Everyone's upset that the WH "bungled" the messaging? It happens to every administration. A story told once changes from what actually happens, and when a story continues to be told it continues to change.  Same with our memories. We never remember anything exactly the same twice, and over again it changes moreso.

Anyone childish enough to think that bin Laden would not have lunged with automatic and gun nearby [or who knows what else?] is in another universe. This was a kill mission as it should have been. He had declared himself an enemy, murdered our people, murdered Muslims, and continued to plot against us. Both Bush and Obama declared war on bin Laden. This is war remember?

Should we have invited him under the "rules of engagement" as several  have suggested?
What rules of engagements? He was a terrorist  leader mastermind who needed to be taken out.

Thank our Seals for doing this. I'm amazed that no American was hurt and there was minimal collateral damage or catastrophe.

There are certain civil liberties debates where, even though I hold strong opinions, I can at least understand the reasoning and impulses of those who disagree; the killing of bin Laden was one such instance.  But the notion that the President has the power to order American citizens assassinated without an iota of due process -- far from any battlefield, not during combat -- is an idea so utterly foreign to me, so far beyond the bounds of what is reasonable, that it's hard to convey in words or treat with civility.