[LINK] bin Laden is dead

[Roger Clarke]

At 13:55 +1000 2/5/11, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>Osama bin Laden is dead. ...

Am I the only person appalled at Gillard's gloating over what looks 
prettymuch like cold-blooded murder or a gangland execution? 
Particularly when it's been dressed up as 'justice'?

I thought Obama's speech was delicately balanced between the 
realities of US politics and the ethics of killing killers.

Gillard's comments weren't.

Even our Foreign-Affairs-Minister-for-far-too-long managed to strike 
the right note with 'It's not nice to relish the death of a person, 
but it's understandable given the circumstances'.

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