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To: LindyBill who wrote (424488)	5/2/2011 2:51:49 AM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793866

UPDATE: Hitler’s death was confirmed on May 1, 1945. Anyone think Obama will try to make a comparison between OBL and the note above? Did O just rush in from the golf course and figure out they had better have a rush announcement tonight, so it could hit tomorrow's headlines, that OBL's death was "confirmed on May 1, 2011"......??????

To: LindyBill who wrote (424488)	5/2/2011 3:06:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793866

Obama has made Donald Trump look a bit of a fool and Obama certainly had some funny comments at the correspondents' shindig [with Donald Trump there]. While Donald was going on about what a great achievement he had in getting the Birther certificate with his funny hair, Obama was getting Osama and making comments about how Donald could now go on with serious business such as figuring out where Big and Tupac are and whether the USA really did land on the Moon. Well done to the chaps in Afghanistan. Maybe Gaddafi will decide unconditional surrender and departure from Libya could be a good idea. Things have been getting a bit hot for him. Amendiejihad might be looking over his shoulder too. Mqurice

To: LindyBill who wrote (424488)	5/2/2011 8:22:15 AM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 793866

The role of al-Qaeda in the global jihad, and the role of Osama bin Laden in al-Qaeda, have both been wildly overstated. Al-Qaeda is not the only Islamic jihad group or Islamic supremacist group operating today, and Osama bin Laden was not some charismatic leader whose movement will collapse without him. The exaggeration of his role, in fact, was a result of the general unwillingness to face the reality that the global jihad is a movement driven by an ideology, not an outsized personality, and that that ideology is rooted in Islam. *************************************** in Laden explained in this letter to Americans that "it is to this religion that we call you; the seal of all the previous religions….It is the religion of showing kindness to others, establishing justice between them, granting them their rights, and defending the oppressed and the persecuted….It is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion reign Supreme." This perspective on Islam wasn't just bin Laden's. Millions of Muslims worldwide share it, and that won't end with the death of Osama. The US is not – and never will be – at war with Islam, as Obama says, but significant elements of Islam are – and always will be – at war with the U.S. Nothing that happened during that firefight in Abbottabad will change that, and Obama's continued focus on al-Qaeda as if it were a singular and eccentric group of non-Muslim Muslims that is the cause of all our troubles only perpetuates the unreality that has already led to so many disastrous policy errors. Although it is great for us to exact the revenge to which we were richly entitled, Spencer has it exactly right. It will be interesting to see how the jihadi movement evolves post-OBL. I hope Obama takes OBL's elimination as a cover to withdraw from Afghanistan.