Bin Laden To Be Announced As Kiiled

[SlowwHand]

I guess palatial mansion is relative in interpretation. To me, it looks like a less-than-small crack house.

[Traianvs]

Oh boy, I wonder though, should Bush gets shot in the head, and a bunch of half-assed lunatics celebrate across the Middle-East, in particular in Iraq, what your reactions would be.

After all, deaths caused by the Bush administration are significantly higher (that's quite the understatement )

Other than that, this is a non-event. The US let him flee ages ago, and probably with good reason as they needed him as the enemy. Osama hasn't played any significant role since 2004.

Hooray. Go America!

[The Mad Monk]

Oh boy, I wonder though, should Bush gets shot in the head, and a bunch of half-assed lunatics celebrate across the Middle-East, in particular in Iraq, what your reactions would be.

After all, deaths caused by the Bush administration are significantly higher (that's quite the understatement )

Other than that, this is a non-event. The US let him flee ages ago, and probably with good reason as they needed him as the enemy. Osama hasn't played any significant role since 2004.

Hooray. Go America!

Nice job, you scored the trifecta!

[Hauldren Collider]

New drink: the Osama shot. It's actually two shots followed by a splash of water.

[Hauldren Collider]

Comment on washingtonpost.com:

"Osama was expecting 72 virgins. Instead he met 24 Virginians."

[giblets]

Well it looks like Conservapedia is espousing conspiracy theories

[ColdWizard]

I was waiting for this.

WASHINGTON – The top staffer for the Senate Indian Affairs Committee is objecting to the U.S. military's use of the code name "Geronimo" for Osama bin Laden during the raid that killed the al-Qaida leader.

Geronimo was an Apache leader in the 19th century who spent many years fighting the Mexican and U.S. armies until his surrender in 1886.

Loretta Tuell, staff director and chief counsel for the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, said Tuesday it was inappropriate to link Geronimo, whom she called "one of the greatest Native American heroes," with one of the most hated enemies of the United States.

"These inappropriate uses of Native American icons and cultures are prevalent throughout our society, and the impacts to Native and non-Native children are devastating," Tuell said.

Tuell is a member of the Nez Perce tribe and grew on the tribe's reservation in Idaho. The Senate Indian Affairs panel had previously scheduled a hearing for Thursday on racial stereotypes of native people. Tuell said the use of Geronimo in the bin Laden raid will be discussed.

Steven Newcomb, a columnist for the weekly newspaper Indian Country Today, criticized what he called a disrespectful use of a name revered by many Native Americans.

"Apparently, having an African-American president in the White House is not enough to overturn the more than 200-year American tradition of treating and thinking of Indians as enemies of the United States," Newcomb wrote.

After bin Laden was killed, the military sent a message back to the White House: "Geronimo EKIA" — enemy killed in action.

"It's another attempt to label Native Americans as terrorists," said Paula Antoine of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota.

A White House spokesman referred questions about the code name to the Pentagon. A Defense Department spokeswoman declined to comment.

Jefferson Keel, president of National Congress of American Indians, the largest organization representing American Indians and Alaska Natives, said, "Osama bin Laden was a shared enemy."

Keel said that since 2001, 77 American Indians and Alaskan Natives have died defending the U.S. in Afghanistan and Iraq. More than 400 have been wounded.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Dan Snyder

Redskins

McNabb

[giblets]

Using the name of an Apache leader as a codename for a foreign terrorist kind of suggests that native americans are still thought of as something alien, IMHO.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Perpetuating the stereotype

Cowboys "Amercas team"

[rah]

Yeah, in hindsight, probably not the smartest thing. But no matter what the code name was, I'm sure someone would have been offended. DAMN PC

[SlowwHand]

Piss on them. You're right. Someone will whine about anything.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

"Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

Dalai Lama suggests Osama bin Laden's death was justified
Speaking at USC, the Buddhist spiritual leader says of the Al Qaeda chief's assassination: 'Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened.'

The Dalai Lama spoke to a crowd of about 3,000 students at USC's Galen Center on Tuesday. Wednesday he is scheduled to accept an award in Long Beach and speak at UC Irvine. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
May 4, 2011

As the leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the 14th Dalai Lama says he practices compassion to such an extent that he tries to avoid swatting mosquitoes "when my mood is good and there is no danger of malaria," sometimes watching with interest as they swell with his blood.

Yet, in an appearance Tuesday at USC, he appeared to suggest that the United States was justified in killing Osama bin Laden.

As a human being, Bin Laden may have deserved compassion and even forgiveness, the Dalai Lama said in answer to a question about the assassination of the Al Qaeda leader. But, he said, "Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. … If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures."

It was, perhaps, an example of the Dalai Lama confounding expectations, something he appears to relish doing. The 75-year-old leader spoke on the first day of what was to have been a four-day trip to Southern California; he was delayed by two days when he fell ill in Japan.

Aides said he was forced to cancel appearances in Long Beach on Sunday and at UCLA on Monday because doctors had advised him not to attempt the long flight from Tokyo until he felt better. He had been in Japan offering condolences and support after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

He showed no ill effects when he took the stage at USC's Galen Center on Tuesday morning. Appearing robust and in good humor, he told the audience that he had suffered first from a sore throat, then from side effects of medication that made him "very faint."

"Today, I feel terrific," he said before putting on a red and gold USC baseball cap that fortuitously matched the colors of his traditional robes.

This was the Dalai Lama's first U.S. visit since stepping down recently as the day-to-day political leader of Tibet's government in exile, and his focus was largely on spiritual matters. He fled Tibet in 1959 as Chinese forces consolidated control over the country, and has lived in India ever since, frequently traveling the world in support of the Tibetan cause.

His speech at USC was titled, "Secular Ethics, Human Values and Society," a topic that was sufficiently broad to allow him to range over matters as diverse as the consciousness of animals, the strengths of India's multicultural society and the nature of happiness.

The Dalai Lama spoke about the importance of religious tolerance, and about the shared values of all major religions. But he said that people could not attain happiness through prayer, and that "this happy life is not a religious concept." Happiness, he said, is a secular concept, so "our aim is secular."

"I'm Buddhist," he said. "I respect religion. But I talk always about secularism."

The audience, which included some 3,000 USC students, responded to his message respectfully, even adoringly. Afterward, however, some complained that they had trouble understanding him; the Dalai Lama often speaks about thorny concepts in accented English, sometimes relying on a translator to fill in gaps.

Many others said they were inspired. And some spoke about the Dalai Lama in the sort of enigmatic terms one might expect of the Buddhist leader himself.

"I think truth is eternal, so we did not expect new truth," said the Rev. Cecil "Chip" Murray, a prominent African Methodist Episcopal pastor. "But I think we were reading the truth of him; therefore, the truth took on new meaning. He was metaphysical and physical."

On Wednesday, the Dalai Lama was scheduled to accept an award from Amnesty International in Long Beach and speak at UC Irvine before leaving California.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...,7229481.story

[MrFun]

If they had used Harvey Milk as codename, I would be TOTALLY, like completely, absolutely offended.

[ColdWizard]

MrFun, why did you edit the title of this thread to "Kiiled"?