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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN Luckily Texas is there to save you from evil liberal history, right!?

I love Texas... but they gotta chill out on the creationism bullshit.

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Originally posted by FuzzQi imgur.com is ur friend

Thanks man. I tried like 4 of em then gave up.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN The problem with your conspiracy theory is that are too many people involved and you can't contain a lie like that: from everyone in the situation room, to all the military and intelligence staff involved in setting it up, all the support staff in the white house and executive branches, etc, etc, etc - it's too big of a lie with too many players to not leak.

This is certainly a valid point. That is the problem with these "conspiracy theories" and assumptions. There are valid points on both sides and conclusions are never reached.

I don't have much experience with large scale deception so I'm not quite sure how easy it would be to hide something like this from a large amount of people. I can only speculate. My guess is , it is very possible. I mean if you have ten dead brown dudes with turbans and beards and shoot them all in the face - they would all look similar. Moreover, the body was probably concealed for most of the time and sent to sea very quickly. I don't think many people had much time to really sit and inspect the body.

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Originally posted by Lopiking Can I sex your armpit? Fatty?

Sure.. I love a limp dick.

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery Why not just ban the whiny bitches instead?

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Originally posted by Taipan This is certainly a valid point. That is the problem with these "conspiracy theories" and assumptions. There are valid points on both sides and conclusions are never reached. I don't have much experience with large scale deception so I'm not quite sure how easy it would be to hide something like this from a large amount of people. I can only speculate. My guess is , it is very possible. I mean if you have ten dead brown dudes with turbans and beards and shoot them all in the face - they would all look similar. Moreover, the body was probably concealed for most of the time and sent to sea very quickly. I don't think many people had much time to really sit and inspect the body.

The point is, the larger they are and more people are involved, the harder it will be to keep. In essence a big lie with a small group of people is far easier than small lie with a big one.

Also, I just don't think Obama (or any politician) would be stupid enough to try to fake a situation like this. If he got caught the fallout would just be too immense - the risk is not worth the reward.

When you compare what would be needed to fake it (from the people, to the paperwork, to the preceding intel, to the video of the deed, etc etc) it's simply not viable. Certainly not impossible, but highly implausible, relying heavily on mass deception across multi government agencies and personnel and made especially unlikely when the reality is not that far fetched.

You have to realize the sheer resources that have been put in to finding one man - it's not that implausible, if anything it's quite cack it took them this long.

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Originally posted by Xavier Moriarty anyways, a double tap eh??

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Originally posted by srussell0018 A fuckin' double tap in the head and one in the chest for good measure. .

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Originally posted by srussell0018 give him a double tap to the head and one in the chest for good measure.

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Originally posted by srussell0018 Well I was the one who gave him a double tap to the chest and one to the head just to make sure. Yeah, that's right."

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Originally posted by srussell0018 I also wonder how many times "Fuck you, Osama" has been uttered upon killing someone in that game.

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Originally posted by srussell0018 I wonder how much the playing of COD: Black Ops has spiked since this news came out.

This is exactly my point. Look how many times you mentioned "DOUBLE TAP TO THE CHEST AND ONE TO THE HEAD". You have to admit it is a much more effective image than obama dying slowly from starvation or one of the thousands of other ways he could have died. If the American people want a little bit of Hollywood and Videogames , then that's what Obama gives them. And you guys eat it up , while playing your PS3 and imagining that holds any resemblance to real life.

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Originally posted by Taipan obama dying slowly from starvation or one of the thousands of other ways he could have died.

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Originally posted by Taipan This is exactly my point. Look how many times you mentioned "DOUBLE TAP TO THE CHEST AND ONE TO THE HEAD". You have to admit it is a much more effective image than obama dying slowly from starvation or one of the thousands of other ways he could have died. If the American people want a little bit of Hollywood and Videogames , then that's what Obama gives them. And you guys eat it up , while playing your PS3 and imagining that holds any resemblance to real life.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I highly doubt there is anything significantly inaccurate about this story, for two main reasons: 1. It would be very easy for Al Qaeda to disprove the story, and why wouldn't they? 2. If the US know Bin Laden has been dead for some time, as you suggest, why didn't they announce it at the time, and why announce it now? If Obama has been saving up this story for an appropriate time, even the Republicans in this thread are pointing out that 18 months before an election isn't the ideal time for it to come out.

Yes, your reasoning is sound but I have to say - if those are your 2 MAIN reasons, then you leave a lot of room for the possibility of his death being caused by something other than a NAVY SEAL direct attack.

1) There could be many reasons why AL Qaeda would not want to disprove the story and many reasons why it might not be easy. I admit, the likelihood of you being right in this case is high, but it is far from conclusive.

2) Again lots of possible reasons - announcing right before election would cause greater suspicion, waiting too long would risk the news being exposed but what I think is the most probably is that Obama really didn't have selfish motives. He took credit for America, because that's whats good for the people. It is not about promoting his own election - although that is a nice side-effect - but more about boosting overall moral and justifying all the effort they put into this fiasco.

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Originally posted by The17sss

ah shit! I had to correct myself so many times while writing these posts that I knew I would slip up somewhere!

Taipan is a pretty decent troll. Just hanging on that cusp of plausibility. He's almost as good as Mr. JBJ. Not quite at the pro level, but just look at the way he works. Great job.

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Originally posted by The17sss "Noted TA high school dropout lectures on proper education, gets his quote 100% backwards." As usual, you're just pulling statements out of your soggy ass and have no clue wtf you're talking about. Read former Boston University head John Silber's study about America's history text books. The top 5 high school history books had at most 2 paragraphs on Abraham Lincoln and full chapters on Bill Clinton.

I want to see your sources on that.


Also, even if thats true, it still reflects what the problem is.

Everything that is covered in history books is either up to the end of World War I or II. After that its a brief pass over of the last 50-70 years and a chapter on the present day, when I was a kid that was of course Bill Clinton if the books were new enough, and Bush or even Reagan if the books were older, but even then details were sparse, no current events, nothing of any sort of real value. Most of the time teachers didn't even make it to that part of the book by the end of the year. The most influential part of our history on the current day is glossed over.

Hell, we had a world issues class and most of that was rather pointless and didn't cover anything in detail, nor anything in the last 25 years.