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“I need a house full of Navy SEALs like I need a hole in the head.”

I vote for this one.

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So a Navy SEAL walks into a bar and orders a bin Laden: two shots and a splash of water. (I'm sorry - I couldn't resist!)

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The 72 Vegans gets my vote....and I would still like to know how old they are.

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I've got to place my vote for Twain's comment. It sums up my personal feelings exactly.

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Courgeous Navy Seals who took bin Laden out? Shooting unarmed and apprehended suspects is most certainly not courage. Its not funny either. Its barbarism. America is truly lost.

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"I think the next election just got a lot easier for President Obama 'cause his response to every question during the debates will be: 'Wait, I forget… Did you kill Osama Bin Laden? Or did I kill Osama Bin Laden. Oh no, it was me, wasn't it?'" –Craig Ferguson

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MrWoody wrote:

Courgeous Navy Seals who took bin Laden out? Shooting unarmed and apprehended suspects is most certainly not courage. Its not funny either. Its barbarism. America is truly lost.

In spite of how easy these sorts of operations may look in the movies, they very often do not go well for the attackers so, yes, courageous. It takes a kind of courage that you might not be able to imagine to jump off the chopper and go through the door not knowing what's going to be on the other side.

As for the rest of your comment, I guess you're worried about rule of law and would like to bring him back to the US, get him a lawyer and give him a 'fair chance.' I can understand that line of thought but this is war and I'm more inclined to think that the 'fair' in "turnabout is fair play" is sufficient fairness for OBL.

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“I need a house full of Navy SEALs like I need a hole in the head.”

I have to admit I laughed out loud when I read that.

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"Online, much of the comedy reaction revolved around positioning Obama as an action hero. Making the rounds was a picture of a determined Obama and the label: “Everyone chill ... out, I GOT THIS!”

Unfortunately for the president there was no bounce in the polls.

This has be worrying.

The far left portion of his base is not too happy about the action hero stuff.

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Oh me, oh my. Torn between whether to laugh or cry. Both, I'm afraid.

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"...and they fire a warning shot into his head.” made me laugh

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Courgeous Navy Seals who took bin Laden out? Shooting unarmed and apprehended suspects is most certainly not courage. Its not funny either. Its barbarism. America is truly lost.

Hmm maybe you were reading a different news account from the one I was reading. The one I read said when they entered the room, Bin Laden was armed and using a woman as a human shield. This would absolutely contradict a statement like "unarmed and apprehended"

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@ MrWoody - so killing thousands of innocents isn't barbarism?

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Best thing to happen this century. Imagine the chagrin this coward felt as the slugs bade him good day. Bring on the jokes, it's the best punchline ever. Geronimo EKIA indeed. Bravo.

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“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”

Best one I have seen so far

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better than listening to jokes about the royal wedding. Fadamor, actually it turns out now that he was unarmed, now i am sure we could have arrested him, put him on trial and it would have been a circus, americans all over the world could have been kidnapped and threatened with execution until they release bin Laden. he got the death he deserved and honestly wish I could have pulled the trigger myself.

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Mr. Woody,

Do you understand "Cause & Effect"...for every action there is a reaction. What about accepting responsibility for the decisions you have made. True barbarism is hijacking planes with innocent people on board and running them into buildings where people are trying to make a living to provide for their families. Also what about the misguided youth that are recruited to strap bombs on their chests and blow themselves up in crowded areas....killing men-women-children and babies.

I believe the right call was made. Only the target was eliminated...did they kill his children or his wife? No they went after the target and completed their objective with as few casualties as possible in a hostile environment. I would still applaud them even if Bin Laden had started to say..."Wait I surren....and was shot before he finished.

What about after 911 when so many middle easterners were dancing in the streets. They were elated that so many Americans had died in my eyes that is truely barbarism.

Justice is a dish best served cold.

“I need a house full of Navy SEALs like I need a hole in the head.” That gets my vote.

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72 vegans, that would be great.

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I suspect a lot of this is New York bias. Letterman and Steward and the others really really took the attacks personally, and are savoring the vengeance aspect of it.

It is odd that people see this as a milestone or watershed of some kind. I always thought that the goals of the war on terruh were so much greater than one man, so I paid attention to the geopolitical ebb and flow. I thought OBL was dead a long time ago. He was not that important, I thought. But, I guess it turns out that most people view this as some big football game. Now I wonder why I had assumed otherwise.

What I am even more sure about is that 9/11 did something awful to the American spirit. People should be looking forward to the next victory, and the next, instead of just gloating over this and then joking about it. I think my viewpoint is a lot like that of that SEALS themselves. You go in, do your job, and move on. Everyone else is having a party and doing the back slapping, as though they had some part in it. Like fans after a football game.

I was actually AT a football game when Noriega's capture was announced. It was bizarre to see the cheering for that kind of political victory at a sports contest. It was not a juxtaposition at all. The announcement fit the mood perfectly, and the cheers blended right in. And nobody ever ever gave thought to the fact that Noriega had been OUR guy once, just as OBL was. Like Randy Moss or Brett Favre, Noriega and OBL got traded to the other team some time ago, so of course you root against them, and you cheer all the harder when they get nailed in a tackle. Now people are wondering if "the tuck rule" should have been enforced in this case, right?

But good thing our team won, eh? Woo hoo!

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Question: What went through Osama bin Laden's mind when he saw the Navy SEALS enter the room?

Answer: An American-made bullet.

The White House says Osama was unarmed. Well, he should have armed himself if he was going to kill 3,000 people in NY, Wash D.C. and Pennsylvania.

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Lieberman2012, what news are you reading? Or should I say, what news are you avoiding?

Huge bounce. just google it.

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Misquoting galore.....Mark Twain never said it, someone else not famous did. Just like the MLK quote that was doing the rounds - it too was hash up based 'partly' on a MLK quote.

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The 72 Vegans gets my vote....and I would still like to know how old they are.

Goddog, they would be in their mid forties, overweight, and they would identify themselves as "womyn." Good luck spending eternity with that!

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