Mendenhall Osama Quotes

[MontereyVol]

I thought it was mildly clever.... for this conversation.

 

[VolsNSkinsFan]

Lets recap what OBL did prior to 9/11 for those who forgot or just dont know

Bombed Yemen Hotel with US troops in it
1st WTC bombing
Black Hawk Down
Attempted assassination of Hosni Mubarak
Bombed Saudi National Guard training center in Riyadh
2 US Embassy Bombings in Africa
Financed Terrorists in Bosnia
Khobar Towers bombing
USS Cole


All because we used women in Desert Shield

 

[justingroves]

Lets recap what OBL did prior to 9/11 for those who forgot or just dont know

Bombed Yemen Hotel with US troops in it
1st WTC bombing
Black Hawk Down
Attempted assassination of Hosni Mubarak
Bombed Saudi National Guard training center in Riyadh
2 US Embassy Bombings in Africa
Financed Terrorists in Bosnia
Khobar Towers bombing
USS Cole


All because we used women in Desert Shield

You just don't understand.

He's questioning the status quo

 

[JZVOL]

In my opinion (and I realize I am in the minority) a feeling of national pride is not really an appropriate response, either. I am not saying people should be ashamed they felt that way, I get it, but 9/11, and the Osama hunt wer never about national pride for me.

So should people not have felt happy that Hitler finally died during WW II?

 

[utvolpj]

Apparel company dumps Mendenhall over bin Laden tweets - Shutdown Corner - NFLBlog - Yahoo! Sports

Mendenhall, Pittsburgh Steelers running back and guy who probably doesn't like Twitter anymore, has been let go as a spokesman for Champion.

 

[n_huffhines]

So should people not have felt happy that Hitler finally died during WW II?

People were happy because it meant the war was over and the troops were coming home. Yes they should have been happy. If they responded by chanting, "USA", I'd question what they were happy about.

 

[n_huffhines]

You just don't understand.

He's questioning the status quo

Mendenhall came back and said that he doesn't really question whether or not Osama was a killer. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes highly educated academics have a hard time clearly expressing what they mean. Hell Obama said we have 57 states.

I like CDR's tweets on the Osama killing:

It took 919,967 deaths to kill that one guy.

It took 10 years & 2 Wars to kill that...guy.

It cost us (USA) roughly $1,188,263,000,000 to kill that guy

 

[jdbeard]

why are ppl crying about this? dosent the BIBLE say "celebrate at death and mourn at birth"?? did Mohammad Mendenhall not read that part??

 

[therealUT]

People were happy because it meant the war was over and the troops were coming home. Yes they should have been happy. If they responded by chanting, "USA", I'd question what they were happy about.

Hitler's death did not mean that troops from Europe would automatically return to the States; it also did not mean that it was the end of war for the troops as many faced the very distinct possibility of being deployed to diverted to the Pacific Theater.

 

[GahLee]

I will admit that when I saw people singing 'nah, nah, nah, nah, hey, hey goodbye", I shook my head. We looked like fools, at least to me.

Thank God for free speech and just to clarify, Bin Laden was a piece of crap and he got what was coming to him.

 

[GahLee]

Mendenhall came back and said that he doesn't really question whether or not Osama was a killer. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes highly educated academics have a hard time clearly expressing what they mean. Hell Obama said we have 57 states.

I like CDR's tweets on the Osama killing:

It took 919,967 deaths to kill that one guy.

It took 10 years & 2 Wars to kill that...guy.

It cost us (USA) roughly $1,188,263,000,000 to kill that guy

There is a little more to the situation then just Bin Laden, he wasn't the only man who was killing innocent people.

If that were the case, the war would be over, which we all know it isn't.

 

[GAVol]

Mendenhall came back and said that he doesn't really question whether or not Osama was a killer. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes highly educated academics have a hard time clearly expressing what they mean. Hell Obama said we have 57 states.

I like CDR's tweets on the Osama killing:

It took 919,967 deaths to kill that one guy.

