The Democratic presidential candidate spoke about Osama bin Laden:

“First of all, I think there is an executive order out on Osama bin Laden’s head…And if I’m president, and we have the opportunity to capture him, we may not be able to capture him alive…What would be important would be for us to do it in a way that allows the entire world to understand the murderous acts that he’s engaged in and not to make him into a martyr, and to assure that the United States government is abiding by basic conventions that would strengthen our hand in the broader battle against terrorism”.

So what does this mean? How would it be possible to kill Osama bin Laden without his supporters calling him a martyr? Are we missing something? Or is Obama saying that he wants to capture Osama alive, to put him on trial and give him a jail sentence? Does Obama intend to repeal the existing executive order with the intent of not making Osama a martyr? Or is Obama deliberately trying to sound obscure? Why?

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