Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Bin Laden is Dead

To be clear, Donald Trump is slightly less of an assh*le than Osama bin Laden.

The proof will be coming soon... as for my birth certificate Donald.

I don't like dt but has he murdered anyone?

Hey Dr. House BlueJays1, thanks for stealing my thunder, dude. I was going to follow-up with that one later on.

Seriously, I love that Obama caption.

And I just realized the irony that the news broke during an episode of Trump's show. Trump has to be peeved that the spotlight has turned away from him.

Good one.

I personally don't believe Osama was killed yesterday. He's a bad guy that should have been brought to justice, rather than taken out in an act of terrorism, if he in fact was, though.

We have certain elementary principals, and one of those is that everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. This principle even (rightly) extended to Hitler's goons in the Nuremberg trials, and they were some of the most despicable people the world has seen.

The U.S. has never put forth any direct evidence that connects Osama with 9/11 (even after al-Qaida said that they would turn him over if they provided some), which is one reason they wouldn't want to try him. Another is that who knows what he would say; the U.S. created him, lest not forget that fact.

I want those who committed the atrocities on 9/11 to be held accountable, as much as the next person does, but you certainly don't reach justice by becoming the enemy that which you deplore. I find it unfortunate that so called civilized nations can become uncivilized because vengeance can get the better of some of us.

There's something prolifically wrong with a society that can deem one culture wrong for stoning someone to death as a form of judicial punishment, but then turn around and just shoot someone, rather than capturing them and holding true to our democratic system that we like to speak so highly of.

All that this form of jurisprudence has done, unfortunately, is made things worse (assuming they actually did kill him, of course).

Leave it up to Cam for the crackpot conspiracy theories. Glad you didn't let us down.

As for Hitlers goon's, some didn't see a trial once the mossad or other agencies got to them. Some did. OBL didn't go down without a gunfight. If he would have surrendered I see no reason why they wouldn't keep him alive. Safety first for the seals and on a job well done. Their actions were appropriate under the circumstances.

Further irony is that on May 1st 2011 the US announced the death of Osama Bin Laden, and on May 1st 1945 Germany announced the death of Adolf Hitler.

What conspiracy theory?

That he wasn't killed yesterday.