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Originally Posted by tjinaz

For once I actually agree with Obama on this one. Better the double tap than the trial. Once captured then who has jurisdiction? The US, some international court, what? Then this all becomes completely politicized. You would get people coming out of the woodwork with arguments trying to describe the line between terrorist and freedom fighter etc. The whole Muslim world would be up in arms and Osama would have the bully pulpit of his dreams. Even if the trial was fair the perception to the third world would be that is was a show trial with only one possible outcome. It would only increase the perception of Osama the martyr and would only end badly.

The irony of all this is if this would have happened under Bush all the democrats would be asking for all these things. Since it happened with Obama as President they are silent. The silence of the left is deafening. All the promises about closing Gitmo and condemning awful enhanced interrogation techniques that got the intelligence that led to this is a bitter pill and shows the naivete of Obama the candidate.

That is garbage