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*** UPDATE *** Here is what President Obama told Steve Kroft of "60 Minutes" about his decision. The interview will air on Sunday.
"The risks of release outweigh the benefits," he said. "Conspiracy theorists around the world will just claim the photos are doctored anyway, and there is a real risk that releasing the photos will only serve to inflame public opinion in the Middle East."
"Imagine how the American people would react if Al Qaeda killed one of our troops or military leaders, and put photos of the body on the internet," he continued. "Osama bin Laden is not a trophy - he is dead and let's now focus on continuing the fight until Al Qaeda has been eliminated."
*** CORRECTION *** Those quotes above are from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, not President Obama. (It's unclear why CBS decided not to release quotes from the president in its story about the news.)
Here is what Obama told "60 Minutes," per White House Press Secretary Jay Carney: "We've done DNA sampling and testing. There is no doubt we killed Osama bin Laden." Obama went on to say that releasing the photos could incite violence and run contray to America's values. "We don't trot out this stuff as trophies... We don't need to spike the football."
*** UPDATE 2 *** NBC's Athena Jones reports:
At the top of the briefing this afternoon, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney shared the exchange President Obama had with 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft in his interview today during which he explained his rationale for not releasing photos of bin Laden's body.
Obama said he had seen the photos and they proved, along with facial analysis and DNA evidence, that the US team had killed bin Laden.
KEY OBAMA QUOTE TO KROFT:
"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 or as a propaganda tool. That's not who we are. We don't trot out this stuff as trophies. The fact of the matter is this was somebody who was deserving of the justice that he received and I think Americans and people around the world are glad he is gone, but we don't need to spike the football. And I think that given the graphic natures of these photos, it would create some national security risk and I've discussed this with Bob Gates and Hillary Clinton and my intelligence teams and they all agree."
In the interview scheduled to air on Sunday, the president said officials were monitoring worldwide reaction to news of the mission and that there was no doubt bin Laden was dead.
Obama told Kroft:
"Certainly there is doubt- no doubt among Al Qaeda members that he is dead. And so we don't think that a photograph in and of itself is going to make any difference. There are going to be some folks who deny it. The fact of the matter is, you will not see bin Laden waling on this earth again."
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GOOD !
Thank you Mr. President!
Appears, he has learned that there is NO satisfying the birthers & baggers!
Releasing his Birth Certificate did nothing to stifle the NONSENSE!
Why put our National Security at risk over these nut jobs?
He just lost the next election!
The only people who really need to know whether or not he's dead ... already know beyond the shadow of a doubt.
There was nothing for the US to gain by adding to the "martydom" of bin Ladin among jihadists - and much more to lose.
Only the conspiracy nutjobs, fools and the prurient-minded wanted to see these photos. I recall the big stink over Dale Earnhart Sr.'s autopsy pics in florida a decade agao - another disgusting and meaningless fight to sensationalize a death.
Bin Laden's dead and buried. Now bury his memory and move on.
Entitled To My Opinion
He just lost the next election!
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Seems that even Cheny, Bush, Limbough and majority of the GOP are totally satified that he has been killed. Why do you need a photo?
I think the people deserve it. It's not a matter of believing if he is dead or not. All this will do is cause more conspiracy theories then are needed. And will have this linger. We all suffered on 9/11. I am sure he was killed. I don't question that. But as an American I want to see them. And I believe by doing this he may be costing himself the election. People don't care that he got Bin Laden after 4 weeks. I will. But the haters won't. This only fuels the fire. And again. As an American. I want to see them. The Muslims we are going to get mad hate us anyway. The conspiracy theorists won't agree anyway. But the reg Americans like me deserve a chance to see it. I had to watc Americans die on 9/11. I want to see Bin Laden's head
BOOOOOOOOOOOOO! that sucks.
This has to be the shortest news article ever. It's sad when most of the posts and comments are longer than what the writer has reported.
Just announced the photos will not be released. You think BO would have learned from the birth certificate. But no. Mark my words this will cause doubt in the eyes of the world. For an obviously intelligent man the President is certainly a dumb sh!t.
bleh,.. i honestly think it was a good call on his behalf.. i am not for obama at all.. but he did do something right..
now i wonder if this will start hell over there where they caught him.. they wanted proof that he was dead ( or thats just what ive read god only knows whats really true)
Key republicans are also saying that the photos should not be released. This is a bipartisan thing.
