Brad_Hawthorne

phades

Well, if you are spending most of your time searching for something to strike, isn't it easier to strike it when you bait it to come out of its hole?

This is not to imply by any strech of the imagination that anyone can watch everywhere at the same time and react accordingly.

Question is, who is baiting who out of the hole? Seems to me that we're doing more reaction than proaction.

phades

Brad_Hawthorne

phades

Well, if you are spending most of your time searching for something to strike, isn't it easier to strike it when you bait it to come out of its hole?

This is not to imply by any strech of the imagination that anyone can watch everywhere at the same time and react accordingly.

Question is, who is baiting who out of the hole? Seems to me that we're doing more reaction than proaction.

At what point in our history did we do something proactively?

(note i am sure there is something relevant that qualifies, but nothing comes to mind at this point. Also, i dont view the 2nd trip into Iraq as proactive.)

I think there is too much misinformation and hype going on right now to be totally objective about the situation.

Requital

The government and media do not lie. Please return to your seat and put the blindfold and earphones back on.

Afterburner

• Barney (yes that Barney DOOM FTW)

Z-Knight

How the hell is this thread not LOCKED?!?!  Clearly political statements all throughout about how Bush sucks and Obama is god and he did in 2 years...blah,blah,blah.  The truth is that the intelligence gathered and the courier was tracked starting in 2007!!!! And that led to this event.

Please lock this thread and stop the freaking political lies and failure to abide by forum rules. Do they only apply when certain people make political statements?

poolmanjim

As far as Osama being buried at sea, the wikipedia page (although not the most reliable source) has an interesting reason as to why.

Any country this guy comes from doesn't exactly consider him a "citizen" much more these days. He only was in Afghanistan because the Taliban were in charge. We couldn't bury him in his native Saudi Arabia because they basically disowned him. Pakistan or Syria won't take him because it would be political suicide. Lastly, the US won't bury him here because that would be spitting in the face of the 9/11 families (and just about every American in the process). Put him in international waters and he still goes to heaven and still keeps his religious dignity. Water burials aren't preferred by Islam but they aren't forbidden as far as I understand. Another reason to bury him at sea is so there isn't a rally site for future terrorists.

However, I still think this is all kind of convenient. Not trying to be political because really don't care, but campaigns are about to kick off for 2012 election and this is a real solid kick-in-the-face for Republicans if the incumbent party plays their cards right.

The next few months will certainly be intriguing and historical to say the least.

Julian_Moore_III
Seriously i can say damn and **** but not ****

Brad_Hawthorne

phades

Well, if you are spending most of your time searching for something to strike, isn't it easier to strike it when you bait it to come out of its hole?

This is not to imply by any strech of the imagination that anyone can watch everywhere at the same time and react accordingly.

Question is, who is baiting who out of the hole? Seems to me that we're doing more reaction than proaction.

poolmanjim

As far as Osama being buried at sea, the wikipedia page (although not the most reliable source) has an interesting reason as to why.

Any country this guy comes from doesn't exactly consider him a "citizen" much more these days. He only was in Afghanistan because the Taliban were in charge. We couldn't bury him in his native Saudi Arabia because they basically disowned him. Pakistan or Syria won't take him because it would be political suicide. Lastly, the US won't bury him here because that would be spitting in the face of the 9/11 families (and just about every American in the process). Put him in international waters and he still goes to heaven and still keeps his religious dignity. Water burials aren't preferred by Islam but they aren't forbidden as far as I understand. Another reason to bury him at sea is so there isn't a rally site for future terrorists.

However, I still think this is all kind of convenient. Not trying to be political because really don't care, but campaigns are about to kick off for 2012 election and this is a real solid kick-in-the-face for Republicans if the incumbent party plays their cards right.

The next few months will certainly be intriguing and historical to say the least.

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im sure the teabaggers will try to start some line of bs about this sea burial with obama secretly hiding binladen alive and well with donald trump leading it.