While this is good news I don't really agree with true celebration...

[Locut0s]

Maybe it's just because I have a life long distaste for strong patriotism, no mater the direction it is coming from. Or maybe it's because I don't really like celebrating anyone's death in general (though I agree this would be an exception). I don't know why but while I do think this is good news I don't feel any conection with those who feel like partying.

[leftstreet]

1. It's too bad he couldn't have been charged, maybe rolled on some peeps

Hard to say

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. I can't relate to it either

even though I hated the fact that the man was alive and free.

[AsahinaKimi]

15. I kinda agree... depite all the killings he sanctioned

I can't feel good about celebrating anyone's death. Maybe its the Buddhist part of me .. I don't know.

[socialist_n_TN]

47. That was my thought. The Shao Lin part of me.........

says that "Death does no one honor." Death is death, necessary for all, but not something to be celebrated.

[Puregonzo1188]

3. Agreed. There was a General on Al-Jazzera who while he thought this was a good thing

it wasn't for gloating or flag waving. And that the people at the White House were just "kids trying to make a night out of it."

He's a murderous thug, but this is kind of disgusting.

And I agree with the other DUer in this thread about the trial.

[valerief]

4. I don't either unless this all means the WAR ON TERROR is dead! nt

[Joe the Revelator]

5. Disagree...I wish I was at the white house tonight.

[Xenotime]

6. This is truly sad news for America. This is a new day in a bad world.

[lonestarnot]

9. Really? WTF!

:eyes:

[BeyondGeography]

7. Nonsense

Live a little.

[lonestarnot]

8. So you don't look at future possibilities in this matter? Not interested in ending the wars?

[Toucano]

Ending the wars. ROFLMFAO!!!!

That's a good one!

[lonestarnot]

37. You must be making money off them.

:shrug:

[Toucano]

43. ROFLMFAO! Oh, yes. You guessed it. You need to get into comedy!

If you think the death of one old man is going to change anything, you're really...optimistic*.


*Intended as a euphemism, of course.

[lonestarnot]

46. You guessed too! I am a comdian.

[Toucano]

49. The work of a true professional has an unmistakable mark.

:toast:

[Terra Alta]

10. I won't be doing my celebrating until our troops are home.

Now that bin Laden has been killed.. why are our troops still there?

[Joe the Revelator]

12. Because it's been 12 hours.

[Terra Alta]

23. So?

In his speech tonight, Obama could have announced an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.. and yet he didn't.

[Renew Deal]

11. If you don't like celebrating Bin Laden's death, the problem is with you.

Trust me.

[Joe the Revelator]

16. A-fucking-men

[Toucano]

22. LOL! Damn straight! We don need no stinkin' trials, testimony, appeals & convictions, dammit!

Wur 'Mericans, fer fucksake!


Cue the Lee Greenwood!

[Renew Deal]

24. Are you still pissed Hitler didn't get a trial?

[Toucano]

30. Oh, super! Hitler = Osama bin Laden.

Way to justify your "nation of laws".

[leftstreet]

32. 5 bucks says the M$M is spelling it "Usama" before the election

:beer:

[Renew Deal]

35. You didn't answer the question.

[Toucano]

44. It's not a serious question worthy of an answer. It's a childish, myopic, playground-logic

retort that stands devoid of reason and unworthy of further acknowledgement.

I don't do Fox News, so I don't play those games. But thanks for the invitation.

[okieinpain]

39. agree 100 percent. n/t.

[Ron Green]

13. I'm never in favor of flag-waving when you're the one Superpower.

It's not helpful, it's inappropriate, and it's in bad taste.

[Gregorian]

14. Not only is the smug celebrating disgusting, but it sends a message to the world.

I'm already seeing the disgust by Brits on another forum. They think the Yanks out in front of the White House are in poor taste.

Some people think that things happened in a vacuum. I don't see anyone flying planes into buildings in Belgium. I have always had a hatred for the blindness that so many have regarding this national tragedy. As if we had nothing to do with it. We had everything to do with it.

[Joe the Revelator]

20. I say this with the full intent of the words.....fuck anyone else's sensibilities.

And the Brits, after there little show this weekend, have no room to talk.

[Prefix]

25. +1

if anyone has no right to criticize self-indulgence, it's the British.

[Toucano]

26. Isn't that the attitude that got you here in the first place?

So Americans and their British cousins are both pigs.

Stop the presses! We've got a new front page!