Entitled To My Opinion
He just lost the next election>
You're kidding; right?
Guess you'll be satisfied when you see his martyr video. He can't be a martyr until he's dead.
He wasnt winning the next election anyway!!!!!!!!!!
He needs to be focused on the economy and jobs. Gas is over $4 a gallon and getting worse.
Thank you, thank you, thank you President Obama! Again you have shown extraordinary leadership in making the decision to forgo release of the photos. I totally believe that the body was disposed of in a respectful manner even though we were shown none. I am grateful that I still live in a nation that has a leader such as yourself. Bravo
Duane...this will not cause doubt in the eyes of the world...it will cause doubt in the eyes of a minority of conspiracy theorists who will never believe anything the President says (they still don't believe him after he released his long form birth certificate) and who would not have voted for him anyway.
This (like the decision to go after Bin Laden) was a smart call on the part of the President.
I did not vote for Obama. I did not think he was experienced enough. But, I am starting to turn. There is no reason to cave and show the photos. Like some have said, the idiots would then just say they were fakes. And....one other thing I am calling out right now! DO NOT be surprised it a video comes out of Bin Laden with him alive and talking about how the US is lying about him being dead. I would have made one earlier if I were him and told someone to release it if a ever died, just to give the followers some hope and mess with the US some more. He is dead. Let's move on.. but, don't be surprised when the video surfaces...
Well done Mr. President!
So all the troops that were killed and are being killed to keep our country safe, like myself, have to sit and take the presidents word that he's dead? Come on 99.9% still isn't 100% Its one dumb muslim protecting the other satanic muslim! Nice Job Osama...I mean Obama!
Once again proving President Obama is the ONLY adult in the room!
I didn't vote for him the first time. I won't vote for him next time. I do respect the decisioin to NOT show pictures to the general public. No good will come from that. I don't however understand Feisty's comment about it being a National security issue.
Osama is now being digested by a shark or 3. Lets move on.
Thank you Mr. President. This just shows what a class act you are.
We don't have to imagine that now do we Mr. President!
They have done it more than once. I remember seeing video of those bastards in Somalia draggin our boys bodies around the streets...
Not to mention the beheading of Nick Berg! Posted on the internet for ALL TO SEE!
FU PAL!
Releasing the photos', would be equivalent to dousing a fire with lighter fluid among the radical Muslims...
What's the point in antagonizing them? Do they need any more reason to HATE us?
those Muslim fanatics are already in their boats and searching for the body. The Somalia pirates are assisting for a per day fee.
"For an obviously intelligent man the President is certainly a dumb sh!t"
A good thing you have no role in our national security. First of all he should be commended for this decision. Not slandered. We have no need to see these photos other than to satisfy a blood lust. For that US soldiers could die. Easy call!
Vile, vulgar, vengeful creature that I am, I still very much want to see the photographic evidence of bin Laden's body. Beata Maria, what inferno rises within me?
Nonetheless, I do understand the President's viewpoint, even if I'm not entirely inclined to agree with it.
Once again, Obama has shown that he has class. And that he is the adult in the room. Thank you Mr. President.
Non-Believer -- First of all, grow up. Secondly, are you calling the Navy Seals who carried out the mission liars, too? You think those guys just said "Sure, Mr. President...we'll carry out a fake raid and pretend we killed him so you can pull one over on the American Public." I'm sure those brave members of our military will be happy to know you have so little faith in them.
All to see? REALLY?
Sick b@stards like your self, who SAW it - had to go L@@KING for it...
Obama purportedly sent in troops to get OBL so that there would be no doubt of his capture and/or death. He put their lives at risk so there would be no doubt. Now he doesn't want to release the photo. Come on! He could have bombed the place and not risked American lives for this outcome. It makes no sense. It is another example of the inconsistent and muddled mind that is Obama though.
Another present vote from the coward n chief? Afraid to offend some looney Muslim because we did the right thing.
President Obama is leaving no doubt that he is one smart man.
No Mr. Trump, proving once again, he did not need Affirmative Action to get into Harvard Law.
