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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine
I believe he had to die, but I believe there is a more right way of doing it. One can and has in this thread and in other places argue that America killed hundreds of thousands of iraqis in the process of taking out Saddham Hussein, does that put America on par with Al-Qaeda? Just because it's easier to do it one way doesn't necessarily make it right.
Tuna, I think if it were in any way possible for a drone to be sent to blow the **** out of the compound, it would definitely have been considered. Fact is that it was within the airspace of the pakistani capitol, which apparently "made a drone attack impossible", which shows that it was at least considered. I'm amazed that the pakistani government haven't been more vocal about the fact that they were told literally nothing about the attack. I understand the need for secrecy, but what those SEALs did was essentially invade another country, assault a house within a few miles of a pakistani military base, execute a kill order and then move out again with the body.
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I knew you were gonna bring Iraq into the equation once you started talking about morals. In your judgment, the USA's morals are already on par with Al Quaeda's. Would giving OBL a trial really even change your mind considering the Iraq war?? I doubt it.
What's the point in wasting more time and money on the trial? The only argument is from a "its the right thing to do!" viewpoint. And if that's the case, I'll just say again that I don't value all lives the same. My government doesn't view all lives the same. And when you get a shot at the biggest threat to the USA, you take the shot. I don't even know how you would capture Bin Laden without having to kill him. Do you honestly see OBL surrendering under any circumstance? Taking him alive meant more safety risk for the SEALs and everyone involved.
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hithead Pakistan... If it wasn't for them, we would have probably got Bin Laden years ago. They found Bin Laden in a huge, expensive mansion like half a mile away from the military base in Pakistan in a town mainly of Pakistani soldiers... There's suggestions that he had lived there several years. Are you kidding me? Some allies they are, huh? Bin Laden definitely had to have had people in the Pakistani government watching his back. We didn't tell the Pakistan government what we were doing because those idiots would have probably warned him.