The Reaction: Osama bin Laden Dead
In a state where hundreds died as a result of the Sept. 11 attacks, the word of the Al Qaida leader's death spread swiftly.
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Jersey Shore residents rejoiced as the news of Osama bin Laden's death spread rapidly Sunday evening, despite the late hour.
Reaction in Brick, Toms River and elsewhere was swift and almost universal: Exultation that one of the United States' most elusive foes was dead, and dead as a result of U.S. action.
"This is the day we have been waiting for," said Laraine Sgroi of Brick, whose ex-husband, Thomas of Brick and Staten Island, died in the attacks.
"Justice has been served - a huge negative force has been removed," she said. "A good day to honor our American flag, long may she wave. We can all rest in peace."
In an extraordinary address, President Obama interrupted almost every U.S. TV channel to announce the news.
While he did not provide details, he said that the U.S. has been tracking bin Laden for months and finally located him in a residence in Pakistan. After a firefight, the president said, bin Laden was killed, with no loss of U.S. lives.
"On nights like this one, we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda's terror: Justice has been done," Obama said.
"Let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. I know that it has, at times, frayed. Yet today's achievement is a testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people."
Gov. Chris Christie said, "I want to commend President Obama's administration for its commitment and dedication to finally bringing Osama bin Laden to justice. "As the former U.S. Attorney and now Governor of New Jersey, I speak for all the families of this state who have courageously endured the unspeakable and devastating consequences of terrorism.
"There is hardly a life that has gone untouched in New Jersey by the horrifying assault on American soil that took place on September 11th and today, after years of waiting, justice has finally been delivered."
Sen. Robert Menendez said, “As a nation, we may all feel some measure of closure that justice was accomplished. ... My thoughts and prayers, along with those of all New Jerseyans, are with those who lost family and friends on 9/11. Hopefully they can find some solace and a measure of closure today."
We are asking you to post your thoughts below about Sunday evening's news.
Dale
12:14 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
I can only pray that he died cowering in a corner and as alone and afraid as the men and women who went down with the collapse of the towers! And I hope that whomever shot him sent GW Bush's best regards right before he pulled the trigger!!! Thank you God and I pray that the we are leaving the world a better place for my kids! God Bless America and God Bless our TROOPS!!! USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!
CJ
12:19 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
Well said, Dale! Couldn't agree more!! God Bless the USA!!!!
Lacey Citizen
12:20 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
The US never loses a game of hide and go seek.... may he rot in hell
Jerseyshoregirl2
12:32 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
Great job to our military & the Obama admin....what a great day!!!!
aitak
12:35 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
God is the only one who determines when is our time to go. A life is always a life and its not up to us in this world to judge . I have always been completely against wars...killing people to fight for what we think its right or wrong , good or bad. At the end..we all turn to dust, and our souls will answer to a bigger power no matter how you chose to live your life. May him and all the ones that passed rest in peace .
clamdigger
8:16 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
Hi aitak; I'll say this I agree that everyone has a predetermined destiny and I guess it's poetic justice that God decided that Bin laden would end up on that day w/ a bullet in the head and the back of his head blown out.
Well done SEALS!
Lanoka Mom
12:36 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
Our military perseveres once again! Thank you United States Military, your service has been appreciated. God Bless the USA!!!!!!
Vinnie
12:41 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
FLY YOUR FLAGS TOMORROW AND WEAR RED,WHITE AND BLUE
TiredinBrick
1:24 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
I actually hope that our soldiers looked him right in the eye before they did him and he saw that it was an AMERICAN who sent him for his dirt nap!!! Also it would be cool if they covered him in bacon!!!
William J Moss
1:54 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
Thank god this guy is gone.may he rest in peace IN HELL
Mike
2:16 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
It's a relief after years of pain since I lost my father. Let freedom ring!!!!!
Mike Sgroi
Christine
5:55 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
God Bless our Troops all over the world. May the sharks enjoy every last morsel of Bin Laden's remains. God Bless America....The Home of the Brave.
C. Recchia
7:42 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
The fanatic is dead...the only good thing I can credit his life and death with is tht he had a knack for bringing patriotism back to the U.S. He did it on 9/11 and he did it again yesterday! God bless America! I'm so proud of our military and our President. My sympathy still goes out to all those who lost loved ones on that horrible day. This will bring them little comfort, I'm sure.
