Should you celebrate Bin Laden's death?

I joined the military in September 1990 after the invasion of Kuwait. Then I got out. After 9-11 I came back in. I am now serving over seas away from my family for a year. Now we have obtained a military objective that thousands of us have been making sacrifices for years. Now that we are victorious, you claim that we should not feel any pride and want to celebrate? I am going to be able to return to my family and maybe not have to leave them again nearly as soon because he was killed. I am proud to serve and of the accomplishments the military has accomplished in the past few days.

No place for celebration but we can be thankful that the world today is a better place, that some small measure of justice has been served and that a message has been sent, that the organizers of terrorism are not safe from the consequences of their actions.

Just a thought but they only just missed Gadaffi a couple of days ago... maybe he is one of the people who should be listening to the news...and stop murdering his own people.

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no better huh?

I'll let you know the next time I kill 3'000 people and have aspirations for many times that with a nuclear device. maybe then you can claim I'm no better than him.

so if i were to celebrate Hitler's death i would be just as bad as him too huh?

i have killed no one and have zero aspirations to do so but, his death is deservedly celebrated since that lockerbie bomber was released like about 2 years ago for that lovely compassion thing. and he did get a hero's celebration.

your logic holds no water whatsoever.

only murderer's have that right to kill huh?

before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. - Confucius

~ Revenge, at first though sweet,Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. ~ John Milton

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.

~ Joseph Hall

The tree of revenge does not carry fruit ~ Dutch Proverb

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it. ~ Mark Twain

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well - Francis Bacon

“Revenge proves its own executioner.” - John Ford

“Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind” - Juvenal

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

- Rosanne Cash

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. - Friedrich Schiller

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion. - Albert Schweitzer

Osama Bin Laden declared war on the USA in 1996. He bombed our embassies in 1998. He bombed the USS Cole in 2000. He bombed an army barracks in Saudi Arabia. Then he launched an attack on US soil and killed over 3,000 innocent civilians in the USA. He was ASKING FOR IT, so we gave it to him.

Yes, I celebrate his death, I celebrate the death of any mass-murderer who was trying to destroy my country and my life.

"I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." ~Martin Luther King Jr

I think celebrating a murderer who has killed or been responsible for hundreds of deaths is completely ok to do, it does not make you like him at all, it is called justice.

Yes, i agree. I mean, by all means be happy he's dead, but chanting and dancing and waving flags in the street is a bit much.

If you celebrate any human being dying then you are a poor person i do not care who it is.