Posted on 05/02/2011 12:17:09 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
The decision to drop terror chieftain Osama bin Laden’s corpse into the Arabian Sea was the final meticulous step in a raid whose details were calculated to exert deadly force but also to achieve maximum effect in the propaganda war: the White House was careful to say bin Laden’s body had been treated according to Islamic tradition, but also to deny his followers a shrine.
But while the watery grave may help diminish bin Laden’s status as a martyr to his followers, it was already fueling conspiracy theories; as the administration resisted releasing even photographs of the slain terrorist leader on Monday, a predictable haze of myth and rumor had already, inevitably, begun to rise around him.
The White House said Monday morning that it is running DNA tests on some element of Bin Laden’s remains, and that it’s debating releasing a photograph taken of him after the lethal U.S. raid on his Pakistani compound.
“The United States Government has not yet been made a decision on whether there will be a photo release,” White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said in an email.
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Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan wrote her supporters, “I am sorry, but if you believe the newest death of OBL, you’re stupid. Just think to yourself—they paraded Saddam’s dead sons around to prove they were dead—why do you suppose they hastily buried this version of OBL at sea? This lying, murderous Empire can only exist with your brainwashed consent—just put your flags away and THINK!”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Cindy, you’re 15 minutes of fame expired years ago. No one cares about the weak little rants that come from your mouth.
someone needs to encourage her to keep talking about this. Watch out for the bus wheels Cindy.
Oceania has always been at war war with East Asia.
Outstanding.
The mob/CIA/KGB/LBJ killed JFK
We never landed on the moon
9/11 was an inside job
Obama was born in Kenya
Elvis is still alive
Osama is still alive
Cindy Sheehan is one of the most vile, disgusting human beings around - and she is increasingly desperate to stay relevant now that it is a Democrat administration still fighting wars and killing terrorists. She has some niche support on the far left, but as the liberals are interested in keeping Obama in power the large majority of them threw her overboard. She is reduced to flailing about in an effort to get attention, wails on and on about "the Empire", and makes trips to associate herself with America's enemies - basically she is making as big an ass of herself as possible and now almost everyone has grown tired of her.
Never really understood how the death of a sitting president could be a cause for celebration.
that was fast
Why yes, yes it does.
We need a death certificate darn it! And it better not have LAYERS!
Cindy Sheepdip sighting.
Will the media mock her as they have been mocking Donald Trump over his conspiracy theories?
Cindy who?
“it was already fueling conspiracy theories; as the administration resisted releasing even photographs of the slain terrorist leader on Monday, a predictable haze of myth and rumor had already, inevitably, begun to rise around him.”
Most open administration in the history of the U.S. ...
Still, it’d be nice if we could see a pic of the dead body, and not some obvious photoshopped fake.
Oh, by the way, the alleged BC that Obama put out last week IS a fake: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=185343 That doesn’t mean that Obama wasn’t born in Hawaii - it just means that this guy has exactly ZERO credibility, and he just dug his hole a bunch deeper. After all, first the operation was a week ago, now it was yesterday and the body was already disposed off - without any pics released. It COULD be true, but why should anyone believe THIS President?
She still hasn’t figured out that she was just a useful idiot...and she’s lost the “useful” part.
Thanks to whichever of you deleted that idiot’s post.
Conspiracists seem determined to turn this place into WND.
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