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Is it OK to Gloat About bin Laden’s Death?

NEW YORK (AP/THE BLAZE) — When Hoyjin Jenny Hwang wrote on Facebook that she was saddened by the sight of young Americans like herself jubilantly cheering Osama bin Laden’s death, the angry response was swift, even from friends.

“One friend told me she felt judged for feeling happy,” said the 30-year-old mother from New Jersey. “And another one simply unfriended me on Facebook.”

Is it OK to Gloat About bin Ladens Death?

As the hours passed, though, and the initial giddiness settled a bit, Hwang received messages of support, too, from people similarly unnerved by the scenes of euphoria: chants of “USA! USA!” at the White House gates and ground zero; signs such as “Obama 1, Osama 0″; or T-shirts now available online, saying “GOT HIM!” and illustrated by a stick figure of a dead bin Laden.

It‘s one thing to be satisfied that the world’s most wanted terrorist has been brought to justice. But where does satisfaction end and gloating begin? It’s a question being posed online by ordinary Americans, religious figures, various commentators and several 9/11 widows. Consider Rudy Giuliani’s reaction to the news that bin Laden died, which is captured in the clip below. Guiliani was mayor of New York City when the planes struck the twin towers.

And it‘s a question bound to be on President Barack Obama’s mind as he treads that fine line in a visit Thursday to ground zero in New York.

Could Obama’s visit in itself be interpreted as gloating? The president seemed well aware of the dangers. He planned a somber and quiet visit — no speech, the White House said, just laying a wreath at the World Trade Center site and meeting privately with families and first responders.

“The president thinks it’s entirely fitting and appropriate to visit the site … in the wake of this significant and cathartic moment for the American people,” said White House spokesman Jay Carney.

One of the city’s tabloids, the Daily News, had a bit of advice for the president: It urged him not to defile the site by mentioning bin Laden’s name, “the six syllables that memorialize savagery.”

It was impossible to tell whether those Americans feeling uneasy with the celebrating were in the majority or minority; the few polls conducted since the news broke haven’t asked the question. For three women who lost husbands on 9/11, the jubilant scenes that took place Sunday night were disturbing.

Kristen Breitweiser said they brought back images of bin Laden supporters celebrating in the streets on that infamous day in 2001.

“Forgive me, but I don’t want to watch uncorked champagne spill onto hallowed ground where thousands were murdered in cold blood,” she wrote Monday on the Huffington Post. “And it breaks my heart to witness young Americans cheer any death — even the death of a horrible, evil, murderous person — like it is some raucous tailgate party on a college campus. Why are we not somber?”

Another 9/11 widow, Marian Fontana, wrote on Salon of how her son, Aidan, who was 5 when his father died, had gone to school on Monday and called at lunchtime, wanting to come home.

“Everyone is talking about bin Laden. In every class, they are happy he is dead, but I don’t feel happy,” she said he told her.

And Deena Burnett Bailey, of Little Rock, Ark., who lost her husband Tom Burnett, said she was struggling with how to talk to her teens about bin Laden’s death.

“To say that I’m happy that he was killed just seems odd, and it goes against my Christian faith,” she said. “The girls and I were talking about it. … One of them said, ‘What can we say, Mom? We can’t say praise the Lord, he’s dead.’ I said, ‘I know. You just have to know that someone else made that decision, and that he will now stand before judgment for having killed so many people.’”

Online, some Americans said they saw absolutely nothing wrong with Sunday’s outpouring.

“If you cannot cheer about the demise of a truly wicked man who took so much from us, what do you celebrate?” asked Edward Hannigan, 45, of Chico Hills, Calif., editor of an online music magazine, on Facebook. In another post, he added: “I‘m damn happy he’s dead. And on top of that, I hope it hurt. A lot.”

But Donna Guhr, a waitress in Crestone, Colo., refused to cheer. “Out of ALL the people here in my town I’ve spoken with I only know two people who agree with the celebrating,” she wrote, also on Facebook. “Gives me hope.”