C.
Susan
8:02 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
Well said Dale. Bravo to the US Military. Keep up the fight against terrorism.
Rich
8:06 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
Thank you President Bush and President Obama for living up to promises made to get this terrorist. Long live the
USA and may God bless our troops home and abroad.
Katherine Malerba
8:34 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
Thank you President Obama. We knew we could count on you. You had a plan and you stuck with it. Now I can only pray that all the virgins dancing around him are spewing fire. May he rot in hell!!!!
Mare
12:06 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
No there are no virgins, he had it all wrong, they are Virginians (Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, William Harrison, James Monroe, Zachary Taylor, etc.) and they are kicking the crap out of him as we speak!!! =)
Jerry Kennedy
9:10 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
God Bless America, land that I love. Go Navy!
Rick
9:44 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
May he rot in Hell. God Bless American.
Rosie
10:06 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
I'm not going to thank any President past or present for the Take down of Bin Laden, WE the people of this Country would have DEMANDED ANY President to keep at it, regardless of who they are. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANTED BIN LADEN DEAD & it was AMERICAN SOLDIERS who did the work in bringing down that Bastard!! NOT a suit in office, we placed him there to do the job WE THE PEOPLE, placed him there, WE THE PEOPLE tell him to sign those papers! SO it is with all MY HEART & SOUL that I wish to THANK all my family members who have served & are now serving in the Military, To all the Men & Women who have dedicated their lives to the preservation of this Country, & to every life lost for our Freedom, Each and everyone of you are OUR HERO'S. May God Bless You Always! All of You are the TRUE reason WHY AMERICA is as GREAT as it is!
TP
11:32 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
Rosie - You said it all. Without our military there would be no USA. This is a good day, let's see where this takes us now. There is still a long fight ahead against the radical Islamists both here at home and overseas.
Helen
11:59 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
Reply to Rosie: Thank you to your family for serving this country. Without them this country would cease to exists. I agree it is our troops who put there lives on the line who EARNED this win and DESERVE a huge THANK YOU not the empty suits that sit safely in their offices and make decisions based on what will be most politically beneficial. It was just a few weeks ago the current empty suit threatened to cut off the pay of our military if the budget wasn't passed and the government was shut down. He used them as a pawn and that is disgraceful. In reality this isn't over, another "terrorist" monster is obviously ready to take charge with the death of Bin Laden. Pray that God keeps our troops and our country safe.
Mare
10:19 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
Thank you President Obama for getting us back on track and where we needed to be. Everyone pray that he burns in in hell! Prayers to all who are suffering because of this evil excuse for a human being.
Forked Tongue
10:34 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
Thank God! Thank the US military and special forces. No Thanks to Obama for trying to steal credit.
Mare
11:15 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
He had the nads to finish the job and he wasn't distracted by big oil profits in a country which had nothing to with 9/11.
Obama won the election, get over it! May God Bless President Obama for a job well done. Personally I didn't vote for him, but we expected everyone to support Bush when he ran astray. Obama is our president and it's time to support him and get over losing the election.
lets go giants
11:21 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
forked tongue...Lets not ruin a great day and a sucessful mission with your ignorant babble..
TP
11:38 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
Mare & Hooligan - You may not be aware of it but we have the right to free speech in this country so Forked Tongue has a right to his/her opinion as you have a right to babble about being "back on track"????? This isn't over by a long shot and this country is still way off track - that's MY opinion and I won't be silenced.
lets go giants
11:57 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
Your right..And that was my freedom of speech..He is a babbling idiot
Mare
11:58 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
TP, you may not be aware of it, but we military families have a right to free speech also. The childish, hateful, tea party rants against our President are not the way to go today. Today is the day to act like an adult and rejoice in the fact that a filthy, worthless and evil POS had been killed and will be BURNING in hell for all eternity. We know it's not over, but thanks to President Obama we have a beginning to Peace on Earth, after all, he is the Messiah..... Sorry all, I just had to say that!!! =)
Jn W
11:16 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
GO US Navy
The most important part of "Justice has been done" "due process = a bullet!"!" is that he was executed by US Military Navy.
