Osama Bin Laden

We know that Bin Laden is out of the picture... They could not claim that he is dead if he was not "out of the picture". If he was not out of the picture he would be liable to pop up out of a hole like one of those gopher carnival games.

While I try very hard to avoid being part of the tinfoil hat crowd I do have to wonder, is he really dead? Or is he in a concrete box somewhere connected to the output side of an electric fence charger being pumped for information?

If he had been taken alive and shown publicly as alive the logistics would have been absolutely horrendous. Even failed rescue attempts by his followers could cost thousands of good lives.

So... He could be alive in a hidden box, dead in a big jar of formaldehyde or maybe he is really just fish food exactly as claimed. In any case he is out of the picture as far as decision making is concerned...

I think the burial at sea is a good touch. We are not at war with Islam and there is no need to try to slap Islam in the face. We are at war with a bunch of extremest right wingers who's God would be embarrassed by them and their sick twisted beliefs. If we are honest we realize that we have plenty of such extreme nuts of our own...

Our own two major failures as a nation go back many many years. One was allowing international big business to have their way with the people of the Middle-east, plundering and stealing for a very long time. The second was a complete failure to provide basic secular education to the children of the area beginning about 50 years ago. Had they been given global secular knowledge starting 50 years ago they would not have been so easy to be led astray by the twisted lies of the radicals. It was not done because we as a nation we tend to be very globally selfish and short sighted. Of course we could say much the same thing about many of our own children. We spend our time teaching them how to live in yesterday's world instead of tomorrows... Or worse, we just fail to teach them how to live in any world at all...