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Mr Obama said: "It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence, as a propaganda tool. That's not who we are."
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by Stormdancer777
thanks storm i googled it after that post and that is seriously off.
for the life of me i cant understand why those clinton and bush would decline when bin laden murdered americans under both there terms.
that is unless they both know something we dont maybe the both know he aint dead?edit on 4-5-2011 by neo96 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Omicron2011
You know, when they killed Saddam's sons, they cleaned them up and put them in a tent for all journalist to see.
I just don't know what to think of all these multiple stories, or this whole incident.
Originally posted by Threadfall
They should release the pictures. But, to be honest, we all know that all the people demanding for pictures as hard evidence are the same ones who are going to call any pictures released hoaxes anyway. Maybe there's a conspiracy, maybe the White House thinks it has better things to do than pander to critics who will never accept any amount of evidence, ever...no matter what, unless it is evidence exposing a conspiracy.
Originally posted by sapien82
My favourite quote from Obama is this
Mr Obama said: "It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence, as a propaganda tool. That's not who we are."
What a joke
I just dont see how the photos of Osama dead are any more graphic or any more hatred inciting than the thousands of photos or videos of the innocent dead men women and children from the Iraw , Afghan wars !
Arent those a national security risk Barry ?
USA again you have another douchebag president .edit on 5-5-2011 by sapien82 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Dear Mr. President,
I do not believe your claim that OBL is dead.
I am cautiously optimistic that he is dead, however, as you are aware, we have had presidents and intelligence lie to us many times before, be it the gulf of tonkin, clinton's denial of sexual relations with monica (not that it was our business), Truman stating hiroshima was chosen for its high military and low civilian value (opposite is true), Kennedy saying he intends no military intervention in cuba (bay of pigs), Reagen stating we made no trade for hostages to iran (except for all the military hardware, anti-tank weapons). and of course the absolute fact that WMDs are in Iraq.
No Mr. President, no citizen should have to simply accept any offical proclamation, no matter how welcomed, until some evidence has been presented. What precidence are you setting up where the citizens of the united states will simply take the word of a politician with no evidence to back up claims.
This is not some wacky conspiracy theory in the fringe your ignoring, this will become mainstream and every day you do not make evidence public is every day the people will lose both faith and respect in not just your office, not just the military establishment, but the entire political structure.
Release the picturesedit on 4-5-2011 by SaturnFX because: (no reason given)
Hell they did Kennedy, in 1963 , why not Osama? make's no commen sense, none of this does.
Originally posted by coastalite
My guess is that the doctored photos weren't convincing enough.
Go back to sleep. Nothing to see here.
Originally posted by Freenrgy2
Not a good move on the part of the WH (nothing new there though).
Not releasing the photos is ultimately do more harm then good, just wait and see.