Assassination Photos

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(11-09-2014 03:24 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I have often wondered as we have debated this issue before: What is the feeling about Seal Team Six taking out Osama Bin Laden? He was hit with a surprise attack, and we had also heard reports for years that he was a dying man due to kidney failure, etc. Does that put the special ops force of today in the same category as Lewis Powell?

It depends upon how you define "the same category." Seal Team Six had a carefully planned mission with back up and support of the most powerful military organization in the world. Lewis Powell was taking orders from a fellow expecting secondary gain of acclaim, with questionable support from Richmond. I always considered Booth a very, very, very, very, very pale imitation "wannabe" of Mosby. At least Mosby had a sense of honor, humor, and a delicious taste for irony.