Obama says world a better place with bin Laden dead
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President Barack Obama is pictured after announcing live on television the death of Osama bin Laden, from the East Room of the White House in Washington May 1, 2011.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday the world was a better place after the death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Speaking at a ceremony at the White House, Obama said it was a good day for the country and the United States had kept its commitment to see that justice was done.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason, Alister Bull and Caren Bohan)
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Comments (7)
imCATATONIC wrote:
Lets hope we see the actual proof that this was a clean hit and that there was no colateral damage inflicted on any more innocent victims of war. Enough have died for religon, race and the politics of supposed superiority.
RudyHaugeneder wrote:
To kill the bad guys without bringing them to trial is contrary to everything America stands for — and makes those, including the president, who ordered bin Laden’s murder, and that’s what it ultimately is, not much better than tyrants they order killed.
This is a sad day for freedom and democracy.
This is a sad day for freedom and democracy.
RudyHaugeneder wrote:
CNN says bin Laden’s code name was Geronimo.
It is “official” anti-Native American racism to call America’s #1 enemy by an Native Indian name.
Geronimo was a great Native American hero. Why does the US government dirty his name? It is offensive to the extreme.
It is “official” anti-Native American racism to call America’s #1 enemy by an Native Indian name.
Geronimo was a great Native American hero. Why does the US government dirty his name? It is offensive to the extreme.
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