In a follow-up phone interview, Guhr, 44, said she was concerned about scenes of the jubilation inciting retaliatory attacks. “He had a lot of followers, and they’re not getting any happier with us,” she said of bin Laden.

She added that the celebrations made her recall a quote attributed to Gandhi: “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”

Not surprisingly, the question reached the late-night comedy shows.

“I hope I am never again this happy over someone’s death,“ quipped Stephen Colbert on Monday night on ”The Colbert Report.” His fellow Comedy Central host, Jon Stewart, mused: “I suppose I should be expressing some ambivalence about the targeted killing of another human being. And yet — uhhhh, no!”

Some serious concerns came from religious leaders.

The Rev. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote that bin Laden’s death was justified as an act of war, but not as an act of justice. He said death should never be celebrated.

“Such celebration points to the danger of revenge as a powerful human emotion,” he wrote on his website this week.

The Vatican said Christians could never rejoice about the death of any human being. But spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi noted that bin Laden was responsible for having caused the deaths of countless innocents and for having used religion to spread “division and hatred among people.”

And the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, an association of about 700 conservative congregations in the U.S., said its tradition “warns us not to celebrate the death of any human being, even of our worst enemies, but it does not stop us from gratitude that some measure of justice has been exacted.”

On Wednesday, just south of ground zero, Phyllis Mitchell was sitting on a bench in front of a restaurant, keeping on her hardhat during a break from her construction job — helping rebuild the trade center. She was wary of what Thursday might bring, along with the president.

Though she didn’t think the president himself was gloating, Mitchell said she was unhappy with what she’d seen on Sunday night in the same spot.

“I didn’t like the celebrations I saw,” she said. “It doesn‘t make sense to celebrate anybody’s death. Even his.”

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  • nomercy63
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:17pm

    Whatever the government tells you the mob will follow! See how this story works, this is how easy it is to fool an entire country with deception and misdirection.

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    • jumbles
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 3:03pm

      After eight years of monkey Bush don’t you think we all know that?

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  • Roaran
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:17pm

    It’s fine to feel relief, but the celebration of death makes us more like our enemies.

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    • Oil_Robb
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:28pm

      We must be like our enemies….even more …War is killing all who stand in our way this antiseptic half harted thing that the USA always does is why the world laughs ….it because USA doesnt really want to win

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  • AmericanStrega
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:14pm

    Bible Quotin‘ Science Fearin’ Conservative American
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:06pm
    The point is, you can‘t sit here and gloat and then act like you’re some kind of practicing christian. oh wait, of course you can. That’s what christians DO. They don’t actually live by it. It‘s just a mechanism for feeling like you’re better than someone else.

    See, here you are AGAIN.

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    • kontrarian
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:24pm

      lol “Red”, I wouldn’t equate unabashed jubilation with gloating. It’s quite invigoratingly healthy and harmless; besides, gloating is the domain of Regressives and assorted pinkos and reds.

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    • Oil_Robb
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:26pm

      I am better than you…..

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  • SacredHonor1776
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:14pm

    I feel relief he’s not causing trouble directly anymore… As a Christian it is however wrong to celebrate our enemies deaths as the bible says in no uncertain terms several times. We are even supposed to love our enemy though that can difficult. The message of Martin Luther King Jr. Was largely the same.

    I will not be a hypocrite, and affirm that it’s good that they got him… I won’t gloat about it though.

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    • PurrrpleMtnMajesty
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 2:58pm

      Yup….feel similarly.
      I once read that you only love Jesus as much as you love your worst enemy.
      Because of this, I need to at least respect that he was a human being with a soul.
      I‘m mighty thankful he’s no longer a threat, although I do NOT believe in any way he
      was still the USA’s #1 enemy by any means. I don’t think he held that level of power
      at this point.

