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It’s now confirmed. Obama’s late night hastily-gathered press conference at 10:50 EST will announce the death of 9/11 ringleader Osama bin Laden. He was ‘shot in the head’. The body is now in US hands, still in Afghanistan where bin Laden died.
This is the first time a president has addressed the nation on a Sunday evening.
In little more than two years, Obama did what Bush couldn’t do in seven.
It will be interesting to see how this historical moment will be spun negatively by the right. They certainly won’t approve, being an Obama presidency.
Wonder what the repercussions will be from al Queda. No doubt OBL will be a martyr to much of the radicalized segment of religious terrorism.
It appears bin Laden was killed by an American drone or operative.
If this was a white male presidency, Americans would be dancing in the streets and right-wing bloggers would be salivating over their preznit. But no. Just watch them kvetch.
How long before Stephen Harper claims credit? How long before Republicans demand OBL’s birth certificate? How long before John McCain claims credit?
Holy shit, David Gergen is giving George Bush credit for what he has slept through! No, no. Bush groupie Fran Townsend is on CNN! Why? Why?
Cross posted at Let Freedom Rain.
Fine. Good. Now go after bin Laden’s co-conspirators and put them on trial: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, Richard Perle, Condoleeza Rice, Douglas Feith, Chairman of the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers, CIA Chief George Tenet, and Chimpy McDimwit (aka George Bush).
Whether bin Laden still played a strategic role in the al Quaeda hierarchy or had simply become a figurehead for it is moot as it has grown and morphed into a larger and much more dangerous entity thanks to the US’s al Quaeda recruitment drives, namely the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and mindless, ongoing support of Israeli apartheid policies towards Palestinians. Another major attack on American interests overseas or against civilians on US soil is likely inevitable now following the President’s announcement.