My President is awesome even if FoxNews entertainers call him a murderer for taking out UBL!
Ira, I don't need a photo. I am 99.9% certain OBL is dead. The problem is Obama is just giving fuel to Trump and others. I really believe that Obama does not want to release the photos to get Trump riled up like with the BC issue. That will back fire on Obama in the end. He is being known as someone who does what he wants and not what the people of the country want. If even one person needs validation then they should have it. This is not Obama's kingdom and he already is thought to have lied to the people of this country.
Penguin, we should give them an assist. Take them to the coordinates, attach weights to their ankles, and toss them overboard. I see no reason to show bin Laden's corpse, whether freshly dead, or cleaned up. The radicals would go ballistic, and the doubters would continue to say it didn't happen, as they always have. Me, I'm happy enough. Let him answer to Allah. Taking him out was more like killing Yamamoto than Hitler: it didn't end the war, just demoralized the enemy a bit, and took out one of their better planners. Now, find and eliminate his successors, and find a nice deep hole in which to dump them, too.
Hey Feisty... FU TOO! You sympathizing @!$%#! I have had about enough of your @!$%# on this vine.
I did not go looking for it... It was posted shortly after it happened (not in its entirety) on all the major MSM websites... if not portions of the video... stills photos. The point is that THEY saw it and revelled in it!
Those freaks believe in an "eye for an eye" so its our turn to poke them in the eye... but our Muslim loving boy in the white house will have none of that now will he!
. . . and let the conspiracies begin. He will make mincemeat of the birthers/deathers all the way to a win in November 2012.
"Imagine how the American people would react if Al Qaida killed one of our troops or military leaders, and put photos of the body on the internet," he continued"
What a stupid thing to say. How about the execution of Danial Pearl video, the videos of insurgents sniping our servicemen, the videos of American vehicles being shredded by IED's, or how about the live broadcast of mass muder on 9/11?
Yea.. just imagine how Americans would react to photos of dead... what an insult.
Good to know that Obama considers the American public to be as immature, brainwashed, and uncivilized as Al Quida supporters.
P.S.
Is this the "more transparent" government he campaigned on?
Jim he did not bomb it because he wanted to get the intel inside the compound too. This could be huge in finding more high profile terrorists and their funders.
No matter how bad we wanted to see those photos, I think he is right. It will cause more havoc for us by showing them. If the nut jobs went crazy and made threats over one silly preacher in Florida for "threatening" to burn the Koran, and they also went nuts about a freaking cartoon, it's pretty clear that releasing the photos would have just brought us more death and destruction. Besides, in due time, Wikileaks will find a way, right?
We have to remember these people are crazy. The least thing we'd expect them to do, they WILL do. They do not care about America or Americans. Releasing those photos would have been the death warrant for our soldiers still over there, keep that in mind. Then everyone would cry and say "maybe we shouldn't have done that". Those that hate Obama would still hate him regardless if he released them or not so don't even sit up there and act like you would have voted for him anyway.
Republican or Democrat doesn't matter; Bin Laden is dead and we should be grateful at the very least instead of fighting with each other over a dead man's photo. We need to be worried about the gas prices.
Entitled To My Opinion..
First, thought to have lied to the country about what...his place of birth...Really???
Second..You remember how outraged this country was when pictures of our troops, 5 dead American servicemen and women were posted during the firsdt Iraqi war. Think about how outraged the entire Muslim world would be if his deasth photo was published.
pjam -- so you are suggesting that we lower ourselves to the level of Al Qaeda in order to satisfy the morbid curiosity of a few sick Americans? Good plan. This why you are you and Barack Obama is the President.
For someone who goes by the alias you do, SickOfTheBickering, you certainly seem to enjoy acting on impulse when it comes to rattling cages and hurling rocks at the wasp's nest.
Why would it? If Osama bin Laden is NOT dead, all he has to do is say so.
What's more, I have yet to hear anyone from Al Qaeda deny it.
Seriously, people. Seriously.
No, YOU'RE giving fuel to Trump and others. Seriously.
TO WHO?