[lbrtbell]

50. The British think THAT'S in poor taste?

Where was their distaste about the American media fawning all over their stupid royal wedding, when hundreds of people here had been killed by violent tornadoes?

BTW, "we" had nothing to do with 9/11. Innocent people were killed, people who did nothing to harm anyone in Al Qaeda. It's disgusting to use the word "we", as if the people killed on 9/11 brought it on themselves.

These are the kind of statements that give us Democrats a bad name. Osama bin Laden and his ilk are the only ones to blame. You don't kill innocent people just because you have a problem with a government.

And by the way, we are not "Yanks"--we're AMERICANS. I don't apologize for being American or being patriotic. I love my country, which is why I hate what Bush did, and the current Republicans are doing, to our nation.

[Gregorian]

53. I don't want to argue.

But I recall a documentary on LinkTV that mentioned how Osama got the idea of flying planes into a building when he saw a US made missile flying into one of the buildings over in the Middle East. We were killing innocent people in another country because we had a problem with their government's nonexistent wmd's wanted oil.

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[WinkyDink]

18. I'm bugged by ANY good mention of BUSH right now.

[Prefix]

19. as a friend said...

10% of these people actually care about this. The other 90% are thinking "HEY! I'm on TV!!!"

[Lucky Luciano]

27. Accurate post! They are just drunk college kids. nt

[Joe the Revelator]

31. Are we so cynical now that we no longer like college kids who have had there entire lives

Effected by bin laden??

[Lucky Luciano]

56. It looks like their team just won after March Madness.

Don't get me wrong. I am definitely glad we got that bastard and that we should feed the body to wild dogs. It is hard to dance in the streets after that shitbag embarrassed us for 10 years though....and that was plenty if time for his cancer to metastasize to the rest of the world. This is great news, but only symbolic. VE day, on the other hand was the absolute conclusion of a horrible time in history - I can imagine dancing in the streets for that.

[progressoid]

21. What? It only cost 1.3 trillion dollars and a few thousand lives.

What's not to celebrate?

[Old and In the Way]

28. I'd have preferred to have had him caught alive and stood trial.

Maybe there's captured evidence or tapes that will fill in a lot of the missing details of OBL and his role in 9/11. I doubt that we'll see any pics, though. Apparently he took a head shot.

[villager]

29. Predictably unrecc'd. Here, deviation is just as intolerable as it is for the GOP

At least tonight.

Quite revelatory, really...

[Dawson Leery]

Anyone who has followed my posts around here knows I am not fond of war

or any killing (I cannot celebrate war). I find jingoism to be a vile celebration of "relative" superiority. Still, I have no sympathy for Mr. Bin Laden. I have no sympathy for any oppressor. Oppressors of any kind from any Religion or otherwise. I accept that the world is highly flawed. Still I do not have to show any kindness to ANY oppressor, including Mr. Bin Laden. He was a horrible piece of reactionary s**t. The "Christian" fundamentalists are rightfully condemned around here. Be consistent, Mr. Bin Laden has the same beliefs.

[demosincebirth]

36. Who is fond of war? Christian fundamentalists don't send other out

with suicide vest to kill innocents. If you say McVey, he was not christian nor a fundie

[Dawson Leery]

38. "Christian Fundamentlists" use the "back door"

of manipulating public opinion and double talk to hide their true agenda.

[demosincebirth]

41. Still, no comparison. No matter what you say. Not today.

[lbrtbell]

52. No, they just kill abortion doctors

Christian fundies are SO peace-loving....

[Nye Bevan]

33. USA! USA! USA!

(as the crowd broke into chanting at the Mets-Phillies game)

[demosincebirth]

34. I'm not flag waver, but I'll unfold mine tomorrow.

[SnoopDog]

40. Well, my post was moved to the '9/11' forum for generally asking the same thing...

Has anyone proved that bin laden masterminded the attack on 911?


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x312661

[libbybelle]

42. This is a time for flag waving... but partying idk.

nt

[lynne]

45. I'm feeling the same. The dancing in the streets reminds me of THEM -

- of watching extremists dance in the streets after 09/11. I just don't like it. IMO, this should be a time of remembering the victims and thanking the military.

[woo me with science]

54. Well put.

That was where my memory went, too.

[Lucky Luciano]

57. Exactly. I would rec this post if I could. nt

[tilsammans]

48. If this is what ends the wars . . .

. . . I will TRULY celebrate!

[Xenotime]

51. this is a celebration of death...not a true progressive view

[lonestarnot]

55. Whatever. I'll take it!

:toast: