Hillary: How are we going to spin this one for the kid president.
Posted on 05/04/2011 8:16:54 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Gates, Clinton Advising President to Not Release OBL Photograph; Obama Increasingly Concerned No Good Would Come from It
May 04, 2011 7:07 AM
President Obama is increasingly doubtful that there's a compelling reason to release a photograph of Osama bin Laden's corpse, ABC News has learned.
There don't seem to be many skeptics of bin Laden's death in the Muslim world, with bin Laden's wife having survived the attack to identify bin Laden's death both to the Navy SEALs and Pakistani authorities.
Meanwhile, sources say, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are advising the president about concerns at the Pentagon and State Department that releasing a photograph could prompt a backlash against the US for killing bin Laden where one does not seem to currently exist.
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Might be off topic but a mention of history here. Muhammad Ahmad,(1844-1885), called the Al-Mahdi wiped out an Egyptian force of ten thousand men and took Khartoum with the death of General Gordon. The Sudan was to deteriorate under Islamic rule for 13 years. However six months after his triumph, he died of typhus, a magnificent tomb and edifice was built at Omdurman.
Lord Kitchener conquered the Dervish in 1898 at Omdurman. He ordered the splendid tomb absolutely destroyed. He had the body of the Al Mahdi thrown into the River Nile. The head of this man was taken and some correctness may have kicked in. Kitchener was persuaded not to use the skull as an ashtray.
Nothing happened to Kitchener or his forces afterward. He met his death by the German submarine attack in 1917. I understand a magnificent tomb replaced the one Kitchener destroyed and is a tourist attraction.
Anyway. Well done America!
“There don’t seem to be many skeptics of bin Laden’s death in the Muslim world”
Morons.
http://www.laotze.blogspot.com/
“Throughout Southeast Asia, the alleged killing of Osama Bin Laden coupled with the delay by the United States government in releasing any photographic evidence to the fact is giving birth to a flood of conspiracy theories, with many refusing to believe that Al Qaeda’s leader is actually dead.”
Body armor?
I'd like to see someone put a dunce hat on zero and a lit cigarette in between Hillary's fingers.
Gates and Clinton know the forgeries will be dissected immediately. Obama is naive, and has to try to force his childish opinions on the rest of the cabinet.
We need a real adult in the WH.
Indecisive ditherer. It’s hard to make a decision when you have no core values and no moral compass.
Hillary: How are we going to spin this one for the kid president.
Well, I believe that the Ditherer-in-Chief did decide.
But it took him SIXTEEN HOURS to do it:
(The above caps are mine. The caps below are actually in the headline of this British newspaper.)
What they're concerned about is that the photograph is eight years old...
Body armor?
Good point, Thanks
If the rest of his body is behind cover, the head might be all you've got. You also go for the head if you need an instant stop, since a center-mass hit might still give him a few seconds of consciousness to hit a detonator.
Good Point, Thank You.
Good Point, Thank You.
Captain Zero won't release the photos while at the same time releasing the photos.
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