I would prefer the pictures remain unseen. The crazies are distracting the rest of the right quite nicely and I wouldn't have that change for the world.
"we can't release photos of the coffins of those in service"
Btw try not to compare the bodies of American heros with that goat fucker Bin Laden; it would be unfortunate if you got your ass kicked by some servicemen fir being such a relativist asshole.
Right Wing Crazies are a given. What about the left wing crazies? For fuck sake there were a few people on SLOG already spinning conspiracies about how Bin Laden was dead years ago and Obama merely defrosted his corpse in a seeekret CIA microwave oven or some such horse shit.
Most annoying is this sanctimonious hand wringing left wing trope about how the evil warmongers just deliberately assassinated Bin Laden... like there was some other magical Chuck Norris ninja abduction option out there. That motherfucker was never going to allow himself to be taken alive. Ever. And there was no way to lay siege to that compound with out alerting the ISI, who would've dropped a dime on the CIA so fast all we would have found would be Bin Laden's false beard collection.
If Bin Laden was interested in a three year long OJ CNN show trial he could have turned himself in, right? He could've circumvented Guantanamo and turned himself in to the Canadians or French. The dude had access to Travelocity just like the rest of us. No. He wanted to go out in a blaze of glory. And he did.
And if I recall OBL was down with flying planes into the White House to off Duhbya. So I'd say the the assassination option was a door opened by Mr. Bin Laden.
Nah. The second somebody in Pakistan squealed on him and they got confirmation he was in that suburban McMansion he was as good as pushing up daisies.
We'll never know the whole story. But there is no reason to doubt the core facts as they have been presented. Those being: Obama's controversial surge and emphasis on on the ground intelligence killed Bin Laden in Pakistan last week.
bad idea to publicly release the pictures/video; I wouldn't be surprised though if the photos "leaked" in the near future... then Obama makes a public statement denouncing the leak, vow to find the perpetrator, and then after the story dies down promptly never mention it again. He'll get his cake and eat it too.
Re: far-right and far-left deathers:
It's occurred to me more than once that extreme-lefters and extreme-righters have much more in common with each other than they do any else. They believe almost the same things; they just have different labels for them.
Releasing the photos would be a mistake. Celebrating in the street like it was a frat party was a mistake. Being an American living abroad has really made me aware of how tarnished our image is by these kinds of shenanigans. I mean, the moral high ground is totally available to us, but we just can't resist creating a spectacle now can we?
I'm betting pictures and movies involving anti-president W, four bottles of Wesson oil, a super soaker, a live foie gras goose with its wings securely duck taped to its body, a Superman cape, five tabs of high-powered Ecstasy, a bottle of vodka, and a thirteen year old hermaphrodite named Susan.
Probably just the receipts of the money and arms he recieved from the CIA. Or it could be any of the info that made it necessary to execute him before he could testify in a trial. It's funny that people wonder why the government didn't do more to discourage "deathers". It's almost as if they want people to argue about it endlessly, just like Obama's birth certificate. It's not like there's more important problems to pay attention to, right?
I don't think releasing the death photos or funeral video would be a very good idea. The jihadis will use any images to rally more recruits, or incite violence. Look what happened with that Koran-burning video that fuck-head "pastor" (may he rot in Hell forever) in Florida posted to youtube. Twenty people in a UN compound got slaughtered by an angry mob in Afghanistan.
@2 fucking KILLING me! @21, I could not agree with you more. My money is on the Miley Cyrus pole dancing clip from the Nickelodean awards a couple years ago
The thing about the far-left is that they have very little influence over policy making in the Democratic Party. The far-left are Socialists and Anarchists and the Dems aren't very eager to be seen with them. The far-right, such as Tea Partiers or Libertarians are courted by the GOP.
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Should have stored their secrets on the Amazon Cloud...would have been completely obliterated.
You can't argue over video footage. Except for the moon landing. And the 9/11 towers falling. And... oh shit...
If we can't release photos of the coffins of those in service, don't release photos of bin Laden's body.
They do release those. Now time to release your obsession with 2006.
Btw try not to compare the bodies of American heros with that goat fucker Bin Laden; it would be unfortunate if you got your ass kicked by some servicemen fir being such a relativist asshole.
Most annoying is this sanctimonious hand wringing left wing trope about how the evil warmongers just deliberately assassinated Bin Laden... like there was some other magical Chuck Norris ninja abduction option out there. That motherfucker was never going to allow himself to be taken alive. Ever. And there was no way to lay siege to that compound with out alerting the ISI, who would've dropped a dime on the CIA so fast all we would have found would be Bin Laden's false beard collection.
If Bin Laden was interested in a three year long OJ CNN show trial he could have turned himself in, right? He could've circumvented Guantanamo and turned himself in to the Canadians or French. The dude had access to Travelocity just like the rest of us. No. He wanted to go out in a blaze of glory. And he did.
And if I recall OBL was down with flying planes into the White House to off Duhbya. So I'd say the the assassination option was a door opened by Mr. Bin Laden.
Nah. The second somebody in Pakistan squealed on him and they got confirmation he was in that suburban McMansion he was as good as pushing up daisies.
We'll never know the whole story. But there is no reason to doubt the core facts as they have been presented. Those being: Obama's controversial surge and emphasis on on the ground intelligence killed Bin Laden in Pakistan last week.
It's occurred to me more than once that extreme-lefters and extreme-righters have much more in common with each other than they do any else. They believe almost the same things; they just have different labels for them.
would have been so much funnier without the improper capitalization and spelling errors.
So basically a Slogger engaging in non-normative sexual behavior.
and @2 FTW.
Step 2: Coordinate with liberals in the U.S. to bring about socialism (note to self: Call Savage, see how many more Yankee pigs converted to homosex)
Step 3: Institute socially progressive, socialist Sharia with mandatory abortions.
Step 4: Profit"
Naked pictures of Ann Coulter?
Naked pictures of George W. Bush?
Love letters from wayward terrorists?
I give up???? What did OBL have on his hard drive???