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I wonder where a guy could get a terrorist card deck.  One signed by OBL would be worth a few bucks now, eh?

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The mods must be busy. The posts in this thread are droppin' like flies! :D

You all DO have a way of keeping us hopping.[8|]

In all seriousness, I had to do a massive clean-up here. I understand it is a volatile topic but please folks...lets keep it within the boundaries of the TOS.

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To quote a better writer than I;
"I am glad that you are gone, that the arrow and abyss have claimed you, that you sully no more the places of men with your presence, nor walk in the sweet air. I wish you had never been born, and, failing that, that you had died sooner. Enough. It diminishes me to reflect so. Be dead, and trouble my thinking no more.""

Wow. Whose words?

Corwin of Amber said them in the novel "The Courts of Chaos", which was written by Roger Zelazny.

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This is not something to enjoy.

This was something that needed to be done to achieve justice and prevent further harm.

I'm sitting here watching idiots on the television celebrating like their team just won the Super Bowl.

How is this any different from what we called barbaric when the crowds in Fallujah were celebrating the dead American bodies hanging from the bridge?

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Buried at sea. I do hope that happened from an airplane.

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The body is already gone? Burial at sea? How inconvenient was that? Well, Abbotobad is a wee bit more than 1000 miles from Karachi, the closest "sea" in the area.

News stories are already reporting a level of doubt on this.

I'm a bit surprised I haven't seen more than a couple/few posts here along the same lines.

I'm even more surprised the choice was already made to destroy the evidence.

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This is not something to enjoy.

This was something that needed to be done to achieve justice and prevent further harm.

I'm sitting here watching idiots on the television celebrating like their team just won the Super Bowl.

How is this any different from what we called barbaric when the crowds in Fallujah were celebrating the dead American bodies hanging from the bridge?

If you were old enough to tie your shoes, you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing on that day. If you don't agree with the celebrations, you might try to UNDERSTAND the celebrations. I see so many young people out there. They couldn't have been older than 6 or 7 or so on 9/11.

I think those 'idiots' can keep right on waving their flags and holding their candles and hugging each other. I see candles, and I see flags and I see flowers. I see no effigies. I don't see anyone burning anything or firing any guns in the air. I see a whole lot of tears mixed in with the back slaps and high fives.

I think it's very different from the crowds in Fallujah, and I think that this allows some small form a closure or at least some small form of justice for all of those people whole lost loved ones either directly from the 9/11 attack, or following the attack and the resulting diseases that have plagued so many who were at Ground Zero. And it gives us all some Idon'tknowwhat. A reason and purpose for being there that had become perilously close to getting lost with the passage of so much time. And when you have loved ones deployed over there, what could be worse than thinking 'it's all for nothing?'

I am not 'enjoying' the death of one man half as much as I am enjoying how much BRIGHTER NYC looks today, and how proud I am of the Spec Ops guys who went in there and did this without the loss of a single American life, and without the loss of a single civilian life. How proud I am of the US military in general, and I see this very much as a HUGE victory for them.

So yeah, I will remember May 1 as a GREAT day, but I still will not forget 9/11.

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To quote a better writer than I;
"I am glad that you are gone, that the arrow and abyss have claimed you, that you sully no more the places of men with your presence, nor walk in the sweet air. I wish you had never been born, and, failing that, that you had died sooner. Enough. It diminishes me to reflect so. Be dead, and trouble my thinking no more.""

Wow. Whose words?

Corwin of Amber said them in the novel "The Courts of Chaos", which was written by Roger Zelazny.

I thought I recognized that - was that a eulogy to Brand?