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    So just heard that one person was armed... so how many revisions of the story are we going to get?
    So someone is telling porkies.


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    Quote Originally Posted by bryant.english:
    "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
    That's a fake quote, by the way. It was written by a 24 year old American English teacher in Kobe, Japan. The third and forth sentences are King. Don't feel bad; lots of people have made that mistake since the quote went viral.

    Anyway, King was a believer in the "just war" doctrine; also, I am not sure that Bin Laden qualifies as an "enemy" (one just happens to be on the wrong side) as much as someone who was a murderous psychopath who is responsible for the death of many tens of thousands of fellow mulsims. If King were here, I don't think he would have much good to say about Bin Laden.

    Lessons in social media: The fake Martin Luther King Jr. quote - Yahoo! News

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    Geoffrey Robertson: Bin Laden's summary execution maketh the man, martyr and myth

    [Harry Truman] insisted upon judgment at Nuremberg, which has confounded Holocaust-deniers ever since. Killing bin Laden instead of capturing him was a missed opportunity to prove this charismatic leader was a vicious criminal, who deserved to die in prison, not as a martyr to his inhuman cause.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HKITperson:
    What a cloth eared idiot you really are. I didn't draw the distinction.... merely stating how you perceive the situation if China or Russia or Iran decides to take out their enemies in the US."
    Um, nope, HKIT, you specifically made that specific analogy. It is impossible to have a discussion with you precisely because your views are, shall we say, a bit foggy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Freetrader:
    Don't feel bad; lots of people have made that mistake since the quote went viral.
    I don't feel bad and I would have copied the quote regardless of who wrote it. What I do feel bad about is this whole business.

    It sounds like a bad western. The lynch mob rode into town and killed their prey, no trial, no regard for anything.

    The next thing we see is those disgusting images of Americans dancing about like nasty dumb red necks.

    Thank you America for living down to my expectations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Freetrader:
    If King were here, I don't think he would have much good to say about Bin Laden.
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    What do you think he would say about the summary execution of an unarmed man or his fellow countrymen rejoicing it; dancing about as though at a frat party or something?

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    I think HKIT and Bryant have something to say though. HKIT unfortunately draws upon analagies which invite ridicule and if Bryant had looked back a couple of days' postings, I had already commented that that quote was a fake.

    So Bryant, HKIT, a quick question that should answer it. What would you have done differently?

    Apart of course, the obvious keep your account of events consistent, lest you should make yourself look like pillacks.


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    And to think, none of this Bin Laden nonsense, likely both world wars, Vietnam, Panama, Korea, the huge waste of money that was the cold war, none of that crap would have happened, had the Boston Massacre, not taken place. A single moment in history that generated Paul Revere's published etching of the event that enraged a nation, ultimately turning people against the red coats, fuelling the US independence...Maybe if the British handled things a bit less heavy handed back in those days, the world we live in today could have been a lot more united, and a lot less wasteful....


    Anybody that celebrated Bin Ladens death, really needs to be slapped, it means nothing to me, and I am still of the opinion, that the Americans did the dirty on the BLB construction company in Saudi Arabia that caused OSL to seek revenge against corp USA. You do enough bad things behind closed doors, eventually you get what's owed, with interest. Seems to be a family history of making money off the worlds dictators, Prescott Bush ( yes he is related to George senior and jnr) funded Hitler ie the Nazi's ..... Lots of dirty little secrets along the way in US history .

    If my opinion offends Americans, oh well, no love lost and it shouldn't be of any surprise, I am not American and I can promise you I have no intent of ever being one. Stop pushing America as the white horse saviour/protector, when it is not, global bully, maybe.....

    Name another nation that has blanket covered the world with its foreign military to the extent that the USA have ? A military that wastes 100's of millions of barrels of oil each year, while the rest of the world feels the pain of rising fuel costs as this finite resource becomes harder to extract, yet there is America consuming fossil fuels like there is no tomorrow.

    All in the name of "our" global safety....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skyhook:
    And to think, none of this Bin Laden nonsense, likely both world wars, Vietnam, Panama, Korea, the huge waste of money that was the cold war, none of that crap would have happened, had the Boston Massacre, not taken place. A single moment in history that generated Paul Revere's published etching of the event that enraged a nation, ultimately turning people against the red coats, fuelling the US independence...Maybe if the British handled things a bit less heavy handed back in those days, the world we live in today could have been a lot more united, and a lot less wasteful....
    Yeah right. That's the biggest crap I have heard yet.

    You might as well blame the Athenians for forming the first democracy movement on all the failed democracies and Carl Marx for all the failed socialist states too.

    Then you can blame Mohammad also for founding the Religion of Islam.

    Of course, these notions are silly, just like your comment.

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    Don't you mean American???

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