Osama Bin Laden is dead

[beowulf]

oh god i forgot about that nutter

[Hal-9000]

Oh, wasn't thrashing you.

I just find the need to namecheck our two-faced Quislings in news reports a bit silly -- that's not you, that's the reporting.

It reminds me of that scene in the last Transformer movie, when a key juncture, someone says "Here come the Jordanians" (or was it Egyptians?) as if they're supposed to help anything . . .

Thanks, didn't feel like a thrashing

I understand, we all know the SEALS did the job.I can't help myself...rather than blow the building they landed a helicopter and carried out a ground assault.That is so fecking cool.Coupled with what must have been a heart stopping moment for the team when the helicopter malfunctioned and possibly no ride out of there....whoa!!!!

I wonder who gets to play the SEAL in the movie

[Pony]

I just saw a post elsewhere, he said "Amazing what the Americans can get done when the playstation network is down."

[Pony]

I can't help myself...rather than blow the building they landed a helicopter and carried out a ground assault.That is so fecking cool....

Yea, my first reaction on reading the details was "Holy shit they landed a chopper inside the walls!"

[Teh One Who Knocks]

[redred]

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-Am...72135939508742

[Hal-9000]

Yea, my first reaction on reading the details was "Holy shit they landed a chopper inside the walls!"

The movie rights are going to be worth BILLIONS

fook me, I'll go see it even if Tom Cruise is starring

[beowulf]

Yea, my first reaction on reading the details was "Holy shit they landed a chopper inside the walls!"

saves having to try blowing a hole in the wall

i remember reading the autobio of the guy who got delta Force off the ground (he served as an exchange with the S.A.S. where he got the idea)......im sure it was him who was involved with a mission in viet nam where they planned to crash land a helo full of SF into the middle of a NVA pow camp to rescue US prisoners, then break OUT of the camp to be picked up somewhere where there was more room for a bigger helo........might be wrong tho, been a long time since i read that book


*edit*.....just been googling...it wasnt beckworth who started delta, it was meadows who also had SAS experience, and it was the Son Tay raid which they actually did cept when they got there all the prisoners had been moved

[Hal-9000]

saves having to try blowing a hole in the wall

i remember reading the autobio of the guy who got delta Force off the ground (he served as an exchange with the S.A.S. where he got the idea)......im sure it was him who was involved with a mission in viet nam where they planned to crash land a helo full of SF into the middle of a NVA pow camp to rescue US prisoners, then break OUT of the camp to be picked up somewhere where there was more room for a bigger helo........might be wrong tho, been a long time since i read that book

them guys get the BIGBALLS award, hands down....

[Pony]

The movie rights are going to be worth BILLIONS

fook me, I'll go see it even if Tom Cruise is starring

Let's not get carried away.

saves having to try blowing a hole in the wall

i remember reading the autobio of the guy who got delta Force off the ground (he served as an exchange with the S.A.S. where he got the idea)......im sure it was him who was involved with a mission in viet nam where they planned to crash land a helo full of SF into the middle of a NVA pow camp to rescue US prisoners, then break OUT of the camp to be picked up somewhere where there was more room for a bigger helo........might be wrong tho, been a long time since i read that book


*edit*.....just been googling...it wasnt beckworth who started delta, it was meadows who also had SAS experience, and it was the Son Tay raid which they actually did cept when they got there all the prisoners had been moved

That's nuts! I'll have to read about that.

[Pony]

them guys get the BIGBALLS award, hands down....

My thoughts exactly.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

The movie rights are going to be worth BILLIONS

fook me, I'll go see it even if Tom Cruise is starring

Let's not get carried away.

Yup, it's obvious that there's only one person that could tackle that role

[Deepsepia]

I understand, we all know the SEALS did the job.I can't help myself...rather than blow the building they landed a helicopter and carried out a ground assault.

Limbaugh has offered the oddest comment so far . . . it sounds like he's sincerely praising Obama, but . . . is it sarcastic? I can't tell.

The decision to go in and see who we were shooting, get a real positive ID -- that was important. If you just blow up a building . . . then you're stuck never really knowing. And of course, you make the blast site a martyr-pilgrimage site.

"You see the military wanted to go in there and bomb, like they always do…But President Obama, perhaps the only qualified member in the room to deal with this, insisted on the special forces," he explained.

"Our military wanted to go in there and just scorch the earth leaving no evidence of anything after the mission. But President Obama single-handedly understood what was at stake here. He alone understood the need to get DNA to prove the death, Obama alone understood the aftermath."

According to Limbaugh, Obama's success must be linked to former President George W. Bush.

"We need to never forget that President Obama deserves praise for continuing the policies established by George W. Bush which led to the learning, the acquisition of this intel that led us to the enlarged hut in Pakistan that led to the assassination of bin Laden last night," he declared.

"Thank God for President Obama. If he had not been there, who knows what would've happened."

Whaddya think? Is Rush being sincere? Or sarcastic? or both?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Whaddya think? Is Rush being sincere? Or sarcastic? or both?

I go with sarcastic....Limbaugh is a pompous windbag that only talks to hear himself talk

[Hal-9000]

Rush's comments seem legit...he did try to attach the decision to existing policies by Bush ...it does seem sincere however.



On a personal note...
I have more respect for Obama today, than I have in the past 3 years.