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DuckPolice

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10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths, and $1,188,263,000,000 later, Osama's dead
« on: May 01, 2011, 11:39:54 pm »
That sounds pretty dang dorfy to me
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Re: 10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths, and $1,188,263,000,000 later, Osama's dead
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2011, 11:41:38 pm »
Here's the thread for that, although it's not as creatively named: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=83734.0;topicseen
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Quote from: MaximumZero on December 25, 2015, 09:30:24 pm
Holy crap, why did I not start watching One Punch Man earlier? This is the best thing.
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Re: 10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths, and $1,188,263,000,000 later, Osama's dead
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2011, 11:42:52 pm »
This thread is about how dwarfy the act is

It's like boatmurdered but instead of elephants it's terrorists
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Re: 10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths, and $1,188,263,000,000 later, Osama's dead
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2011, 11:45:19 pm »
Ooookay, then. At the risk of having things thrown at me, I'm going with not very. It wasn't done in ASCII, not a drop of magma was used, and no one was beheaded by having a handful of sand thrown at them. All in all, it's just another @ dead.
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Re: 10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths, and $1,188,263,000,000 later, Osama's dead
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2011, 11:51:33 pm »
You'll forgive me if I don't cheer after all of that, not to mention being told "we won" about 9 years ago.
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Re: 10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths, and $1,188,263,000,000 later, Osama's dead
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2011, 01:34:45 am »
America got what it wanted; now they just need to decide if the price was worth it.
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Re: 10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths, and $1,188,263,000,000 later, Osama's dead
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2011, 01:42:33 am »
All taken, nearly a million dead, over a trillion in debt... and the middle east hates us more than ever.

My money would be on "no", if I still had any.
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Re: 10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths, and $1,188,263,000,000 later, Osama's dead
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2011, 01:54:26 am »
The celebrations ... disturb me.

This isn't a victory for democracy this is a defeat. A man (monster as he was) was killed without a trial, hardly justice.
Not saying there was any chance it could have ended differently, but treating the event as a victory in history is just stupid.

So many dead, such waste of resources. Not to mention the war is long from over.

I guess the true winner here is blind Nationalism...
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Re: 10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths, and $1,188,263,000,000 later, Osama's dead
« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2011, 02:11:25 am »
Quote from: Catastrophic lolcats on May 02, 2011, 01:54:26 am

This isn't a victory for democracy this is a defeat. A man (monster as he was) was killed without a trial, hardly justice.
Not saying there was any chance it could have ended differently, but treating the event as a victory in history is just stupid.

I guess the true winner here is blind Nationalism...

meh, it's like WW2. Not that i'm comparing Hitler to Osama, but the toll of death they both brought to the world for their convictions? and even Mussolini was shot in the back without trial. or no, wait, he was trialed, by a commission of his "peers": communist partisan. Fair trial indeed.
This is just to say that, how "unhuman" as it may be, killing them without a trial, death is the only certain thing :/ prison life? he might escape. trial? their long, and victims deserve vengeance, don't they? i always think that people who speak about "being merciful" have never had their family slaughtered by a fundamentalist. Or by a serial killer. Or the like. It's obvious there are people who will celebrate this. As there are people who will be against it. But alive there was no possibility to take him. He was an estremist, he would have shot himself, after trying to kill as many US soldiers as possible, that, we must not forget, are yet human beings, who may have families, friends. One may well think against the way it was done, but there were few ways to do it. The second way just being nuking the entire region.
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Re: 10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths, and $1,188,263,000,000 later, Osama's dead
« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2011, 02:15:47 am »
I really don't think a politics thread like this needs to be in the Dwarf Fortress discussion zone.  Should probably stick with the other thread.

Edit:  Hahah the OP literally registered to post this
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Re: 10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths, and $1,188,263,000,000 later, Osama's dead
« Reply #10 on: May 02, 2011, 03:14:15 am »
Victims deserve closure in which venegenace rarely supplies.

Although I agree with Capntastic this thread is in the wrong place and I apologise for fueling it. Should be very much closed.
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Re: 10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths, and $1,188,263,000,000 later, Osama's dead
« Reply #11 on: May 02, 2011, 06:17:45 am »
In 2001, "The War on Terror" began.

The War on Terror was waged by The United States on The Middle East. The most significant cause of the conflict was a dispute over the destruction of property.

In the early winter of 2001, "The Enduring Freedom Operation" occurred.

A: 402,203 humans, 11,758 losses
D: 136,000 humans, 38,000 losses

In the early winter of 2001, The United States attacked The Middle East at Afghanistan. The human George Walker Bush led the attack, and the defenders were led by the human Osama Bin Laden.

In the early summer of 2011, the human Osama Bin Laden was struck down by the human Joe Unknownsoldier.
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Re: 10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths, and $1,188,263,000,000 later, Osama's dead
« Reply #12 on: May 02, 2011, 06:34:08 am »
Quote from: shadenight123 on May 02, 2011, 02:11:25 am
meh, it's like WW2. Not that i'm comparing Hitler to Osama, but the toll of death they both brought to the world for their convictions? and even Mussolini was shot in the back without trial. or no, wait, he was trialed, by a commission of his "peers": communist partisan. Fair trial indeed.

I think you'll find that the number of innocents killed looking for him is tens if not hundreds times the number of people he killed. And I don't see anyone advocating the US government be shot on sight...
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Re: 10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths, and $1,188,263,000,000 later, Osama's dead
« Reply #13 on: May 02, 2011, 09:44:31 am »
Quote from: imperium3 on May 02, 2011, 06:34:08 am
Quote from: shadenight123 on May 02, 2011, 02:11:25 am
meh, it's like WW2. Not that i'm comparing Hitler to Osama, but the toll of death they both brought to the world for their convictions? and even Mussolini was shot in the back without trial. or no, wait, he was trialed, by a commission of his "peers": communist partisan. Fair trial indeed.

I think you'll find that the number of innocents killed looking for him is tens if not hundreds times the number of people he killed. And I don't see anyone advocating the US government be shot on sight...

You should probably look harder then  :P
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Re: 10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths, and $1,188,263,000,000 later, Osama's dead
« Reply #14 on: May 02, 2011, 10:02:54 am »
Quote from: imperium3 on May 02, 2011, 06:34:08 am
Quote from: shadenight123 on May 02, 2011, 02:11:25 am
meh, it's like WW2. Not that i'm comparing Hitler to Osama, but the toll of death they both brought to the world for their convictions? and even Mussolini was shot in the back without trial. or no, wait, he was trialed, by a commission of his "peers": communist partisan. Fair trial indeed.

I think you'll find that the number of innocents killed looking for him is tens if not hundreds times the number of people he killed.
Go ahead and cite that, please.
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And I don't see anyone advocating the US government be shot on sight...
You aren't American, I'm guessing? Or if you are you're from some populated eastern area (or perhaps directly on the west coast), and you've never got out of your suburb. Shooting feds on sight is a pretty popular notion in some part of the country.
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