Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Due Process - Not Just What He's Due

Lots of backtracking and story changing surrounding the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
Now we are to believe they planned for capture. Perhaps they arranged for the appearance to do so but I do not believe it was ever seriously the idea.
Obama's own campaign pledge back in 2008 was to get him, kill him.
Capturing Bin Laden would have represented a logistical nightmare, and would have spurred prolonged and violent protests.
If you don't believe, that they believed, that a live Osama Bin Laden would have been more trouble than he was worth look again at how they handled his body.
They couldn't wait to get rid of it. Put an end to it and do it right now.
That's what they planned, that's why they shot him at close range with two lethal shots despite him being unarmed.
He was evil personified. He most assuredly faced eventual execution and rightly so. But the manner of his death was a mistake. It diminishes us all . We are better than them, we are better than that.

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