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Originally Posted by Biggles
Osama is dead or captured/soon dead. There is no way that they'd publish news of his demise and funeral at sea if there was even a glimmer of a chance for him to contact the outer world and prove them wrong. That would be the death sentence of any government, and noone is foolish enough to take that risk.
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Exactly! It's quite easy to disprove false death claims: just wave into the cam and say: "Hey guys, I'm alive and kicking!"
If Obama would have staged it, imo the better time would be either before the mid-term elections or before the primaries. Now is not really the best time, voters tend to forget very fast.
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Originally Posted by Skybird
I also say that it is hilarious what debates are now being waged over the morality of killing Bin Laden and whether or not it is legitimate for a democracy to kill an enemy. Every Western government kills when the police hunts down a gangster and he starts to shoot at the police. But one of the worst gangster of the past two decade suddenly should represent the exception? Democracies have the right to kill their enemies in self-defence or prevention of these enemies committing such disastrous crimes like Al Quaeda did. It needs a truly decadent society to start a debate about the legality of this, really.
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Nope, it's not a sign of a decadent society, but the sign that we don't live in a police state where people do not question decisions of the government. You may not agree with those people, this doesn't mean that a discussion is not legitimate - even if they have no good point