It took 10 years & 2 Wars to kill that...guy.

It cost us (USA) roughly $1,188,263,000,000 to kill that guy

I'll never get worked up when an athlete says or tweets something and it doesn't come out right. We're typically not talking about polished intellectuals here.

As for the numbers in the second part of your post . . . I find that view remarkably simplistic. This has never been about forming a posse to get one guy.

 

[justingroves]

Mendenhall came back and said that he doesn't really question whether or not Osama was a killer. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes highly educated academics have a hard time clearly expressing what they mean. Hell Obama said we have 57 states.

I like CDR's tweets on the Osama killing:

It took 919,967 deaths to kill that one guy.

It took 10 years & 2 Wars to kill that...guy.

It cost us (USA) roughly $1,188,263,000,000 to kill that guy

I'm sure a guy that went to the University of Illinois for 3 years is a "highly educated academic".

Yes, the entire war in the ME was about getting one guy.

 

[n_huffhines]

Hitler's death did not mean that troops from Europe would automatically return to the States; it also did not mean that it was the end of war for the troops as many faced the very distinct possibility of being deployed to diverted to the Pacific Theater.

You just look for any thing you can possibly counter in my posts. Yes there was a possibility that soldiers could have been sent to the Pacific, but guess what? It was still one less major battlefront to worry about, thus something to celebrate, so the point remains the same. Thanks, Tangent-Man.

 

[therealUT]

You just look for any thing you can possibly counter in my posts. Yes there was a possibility that soldiers could have been sent to the Pacific, but guess what? It was still one less major battlefront to worry about, thus something to celebrate, so the point remains the same. Thanks, Tangent-Man.

I counter your posts because what you say requires countering. You have absolutely no grasp of any subject you ever talk about. Your silence would be greatly appreciated; however, since you continue to spew misinformation across this board, I feel compelled to correct it for the edification of anyone who reads your ****.

 

[n_huffhines]

I counter your posts because what you say requires countering. You have absolutely no grasp of any subject you ever talk about. Your silence would be greatly appreciated; however, since you continue to spew misinformation across this board, I feel compelled to correct it for the edification of anyone who reads your ****.

Everyone needs a purpose in life.

Though I'm not sure that I've spewed misinformation. Reminding us that Germany wasn't the only Axis power sure saved us from a lot of misinformation, didn't it?

 

[therealUT]

Everyone needs a purpose in life.

Though I'm not sure that I've spewed misinformation. Reminding us that Germany wasn't the only Axis power sure saved us from a lot of misinformation, didn't it?

Correcting your asinine assertion that the only reason American's celebrated Hitler's death was because they felt that the troops would be immediately brought home definitely has the potential to save many from your useless nonsense.

 

[justingroves]

Correcting your asinine assertion that the only reason American's celebrated Hitler's death was because they felt that the troops would be immediately brought home definitely has the potential to save many from your useless nonsense.

You've got to keep challenging the status quo, facts be damned!

 

[n_huffhines]

Correcting your asinine assertion that the only reason American's celebrated Hitler's death was because they felt that the troops would be immediately brought home definitely has the potential to save many from your useless nonsense.

You are the "reading comprehension guy", right?

(1) I did not say "only"
(2) Some troops were immediately brought home

So what's the misinformation you are protecting us all from? I mean, everyone needs a hobby, maybe I should just leave this alone and let you have your fun.

 

[therealUT]

You are the "reading comprehension guy", right?

(1) I did not say "only"
(2) Some troops were immediately brought home

Can you please name the units that were immediately shipped back to America upon news that Hitler was killed?

So what's the misinformation you are protecting us all from? I mean, everyone needs a hobby, maybe I should just leave this alone and let you have your fun.

Maybe you should try to take up thinking.

 

[n_huffhines]

Can you please name the units that were immediately shipped back to America upon news that Hitler was killed?

I would research it if it proved anything. Troops came home. You know it. I know it.

