No Pictures of a dead Bin Laden.. I am okay with that

[Peacetrain]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/04/breaking-president-obama-will-not-release-bin-laden-photos/

BREAKING: President Obama will not release bin Laden photos
By: CNN Chief National Correspondent John King

(CNN) - President Barack Obama has decided not to release photos of Osama bin Laden's body as evidence of his death, an administration official briefed by the White House told CNN Wednesday.

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If they released them..then there would be the photo shopped conspiracy groups making the rounds.. looking for the little Kodak signatures etc in the corner. "anyone can see that , that is not a real person..just look at that beard.. men's beards don't grow like that"

Yadda Yadda Yadda.

Releasing them or not releasing them is not going ot make one whit of difference in the looney tunes who love conspiracy..

It might make a difference in the middle east and how we are percieved.

Personally I think it is a good call not to release them. If people need to see a photo to believe that Bin Laden is dead.. they are not going to believe the photo anyway.

[FSogol]

1. Same here. People who want evidence won't believe it anyway and

it would just end up as recruiting propaganda for terrorist groups.

[Peacetrain]

2. Yep..if they are not going to believe the DNA .. they are not going to believe

photos.

People still think we did not land on the moon that it was all done in a warehouse..

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. "I don't need to see anything."

A poor place to start determining facts.

And one I'll never support.

[Peacetrain]

5. Again.. how are you going to determine the photo is real?

A little circular there..No one made a blanket statement about not every seeing anything! But you can take this to the bank.. if the photos come out..it is the same as the birth certificate groupies..

Its a dead Bin Laden.

This is not Abu Gharib..

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

10. By looking at it?

:shrug:

Pray tell, how are you going to tell the photo is real by NOT looking at it? :think:


Jeezus Fucking Christ!

[Peacetrain]

12. I will take the DNA info.

Besides.. at this very moment in time.. those photos even of a hated terrorist not only in our country but in Islamic countries could be used to flame up the unstable.. and we have a LOT of people who could be targeted in the middle east.

Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. You don't need to be waving a red flag at a disorientated bull if you get my drift

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. I didn't know I was talking to a microbiologist. My apologies.

[onenote]

26. people die all the time and I accept it as fact without having to see a picture

Do you only accept things you see with your own eyes? And how would you know if it was a picture of OBL? How familiar are you with what he looked like last week and what he would look like as a lifeless corpse with a massive head wound?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

31. One at a time.

Do you only accept things you see with your own eyes?

:eyes: Horseshit.

And how would you know if it was a picture of OBL?

:eyes: Bullshit.

How familiar are you with what he looked like last week and what he would look like as a lifeless corpse with a massive head wound?

:eyes: Dogshit.

Rule: One swattable fly at a time.

[onenote]

32. One can see why you would attract flies.

[glockshox]

4. It may be a legitimate interest

considering the killing of a high profile terrorist leader in the field is not in line with American doctrine.

[Peacetrain]

6. take it somewhere else

[thereismore]

7. I am science-based. DNA analysis is better than a picture of some dirty face. nt

[Peacetrain]

8. That is what I think

[thereismore]

9. In addition, if the photo were released there would be assholes saying that the shape of his earlobe

doesn't match his baby picture...

[Peacetrain]

11. Hello! I can hear it now..That would just be the beginning

[GeorgeGist]

13. Well of course you are.

I'd be embarassed too.

[Peacetrain]

15. working hard today I see..

[Inuca]

20. Embarassed?

What on earth do you mean (besides the obvious snark)?

[bigdarryl]

16. Just remember when 911 happened they showed videos of Arabs in the streets CHEERING in Middle East

saying shit like BULLS EYE!!so I personally could give a rats ass how they feel about the release of Bin Laden DEAD I disagree with the President on this one and I think eventually he will have to release them.

[phleshdef]

17. We have thousands of troops stationed right in the middle of those same people.

As Commander in Chief, you have to be responsible that you don't subject those men and women to any unnecessary difficulties. Its bad enough that they are over there in the first place. You are thinking with the lizard part of your brain on this one.

[bigdarryl]

19. The President is going on the notion that every Arab cares about Bin Laden

I think there are Arabs who would like to see the photos just remember they cut heads off people everyday in that part of the world

[phleshdef]

23. No. He is going on the hard fact that enough of them care that it could cause unnecessary problems.

Not every Arab HAS to care about Bin Laden for it to be a problem.

It could also be that photos like that are really nothing more than pornography for those that get off on morbid bullshit. That might not sit well with his own sensibilities.

[Peacetrain]

18. Oh at some point I think the photos will be released also..

I am okay with them not being released now. People got on planes with box cutters to commit suicide on 9/11.. educated young men some of them. There is a philosophy,n (not religion.. they actually go counter to Islam) embraced by some in the mideast.. embodied in bin laden..

I can wait for the photos to be shown.

I trust the DNA infor more anyway.

I would like to have our troops home first.

Or as a mother of a young woman in service told me yesterday.. she hopes the President waits to release those photos, because people in service are wary of the how those photos will gin up the unstable there.

I can wait.

[texpatriot2004]

21. I'm glad they made this decision. I think it was the right thing to do.

I think it would be wrong to release these photos.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

22. I expect al Qaeda will acknowledge OBL death soon anyway. nt

[Inuca]

24. “That’s not who we are,”

Obama said in the interview, according to White House press secretary Jay Carney. “We don’t trot out this stuff as trophies”. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix

:thumbsup:

[Fire1]

25. Although I would like to see the pics, Obama's word is

good enough for me. He doens't have to prove a damn thing to ANYBODY!

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[Dennis Donovan]

28. You joined DU just to rage about not getting to see the photos?

:shrug:

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[Bake]

33. I was bothered at first over the non-release, but I now agree with the President.

And that's becuase I live in the real world where facts and logic matter. And because I'm adult enough to admit it when I'm wrong.

Bake

[coccom]

34. Agree

Saddams sons, Saddam hanging, what did making those corpses public accomplish? Nothing. And as previously stated, Infowarriors aren't going to believe it regardless. Give it a day or two and there will be a hundred Youtube videos about how the image has "layers."