WTF - Smoked Osama

Jubilation in the streets of Washington and New York as the devil incarnate, Bin Laden himself, is shot and killed. Now, I have no love lost for Bin Laden and people like him deserve to be fashionably outfitted with bullet holes to the cranium, but I cannot get over the naivety of many members of the American public, thinking that they were the innocent victims of a criminal mastermind's campaign of terror. The entire Iraq fiasco is testament to the reason 9-11 took place. And I notice that even after his death, details emerge that Bin Laden pulled a woman in front of him to act as a human shield before he was shot - no doubt to make him out to be a spineless coward. I am not saying that this did not happen but it's all a bit "Hollywood" for my taste. The "burial at sea" was a nice touch.

Unfortunately, Bin Laden is now a martyr (which is exactly what he wanted) and the war against terror, I fear, is far from over.

Talking of 9-11, what really, really pisses me off are those whinging "families of the victims" who are always on TV whenever 9-11 comes to the fore. From the mosque that was going to be located near ground zero to every event that is even remotely related to the destruction of the Twin Towers, these people are grovelled to and stroked and pampered as if they are the only people ever to have lost relatives in unwarranted military strikes. And if anyone dares upset them, they launch into a tirade about how they are suffering and how dare anyone else disagree with them as it dishonours the memories of those killed. But what about the families of the innocent Iraqis killed by American bullets and bombs - and there are a crap-load more of them than the whinging families of the 9-11 victims? No-one gives a rat's ass about what their opinions are because they are not American. And the Iraqi civilians wanted to be bombed and shot just as much as the people in the Twin Towers wanted to die on September 11, 2001.

In fairness, I am sure that many families of the 9-11 victims do not rant and rave but a few get off on the power. Those that do, however, make everyone around them feel guilty, as if it is the rest of humanity's fault that we all do not feel dispair and anguish every single day about those lost on 9-11. They love the attention because now they are important and their opinions count. It's a pity that they don't see that although the events of 9-11 were terrible and tragic and no-one deserved to die that day (except maybe the hijackers), shit happens and when it does, you either take a gun and go and shoot those responsible to get closure in a biblical way or you mourn the dead, put it behind you and move on. You don't start whinging and make it all about you so you can get onto talk shows and get book deals. I know that we will never hear the end of 9-11 until something worse happens to the Americans but I hope that those families of the 9-11 victims who are using the deaths of their loved ones for self-serving reasons will have some dignity and let the deceased rest in peace.