He didn't "die" from a natural disaster, or cancer or by the mass killing in his own country or by some random bomb falling out of the sky.
It was done by those crazy bastards,= THE US Navy Seals.
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, I require the same from them."
GOD BLESS THE USA & GOD BLESS THE US MILITARY! Soon, there will be peace on Earth.
Mare
11:53 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
Amen! We are an Army and Air Force family, but I agree totally!
LA RUE
12:06 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
Burn baby burn.......bin Laden inferno.
79
12:18 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
My first thoughts go out this date to one of victims of the 911 Attack on the World Trade Center, FRED V. MORRONE, Port Authority Superintendent and retired NJSP, "and a Friend" AND his family ..... with the killing of the mastermind of the 911 Terrorist Attack on America.
ALSO ..... 60 police officers among the 2,752 victims at Ground Zero and almost 3000 with the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania hijack HEROS .... plus, 836 first responders, including firefighters and police personnel, have died as a result of Ground Zero recovery AND "most important" the soldiers that have died in response to the attack AND OUR FREEDOM ... GOD BLESS THEM ALL .... GOD BLESS AMERICA
eruth
12:33 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
Well said everyone! INCLUDING!...forked tongue. God bless the 343 and god bless america!!
Forked Tongue
2:42 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
Do any of you blind Obama supporters think that Obama was one of the Navy Seals that risked their life to accomplish the mission? Do you think he gathered the intelligence to find the location or planned the mission.
This ia a great day for all the 911 Heros and their loved ones. This is not a time for a politician to be grabbing credit.
lets go giants
4:47 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
Well forked tongue..Like my father always told me..You can't argue with an idiot
Helen
9:42 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
Well, hooligan, you and your dad must not have argued all that much then. Oh, and your buddy Mare, doesn't sound much like she comes from a military family . . . . . sounds more like a bitter leftie. Forked Tongue - right again, the so-called Propagandist, I mean Commander in Chief, was forced into this when presented with the Intelligence. Notice no recogition of the Intel Agencies etc.. Lot's of I, I, I, I, I, I, in his speech, blah, blah, blah. Wasn't the nice of him to give him a fine Muslim funeral at sea, washing & wrapping his terrorist body and all.
John
4:46 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
osama bin laden one of the world’s biggest cowards. MAY YOU NOT REST IN PEACE. May you suffer all the ravages of Hell each one being worse then the previous. May your pain in Hell be infinitely more devastating then the pain you inflicted on your victims and their families. May your corps be desecrated and spit upon. May your victims have solace in your torment in Hell. I curse you bin laden. I curse you with this Eulogy.
Mare
6:21 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
You are correct. Just listened to how he used THREE women as shields before being taken out with a head shot. He sure is a DEAD coward! He'll burn forever.
bartrer
6:04 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
Burried at sea and lost to the muslem world forever true justice. reminds me of a story about Black Jack Pershing.
There could be hope for us yet
Jn W
7:45 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
Osama bin Laden is dead!
The mass murderer responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans on September 11th was captured and killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan yesterday, and out of respect for Islamic beliefs his body was buried at sea within twenty-four hours of his death.
“My problem with this is that we gave this guy a dignified burial at sea, or at least that’s what they said. I really would have put this guy in a meat grinder with a pig, sorry. Oh, you’re not going to get your 72 virgins? Sorry, that sucks to be you. Wrap him up in Hormel, pack him in a can of Spam, man,” “He’s a terrorist. He’s a serial killer. He’s a mass murderer,” dignified burial at sea
That's like Timothy McVeigh getting a dignified burial at arlington national cemetery
clamdigger
8:21 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
Duke; Hopefully they chummed for a few miles first.
Helen
9:33 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
JW - Love your thinking, very creative. You deserve to be the Czar of Terrorist Body Disposal
Stephen J. Scola
11:03 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
The death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of our Navy Seals is great news. We finally got the SOB and with no American loss of life. Justice was done. Now we should not let down our guard. These animals will try to avenge their leader. We should should continue to bring the war to them and destroy their ability to wage terror. Let the American Military terrorize the terrorists. This is as great day for America.
