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Harryk

I_am_Tosk wrote:
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I prefer to deal with what we know...or were told. We were told Osama
was given an opportunity to surrender and live or go out in a blaze of
what he probably assumed was glory. We were told he chose the latter.

That's no different than the choices the police in this country offer
dangerous fugitives who they have cornered or who respond by opening
fire. It usually is referred to as "Death by Cop."

Assuming that was the case, I don't have a problem with the outcome. A
trial would have been long and messy, but it is our way to try criminals
and prove their guilt in a court of law. To dispose of criminals
otherwise brings us down to the level of the terrorists.

There is no better suited or trained outfit in the world so capable of
even taking an armed, attacking person with non-lethal force. If they
wanted him alive, they would have taken him alive... He, like many
others over there know too much about what Pakistan, and even we knew
about his existence for the last ten years... They wanted him dead, and
they are the best at that too.

Sigh...yet another half-baked right-wing conspiracy theory.