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  • kontrarian
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:14pm

    On a side note, I am replacing the “o” in Obama with a “u”, as per Osama – voila! – Usama. Apparently they are interchangeable and I will use the more (apparently) chic Ubama.
    I will, in appropriately zombie-like obeisance, follow the lead of my unparalleled leader, Ubama. He is gloating, and so shall I!

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  • AmericanStrega
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:13pm

    As sung by the metal band Dope: Die M*****F*****, Die M*****f*****, Die. Didn’t see anyone on the left B***hing about the Moooooslims celebrating and gloating during 9/11. An eye for an eye (3000+ worth?) “This is my weapon. This is my gun. This is for fighting. This is for fun. And my favorite: Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. If it weren’t for the Navy (Seals) Our D*cks would rust! GO SEALS! May God (or gods, whatever you believe in) Bless all our Military and the U.S.A.!

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:13pm

    obama’s victory lap /campaign speech Thursday on Ground Zero, tho, is a national atrocity.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:24pm

      Why yes, yes it is!! Did you notice that President Bush declined the offer to join him in this campaign stop?

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    • OlefromMN
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:37pm

      I am having a real hard time understanding why Obama is even doing that. Stop by on Sept. 11 and remind everybody of your great victory over the evil Bin Laden is one thing. But to prance around on Thurs. May 5 just leaves me shaking my head. Bush probably had that Bush chuckle as he hung up the phone.

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    • OlefromMN
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:49pm

      A victory lap by Obammy on Cinco de Mayo, how fitting.

      A little Jarabe Tapatío and some Tequila. I wonder what the boys will be drinking on the radio show tomorrow. It was Bud Light the other day. Sounds like they’re going to tempt Glenn with some Tequila tomorrow.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:12pm

    WE here are ecstatic!!!

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  • OlefromMN
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:11pm

    Kill ‘em all and let God sort ’em out.

    U.S. Marines 101

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  • jim
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:11pm

    No matter how somber and respectful you are with bin Laden’s body and burial, you’re not going to change how much the typical Joe blow Islamic fundamentalist hates the U.S. — and all of us Westerners — as evil “crusaders.” It’s a 4th century thang. They won‘t rest until we’re all dead… and their prophecies are fulfilled.

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:10pm

    Not sure it’s gloating. It’s a deep satisfaction that justice was served. It’s a deep pride in our military and their incredible accomplishment.

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  • Chappy123
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:10pm

    @ Bible Quotin‘ Science Fearin’ Conservative American

    Just Shut up fool

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  • thejackal
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:09pm

    I say yes. Baahahahahahahhahahhahahahhahahhahahhahahhaahhaahahhaha! I wish they fed your stinking corpse to a bunch of Kosher hogs you maggot filth Bin Ladin. Bin Ladin be laying at the bottom of the sea! Hey that sounds like a song! Bin Ladin be laying at the bottom of the sea, Bin Ladin be laying at the bottom of th sea!!! Oh, sorry is that ‘Gloatin’?

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  • SAYNOTOSOCIALISM
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:08pm

    Hopefully he looked like this http://poetry.rotten.com/failed-mission/

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  • BHAMCONSERVATIVE
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:07pm

    I see no problem in gloating over this.

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  • Nicole from CA
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:06pm

    I see satisfaction and relief – but not anywhere close enough than if the photos were released. But Gloating? Give me a break. Anyone who thinks people are “gloating” doesn’t get it.

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  • Dandelions
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:06pm

    For the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity. Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles, lest the LORD see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him.
    (Pro 24:16-18)

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  • 82dAirborne
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:05pm

    If he is indeed dead, (which I believe at least for now) I‘m a gloatin’!!! I am not doing it in public. I damn sure wouldn’t do it at Ground Zero. But here in my living room I am gloating like crazy. I have spoken to several of my 82nd buddies and they too are chuckling to themselves.This POS had a huge hand in the murder of thousands of innocent Americans & many of my Army/USMC friends. What happens to him is between him and God.

    The only thing I would change if I could would be to be the one to have pulled that trigger. I once swore to myself that I would never again take the life of a living thing. I was mistaken. There are exceptions.

