U.S. releases Bin Laden documents

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  1. LimaOscarSierraTango Admin/Logistics

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    I think Bin Laden was a wise man (meaning he understood what it takes to be successful) and things could have been a hell of a lot worse had al-Qaida controlled its affiliates. I am not sure releasing this information is a good idea. The last thing we need are the affiliates to read it and have a light bulb light up in their head. Then again, maybe the damage has already been done and it isn't repairable?

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    Maybe George R.R. Martin should start writing A Song of Sand and Fire because that's kind of what I'm reading above.

    That picture painted is one I would laugh about had it occurred hundreds of years ago in a distant land. A guy starts a revolution, has a spectacular succes which is his high-water mark, then lives long enough to see the group fracture and splinter while inspiring offshoots who ultimately hijack his message and methods. A Greek tragedy played out for my generation with tens of thousands dead. He dies on the run, trusting almost no one, with little power save for his name and what is left of his band of followers.

    It almost feels like a war isn't winding down, but merely the intermission between Acts II and III.
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  3. Th3 Maelstr0m Bally-hoosman

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  5. Freefalling Signal

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    Duplicate thread, threads merged
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    Usama and I agreed on something? His thoughts on Biden echoed similar sentiments made during the '08 election:

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/...obama-leave-totally-unprepared-155620943.html

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    The discovery channel had a special in collaboration with NBC about all this, was quite fascinating to watch and listen to. When I told my gf about it she remarked "glad your watching something upbeat and happy" to which I replied "watching something to remind me that fucker is sitting at the ocean floor having his face eaten by crabs? your god damn right its upbeat and happy!" :p
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  8. Poccington Where the fuck is Zordon?

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    Bin Laden was Megatron.

    Both of them were considered enemies of the US, both carried out attacks on mainland USA and both were dumped into the Atlantic Ocean by the US after they'd been killed.

    That shit is no coincidence.
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    Not that Joe Biden is competent enough to understand this, but when the world's most wanted terrorist thinks you're so stupid that he plots to kill the president in order to get your dumbass in power... you really are one dumb MFer.
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    Hahahahaha this is funny as hell
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    So let me understand this a bit. An organisation that is by it's nature lateral and dispersed, whose creator says to it's adherants to be independant and launch attacks independantly of a central command, then has a problem with control. Hmmm, looks more like middle management gronk than evil genius.
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    why not directed at fox? they're a terrible news organization, all the media are idiots and propagandists but they are some of the worst. forget where I read it (was a post on redditt) but a recent study found those that watch fox news exclusively are overall the most mis-informed and incorrect about current news and facts. saw one of their talking heads complaining about someone at the last grammy awards dressing up as a religious person to make fun of it, one of his co-talking head's said "well that's her right to express freedom of speech..." to which he yelled "no it isn't!". a supposed journalist saying someone doesn't have the right to freedom of speech because it doesn't go along with his version of it....yep, they're all idiots :p
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    Because the article stated that our enemy was OK with all news organizations except Fox.
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    yea saw that too. ah well, all the media are idiots regardless :p
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  16. pardus

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    Yep, no argument here on that!

    I don't follow any of them.
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  17. JohnnyBoyUSMC Click, click, boom.

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    prefer independent news sources, the bbc, redditt, or the stewart/colbert combo lol
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    I don't think the BBC is independent at all....
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    didn't mean the bbc was independent, was referring to news sources (mainly online) that aren't owned by a corporation and such. The sad truth is that news is less about reporting the facts and what's happening and more about answering to a board of directors, share holders, and profits.
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    The news organizations are not completely to blame. They really have no reason to change other than it being the ethically right thing to do. People eat up the bullshit reporting these days. Most people don't want facts, statistics, and objectivity. They want sensationalism, opinion, and vitriolic diatribe. If the majority of people demanded better journalism, we would see a change. The Martin/Zimmerman case is a perfect example of this. The majority of people didn't want facts and the truth, they wanted a reason to be on TV yelling, holding signs, marching, and doing whatever else to show outraged they were over.......something.
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