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Old 05-01-2011, 09:55 PM
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Query: does it change anything?
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Old 05-01-2011, 10:02 PM
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Query: does it change anything?
Combined with the ongoing Arab Spring, perhaps so. Congrats to the hard working fellas in Afghanistan/Pakistan.

From a political POV, will the GOP maintain their mantle as the party of national security (which I always thought was bogus)?
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Old 05-01-2011, 10:07 PM
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From a political POV, will the GOP maintain their mantle as the party of national security (which I always thought was bogus)?
It's difficult to spread fear without a bogeyman...

That said, beyond psychologically, the question can very well be asked if we are actually any "safer" now than we were a week ago when this -- apparently -- occurred.

Oh yeah, Obama just won reelection in a landslide.
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Old 05-01-2011, 10:13 PM
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It's difficult to spread fear without a bogeyman...

That said, beyond psychologically, the question can very well be asked if we are actually any "safer" now than we were a week ago when this -- apparently -- occurred.

Oh yeah, Obama just won reelection in a landslide.
It'll be interesting to hear the Right Wing trying to give credit to Dubya for this or otherwise diminish it. Really.
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Old 05-01-2011, 10:16 PM
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It'll be interesting to hear the Right Wing trying to give credit to Dubya for this. Really.
Obama: "Here's my birth certificate. Here's Osama Bin Laden's head. How do you like me now?"
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Old 05-01-2011, 10:19 PM
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Obama: "Here's my birth certificate. Here's Osama Bin Laden's head. How do you like me now?"
He's still a black man. The crazies will remain crazy. Of that, I am sure.
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Old 05-01-2011, 10:18 PM
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The Bin Laden family is quite powerful and very rich, so the money and influence is gone.
Other than that they will still teach gullible children the wonderful art of suicide bombing I'm sure.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/am...132275789.html


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Woot!!!!!!!!! Woot!!!!!!!!!! Yeeeeeeehhhhaaaaaawwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where are those dancing bananas when we need them?

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Not really. There are any number of people willing and capable of replacing OBL. I would suspect some backlash from his death. There's nothing like a martyr to churn the terrorist pot.
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Oh, would you guys just shut the hell up and be happy for once?
Good Lord!!!

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