I can't believe they finally found Osama!
There won't be more minigames about killing Bin Laden, then.
Like this one.

I do think the celebrations were ridiculous, it reminded me of the streets of many Muslim nations on 9/11. Not a parallel you really want to see. That said I do agree with being happy he's dead, so... it's all about how you express that I suppose, like many things in life.

What I do not agree with is questioning the morality of killing him, which is common sense good.

I guess you would have preferred he had been captured and tried? So would many others, I guess, but I wouldn't put it past him to have thought "No way! I saw what you did to Hussein! I'm going down fighting!".

Not sure where you got that assumption since I said I was happy he's dead.

Right on.

We've actually killed more civilians in friendly fire accidents in Iraq and Afghanistan than AlQueda ever killed in ALL the 9/11 attacks.....just stating facts.

Doesn't matter......and to basically be okay with/justify all those deaths because they were accidents(and we don't have much proof that all were accidental) is very abhorrent to me TBH.

That's not my point.......my point is that deaths of civillians are abhorrent and wrong regardless of intention on such a scale.

They are comparable in that they are both massive amount of civilian deaths that happened for no good reason.

Probably sarcasm on your part, but that's right. Also, how many of the people(higher ups and the ones who commit the acts) of accidental human losses in the current wars punished? And how many times is the punishment more than a slap on tehe wrist for those involved?

There's three problems with bringing people to "justice":

- dirty laundry
- precedents
- hidden agendas

It's nearly always one of these three that prevents anything from really happening. Either they're afraid it will set a precedent that will affect others, maybe political allies or friends, or there's secret agendas involved that might get out if they air the laundry upon prosecuting, etc. Nearly everyone in a high place of power got there with help. If you condemn a head of a country, you also put yourself and your country at stake for all the past dealings you had with that country. With generals and other military personnel, you always have someone higher up who "OKed" the order so they'll look bad for having done so, etc. etc. etc.

The problem, basically, is that everything is tightly knit together politically and as long as people pull strings behind the screen, "justice" is never going to happen. We live in a world where the very powerful are almost untouchable unless they fall out of favour.

In America people get arrested and punished for accidental killings all the time. In war it should be no different, both being punishable in some way that is. The fact is the people in charge/etc didn't do it once but several times over. This wasn't a one time "Oops, we're sorry" kinda deal.

This made me laugh today:
"We apologize for the mistake in the report about the death of Bin Laden. There was a typo. Bin Laden is dad. Additionally, congratulations!"

Yes but this is the military i'm talking about and you'ree talking about the private sector. In most cases, the troops doing the "smart" bombing runs are acting on bad intel/orders from higher ups or others that are involved. They imo should be held somewhat responsible for these deaths.

With the pizza driver scenario you don't have the driver speeding at thousands of miles an hour while blind to what's in front of him while taking driving directions/advice from his manager.

If the higher ups bad intel was responsible then YES. And no i'm not naive. I'm just not into letting people off easy just because it's their job to kill people and they kill people they shouldn't and get a slap on the wrist.