TV. At any rate, the poor man deserved a nice gift basket with a “let’s let bygones be bygones!” note attached.
Yeah, you get some training on predicting movement and aiming for it----but that’s basic marksmanship, and in this case both the platform the SEALs were on and the little lifeboat were bouncing around at different times. It was impressive, to say the least. And then they packed up and choppered off, unnamed and unknown.
Your link bitch-rolled me into an ad prominently displaying Ann Coulter. Typically, an episode like this takes about fifty dollars worth of chronic and a bottle of Jameson’s to expunge. I’ll bill you.