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:13pm

      @82 … I agree … I am glad he is dead .. happy even … but I think it is a matter of remembering that he killed so many who are not here to gloat .. I gloat in my heart for them and all of America– took out a real POS. I do not want to disrespect where so many lost their lives by “celebrating” his death there.(Ground Zero)… I would not think of it. 9/11 will be the time to gather and remember .. .not now … not there.

      I think it is VERY bad taste .. and shows a lack of class.

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    • JP4JOY
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:14pm

      I too am exuberant knowing OBL no longer is directing his evil mignons. The thing that creeps me out is that they disposed of the body soo quickly and no pictures are being released. Something fishy here.

      Also, off topic, Maybe The Donald was cover for Obama’s unreleased, photoshopped BC. Now that The Donald says it‘s real who in their right minds would question it’s authenticity again?

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:22pm

      @CatB

      Class (DOES NOT) = Mr. Obama. Why is he going to Ground Zero for the first time as president tomorrow? It’s a backhanded attempt to campaign a little more.

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:49pm

      @82

      Absolutely …. everything is campaign mode now … check out the following .. I got it from SHOW…

      http://socyberty.com/issues/white-house-insider-obama-hesitated-panetta-issued-order-to-kill-osama-bin-laden/

      Sounds pretty credible (and true to form) to me!

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    • Entropy
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 5:50am

      Warriors fight for their cause and their people. Bin Laden was a warrior just like our navy seals that took him out are warriors. Soldiers deserve soldiers. To gloat when your enemy falls is childish. You must at least respect somebody that has the guts to fight. Yes, he was our enemy, I am glad we got him. But the juvenile jibberish that I have read on this post is sickening.

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  • SacredHonor1776
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:04pm

    We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
    Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Proverbs 24:17-18
    17Do not gloat when your enemy falls;
    when he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice,
    18or the LORD will see and disapprove
    and turn his wrath away from him.

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 12:43am

      Yeah, but I didn’t HAVE to forgive that bastard unless he asked. Which he didn’t. So I am proud to say, the US military took a god-awful problem and made it God’s problem. Which I am quite certain the almighty can deal with justly and fairly, however he chooses to deal with….it.

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    • PurrrpleMtnMajesty
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 2:39pm

      I agree with this.
      I do feel relief. I do feel extremely thankful our military was so skilled and
      came out of this unharmed.
      Bin Laden still was a human being however, and the fact that one more lost soul
      has entered eternity makes me solemn, albeit grateful that because he’s gone, no one
      else will suffer because of him

      What I don‘t get however is why the media kept reporting that he wasn’t’ a “muslim”, but an
      extremist. His kids were trained in religious (muslim) schools. They went out of their way to
      attend to all details of a proper muslim burial…why do this if he doesn’t represent muslims?
      (Not saying they should “disgrace” the body…but why all the ceremony in accordance with strict
      muslim tradition??)

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  • ShyMan
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:03pm

    I spiked a football I was so giddy.

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  • OlefromMN
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:02pm

    Sure it’s OK. Last I checked there is only 1 that is the judge of morality, and it ain’t anybody here.

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    • ckokkola
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 12:54am

      Proverbs 24:17 Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles: (KJ2000 – sent from CadreBible) Yes and heres his word.

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    • beckisnuts
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 7:53am

      ckokkola, that mentality is dangerous and disgusting. Feeling joy when something bad happens to someone who is out to destroy you and your family is a small reward for their demise. Is it a “sin” too in your world when you get over the flu and enjoy the feeling of being well again? Where does this religious rule end? Gloating is called for in this instance. Personally, I plan on extending this particular gloat past its expiration date and then some.

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  • TMan2020
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:02pm

    What a stupid question…

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  • kontrarian
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:01pm

    Why not follow President Ubama’s lead and gloat unabashedly?