Kingdom? That's about the dumbest thing posted so far and that says alot (just my opinion). Most of you making these types of comments would not feel the same had it been a Republican Pres or maybe just not this one. Get over it. Our President just made one of the most brave and gutsy calls a Pres can make period. Guess what he was right, we got our man. Just last month u were saying he was weak...lol. If Obama pulled the trigger himself u would say he should have aimed for the chest and not the head. I don't agree with all he does but I can respect the way he does it. Don't be folled by the 100% negative I hate Obama crowd. 90% have no clue what they're saying
So radical Muslims will react less negatively by knowing we killed bin Laden than if we actually show photos of a dead bin Laden, is that what Mr Obama believes? Not to mention that they will continually have to see fake photos of the dead bin Laden for years to come, as one guy after the next tries to claim he/she has obtained copies of the real thing.
In the meantime the jihadist can continue to terrorize people throughout the ME and the world by claiming that the terrorist attacks carried out in the future are being carried out at bin Laden's instructions, because he is not really dead as Obama claims. Isn't that just wonderful, another tool in the terrorist arsenal. What comes first, our security or the appeasement of radical jihadist that hate our guts no matter what? Apparently, Obama has chosen the latter.
Don't release photos and videos of the raid and killing, but tell the world that you now have hard drives and data that you are analyzing and will be acting upon to take down bin Laden's cohorts. Makes perfect sense to me :(
They should release the pictures and at least the portions of the video where bin Laden is confronted and killed. That way we can stop all the non-sense and put to rest all of the conflicting stories about what happened. What is amazing to me is that the Obama administration can't even get the story straight, when they watched the mission in real time and have the tapes to review. Getting the story correct cuts down on the conspiracy theories and gives credibility to Obama and, more importantly, the United States.
TRANSPARENCY, does that ring a bell?.
Damn the "BELL" I am worried about the "BOMBS"
SickOfTheBickering First of all what was the lie? Sick of hearing about what liar our President is, especially from those that don't havea clue as to what their are saying, like yourself.
Secondly, some church leader nut from Florida burned the Koran, and some radical Muslim went out and blew some people up for it. If we don't have to incite these radicals, let's not. Maybe, just maybe, by not showing the pictures, we spare an attack on innocents. That is the issue. Now go out and find another stupid conspiracy to focus on, and change your name! If your sick of the bickering, then don't fuel it by your false opinions and your own facts.
katt you should be, because photos/videos or no photos/videos the bombs will be coming, along with all other manner of terrorist attacks to avenge the killing of bin Laden.
Or maybe not. They have now been given proof positive that we see what they do and we know where they are. And the proposed new leaders have perhaps left the biggest trails of all.
Surely, this will make them pause a little. And maybe a lot.
The videos I saw of the Pakistanis demonstrating in the streets and calling for revenge for the murder of bin Laden and calling him a hero,did not seem to reflect any hesitancy on their part to call out the US or strike back against us. But time will tell. Any body care to start a pool on how long it will be before a revenge terrorist attack is carried out on US citizens and or properties/ I'm guessing three to six months, tops. Photos or no photos
you people should be ashamed of your vile behavior. You dont want to see the dead body of this supposed villain who supposedly slaughtered 3000 of your fellow americans? You simply take the word of the same GOVERNMENT that has LIED to you so much we have lost count! ROFL you people have less brains then chimps! Nevermind the fact that BIN LADEN WAS AN ADMITTED CIA ASSET throughout the 80s against the Russians.. read the damn reports that he has been dead since dec of 01 due to kidney failure
This is an utter complete joke, and i cant wait til you learn that your government has been laughing in your face since your birth. Lets all believe the BOOB TUBE cause it SAID SO!
Learn to think on your own.. THEY DUMPED HIS BODY IN THE OCEAN, NO PROOF, NO PHOTOS, NO PROOF
I think i am going to go vomit now, u people make me sick - learn to find out your own information instead of eating up this SPOONFED GARBAGE
AND ALL POLITICAL PARTIES NEED TO GO!
Hey Army, Sounds like you need to go to....perhaps to another country you do beleive in. Your loss will not be felt. Just because you are supposedly Army, does not make you smarter than all or your opinion more valid. Now go back to cleaning you rifle, for the 5th time this week.