In fact, most of the troops did not come home immediately after Hitler’s death either. Many were held to be shipped over to the Pacific (a two-front war scenario which may seem similar to but is not the same as the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts). Tens of thousands remained in Germany, and due to the fact that 65,000 U.S. troops are stationed there currently, one could say that they never returned.

Here in lies the problem—it appears that U.S. troops, or any Western enterprise for that matter, will never be able to peacefully occupy Iraq or Afghanistan.

Unlike in Germany and Japan, where the populations quickly began to paint themselves as the victims of power-mad dictators and wanted to act like the whole thing had been a misunderstanding, our presence in the Middle East seems to be causing as much new opposition as it is quelling.

Therefore, a quick end of hostilities or a victory resembling anything like the sailor kissing the nurse in Times Square on V-J Day will not be seen anytime soon.

Article is useful in 2 ways. (1) Some troops did come home after Hitler's death. (2) No reason to celebrate in our current case because nobody is likely to come home after OBL's death.

Don?t Celebrate Bin Laden?s Death | The Pioneer Online

Maybe you should try to take up thinking.

Hope that clever quip didn't take too much time to dream up.

 

[therealUT]

I would research it if it proved anything. Troops came home. You know it. I know it.

No.

Article is useful in 2 ways. (1) Some troops did come home after Hitler's death.

No. Few troops came home in close proximity, simply because VE Day ended up being a week after Hitler's death; the ones that came home (which were, again, very few) came home because Germany surrendered; still, they did not return until late summer/early fall.

(2) No reason to celebrate in our current case because nobody is likely to come home after OBL's death.

This is preposterous. There are plenty of reasons to celebrate bin Laden's death; none of them, IMO, are related to our troops coming home. Nobody expected our troops to come home immediately after we found Saddam; yet, many peace-loving people in the world rejoiced that we had finally captured him and that justice would be served.

I am not going to ask the rhetorical question, "If you are too dense to see that," because it is all too obvious that you are just that, too dense; therefore, I won't even pose the assertion as a question.

Feel free to continue to make the argument that the world should not feel relief (and, thus, be allowed to celebrate) at the death of bin Laden, it makes it easier for everyone to see just how much of a moron you really are.

 

[n_huffhines]

No.

No. Few troops came home in close proximity, simply because VE Day ended up being a week after Hitler's death; the ones that came home (which were, again, very few) came home because Germany surrendered; still, they did not return until late summer/early fall.

Feel free to continue to make the argument that the world should not feel relief (and, thus, be allowed to celebrate) at the death of bin Laden, it makes it easier for everyone to see just how much of a moron you really are.

You'd be a lot more convincing if you didn't have to resort to such childish insults in every post.

Hitler died in April, so that means troops were home within 4-5 months. I'd say that's about as immediate as possible for the military.

When did I ever make that argument? You feel safer relief now that Osama is dead? I don't feel any safer. I feel like retaliation is likely.

This is preposterous. There are plenty of reasons to celebrate bin Laden's death; none of them, IMO, are related to our troops coming home. Nobody expected our troops to come home immediately after we found Saddam; yet, many peace-loving people in the world rejoiced that we had finally captured him and that justice would be served.

Did they chant "USA!"?

I am not going to ask the rhetorical question, "If you are too dense to see that," because it is all too obvious that you are just that, too dense; therefore, I won't even pose the assertion as a question.

It doesn't really look like you are working on a question (rhetorical or not) there, more of a hypothetical statement. With the way you throw insults around you should probably be more thorough.

 

[JZVOL]

Can you please name the units that were immediately shipped back to America upon news that Hitler was killed?



Maybe you should try to take up thinking.

He's too smart to say what he really means... you know those intellectual types.

 

[myrobbins7]

Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall is suing the parent company of the Champion sports apparel maker, calling the decision to drop his endorsement deal over his tweets about the death of Osama bin Laden and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks a breach of contract. ESPN.com - Rashard Mendenhall sues Champion