Shut Yer Pie Hole, Michael Moore!

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Though it pains me, today my beef is with filmmaker Michael Moore. I generally admire Moore's outspokenness, but his comments about Osama Bin Laden's death this week were off base. Moore called OBL's killing an execution, and suggested that America was wrong for not putting him on trial. He said people who did not want a trial for Bin Laden were "saying that you hate being an American. You hate what we stand for, you hate what our constitution stands for. We stand for something different than that and we're better than them."

Moore is wrong.

I love being a citizen of the United States, I understand completely what our constitution stands for, and I know our values and ideas are better than most of the rest of the world. But let's be reasonable - there was no possibility of OBL receiving a trial, and the logistics of such a thing boggle the mind. In the end it was right to eliminate him. Of course his death was an execution. Moore should remember that this is war, and OBL's demise was a consequence of the jihad Bin Laden had been waging against us for 10 years.

Mr. Moore, you probably have some good thoughts and comments about Bin Laden and the mess we're in, but this was not one of them. Shut yer pie hole, won't you? Print this post