Limbaugh goes queasy...

[kentuck]

I was listening for a few minutes on the drive home from work. (I don't know why I feel I have to explain that?) But Rush was saying that Bin Laden's daughter said that the Americans shot her father after he was already captured. Also, he was unarmed. There were no guns in the room. The White House keeps changing their story, he said.

Surprise! Surprise! It was an assassination squad. They had no intent on bringing him out alive to the spectacle that would have ensued. That may make a lot of people queasy, not just Rush Limbaugh, but they shot Bin Laden in the head because he was an enemy of the people of the United States.

The same people that were so vehemently opposed to trials for terrorists in this country are now asking for the photos to be released. They are hypocrites. One is just as inflammatory as the other.
The President made the right decision.

All we can say to Rush and the right wing is that sometimes it is a messy world. The Navy Seals assassinated Osama Bin Laden. That was their mission. They succeeded. End of story.

[Hosnon]

1. The absurdity of the Right is best illustrated by assuming Bush had done the exact same

thing while he was in office.

Rush would be demanding Sainthood.

[Solomon]

3. I can see the tickertape parades, balloons, confetti in the streets,

and oh yeah, the codpiece.

[FSogol]

4. And Bush would have paraded bin Laden's head around in front of military parades

before installing the head in the Bush Library.

I think that runs in his family.

[Mz Pip]

2. If we had captured Osama alive

and brought him to trial what would Rush be saying about the potential for Americans being taken hostage and held, killed in terrorist demands to let him go?

No matter what Obama did there would be RW disapproval to it. Rush can go fuck himself. His armchair quarterbacking is pathetic.

[Zen Democrat]

5. President Obama took out Bin Laden.

As much as the RW hates the fact, Obama did the deed. Bin Laden did not fly any planes into the World Trade Center, he ORDERED the attack. President Obama didn't storm the compound and shoot OBL in the head, he ORDERED it.

[exboyfil]

18. The test would be if the same

operation occurred under Bush. I remember Bush being criticized when the Cole mastermind in a jeep were killed by the Hellfire missile.

I am glad President Obama acted to eliminate this mass murderer. In the murky area between civilian and military law, you have to do things that may seem contrary to our beliefs but this individual had declared war on our country and had 3,000 of our people killed. He is not some mafia don. He was sheltered by another country (actually several going back in his history). We were not going to get help from Pakistan - it would just be another shell game and move on to another friendly country. I think they intended to kill him from the beginning, but try imagining how difficult it might have been to get a living Osama out of Pakistan. Would any mark on him be viewed as abuse??? Also I am sure the SEALs took the first available shot to ensure the success of the mission in spite of any other resistance they might meet later.

[elias49]

6. Ha! Listening to Bush Limbaugh while driving

is only a misdemeanor.

[guitar man]

7. I wonder if he's stopped to think for a minute

About what has been said and what has been done.

Bush: "wanted dead or alive" -big fail

Obama: "We will kill him" -big win

so, as it turns out Obama is the bigger hardass when it came down to getting it done with Bin Laden. Game, set, match! :D

[kentuck]

10. Yes, Obama said that.

"We will find Bin Laden and we will kill him."

Pretty straightforward, I think?

[guitar man]

14. as straightforward as it gets

said what he was going to do and made sure it got done. Unlike the drunken frat boy before him

[JackintheGreen]

8. "Wanted dead or alive"

Isn't that what dim son said before he said he didn't care much about OBL?

The hubris of these people is of biblical parable proportions.

[Frustratedlady]

9. If George had killed bin Laden, the Repugs would be out in force,

chiseling his head on Mt Rushmore.

[Bonhomme Richard]

11. If I know anything I know that had he been brought back alive....

the repugs would be screaming about that any the cowardly right would be shitting their pants over the concept of a trial. That and scared shitless to hold it anywhere in the States.

[kentuck]

12. Right on!

And Rush would be asking why they did not shoot him on the spot?

[librechik]

13. If Bush had done the same thing they would be worshipping him all over the tube

what a manly man! New sheriff! Kapow! Commander Guy shot the Bad Guy!

It's just the same Obama derangement syndrome--anything Obama does is wrong, even if it was great when Bush did it.

[Permanut]

15. Bush didn't fail to take out OBL because of incompetence,

Although he was, and is, incompetent to find his ass with both hands and a map. He was, and is, a tool for the PNAC and Carlyle Group; as reported by the London Observer.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,738196,00.html

"On 11 September, while Al-Qaeda's planes slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Carlyle Group hosted a conference at a Washington hotel. Among the guests of honour was a valued investor: Shafig bin Laden, brother to Osama."

George senior was included; the George, that is, who is not incompetent. I'm guessing that Limbaugh has heard all the details, but finds it advantageous to keep stirring the right wing wackos; puts more money in his bank account.

[freshwest]

16. Rush has a convenient lapse remembering who Bush let fly in US airspace on 9/11-12. Hint, not us.

[Politicalboi]

17. Now put that scenario

As Obama being friends with the Bin Ladens. Rush would have a heart attack.

[mistertrickster]

19. If the SEALs had captured OBL, then Rushball would condemn Obama for that.

Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.

BTW, since when do the Reich-wing believe what terrorists and their sisters say?

As soon as they can use it to make Obama look bad, then it's true.

[Raine]

21. Exactly, if he had brought OBL in alive for trial they would've

said he was a "bleeding heart" who was too weak and conscience stricken to have the guy killed. I really don't care what they have to say, it's always "opposite day" with them ... spin, spin, spin. I really don't understand people who can't see what a "snake oil" salesman these people are, it's sad and pathetic. :-(

[Raine]

20. If chimp had had OBL killed they would be peeing themselves

with excitement and happiness. Obama does it ... not so much ... just waaaaaa waaaaaaa waaaaaaaa. :cry: :nopity: :rofl:

[tomm2thumbs]

22. they kept him from getting to any possible switch to self-implode the hideaway

nutcases are nutcases and these are known for improvised explosives

and when someone potentially can detonate an entire compound full of military elite, you don't wait for him to fumble around in his pocket for the remote or let him move to part of the room that has the trigger switch

you don't do it

he's dead and they shouldn't even think twice

it was the right thing to do

[treestar]

23. Typical Rush Hypocrisy

Wasn't he saying while Bush was President that these people did not deserve trials? That they were captured on the battlefield?