>>6424063When did I ever say I supported the invasion of Iraq? I thought it was a huge mistake from day one. But what was done couldn't be un-done, and the discussion had to shift from "should we have invaded Iraq" to "now that we've invaded Iraq, what happens from here?"
I also think that killing Bin Laden was a mistake, especially if the news I'd heard that it was an execution rather than just collateral damage in the firefight is true. America has to prove to itself and the world that it will do the right thing.
But as with the Iraq war, what has been done has been done. All I'm saying is that people celebrating the random killing of thousands of civilians in an act of terrorism and celebrating the end of a terrorist mastermind who is responsible for many, many deaths even if he didn't have a hand in the WTC attacks (though he almost certainly did on some level at least) are two completely different things.
I for one am not sitting at home waving a flag, clad in stars-and-stripes clothing screaming "AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!". But it is nice to know Bin Laden isn't at large anymore.