STEVE
john jameson
11:07 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
I think that the world has been rid of a vile and disgusting murderer. Notwithstanding, when I watched the news reports-- and saw mob like celebrations and people chanting and carrying signs and climbing street poles like animals-- I felt like a mentality unbecoming of a civilized nation was being displayed. God bless all that have suffered for our freedom and those who have been blessed with it. Share the dignity of being an American please.
Helen
8:52 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
John: You are so right. Those "flash mob" demonstrations in my opinion were most likely orchestrated by an arm of the Obama thug network through twitter/facebook. Mainly college kids acting, like you said, unbecoming of a civilized nation. Did that happen when Saddam Hussein was captured?? I don't remember seeing anything like it. I think somber is how most normal people felt. Those kids looked like they were in the mid-east. When will they stop being used & manipulated by our poor excuse for a leader. Now he plans to go to ground zero, he's trying pick himself up in the polls by using 9/11 and this event as a political tool. He's in full campaign mode , absolutely sickening. During his first campaign he trashed the very policies that made this capture possible. He put the 9/11 families through hell by condoning terrorist trials in NYC.
lets go giants
9:12 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Giuliani was at the world trade center site because he is apart of the "Obama thug network"?
You are not supposed to break the pills in half..Your delusions make great reading though
Helen
9:29 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
hmmmm, I must have missed Guiliani trashing the way the Bush Admin. responded to the 9/11 attack during an election campaign & then how he did a 180 when it became politically convenient. Must have missed all that. Glad you know how to handle your meds .........., Harry Carry, Ozzy, Aware, Ole Salt, or whatever personality you are today.
Dawn Marie White
12:21 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
A Blessed Thank You For Defending Our Nation, Our Honor and Our Freedom
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=5MtdIO23MKM
Lori Morrison
6:54 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
My son informed me yesterday that Adolf Hitler died on May 1. Fate must have chosen this Day for the elimination of men who were the face of pure evil.
Jn W
8:32 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
“Put him on that little island in Disney World where they’ve got Walt in the freezer. Put him there. Put him in the bottom of a freezer in the basement of that building where they’re keeping the Ark of the Covenant. I saw it on Indiana Jones.”
Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
George S. Patton
@maverick
" blood lust "
1 WE did not start this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2 WE did not start this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3 WE did not start this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4 I would think that it would be more appropriate to celebrate the lives of lost loved ones.
5 Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
6 Maybe seal team six should stop by and see you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7 IN OUR NAME "God bless Only Us." "God bless America
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton
BN
8:43 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
It's a free country. People can display their emotions anyway they want (within legal limitations of course). With that being said, I couldn't bring myself to be one of those people in the street yelling, chanting, waving the flag, or cursing Bin Laden. I simply gave thanks that this evil man is gone. I also prayed for those we lost along the way...on 9/11, in Afghanistan, in Iraq....everywhere.
As I read the hate-filled rhetoric and political grandstanding by some on this message board, I became sick to my stomach....this is not the same "unity" we experienced in the days, weeks, and months after 9/11.
There still is a stench of divisiveness in the air.
Maybe Bin Laden won after all.
So sad.
Helen
9:03 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Our low class President is politicizing this to the hilt. Plans a ground zero visit on Thursday. The "man" has no shame. He sickens me as did the staged demonstrations in front of the White House. The same man that a few weeks ago threatened not cut of the pay to the military if the budget wasn't passed now uses them to get his poll numbers up.
I'd bet that any family that lost someone on 9/11 did not celebrate in the streets but felt a somber sense of satisfaction that our military finally caught up with him.
john jameson
9:23 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
I think Helen is on the right track.
79
9:35 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
.... SHE IS for sure.
lets go giants
9:45 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Isn't she the one that jumped onto the anti nuclear bandwagon?? Her big bit worry was. IS THE CONCRETE WIDE ENOUGH???
