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Gates: Obama Keeping bin Laden Pictures Secret Because of "Photoshop" Fear
Pundit Press ^
| 5/12/11
| Aurelius
Posted on 05/12/2011 12:25:57 PM PDT by rightistight
Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated today that one of the main reasons why President Barack Obama has decided not to release death photos of terrorist Osama bin Laden is because he fears that the pictures will be photoshopped and used against the United States.
Mr. Gates stated that the President believes that, should the photos be released, they will quickly be "misused" in order to drive anti-American sentiment in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Gates stated:
"One of the things that I think concerns Secretary [of State Hillary] Clinton and I is the risk not only of the pictures themselves inflaming people who were bin Laden's adherents and radical extremists, but we were also worried about the potential for manipulation of those photos and doing things with those photos that would be pretty outrageous in terms of provoking a reaction that might in fact put our troops at greater risk in both Iraq and Afghanistan..."
Gates added:
"I have gotten from friends all over the country copies of the picture that was this iconic picture taken in the Situation Room while we were watching the operation. And they have been photoshopped in every way you can imagine, including putting you know, coming after the royal wedding, one of these had all of us in one of these big, wide-brimmed hats from the wedding. Another had various football players seated at the table that had been photoshopped in."
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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: binladen; deathphoto; gates; obama
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To: rightistight
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posted on
05/12/2011 12:28:29 PM PDT
by
gunnyg
("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
To: rightistight
Lame excuse, we’ve already seen photos from others that got killed in the compound.
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posted on
05/12/2011 12:28:29 PM PDT
by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: rightistight
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posted on
05/12/2011 12:30:03 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islamophobia: The fear of offending Muslims because they are prone to violence.)
To: rightistight
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posted on
05/12/2011 12:30:09 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: rightistight
Why would people think that?
The following was NOT PhotoShopped.
Marine and Navy SEAL Capture and Kill Trump's Hairpiece.
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posted on
05/12/2011 12:30:32 PM PDT
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
To: rightistight
funny he would bring that point up............................
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posted on
05/12/2011 12:31:30 PM PDT
by
gunnyg
("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
To: rightistight
Or he doesn't want his co-religionists to see him as killing a Shahid? That explanation works better than this load of dog mess.
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posted on
05/12/2011 12:32:22 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and never succeed. (Proverbs 12:24))
To: rightistight
I don’t know. Maybe someone could photoshop an American into the Oval Office??
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posted on
05/12/2011 12:33:06 PM PDT
by
Hardraade
(I want gigaton warheads now!!)
To: SERKIT
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posted on
05/12/2011 12:33:25 PM PDT
by
DarthVader
(That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
To: SERKIT
H/T to Rush
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posted on
05/12/2011 12:43:28 PM PDT
by
markomalley
(Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good-Pope Leo XIII)
To: rightistight
Hey, Gates, those photo shops were funny, especially the one that showed the Village People on your laptop.
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posted on
05/12/2011 12:43:52 PM PDT
by
JPG
(Zawahiri, you're next.)
To: rightistight
Well if I don’t get to see a pic of dead OBL in that silly tan princess hat I will be so disappointed...
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05/12/2011 12:43:57 PM PDT
by
meowmeow
(In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
To: rightistight; Lucky9teen
Gates added: "I have gotten from friends all over the country copies of the picture that was this iconic picture taken in the Situation Room while we were watching the operation. And they have been photoshopped in every way you can imagine, including putting you know, coming after the royal wedding, one of these had all of us in one of these big, wide-brimmed hats from the wedding. Another had various football players seated at the table that had been photoshopped in."
Somebody's been following the OFST !!
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posted on
05/12/2011 12:47:13 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
To: rightistight
To: rightistight
photoshopped in every way you can imagine, including putting you know, coming after the royal wedding, one of these had all of us in one of these big, wide-brimmed hats from the wedding
Compliments of FReepers....
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posted on
05/12/2011 12:49:13 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
To: rightistight
Fearing a reaction from your enemy is no way to fight a war, ever hear of shooting and killing at will while defending yourself. Look at all the ridicule that came directly out of DC about the Axis Powers. If the local population reacts to a Bin Laden 'shop then they are not worth protecting.
On that note:
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posted on
05/12/2011 12:52:25 PM PDT
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
To: rollo tomasi
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posted on
05/12/2011 12:55:47 PM PDT
by
Clock King
(Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
To: rightistight
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05/12/2011 1:04:32 PM PDT
by
50mm
( I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.)
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