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Obama: U.S. should avoid making bin Laden a martyr

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Posted by Fred 2008-06-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 ION FREEREPUBLIC > seems NORTH KOREA + SYRIA discussed putting CHEM WARHEADS atop missles???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-19 00:41|| 2008-06-19 00:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Traitor

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-19 00:54|| 2008-06-19 00:54|| Front Page Top

#3 A credit to Harvard Law (wonder if he read an history book in his entire life?)

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-06-19 02:34|| 2008-06-19 02:34|| Front Page Top

#4 "U.S. should avoid making bin Laden a martyr"

BS. I want his head on display in the Smithsonian preserved by submersion in the urine donated by US citizens.

Might be time to go "Vlad the Impaler" on the Taliban. When they enter Afghanistan they should find the heads of their mates on pikes along the route.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-06-19 02:54|| 2008-06-19 02:54|| Front Page Top

#5 U.S. Citizens and demoCrap Illegals should avoid ~~making bin Laden a martyr~~ voting for Obama.

Posted by RD">RD 2008-06-19 04:20|| 2008-06-19 04:20|| Front Page Top

#6 I say we feed Sammy to the Sarlacc.

Posted by doc 2008-06-19 08:05|| 2008-06-19 08:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says if Osama bin Laden is captured alive, the United States should bring him to justice but in a way that avoids turning the al Qaeda leader into a martyr

What, you mean garotting him in an oubliette without any press mention? Because that seems the safest way to liquidate his Osamaness without anybody making a successful martyr of him.

Asked by a reporter how he would proceed if bin Laden were caught during his presidency, Obama said 'we may not be able to capture him alive.'

Uh, actually, this sounds surprisingly like Obama just proposed murdering bin Laden in secrecy. Jeez, that's the most sensible thing I've ever heard the Obamanation propose. I must be mis-interpreting his Changeness.

Wouldn't it be a trip if the first thing they told President Obama upon swearing in that Bush had had bin Laden secretly liquidated in late 2002?

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-06-19 08:22|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-06-19 08:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Just shoot him and leave his body for the vultures.

And doc, what has the Sarlacc ever do to you to deserve being fed OBL?

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-06-19 08:27|| 2008-06-19 08:27|| Front Page Top

#9 "Just shoot him and leave his body for the vultures."

NO NO NO. He MUST be presumed INNOCENT in a COURT OF LAW, until proven guilty! We MUST follor the Geneva conventions and give all mass murderers of Americans the benefit of the doubt.

Posted by Obama 2008-06-19 09:07|| 2008-06-19 09:07|| Front Page Top

#10 I like the idea of replacing some of his DNA with that of a pig. Gene therapy. Add some Dr. Moreau plastic surgery as well.

"Four legs bad! Jihad good!"

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-19 09:11|| 2008-06-19 09:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Rush is off target with his focus on the presumption of innocence. The real question is how you can impanel an impartial jury with the President of the United States having condemned him for committing the crime. No jury, no trial.

The only trial Osama would get is a show trial. And I doubt that it would convince anyone of anything. Osama should not be taken alive. Didn't work for Napoleon, won't work for Osama.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-06-19 09:22|| 2008-06-19 09:22|| Front Page Top

#12 OK compare and contrast...

The latest Obama: we need to bring him to us civilian courts where he is PRESUMED INNOCENT and entitled to a jury of his peers.

Umm, Senator Dumbass, we tried the law enforcement first approach, back in the 93 bombing of the WTC. Didn't work. This is a completely naive, stupid and 9/10 attitude that will get more Americans killed.

And what about Obama's own words that he would invade Pakistan to get to him, and kill him?

So Obamessiah, you hypocritical son of a bitch, which is it? Presumed innocent? Or Kill using the military?

Frikcen press, keeps shoveling coverups for this idiot. Maybe its time to take down the mainsteram leftist press since they are abandoning any pretense of impartiality and are destroying democracy by mal-informing the public. Soon it will be time to strike back at the dishonest destructive press, and it will not be with words.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-19 09:39|| 2008-06-19 09:39|| Front Page Top

#13 I'd worry less about making a martyr out of him than just getting bin Laden. If you have to bury him under a freeway in New Jersey--fine. Just get him. I can see merit out of making it public that we have caught and killed him. Saddam did not become a martyr after we caught him. Zarqawi did not become a martyr. All those other Taliban and AQ $hitheads that we got did not become martyrs. bin Laden did not give any consideration to the 3000+ Americans he killed on 911 or the numerous other innocents he killed as the result of bombings and other terrorist acts he perpetrated. The world will not miss him a bit. He is evil as Hitler was evil. Bush will have done what he said he was going to do and a message will be sent to other wannabees that there is a price to pay for terror acts.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-06-19 10:00|| 2008-06-19 10:00|| Front Page Top

#14 Use him for an Ebola experiment.

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-19 10:15|| 2008-06-19 10:15|| Front Page Top

#15 And if we had 12 muslims in the jury, would the outcome be different than the OJ trial ?

Posted by wxjames 2008-06-19 11:22|| 2008-06-19 11:22|| Front Page Top

#16 Obama said. '... to deal with him in a way that allows the entire world to understand the murderous acts .

I'm reminded of the OJ trial, yeah the whole world watched and laughed at this ridiculous outcome.
hmmmm, a jury of his peers, put some of the congress critters in the jury box.

Asked by a reporter how he would proceed if bin Laden were caught during his presidency, Obama said 'we may not be able to capture him alive.'

you got that right

Remember Pulp Fiction; Vincent asks Marvin for his opinion about the "miracle," accidentally shooting him in the face while carelessly waving his gun.(I wanted to add that picture from the movie here)
Man that was a great movie.

Posted by Jan 2008-06-19 13:35|| 2008-06-19 13:35|| Front Page Top

#17 The Democrats seem to see this war as some kind of game and both sides should play by Marqiuse of Queensbury rules.
If it comes down to relying on the court system, a bullet in the brain, or Hellfire vaporization to put him away, I'd lean to option B or C. Closes all possible loopholes. A martyr's a martyr. But he's still dead.

Posted by tu3031 2008-06-19 13:50|| 2008-06-19 13:50|| Front Page Top

#18 The Power Line guys take him to task on this, and rip him to pieces. Obama has the insight into foreign policy of a third-grader in the worst school district in Washington, DC. Electing him to the Senate was a disaster: making him President of the United States would constitute a lapse of judgment similar to electing George III the first American president.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-06-19 14:48|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-06-19 14:48|| Front Page Top

#19 Replace Marvin here with Osama Bin Laden

Take no prisoners, accidents can happen....

Posted by Jan 2008-06-19 16:06|| 2008-06-19 16:06|| Front Page Top

#20 Soldier's Option. You think the brass has enough balls to prosecute any troopie who wacks OBL?* What do you want him for, intelligence? He's one of the two at the top, you don't need further info from him.

*Yeah, make my day. You think slick fingers Murtha keeps getting reelected, once young trigger puller is out, he'd be able to do a Hillary and end up Senator from a state and have his former superiors in front of him for hearings.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-19 16:47|| 2008-06-19 16:47|| Front Page Top

#21 I vote for pink mist.

Posted by DMFD 2008-06-19 22:53|| 2008-06-19 22:53|| Front Page Top

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