Helen
9:51 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
sorry "hooligan", no I'm not on the "anti nuclear bandwagon. Have another pill with your kool-aid.
lets go giants
10:01 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Great come back Helen..Do you have any origional material or do you just repaeat the same lines we have all been hearing for years..Typical sheep
puppet watcher
9:23 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Why is it that when Obama was unable to accomplish ANYTHING in his first year,he stated over and over that he was left with Bush's mess. Now when this is a huge accomplishment that COULD NOT have been achieved without the info from the prisoners in Gitmo(which Bush put there) (remember Obama wanted to close Gitmo) Obama doesn't have the class to mention Bush's name....Obama gets credit because it happened on his watch but again it COULD NOT have happened without Bush.....Lets give credit to both administrations instead of once again proclaiming to be a hero........P.S where are all the liberals that were screaming about waterboarding.......seems to have worked and the Worlds most evil man has been been removed.....
lets go giants
9:43 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The only 2 things both Mccain and Obama agreed on..During the debates..Closing gitmo and affordable healthcare..Either way the election went..The idea was to close gitmo..But I guess you didn't bother to watch.
This country was near financial collapse in the last of the Bush years..If you remember Mccain suspended his campaign to go back to Washington DC To be a part of the senate proceedings..Obama went too..Yes the mess Bush left was going to be the top priority for either candidate..For however long it took..So to say he accomplished nothing the first year is lack of facts and memory on your part
lets go giants
11:19 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Well genius..You said Obama wanted to close gitmo..I am just giving you the rest of the facts since your mind is barren of them..Either way, both candidates wanted to close it..But you can continue spouting the facts as you see them..With total disregard to "the rest of the story"..Talk to Helen..She is full of mindless babble too
Really
9:23 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Is our military really fighting so you guys can bicker amongst yourselves on a blog? Just be happy, enjoy the moment for what it is.. we're all ONE
puppet watcher
10:13 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Hooligan I said Bush,I never mentioned McCain but I guess you didn't bother to read it. This country was near financial collapse in the last Bush years but have you checked out the value of our dollar? Have you checked Unemployment? Have you checked our deficit? What exactly has Obama done? I am being sincere when I ask that?
Really? Our soldiers are fighting for our freedoms, One being to be able to express our opinions and agree to disagree. It's called FREEDOM OF SPEECH.....Just because we express our opinions does not mean,we are not ONE...as you say....
Helen
10:24 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Obama has been successful at dismantling this country economically and he's successful in shutting down our energy sources. I'll give him credit for that. Unfortunately, our military is fighting for our freedoms while this "punk" (yes I said PUNK - no apologies) appears to be taking us down from within along with his gang of "punks". Someday the truth will come out about exactly how the "financial collapse" was orchestrated just prior to the election when McCain (awful candidate) was 6 points ahead in the polls. This sealed the deal for getting the puppet elected.
79
9:32 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
I think the 3.8 BILLION DOLLARS we routinely give the Pakistani Government should be "stopped immediately" .... AND we should "demand the immediate return of the 3.8 BILLION DOLLARS and more from the Pakistani Government, for holding and hiding and protecting "Osama Bin Laden". ALSO world-wide sanctions against this anti-American/pro-terrorist Government .... BUT this would never happen with the "backbone of this present administration".
Really
9:41 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Please stop making this political
79
9:55 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Once the dust has settled from what was done prior, during and after the success by American forces.... I would hope that the present administration "and" the world court, the so called UN would take a look at ALL of the evidence of the almost 10 years trying too find and hiding of the planner of the attack on America and the innocent lives lost with HIS act of terrorism. AND take action against those that harbored and kept AND protect this killer ..... it's NOT political it's "justice".
Really
9:58 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
I agree 100 percent those involved should rot in hell, however, your comment " "backbone of this present administration" " doesn't help.
79
10:03 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Sorry about that, but my feelings and many Americans feel the same way.