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    • Jillian Barclay
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:19pm

      Gloat unabashedly? What evidence do you have that he has gloated unabashedly? What, did he put up a “Mission Accomplished” Banner at the White House? If Bush HAD accomplished this mission, the GOP would be carving his image on Mount Rushmore by now!

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    • kontrarian
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:42pm

      Ubama (notice the chic use of the “u”) perhaps doesn’t intend to gloat, but his effeminate “she-man” demeanor is enhanced when he’s trying to appear “statesman-like“ and ”manly”. The regrettable result is odd and he appears (inadvertently, to be sure) to be gloating.

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 12:44am

      To be fair, if I were prez, I’d gloat like hell too.

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  • jeffyfreezone
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:58pm

    If we can‘t gloat over this then we can’t gloat over anything!

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    • Robert-CA
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:14pm

      Been gloating 24/7 :) & Osama is goating with his 72 goats :)

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    • Gabe Hornblower
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:33pm

      JeffyFreeZone,
      You are right–We shouldn’t gloat about anything.

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    • beckisnuts
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 7:33am

      I’m with Jeffyfreezone. GLOAT ON AMERICA!

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:31am

      I don’t feel like gloating, but I do feel pleased that after 10 years we took care of the man who created 10 years of HELL for America. I‘m pleased that George Bush’s policies made it possible to find Osama; I’m not giving Obama credit for this. It‘s Bush’s policy that get the credit that Obama was against while he was in Congress and against everything good for our Country. He’s gained no respect from me except to approve of the job getting done, finally, others did the work & planning.

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  • Welcome Black Carter
    Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:56pm

    Personally, I am gloating…

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    • midcoastmainepatriot
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:59pm

      Yeah…….He was a douche-bag……Have fun in hell!!!!

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    • Revere1
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:59pm

      Gloating offends whom? Bin Laden fans? http://www.elephantwatcher.com/2011/05/after-bin-laden-should-republicans-be.html

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:02pm

      Party on dude.

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    • Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:06pm

      The point is, you can‘t sit here and gloat and then act like you’re some kind of practicing christian. oh wait, of course you can. That’s what christians DO. They don’t actually live by it. It‘s just a mechanism for feeling like you’re better than someone else.

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    • SacredHonor1776
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:07pm

      Proverbs 24
      17Do not gloat when your enemy falls;
      when he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice,
      18or the LORD will see and disapprove
      and turn his wrath away from him.

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    • Finch88
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:07pm

      No everyone should be happy.

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:10pm

      We the People will gloat and rejoice that OBL can now have his 72 virgin goats. I hope all of them look like Helen Thomas.

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    • LetUsReason
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:11pm

      I‘m not sure if it’s ok to gloat, but I’d like to use this venue to come out and say….sigh…..that I’m a heter0sexual. Yes, it’s true. I really enjoy the company of females, and I think it’s high time that everyone here understands that. I feel so liberated!

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    • An Arizonan
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:18pm

      He doesn’t want to show the pics and “spike the football”

      He does want to go to Ground Zero now and “SPIKE THE FOOTBALL”.

      Obama is a moron hypocrite.

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:18pm

      “but it does not stop us from gratitude that some measure of justice has been exacted.”

      I think that sums up my feelings for the piece of human garbage.

      back to current affairs:
      CUT SPENDING
      DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW
      APPLY THE CONSTITUTION.

      Hold ALL of Washington to the FLAME of accountability.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:28pm

      It’s not good to gloat about anyone dying, and people should be solemn about the world being the way it is, and that there is poor misguided or wicked souls.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:32pm

      And the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, an association of about 700 conservative congregations in the U.S., said its tradition “warns us not to celebrate the death of any human being, even of our worst enemies, but it does not stop us from gratitude that some measure of justice has been exacted.”
      ————-
      I like this Rabbi’s advice better
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O_HsY4cqnU
      starts @ 2:15 mark and gets better …the best explanation yet !

