Obama claims bin laden ‘not a trophy’.
“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. “Osama bin Laden is not a trophy — he is dead and let’s now focus on continuing the fight until Al Qaida has been eliminated.”
“We don’t trot out this stuff as trophies,” he reiterated. “The fact of the matter is, this is somebody who was deserving of the justice that he received.”
The president also turned to a sports analogy to explain his decision: “we don’t need to spike the football.”
According the president, the “graphic nature of the photo” would “create a national security risk.”
He just doesn’t get it. Al Qaida doesn’t bother putting up pictures of our slain citizens and soldiers on the internet after they behead them on live television; what would be the point?
A national security risk? They already hate us and want to kill us.
Jon Stewart pretty much echoes what I’ve been thinking about the administration’s refusal to release photographs of the deceased osama bin livin’.
“Remember how long the media had to fight to show military coffins returning from overseas? You probably don’t remember because you saw pictures of it the day they won the case and then not since.”
“Maybe we should always show pictures. Bin Laden. Pictures of our wounded service people. Pictures of maimed innocent civilians. We can only make decisions about war if we see what war actually is, and not as a video game where bodies quickly disappear leaving behind a shiny gold coin.”
“By the way, the White House announced today it officially decided not to release the bin Laden photo. Instead, to keep it a secret, they are going to air drop it into an affluent Pakistani suburb so it won’t be found for years.”
Why is so much of the war on terror, being fought across the globe, hidden away? Why is it not on the front page of every newspaper every day?
Obama and the complicit media are shrouding reality from all except those of us who make it our business to search for the truth every day.
We have NOT always been at war with Eastasia. Pass it on.
5. May 2011 at 12:19 pm
Assange will release it in his own good time. Which, BTW, is why I expect Bamster’s hand was finally forced…. Color me Jade.
5. May 2011 at 12:26 pm
Yup.
What a mess.
Not the team, not the kill. But the rest of it. A certifiable mess.
5. May 2011 at 1:28 pm
I’ll stand by that team ’til the day I die – but yes, the rest of it is a mess and getting messier by the hour.
5. May 2011 at 1:29 pm
5. May 2011 at 2:18 pm
Said it before, say it again. Because a muslim president is unhappy that he had to watch the execution of a fellow muslim. bottom line.
And he’s using the same “logic” as he did with releasing his birth certificate. “Really? You really need to see it? Well you’re not gonna. Neener neener neener. Not until I’m good and ready…and I’m not ready. So stop harping and haranguing on it and let’s move on. Pay not attention to the giant ass in the room. I mean donkey, yep, donkey is better than ass.”
He’s an ass. What you see is what you got.
5. May 2011 at 2:29 pm
I wouldn’t give two shits if he were muslim as long as he was a good president to us, but he’s failed miserably.
5. May 2011 at 3:01 pm
Remember, this is the man who said “Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people”.
We know his agenda.
I can’t wait til 2012.
5. May 2011 at 7:44 pm
Don’t need to spike the football is right – we needed to spike Osama’s head. I’d settle for someone else’s at this point.
5. May 2011 at 8:58 pm
I bet I could guess whose…
6. May 2011 at 10:53 am
I watched a couple hold hands and jump from one of the top floors of the WTC. I watched a lady jump and try to hold her dress on the way down, to keep from showing her underwear. I saw the movie of those animals sawing off Pearle’s head.
I can’t see Osama. That would be wrong according to Jugears. I don’t recall electing a President to tell me what I can see.
I am trying to clean up my language a bit so I will simply call him the extreme south end of the intestinal tract.
6. May 2011 at 11:04 am
Bad call on his part… but who is really making the call? Valerie Jarret, afraid his numbers will take another tumble?
6. May 2011 at 12:19 pm
See the video of Todd Beamers father calling out Obama on taking way to much credit for Osama’s kill. He didn’t like how much Obama keeping using I amd me so much.
6. May 2011 at 12:41 pm
Saw that this morning. Good for him for speaking out!
6. May 2011 at 12:28 pm
Obama did not have. anything to do with this – while he was on the golf course someone else made the decision cause Osoma was getting ready to split – this man needs to be removed from the white house while we still own it – his office is getting ready to start selling our property to his friends real cheap and he does not like his current roof over his head
6. May 2011 at 12:42 pm
My dearest one, you are entirely correct.
I see a tub of hot tar… some feathers… and a rail…
6. May 2011 at 4:33 pm
I believe the phrase goes, “From your lips to God’s ear.”
6. May 2011 at 4:57 pm
7. May 2011 at 8:06 pm
Team America! F*^k yeah!