Too bad he didn’t have time to suffer, like so many people did on 9/11
Osama bin Laden was shot above his left eye and the bullet blew away part of his skull, a U.S. official says. He was also shot in the chest.
The precision kill shot was delivered by a member of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team Six during a pre-dawn raid Monday on bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.
He got off easy.
Lew Rockwell has a hissy fit over this
The latter explanations all are evidently government-sourced. They all give no weight to any semblance of rule of law, whether ordinary or under conditions of war. They mirror the kinds of police injustices that Will Grigg reports to us on almost a daily basis. They mirror the conclusion of Paul Craig Roberts that the rule of law is dead.
Anyone else getting the feeling that Liberals are, less than 48 hours later, coming out with their real feelings, and would have preferred Osama standing trial in a civilian court (with a preference in a court in lower Manhattan) so that he can tell the world how bad the United States is?
Another thought: Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize based on what he might do. Remember, he said “I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the challenges of the 21st century.”
Um kay. How’s that resume working out?
- Followed the Bush plan for leaving Iraq
- Escalated the war in Afghanistan, both with troops and drone strikes
- Did not close Gitmo
- Supposedly, rendition and black holding sites are still operational
- Launched a war against Libya – without consulting Congress
- He has continued the policy of indefinite detention by Executive Order
- He asked for the power of “preventative detention“
- He has a policy of “targeted killings”
- And, now, he has ordered the US military to cross the border of a sovereign nation on an assassination mission
It’s not that I don’t agree with how Obama is handling the War on Terrorism, I do. He says one thing, but then does something else, and that something else tends to be good. I’ll give him a double thumbs up. But, shouldn’t he be giving back that Nobel, because his call to action is anything but peaceful.
