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cubical
05-01-2011, 09:44 PM
on top of thousands of dead US troops....

Sadly I feel many people will walk away with the wrong picture of what happened here.

Monarchist
05-01-2011, 09:48 PM
People blab on about needing to invade these countries to get bin Laden, but he was finally gotten by a small group of special forces and/or CIA agents; basically how Ron Paul originally advocated going after the fucker.

Ireland4Liberty
05-01-2011, 09:53 PM
Scores of civilians dead around the world and with that 1000's of possible Osama's created. It is going to be a tough century America.

heavenlyboy34
05-01-2011, 09:54 PM
People blab on about needing to invade these countries to get bin Laden, but he was finally gotten by a small group of special forces and/or CIA agents; basically how Ron Paul originally advocated going after the fucker.

Ron advocated letters of marque and reprisal, IIRC-though it would probably have had the same effect.

Ireland4Liberty
05-01-2011, 09:54 PM
People blab on about needing to invade these countries to get bin Laden, but he was finally gotten by a small group of special forces and/or CIA agents; basically how Ron Paul originally advocated going after the fucker.

+1

This needs to be noted and I hope Rons people inform him of this attacking point.

heavenlyboy34
05-01-2011, 09:55 PM
Scores of civilians dead around the world and with that 1000's of possible Osama's created. It is going to be a tough century America.

Indeed. It was such a successful endeavor, we ought to start another one right away! It will certainly stimulate teh economiez! ;)

mport1
05-01-2011, 09:56 PM
I wouldn't have spent any money on this. Unfortunately I didn't have a choice and was robbed so that the U.S. government could inflict death and destruction around the world.

ExPatPaki
05-01-2011, 09:56 PM
I thought it was more than a trillion dollars.

cubical
05-01-2011, 10:05 PM
I thought it was more than a trillion dollars.

Probably

nate895
05-01-2011, 10:07 PM
No. It's a nice consolation prize though.

doodle
05-01-2011, 10:07 PM
More like $7-8 Trillion in the end.

RileyE104
05-01-2011, 10:42 PM
More like $7-8 Trillion in the end.

Are there any official sources of this? I can't find anything anywhere.

Specifically, how much has been spent on military/wars since Sept.11, 2001.

Pauls' Revere
05-01-2011, 10:51 PM
+1

This needs to be noted and I hope Rons people inform him of this attacking point.

Agreed! it will come up in future debates and how non-intervention is weak and would not have yielded these results.

cubical
05-01-2011, 11:01 PM
Its great we finally caught him, but 10 year to capture 1 man? We should be more embarrassed than anything. All the money and lives wasted. Sorry, I am just not sharing the joy most of America is feeling right now.

Texan4Life
05-01-2011, 11:38 PM
Its great we finally caught him, but 10 year to capture 1 man? We should be more embarrassed than anything. All the money and lives wasted. Sorry, I am just not sharing the joy most of America is feeling right now.

my thoughts too. When I heard I was like meh, what a waste. I bet osama is laughing all the way to his grave.

Mahkato
05-01-2011, 11:48 PM
We put a $25 million bounty on Osama Bin Laden in 2001. We spent $1 trillion on the wars in 10 years. That's about $25 million every 2 hours.