To me, this was the best reaction about what happened yesterday

[Ken Burch]

"I just can't find it in my heart to be glad one more person is dead, even if it is Osama bin Laden."

-Harry Waizer, 9/11 survivor.

[aquart]

1. Really? I like this one:

ebertchicago I am against the Death Penalty. I rejoice that Bin Laden was killed. "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself." (Whitman)

[RoccoR5955]

2. Me either. n/t

[Paradoxical]

3. Different people will have different feelings.

One opinion is not more legitimate than another simply because one is from a 9/11 survivor.

[dkf]

4. Maybe you can be glad we can finally get out of there.

It's a lot easier to do so now.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Until there is another "terra attack" on US soil by some other

Islamist schmuck/leader (after all, look at how many #2's we've killed). Then we can just keep going and going and going.....

[dkf]

6. Well hopefully they will be duds.

[azurnoir]

8. what on earth makes you think that?

IMO the fact that OBL was being 'sheltered' in Pakistan will only serve to deepen our involvement there, if the troops go anywhere it will be to Pakistan

[Ken Burch]

11. We never needed to be there

And it's entirely likely that killing the guy will make things worse. We may have just created the Muslim Fundie Che.

[dkf]

13. You know I think many may have moved on from that.

They recognize their own democracies are at hand and they dont need to hate us.

[Ken Burch]

14. I hope you're right...for the sake of the world...

n/t.

[SDuderstadt]

15. Well...

maybe you can form a support group or something.

[JVS]

17. You didn't get the news?

[mom2threegirls]

7. I'm torn too...

There is no one "right" reaction. That is what makes us human.

[OwnedByFerrets]

9. Only if that ONE person was a DICK

[Ken Burch]

12. He died years ago, though

(at least...they SAY he did...)

[OwnedByFerrets]

16. Wrong DIck, Cheney

[Ken Burch]

18. OK...THAT Dick's been Undead for years.

n/t.

[malaise]

10. In Jamaica the father of a young man who was killed said

he had mixed feelings and that he'd have preferred if Bin Laden had been brought to justice.

I am conflicted - I don't like the process but the ReTHUG pain is priceless.