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    • BIGJAYINPA
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:33pm

      Kinda torn between two emotions here. On one hand am I glad that the SOB is dead-DAMN RIGHT!! Is it gloating too think that O/UBL got exactly what is coming to him?? I don’t think so. Should we party like it’s 1999?? No it isn’t right. I think how outraged I am everytime I see those animals firing AK-47′s in the air and passing out candy to the kids when something bad happens to us and I like to think, Hell I don’t think, I know we are better then they are. So take quiet satisfaction the bastard is dead and will never again harm anybody. He has faced his maker and been judged. What his fate is we will never know, but I like to think that if Allah is really the God of Abraham U/OBL is not enjoying where he is right now. And if Allah really does enjoy the blood of innocents shed in his name and has given U/OBL his palace and 72 Houris well lets just say that is a God I want nothing to do with and I will continue to enjoy my pork so that I never have to worry about meeting Him.

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    • Puppy
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:34pm

      I’m with you. I spent a year eating Iraqi dust, dodging mortars and rockets from those Iraqi Alquada (sp?)
      types and am happy as hell that the jerk finally got what was coming to him. Further more, I want to see the photos so I can do the “Happy Feet” dance!

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:34pm

      Likewise it is also too much to be overly grievous about someone dying, because the dead are taken care of, and it can only be that people grieve for themselves.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:35pm

      Personally I’m fed up with this story line, good GOD already!
      Has the world come to a screeching stop because someone died? I think not, so let’s move on.

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    • i want the truth
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:38pm

      @ Bible Quoting
      Ya know we are all guilty of sin! That is why Jesus died on the cross. NO BODY is perfect.
      this country is going up in flames b/c of fools like you!!! and of course you have no guilt. when you are out of a job and money. i wonder who you will turn to?

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    • ZAH
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:39pm

      @”Bible Quotin’”—
      Sort of like liberalism, huh?
      ————————————————-
      Anyway, Is it really “gloating”?

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    • Showtime
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:40pm

      I am happy that justice has been served. Are we not entitled to be glad of that?

      I don’t care if they pulled his fingernails out instead. There will be somebody to take his place.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:45pm

      Could Obama’s visit in itself be interpreted as gloating?
      —————————–
      Nope. No way. Not at all.
      Gloating is not the term for what he will be doing in NYC .
      The correct words are :
      CAMPAIGNING
      MILKING
      CASHING-IN
      RALLYING
      SPEECHIFYING
      TOTUS-ING
      FUND-RAISING
      Gloating ? No way ..he is visiting the site where 15 jihadies died so that there can be a mosque on that spot one day. Its not a joyous event ( wink wink *_o)

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 12:38am

      The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

      Psalm 58-10….God can deal with me if I’m misunderstanding that. Hell yes I am gloating. As for you bible , so go ahead and lecture me all you want bible thumper, unlike you, I don’t care what some “intellectual” thinks of me.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 1:04am

      “Is it OK to Gloat About bin Laden’s Death?”
      —————————————————————-
      I’m going to treat this as a two part question.

      If you mean is it ok for the American people to gloat about his death, you bet!

      If you mean is it ok for Obama to gloat for political points like he will do Thursday, h&ll no!
      In fact I find it pretty down-right disgusting. When I heard today that his political advisers told him to take advantage of the bump he has in the polls by going to Ground Zero, go on TV, and solidify his bounce poll numbers, I almost threw up!

      Help draft Colonel West…
      http://www.americasteapartynews.com/draft-allen-west.php

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    • foobear
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 1:15am

      Gloating is a negatively loaded word. Of course it’s wrong to “gloat.” It‘s the same kind of trick that politicians use when they say they don’t want to impose “excessive taxes” on the populace. Of course you don’t. Nobody likes “excessive” taxes just like how nobody likes “overspiced food”.

      Much better to say that Americans are feeling a sense of justice at his death.

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    • Nooooooooorm
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 1:25am

      Obama will delay the publication of the OBL photos as long as possible. He wants to keep this story in the news. He knows this is a great opportunity (which as we all know, never goes to political waste).

