POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Not much satisfaction in this.
He was killed by a far greater butcher, the one responsible for a million deaths in Iraq, three million in Vietnam, and who knows how many in Afghanistan, Somalia, Cambodia, Pakistan, Chile, and a dozen other places.
Only the pathetic Peace Prize President - who regularly has his drones killing people in Pakistan - takes any real satisfaction because he is looking forward to a difficult election.
Obama's re-election is hardly something to celebrate, but that is what this unbelievably costly deed concerns.
By the way, there has never been one shred of proof offered of Bin Laden's guilt of anything except not liking the United States.
The FBI never even put him on its Most Wanted List.
Justice has been done?
I truly believe the predatory United States has no concept of what justice is.
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The excesses reflected in many comments simply prove the impact of propaganda and public gullibility.
Even if he was guilty as charged - and we have never, never been offered proof - his crime is smaller than many crimes of the same American military who killed him.
His crimes, if so they be, also are absolutely no greater than those of Israel, and just in recent years.
Here is a state which killed 400 children in Gaza and another 1,000 adults, about the same number in Southern Lebanon, who knows how many week-in-week-out in raids of various towns, and of course murdered about ten people on the high seas in an act of savage piracy.
There is no justice in any of this. Only more proof, if any were needed, that might makes right.