I do not give a rat's ass if Obama is a Dem or Rep or an Ind. I don't vote party lines now and never will. Obama needs to stop deciding that his needs trump (sorry but no pun intended) the rest of the country. If people want to see the photos then give it to them! Why did he allow the photo of the group who watched on TV be published? Why not keep that quiet?
Your new name is now "Small Mindedness is my Opinion"
ArmyMP, do you really think that a few pictures taken by the SEALs are going to change anything, in this day of digital manipulation? Please. All we would hear then was how the pictures had been faked up. There will be no satisfying those who want to believe it didn't happen. You will go on believing what you want to believe.
in this day of "manipulation" , it would be pretty easy to use software to validate its authenticity. SO DONT try to tell ME I need to accept whatever im told.
Since when was it smart to accept everything that you are told? That is called BLATANT IGNORANCE and these news sites are rampant with it. I question what im told, but if something is verified from outside sources that do not have a biased view I will accept that.
But please stop bowing down to your "MASTERS" and accepting the lies, we need people to believe in this country not in the phony political parties that only divide us.
Why all the anger? I never told you to accept anything; I merely recognized the probability that you would not accept what you saw. I have heard the statement concerning 'unbiased sources' before, usually from people who chose sources biased in the same direction as they themselves. Accepting authority is not always blatant ignorance, so much as recognizing the simple fact that one is, at the moment, at least, not in a position to verify the information in question for oneself. When I saw the strike footage from Eldorado Canyon, I was unable to independently verify its authenticity, but I didn't worry about that, either. I have saluted men in my life, MP, but I bow to no man as my master. I believe in the country we both appear to have served.
Hey Army, we're Americans, we don't "bow" to anyone! What is dividing us is the misinformation. So please stop propagating the disrespect you have for this President and this country and spreading misinformation.
It is an undeniable truth that whatever the President decides, his adversaries will oppose. Had he chosen to release the photos, they would be saying just the opposite. It is fact that the President of the United States will not satisfy his conservative foes regardless of his actions.
Go ahead, smother this basic truth in opinions of logic and speculations but it is still the truth.
I for one am pleased with the President's decision not to release the photos of Osama. It is my understanding that Osama was shot once in the head and twice in the chest , I am afraid that viewing the total and utter waste of not just one, but TWO! such perfectly good bullets, in such a manner, on such an individual, would be more than I could bear!, while on the other hand,I do understand Our noble leader's insistence,( along with the insistence of many of his minions on this site and the progressives in Congress), that the photos from Abu Ghrab must be released, no matter how embarrassing or harmful it was to the military, Our war effort ,or the Country, You see, the difference being , showing the dead body of our self proclaimed chief enemy, who admitted on more than one occasion, to the planning of the premeditated, cold blooded, murder of more than three thousand innocent People in our own country, and then bragging about it.......,well, the showing of his freshly air conditioned skull,might not make him look like such a legendary and terrifying enemy, and just might make more of his ilk think twice about such an endeavor, while the justification for the release of the Abu Ghrab photos, was easy to understand, it was to give encouragement, aid, and comfort to our Nation's former enemies,(now our best Buds), while showing that a new administration was in power in Washington , and was showing solidarity of purpose with our Muslim brothers cause, along with other radicals from around the world, You know,Our pals, like Iran, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea,..................wait a minute,.................that couldn't be right...........................could it?
Good call. Why put our troops in any more danger than they already are. The Bin Laden family is not denying his death, just that he was executed and this from Pakistani authorities who harbored him.
Now...let's hear from the conspiracy theorists...on my mark 1...2...3...go
Our troops aren't safe either way. Hell. The world isn't safe. The death of Osama isn't bringing our troops home, it isn't ridding the world of terrorism, and it isn't bring Al-Queda to their knees. This was just a small victory in a much larger war.
You remember how outraged this country was when pictures of our troops, 5 dead American servicemen and women were posted during the firsdt Iraqi war. Think about how outraged the entire Muslim world would be if his deasth photo was published, Again..good call.
Maybe you should check out the MSNBC poll over 67% want the photos released.
The world is stuck with images of 9/11 burned into their memories why not provide them images of justice as well?
Not showing the photos is simply bowing to Al Quida while simultaneously a slap in the face to anyone wishing to see them.
pjam09..
The world is stuck with images of 9/11 burned into their memories why not provide them images of justice as well?