      If the news shows keep talking about the great Obama taking out OBL, then they won’t be talking about $5/gal gas.

      From his perspectice, the longer he can keep the story in the news, the better.

      Obama will release the photo when it is politically beneficial, and not a moment before.

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    • Red Meat
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 1:49am

      Personally, I am not only gloating, I took a ride out to the ocean had took an epic whizz into it.

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    • Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 1:51am

      Wee Doggies! Vote Adam West!

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    • lightbeam
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 4:47am

      Hey Bible Quotin‘ Science Fearin’ Conservative American….Here is a question about the emotions of completing a long mission to avenge the death of fellow Americans, and how a sincere Christian should seek to end any feelings of guilt associated emotions or feelings winning the battle over an enemy who spilled First Blood.
      Let us open the Holy Bible to Psalm 58 verses10 and 11…here is what it says:
      10 The righteous shall rejoice
      when he seeth the vengeance: he
      shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
      11 So that a man shall say,
      Verily there is a reward for the
      righteous: verily he is a God that
      judgeth in the earth.

      Psalm 59; The Psalmist prays and asks od to destroy his enemies. Read the whole thing.
      Verse 10
      My God of mercy shall come to meet
      me;
      God shall let me see my desire on my enemies.

      See! It is normal for God’s children to call God to wipe out our true enemies, including Bin Laden!!!!

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    • QC Ghost
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 5:17am

      Oh, sorry! I thought you wrote, “Is it OK to GOAT about bin Laden! Never mind, then.

      http://www.unsalvageable.org/ghost-comics.html

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    • thebarbarian
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 5:18am

      @bigjayinpa

      great blog.
      i’ve been torn over this one too. glad that such a sadistic agent of evil is gone. wish he would not have been shown so much respect by the presant admin. the muslims are going to take it as a typical christian burial at sea. it’s extremely rare for them to do this.
      i can understand the feelings of relief and jubilation at justice. but now there is the threat of escalated violence. the current affairs that are not being tended to and the fact that the war is not over. there will be time to celebrate at the end of this war.

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 5:45am

      Even the Munchkins celebrated over the death of the witch…what is wrong with people.

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    • localwes
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 5:56am

      I remember the old westerns when the Sheriff kills the bad guy and then tells all the people “It’s over, get along now, get about your business”

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    • avenger
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 5:56am

      the PC police working overtime. screw them all and let it all hang out ….

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 6:22am

      I was surprised to feel just like Stephen Colbert. The feelings just came, and had nothing to do with revenge. Probably more to do with OBL’s role in the world in which my children must live, and the added horrers he brought to the planet. After 9/11 the police included my street in their rounds–as there were Americans living so close to where the Muslims were dancing in the streets….in Western Europe!

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 6:24am

      Like I posted before–I made BLT’s, ate pie, and smoked a big fat cigar.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 6:34am

      I agree, I am too. It may be a ‘mot good thing’ for the nation as a national position, but we did say we were going to kill him. And we did. Gloat. Gloat. Gloat.

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    • 79USMC83
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 6:38am

      The SEALS had silencers but if they were fired at by the three Jihadist this would have alerted Bin Laden. He was a combat veteran and going room to room takes time, is noisy. This is all turning too suspicious the more we hear. If they blew holes in walls Reuters would have photos of those too.????? Now they had prisoners, but took NONE. ?????? it is sad that WE THE PEOPLE do not TRUST our OWN government or what we see on the Government controlled Media. As far as we know this site could be too!!! I still believe the “Compound” was actually a Prison and Bin Laden was under HOUSE arrest by the Paki’s. Pakistan has more Jihadist/ Terroist bombings DAILY than any other country in the world!!!! They have NO freedoms or civil rights. Everyone is being WATCHED !!!!

      The supposedly killing of this ONE Jihadists gives me no reason to gloat anymore than the ones the Marines and military are killing on a daily basis. The only good Jihadist is a DEAD Jihadists!! The SEALS and Spec-ops are doing the same raids into even more dangeraous situations than this one DAILY. Why do you think we have DRONE attacks. Raids like this are NOT necessary, unless you want PRISONERS , information or to ASSINATE !!

