# Obama announcing death of Osama bin Laden \[edited title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 2, 2011, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435 "2011-05-02T02:15:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/81 "2011-05-02T03:15:11Z")
He was hanging out outside Islamabad? WTF, Pakistan? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/82 "2011-05-02T03:15:15Z")
Bin Laden is looking good after 10 years in Cryogenic containment. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/83 "2011-05-02T03:15:25Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Wait a minute… > > Bush was the crazy asshole who got us in all this trouble. Obama ran on getting us out of those shitholes post haste. > > Now that Osama has been killed Obama is the great one who gets the credit? > > We got Osama because Bush did what he said he would do and because Obama didnt do what he promised to do… > > I guess its okay though…since Bush stole the first election he is eligible to run one more time… Huh? Seriously? You want to give this one to Bush? I don’t even think Bush would give this to Bush. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/84 "2011-05-02T03:15:48Z")
God I hope it’s true. What a great day if so! ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/85 "2011-05-02T03:15:56Z")
Martha Radditz on ABC is reporting that he was killed and his body was found several days ago, and that recent activity in the White House has been due to their waiting on DNA tests to confirm it really was him. Wow. I don’t know if it’s revenge or justice, but right now it is viscerally satisfying. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/86 "2011-05-02T03:15:56Z")
Obama/Biden got Osama bin Laden! ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/87 "2011-05-02T03:16:38Z")
I wonder what they are going to do with his body. Personally I think he should be dumped in a wood chipper and fed to pigs. But it might project a better image in the Arab world if we treated it with respect, as utterly abhorrent as that idea might be. I suppose he will be cremated and his ashes dumped into the ocean far offshore. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/88 "2011-05-02T03:17:02Z")
Fuck me! Never thought I’d see this day. Not confirmed yet, waiting for Obama’s address, but BBC seems convinced this is true. Never thought I’d see the day. [Obama’s Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden) is already listing him as dead. I actually know people – Americans and others – who believe the conspiracy theories about the US helping him and say (said) he’ll never be caught. Good on you, CIA! ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/89 "2011-05-02T03:17:12Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > Oh my G-d. I’m crying, I’m so overwhelmed. I can’t put my feelings into words. We have Osama bin Laden’s body in our custody. It’s just. . . I. . . I’m shaking. This is incredible. America! Fuck, yeah! You know somebody had to say it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/90 "2011-05-02T03:18:01Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Wait a minute… > > Bush was the crazy asshole who got us in all this trouble. Obama ran on getting us out of those shitholes post haste. > > Now that Osama has been killed Obama is the great one who gets the credit? > > We got Osama because Bush did what he said he would do and because Obama didnt do what he promised to do… > > I guess its okay though…since Bush stole the first election he is eligible to run one more time… PAY ATTENTION, dude! President Obama _never_ promised to get us out of Afghanistan or stop attacking in Pakistan, where we knew bin Laden was hiding out. And you’re DAMN TOOTIN’ Obama gets the credit! He DID what Bush only PRETENDED to do, strapping on his fake flight gear and standing in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner. We got bin Laden in _spite_ of what Bush did, which is set this mission back half a decade at least. As John Kerry rightly pointed out, we’d have had his ass if we hadn’t retreated from Tora Bora. YES, President Obama gets ALL the credit! ALL of it. ---
**Author:** ![Cort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/77aa72/32.png) [@Cort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cort)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/91 "2011-05-02T03:18:04Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Bush was the crazy asshole who got us in all this trouble. Obama ran on getting us out of those shitholes post haste. > > Now that Osama has been killed Obama is the great one who gets the credit? > > We got Osama because Bush did what he said he would do and because Obama didnt do what he promised to do… > > I guess its okay though…since Bush stole the first election he is eligible to run one more time… Actually, Obama promised to intensify the campaign in Afghanistan. He promised this clearly and repeatedly, whenever the issue was raised, all throughout the 2008 election campaign. I’m surprised you missed it. Anyway, it’s the military that deserves the credit. Personally, I don’t see how Obama can claim any credit for this unless he can demonstrate that Bin Laden was killed by the U.S. Army in an area in which he’d ordered them to conduct operations. That is to say, in an area where they wouldn’t have been investigating otherwise. Either way, Bush had 7 years to find Bin Laden and failed. Let me ask you, what was Bush _supposed_ to do after 9/11? Do you really think he could have gotten away with _not_ invading Afghanistan? Of course not. The public would have had his head. Instead he did the next best thing, he diverted essential resources into Iraq and basically forgot about the whole mess, claiming, when asked, that Bin Laden didn’t matter. He deserves no credit whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/92 "2011-05-02T03:18:34Z")
Can you imagine the number of high fives Obama has been giving out this week in the White House? Dude’s gotta been struttin’ around like a peacock for the last 48 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Caveat\_lector\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@Caveat\_lector\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caveat_lector_1)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/93 "2011-05-02T03:18:42Z")
I don’t know how to feel. A man’s dead and I feel happy about it. I feel elated but vaguely guilty for feeling elated. It feels like some kind of weight has been lifted, but its not like I thought about this every day. There are still terrorists. There are still wars. But some how, for some reason I feel relieved. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/94 "2011-05-02T03:18:52Z")
OK so… how do they know it’s definitely him? You’ve seen one old bearded Arab guy in a turban, you’ve seen them all. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/95 "2011-05-02T03:19:01Z")
My next question is: Will it be shown that PAKISTAN KNEW ALL ALONG where he was and was protecting him? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/96 "2011-05-02T03:19:19Z")
Don’t think we should ever cheer at someone else’s death. But I have to say that this was a legitimate target in a legitimate war, and his death comes from his refusal to surrender… so I don’t cheer his death, but I DO cheer the tenacious work of our armed forces and our government, and the knowledge that we don’t need to fear another plot from him causing thousands more deaths. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/97 "2011-05-02T03:19:57Z")
Obviously Osama it was the IRS that got Osama. He was running an online poker site. ---
**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, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/98 "2011-05-02T03:20:14Z")
> [@Cort](#): > > The Fox News headline currently reads “Usama Bin La **n** den Dead Fox News Conf **r** ims”, so they’re obviously very agitated. This will be a true test of their ability to spin any breaking news story into a Democrat failure. They put a D next to the Badda Bin name?.. …Yes, he did go Badda Boom! ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/99 "2011-05-02T03:20:15Z")
I don’t feel any satisfaction about this. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/100 "2011-05-02T03:20:56Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > And you’re DAMN TOOTIN’ Obama gets the credit! He DID what Bush only PRETENDED to do, strapping on his fake flight gear and standing in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner. BTW, that infamous speech was eight years ago to the day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435.md?page=6)