Not showing the photos is simply bowing to Al Quida while simultaneously a slap in the face to anyone wishing to see them.
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I haven't read anything, from anyone on this planet that disputes that Bin Laden is dead. Read a ton of crap here to that end though. Want to see a photo cause of 911? How does that bring you comfort? Do you get really excited seeing dead people? Why do we need another photo of death to satisfy gruesome tastes of both sides of the aisle.
Peter King and the rest of these right-wing sadists want the photos so they and their Koran-burning nut bag
preacher in Florida can doctor them up and deliberately piss Muslims off world wide. They WANT to goad
Muslims and trigger even more widespread reprisals than occurred in Afghanistan after their leader burned the
Koran. Our military said it would put our troops at risk as well as the rest of us REAL Americans. THAT proves
these right-wing sadist extremists are more about treason than reason. Get over it.
YOU JUST GOT TRUMPED!
And so begins the 1 billion member strong "deather" movement in the Middle East.
Peter King and the rest of these right-wing sadists want the photos so they and their Koran-burning nut bag
preacher in Florida can doctor them up and deliberately piss Muslims off world wide. They WANT to goad
Muslims and trigger even more widespread reprisals than occurred in Afghanistan after their leader burned the
Koran. Our military said it would put our troops at risk as well as the rest of us REAL Americans. THAT proves
these right-wing sadist extremists are more about treason than reason. Get over it.
YOU JUST GOT TRUMPED!
If the Middle East needs proof of his death, they can ring his doorbell and ask. I'm sure there are plenty around to tell them of his demise.
So....you guys have heard of the term tongue-in-cheek, yes?
Another excellent decision. Thank you Mr. President
Afternoon GBM if you don't mind I'm going to join you in thanking the President. I think one of our fellow posters Kate had the best suggestion this morning and that was to gather the evidence that is in our possesion and send it to the World Court in the Hague. As I said this morning I think that there is little doubt that Justice has been done. There is no reason that I can see to dance on the grave just to satisfy a bunch of Yahoo's.
I would like it as a small flag for my car right below the USA flag I just hope they can get some more of the bastards
IR
I agree
"here is no reason that I can see to dance on the grave just to satisfy a bunch of Yahoo's."
Amazing how many Obamaphiles are here espousing their love when all polls on the subject, including MSNBC's, shows that the huge majority of people want the images released. Amazing how some people allow their fascination with one man to overshadow everyone elses desire for closure.
As the President said in the update posted above:
"We don't trot out this stuff as trophies... We don't need to spike the football."
Especially not while there's still plenty of time left on the clock. As usual, our President is focusing on the game still to be played and realizes this is not the time to be called for unsportsmanlike conduct. It's always the plays themselves that go down in history, not the chest-bumping antics in the endzone.
If anyone doubts, it wouldn't have changed a thing. Neither would Osama's head on a spike outside the White House. The Pakistanis say an Osama daughter now says she saw her father shot. The Muslim world is outraged by that. I guess she is lying, too. If you are a deather.
She said he was shot AFTER he was captured. Interesting tidbit that gets left out.
So?
Personally I don't care if they made him beg for his life for a few first.
That's twice now I find myself agreeing with the President. Really, what purpose is showing the photos going to serve? It certainly will not confirm it's OBL....ever heard of photoshop or make up?
Mike, why shouldn't there be some skepticism? I certainly don't believe most of the things people tell me, especially when they're politicians.
I'm not questioning skepticism. I have my own, although mine surrounds what I find to be an unnecessary attempt to cover up the fact that the mission was to kill - not capture - Bin Laden. That's a mission I agree with and I think it's silly to cover it up. I am entirely skeptical about the reason being given of why the pictures aren't going to be released considering it negates our ability to say to the larger Arab world, "See he is in fact dead."
Good call.
Horrible decision. I dont believe the bull@hit that is coming out of his mouth.
Ah heck, and I wanted to see Usama with his new Indian Beauty Mark.
Lol. Pic or it never happened... definately a political gain. Our government was scared of Trump gaining political support and had to "renew" our faith in the President for a re-election to avoid someone with even less political experience from taking office.
wow! those were almost my exact words last night!
If your really believe that , would a simple picture prove it to you? Ever hear of Photoshop?