lets go giants
10:05 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
On a lighter note..I saw a great quote this morning from a seal team celebrating in San Diego."Bin Laden was expecting 72 virgins..He got 24 Virginians"..I am sure some will take offense to this..Lets have it
lets go giants
11:13 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Helen. I am sure history will tell us that Obama was behind the financial collapse.. The scandal at Enron. Hads to be Obama..The BP oil spill had to be Obama..I am sure of it..Katrina was that evil devil Obama ..Haliburton getting millions in no bid contracts..Has Obama all over it..Obama hid those weapons of mass destruction and then moved them right before we invaded..That crack in the nose at Mt. Rushmore...Obama
john jameson
11:17 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
I am not sure how this turned in to a discussion on the financial crisis, but clearly Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac were the lead culprits. Try an internet search on Barney Frank and his "relationships" with Fanny Mae. Heck, I'll just give you a link so you won't have to work too hard:
http://youtu.be/y56lGWvVsrc
Or, you may want to Google this article which sums it up well:
Frank's fingerprints are all over the financial fiasco
By Jeff Jacoby
Globe Columnist / September 28, 2008
Helen
11:20 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Thanks JJ
Really
11:22 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
"In a state where hundreds died as a result of the Sept. 11 attacks, the word of the Al Qaida leader's death spread swiftly" ...
THIS is what THIS article is about.
john jameson
11:26 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
That's what I thought.
john jameson
11:25 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
You're welcome Helen.
puppet watcher
11:37 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Hooligan,clearly you just speak without doing any homework...Here is the link on the establishment of the detainee camp at Gitmo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp
I would love to hear you explain yourself....Also,I noticed you have not answered the question of: what exactly has Obama done???? Still waiting. Talk about babble......
lets go giants
12:20 pm on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Apparently you didn't read the entire piece..Start where the headline is Detainees..It was used to house haitian imigrants in the 70,s..I knew it was there before GWB but was always referred to Guantanamo..I thought it was there from the Bay of Pigs era..But new buildings were built in 2002 and is now referred as Gitmo..So you are referring to the newest buildings?
lets go giants
12:26 pm on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Already answered about Obama's first year..Forgot to mention the health care bill..Which again both candidates agreed we needed one...So keep waiting or go back and read it
lets go giants
12:29 pm on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
But GWB can take credit for building on a base that has been in use for over 30 years..Wonder how Haliburton got the contract..From oil drilling equipment tomilitary bases in The Middle east to buildings in Cuba..No, no corruption there
Spooner
12:23 pm on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
He is dead so our President tells us, but it's no matter now. The damage then and now is done. His death serves whatever purpose people want to ascribe, but in my opinion and the opinion of others he baited us into a trap, and we as a Super Power bit the bait. He wanted us to come after him into Afghanistan...which we did. . .and are still there. He wanted to bring Pakistan into the fray, which according to reports we now give/gave $3.8B in aid and they harbored him as well. . .and for hook or crook we involved ourselves in Iraq thinking Bin Laden and Hussein were partners. Then there's the money we spent at home creating Home Land Security and all it's attending extensions through out the US and aboard.
In the end his goal was to bankrupt us like he did in part in aiding in the bankruptcy of the Soviet Union after/during their Afghanistan incursion . . . and now 3000+ lives lost here and countless trillions of dollars spent and lives lost(ours/there's) in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc . . . he's dead. . .What irony?
puppet watcher
12:27 pm on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Hooligan,you have to be kidding me. We were talking about the prisoners being held at GTMO which IS the detention camp that was established under BUSH...Now you are trying to spin it......Still waiting for an educated answer on what has Obama done??????
Really
12:33 pm on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
I have read parts of it, as I am sure you have. We both have our own selective perception, we see and react to what we know. All I ever ask for is a civil debate about the difference of opinions. The louder you scream , the more ignorant you look.
puppet watcher
12:37 pm on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
If you read parts of it, what is in it in particular that you like?? I am not screaming at all, I just don't have tolerance for ignorance. I have no problem agreeing to disagree but when people say things with absolutely no facts backing it up,it irritates me...I guess it is just a pet peeve of mine...lol
puppet watcher
12:34 pm on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Hooligan, You talk in circles..Anyway,I never said Bush did not do anything corrupt. As far as I am concerned they are all corrupt. My initial comment was that without the Bush Administration,the Obama adminstration would not have accomplished what they have. Both deserve credit...The military,cia,intel etc.....deserve the most credit!!!!!!!
john jameson
12:39 pm on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Well, with the financial chatter out of the way, I will comment on GITMO. I truly believe that the Al Queada and Taliban detainees and Castro all deserve one another.
puppet watcher
12:43 pm on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
JOHN,
Agree 100%%%%