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    • UPSETVET
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 7:00am

      Not only am I JUBILANT, I’m ECSTATIC, GLOATING and EXTREMELY HAPPY that Osama-bin-Laden has been shot down like the mad dog that he was. He’ll never again be jubilant, ecstatic or gloating when another building is blown up and comes crashing down to the streets with thousands of innocent victims dying in it.

      I‘m not really concerned about not being able to view pictures of Osama’s dead body. However, I would like to have a video of Osama’s reaction when he arrived in hell and found out that his 72 virgins were Mohammad, Satan and his demons dressed in drag. Ha

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 7:25am

      @79USMC83

      You brought up a great point. How much was UBL worth to the Paki’s? The Paki’s would certainly have kept anything of very high value under lock and key…no doubt. Maybe they were waiting (or waited) for the market price of UBL to reach it’s peak.

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    • beckisnuts
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 7:27am

      Yes. Gloating is appropriate. Gloating, and lots of gloating for as long as possible. GLOAT GLOAT GLOAT. I am gloating. Are you? Gloat on America! It is our right

      Gloating feels good AND it’s good for you.

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    • beckisnuts
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 7:32am

      Sacred honor, your bible quotes against gloating are one of the many reasons I dumped the nonsense of religion into the dust bin after many decades of being fooled into buying into that nonsense. Loving your enemy (in this case a group that wants us all dead) is not advisable ever and an idiotic and dangerous path to follow.

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 7:49am

      If we can’t feel good, and gloat about killing UBL then we can’t feel good about anything anymore. UBL would kill all of us if he had the chance. Our troops are working hard to protect us and they need to know we like it. For a few moments there was a flash in my mind that Obama did a good job in killing UBL. Now he has walked that back.

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    • dustyluv
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 7:51am

      LMAO… obama = 1 osama = 0… brilliant…

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:10am

      So I guess the drawfs in the wizard of oz were wrong to celebrate the death of the witch as well…huh
      The only people that shouldn‘t be celebrating Usama’s death are other radical islamist. He77 even the supposed peace loving Islamist(bigfoot) should be celebrating the death of the man who has caused so much hatred and distrust from the world to be focus at Islam.

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    • StonyBurk
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:14am

      I am happy that we finally “got him” however such is tempered with the realization that political assassinations are deemed acceptable only if such benefit th e“progressive” Democratic Party leadership. In short Osamas’ brother by another mother (Obama) violated the LAW. And that makes me feel about this pretty much the same as I would had it been Obama -not Osama. Pigs in a blanket as commemorative meal anyone.?

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    • danyelle55
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:24am

      Everyone is acting that death is the ultimate bad.

      What I find sad is not Osama’s death, but the way he chose to live his life. That is sad.

      In this scenario, death is the happy ending.

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    • Sinista MACE
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 8:30am

      My Civil rights that have been violated by the FISA law and the Patriot Act don‘t think it’s ok.

      Many Americans’ poor groped and abused genitals disagree.

      Not time to gloat.

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    • Clara88
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 4:29pm

      We all remember THIS PHOTO Obama. Americans burned and hung from a bridge!!!
      http://theodoresworld.net/

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on May 5, 2011 at 5:29pm

      How can he even DARE to take credit when he wasn’t even aware the order had been brought, that he had to be pulled from his golf outing to come to the war room when it went dow, that he had to be relegated to a “minor” chair in the room while the ones in charge told him to sit back and be comphy, we got this.
      Obama was usurped, maybe even couped against, and he STILL stands as our leader, as the one who pulled the trigger himself.
      Sickenning, but this story will come to fruition VERY soon, as high [rofile members of Congress are at the wheel investigating this.
      Wallow in your self-serving BS now, “mr.president”.
      Your time has come to pass.
      We the People deny you passage.

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