What an idiot. How long do you think this took to plan? A lot longer than Trump has been mindlessly trumpeting his elephant trunk.
Besides, the President made a pretty good job of skewering the Donald the night BEFORE bin Laden was taken out, just like he skewered Paul Ryan.
He didn't NEED this. The American people needed this. And he delivered.
The right call. No sense in giving anyone reason to be upset. Our troops have enough to deal with, without this being used against them.
OMG He is "such a liar" first the fake birth cert...now this!
Poor neocons will be whining until 2016 and beyond
GramdpaSImpson, what rock have you been living under!!
Grampa, I think yu are getting too old for this. You are loosing it buster!!
As all those morbid heads that want to see the pictures you are adding to their ignorance. Don't you think that if it weren't true, his people would be the first to deny it?
Man of poor faith!! You must believe it's true, just as the birth certificate was true!! Now go take a nap
Grampa,
You are just another redneck birther racist.
Sarcasm, Grandpa?
Really people, do the conspiracy theorist believe that the President of the United States would stand in front of the world and lie about Osama Bin Laden being dead? Well maybe if his name was George Bush this would make since.
However it is not, and no matter what this President does good to protect American's, we have such a large element of racist's in this country that his intelligence, calmness and stratigic analytical genius is being overlooked so the media can cater to fools for ratings. Get real..Great Job..Presidewnt Obama
zany, wedge and others I don't think you understand sarcasm - in re Grandpa.
Where is a sarcasm emoticon when you really need one?
Hey PIM,
They are just products of our liberal public education system. They cannot spell but they sure know how to fill out the papers to get food stamps.
Excellent decision, Mr. President.
NOT!
jman does your mommy know you on the computer?
Why am I not surprised?? I've never known a government to have so many sercrecies as does the United States. Guess we can add another conspiracy theory to the books on behalf of the government.
Because, clearly, you're someone who obviously knows how many state secrets the Iranians, Russians, Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese or Congoese keep.
The sound of millions of whiny reporters will be heard heard 'round the world.
We have Truthers demanding proof the gov didn't do 9/11
We have Birthers demanding the long-form.
We have Deathers demanding proof he's dead
Next we'll have Lifers demanding proof you're alive.
"I mouth-breathe; therefore I vote party-line?"
I am glad. I for one do not care to see them.
I agree with the decision. Had OBL's family tried to deny the claim,then I think he would have had to release them. Since they have confirmed the death,its not necessary. Good call,Mr President! No need to cave to the sick and twisted's morbid curiosity.
Good news! Thank you, Mr. President, for another excellent decision. You're batting 100!
There is absolutely no need to release a gory photo of a dead man. The newley formed "deaders" wouldn't believe it anyway. I'm sick of this country cowtowing to whacky people. We do not do our national security in public.
"deaders" ... that's a good one, Tom!
I think the pictures should be shown as the Americans that lost there lives and the Twin Towers are shown as this event marked the worst day in America's history.
A whole lot of soldiers were killed in the Civil war that the twin towers! marlyne m
Riiiiight. Because century-and-a-half-dead Confederates and Unionists have such relevance to 9/11.
Ah, the Barak "Government-Knows-Whats-Best-for-You"Obama we all know is back. Looks like the pics won't be released, until the polls tell him to release them.
Sorry, this is a bad decision. We should not be attempting to curry favor with extremist. We paid a lot of blood and money to accomplish this goal. Let's see what we paid for.
Let's not cause more blood, isn't that WJWD?
he can always change his mind later if he wants to , but if he releases the pictures, he can't take that decision back. i think its a clever call.
The American public deserves to see OBL with a hole in his head.
Why on earth would America "deserve" to see such a thing. I, for one, have no interest at all in seeing them.
then don't look
penguin...I won't...and, thanks to the President's wise decision, neither will anyone else. It really sickens me that there are people out there who either won't believe it until they see a dead body, or just really want to see a dead body. Is this what we, as Americans, have become?
Those of you who want a dead body to look at so you can parade around the streets and wave American flags over it are no better than members of Al Qaeda who drug bodies of dead Americans through the streets to celebrate their deaths.
you are correct, I would rather be looking at a dark skinned, tight body female. Any volunteers?