OT - Usama Bin Laden is DEAD!

[AlwaysPraying]

Be careful about generalizing. Not all Americans are acting like that. It's just a few being shown on the news.

YES! You are so right! That's the scary thing about the news, it shows what it wants, from all sides of the world.

Here in Canada we are voting for our new country leader today, and who would ever know!! We may have a new party in control, may be an epic day, but again, I'm not sure who really knows!

 

[Lightworker]

Alwayspraying - I really like your comment and it is my sentiment. "Terrorists" come in all shapes and sizes and even the very people we put our trust in engage in terroristic activities to suit their own political agendas. X
@Summerain- lol at the term "convenient bogeyman" I was thinkin the same x

 

[PepsiChic]

I do find it disgusting that people are partying in the streets, what a state this world has come to that we find joy in a persons death

 

[xemmax]

AlwaysPraying - this was exactly what I said when I heard the news. I find it very unnerving that his death is celebrated as some form of justice when it goes against the very foundations of our justice system. Creeps me out.

 

[JASMAK]

I just don't think that it is going to change. The world isn't instantly better because this loser is dead. There is many followers of Bin Laden...he never flew those planes. And as far as people partying...I don't know their reasons...nor will I judge those people for reacting the way they feel is fit. Perhaps that is their way of releasing the pain they have felt for years. Me personally, I don't think it changes a thing that he is dead, if anything, it might be worse.

 

[Sarah&Ady]

Having served in the Army , been married to it and a daughter of a soldier also.. I think it was about bleeding time they got him... sadly though this is not the end. I fear there will always be a war in the world all the time there are humans inhabiting it.
I do however wish he was taken alive and not allowed to have become a 'martyr' in death.
He became the 'face' of terrorism but there are many many more lined up behind. It is not a time to celebrate but more a time to reflect.
Someone said it does not feel like justice and they are right.... there never will be justice but I have to believe that the people I cared about who died in uniform serving their country did so for a greater cause.
Maybe one day this world will see peace.... I hope for all our childrens sakes it comes in their lifetime xxx

 

[NG09]

AlwaysPraying - this was exactly what I said when I heard the news. I find it very unnerving that his death is celebrated as some form of justice when it goes against the very foundations of our justice system. Creeps me out.

Same here.

 

[brunette&bubs]

When I read the news of Osama bin Laden's death last night, I remember shaking, crying, laughing...feeling all sorts of emotions.
My husband called me from a huge university library he was at and i could hear the celebrating in the background.
I remember exactly where I was on 9/11/01 and it turns my stomach to think about the people lost on that day.
I think about if I was one of those people at the very top of one of the Twin Towers just plummeting to my death.
Or sitting on this plane, knowing you are about to die while you call your loved ones to tell them goodbye
It brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it.
I'm not going to lie, what the terrorists did to the United States on 9/11 makes me pissed and bitter.
Am I happy Osama was killed? Yes, and I hope he really is dead and got what he deserved.

But the sad part is now I have many friends being deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq because of the threat of retaliation.
It's pretty f*ckin sad and scary that I don't feel safe in my own country.

I watch this video and it brings the anger of God into me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv4s3fn8jDc

I'm proud as hell to be an American!
And am so glad Osama is dead.
Thank you to all those serving our country!

Sorry, this topic makes me a bit emotional!!!

 

[tu123]

I dunno. Maybe if i had lived in America and lived near ground zero and gone through everything people did there then maybe i could understand SOME people cheering in the streets.

My OH was on one of the trains in the July bombings. If he had been killed i'd want someones head on a platter. What do poeple want? Catch him then let him rot in Jail on tax payers money, or get rid of him? He was dying anyway from renal disease.

As a nurse i must sound very cold now but having worried stupid about my husband in the July bombings-i couldnt get hold of him for 15 hrs what would i want? The culprit to live free? NO.

As for revenge attacks. Quite possible, but there is ALLWAYS that risk from other cult of nutters.

Alot of it comes down to personal experience and you could go on debating the conspiratory theories for donkeys years.

 

[Sarah&Ady]

You dont sound cold at all! In some way I feel that victims families should get a say in the punishment.... a bullet though was too damn good and easy for him in my opinion.

 

[xemmax]

But death isn't even justice to them (extremists) - let alone us. They are willing to die for their beliefs, death doesn't hold the same fear for them. Far more justice in denying someone like that death, in my opinion.

 

[Lellow]

To his followers and those who idolised him, he has infact died a martyr and a hero.
To them that was probably the ideal way to die....for your beliefs!

Like Emma said, people like that dont fear death!

 

[Surprise]

To his followers and those who idolised him, he has infact died a martyr and a hero.
To them that was probably the ideal way to die....for your beliefs!

Like Emma said, people like that dont fear death!

Too true. It's a no-win situation, really. As long as there are humans on the earth, there will be evilness and terrorism and all these terrible things. Makes me very sad and worried for the future, with my children growing up in such a world.

 

[Sarah10]

He should of been tortured for months, dragged it out. Normally i don't speak like that but evil doesn't come close to people like that, vile vile vile beast.

 

[mrsthomas623]

I think only Miley can say it best....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M11SvDtPBhA

 

[Lightworker]

AlwaysPraying - this was exactly what I said when I heard the news. I find it very unnerving that his death is celebrated as some form of justice when it goes against the very foundations of our justice system. Creeps me out.

Me too! As much as I am concerned about retaliation, I am very concerned that my LOs will grow up in a world where vengeance is celebrated and the rule of law is abandoned as and when, moreso by those seeking to occupy the moral highground.

 

[PrayinForBaby]

I have mixed emotions about this...I do know people that were personally affected by the devastation of 9-11, but I can't help but think, he was someones child. Heaven forbid my LO grow up and become someone who can do such evil things, but I know no matter what she would do I will always love her. So I feel a sense of compassion because I'm not a believer in an eye for an eye. I think when you start looking at retaliation in such a malicious manner that its only asking for more trouble. So idk how I feel about it, I'm happy that maybe some of the families affected might gain a sense of closure, but I'm very sad that loss of life is something to be so celebrated.

 

[louandivy]

AlwaysPraying - this was exactly what I said when I heard the news. I find it very unnerving that his death is celebrated as some form of justice when it goes against the very foundations of our justice system. Creeps me out.

I couldn't agree more! A lot of people believe in capital punishment though. Its depressing.

Also, surely there is another member of Al Qaeda ready to become the figurehead, I'd imagine they were prepared for the day when Bin Laden was inevitably killed? Same shit, different terrorist.

 

[iceylou]

im not sure how i feel about the celebrating of his death, YES he deserved what he got but as others have said a bullet was too easy, rotting in hell isnt enough.

terrorism will not go away that easy, look at ireland, yes the ira have disbanded as such but there are still idiots who think that bombing and the like is the only way. it annoys me so much when i see any followers of terrorism saying they hate (for eg) USA or UK and there they are on tv wearing american or british clothes, eating the food etc. if u dont like a country or what it stands for then ignore what it stands for.

 

[jojo2605]

I can't help but think it's a bit of a hollow victory. One man died yesterday... but to get to this point, so many, many lives have been lost. Lives that we cannot get back, whether Osama Bin Laden is dead or alive. Does it really matter if he is dead? Will the extremists stop their crusade? I doubt that, in fact it would seem this has only exacerbated the whole situation.

I don't feel safer knowing his body is now lying at the bottom of the Arabian Sea, not one bit.