Reply #10: Yes... definitely.....

[hlthe2b]

I am absolutely anti-death penalty, yet I was relieved. I was not celebratory, really, but relieved--thinking of the victims of 911-- that this part of the 911 story had come to a final conclusion. I was admittedly pleased that the Navy Seal team-- and most certainly the administration-- had succeeded after taking such a tremendous risk on so many levels.

I firmly believe those held in Gitmo should receive stateside trials in civilian courts, just as those responsible for the first WTC bombing had been, but that is where some major conflict and perhaps a bit of hypocrisy admittedly comes through. For OBL, such a trial and sentencing would have just been such an extreme and constant provocation for further retaliation for decades to come.... So again, the relief at how it turned out. Nonetheless, I do hope that they would have taken him alive if he had truly tried to surrender.


That said, I was extremely conflicted (and perhaps more so) for the way in which Sadam Hussein met his final days. I continue to be so.