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Bringing bin Laden to justice

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor June 18, 2008 04:58 PM


Republican John McCain is fond of saying he will chase Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell to capture him and bring him to justice.

Democrat Barack Obama said today he would bring bin Laden to account in a way that wouldn't allow the Sept. 11 mastermind to become a martyr.

At a Washington news conference after meeting his security advisers, he acknowledged that bin Laden might not be taken alive, but suggested that the Nazi war crime trials at Nuremberg after World War II would be a good model if he is.

"I think what would be important would be for us to do it in a way that allows the entire world to understand the murderous acts that he's engaged in and not to make him into a martyr and to sure that the United States government is abiding by the basic conventions that would strengthen our hand in the broader battle against terrorism," he said.

McCain likes the "gates to hell" promise so much that while campaigning in New Hampshire last October, he told employees at a small weapons plant in Rochester he said he "will shoot him with your products."

He later told reporters he was joking. "I certainly didn't mean I would actually shoot him. I am certainly angry at him, but I was only speaking in a way that was trying to emphasize my point," McCain said. "I would not shoot him myself."


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SOOOOOO
DO IT!!!!!!!

Anyone!!!!

How about those Blackwater guys, they're supposed to be so bad. After all we pay them like 300% of what a comparable enlisted man makes. Send them all out there bounty style. Earn that pay gettin the real bad guys!

The guys that are backing McCain are the same ones that backed Bush, and are the same dips that completely lost interest in Bin Laden....remember?

Posted by tai hunter June 18, 08 07:20 PM
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Why not ?? I would love to shoot him.
The true anti-Christ of my generation.

Posted by james c June 18, 08 07:21 PM
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We'll if McCain won't shoot him I certainly will.

Posted by Q24U June 18, 08 07:37 PM
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> He later told reporters he was joking. "I certainly didn't mean I would actually shoot him. I am certainly angry at him, but I was only speaking in a way that was trying to emphasize my point," McCain said. "I would not shoot him myself."

What a wuss.

Posted by G June 18, 08 07:47 PM
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>> "I would not shoot him myself."

for some reason this is absolutely hilarious to me. like he has henchmen to do that for him or something.

Posted by mc love June 19, 08 03:37 PM
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We must never give up !! We are Americans are Motto Is NEVER GIVE UP!! We must never forget 911 We need to keep searching for Bin Laden!! The slime of the earth will surface for air,we need to be ready with a vengeance!! My father past away in 2000 not knowing what horrors awaited his fellow Amercians and I can't rest intill this Demon is caught and brought to justice for his war crimes!! My father was a United States Air Force Reserve and he raised me to Love and honor the country we live in!! So let us keep searching for the man that tried to hurt this country!! The Day we catch him will be a DAY TO REMEBER ALL THE AMERCIANS HE HURT!!!

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