Show Us The Pictures
Today, Obama has said that he won’t release pictures showing the dead body of Osama Bin Laden, or pictures of him about to be buried off the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (coincidentally, an anagram of Osama Bin Laden is “Lob da man in sea”. Odd, eh?)
He’s supported by Representative Mike Rogers, who is the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
“The risks of release outweigh the benefits,” Rogers 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,” Rogers continued.
Oh, really? So despite all of the evidence, the Western public are on the same level of intellectual reasoning as those who burn churches and behead people in revenge for a cartoon being published in Denmark? Or send third-rate author Salman Rushdie into years of taxpayer-funded hotels hiding?
Graphic images of hostages being held (and sometimes beheaded) mostly provoked not outrage but comments about how daft they were to have walked into a dangerous warzone clutching just an NUJ wallet card and a week-old copy of the Guardian for protection.
Obama (and Rogers) are not better and smarter than the rest of the Western world. We can make value judgements ourselves. We’ve seen thousands of civilians killed by Jihadists and pictures of innocent people on fire jumping to their own deaths from tall buildings. When the man-in-the-street has fought back it’s been via free speech (Everyone Draw Mohammed Day is back on the 20th of May…put it in your diaries) and not petrol bombs.
Even with his death being witnessed and reported by his own daughter we’re doomed to decades of bin Laden being spotted grocery shopping with Elvis.
‘Public opinion’ in the Middle East is ‘inflamed’ anyway. Releasing the pictures will make no real difference here or there. But it will make the sales of tin-foil hats plummet.
Show us the pictures. We can take it.
No photos ? … No credible proof ? … “Iffy” Birth Certificate ?
O’Bummer must think that, like him .. the rest of us just floated up the Potomac on a Bath Bun ..
Dozy twunt …
We’ve seen the photos of the other three who were killed and we’re still here – nothing disastrous happened. We also saw the photos of Saddam’s sons, Uday and Qusay, who were so badly shot up that they were unrecognisable in the first pics they released – they had to be put back together and tarted up by a mortician and then re-photographed before anyone would believe it was actually them.
If Obama was so worried about how gruesome Bin Laden looked because of the bullet hole between his eyes he could have let a mortician at him. Why didn’t he? Because it’s all fucking lies! >:o
Obama can only cause even more suspicion with his current tactics and I don’t know what you thought about it, but his body language, (blinking a lot/looking down to the right), in the interview he did on 60 Minutes said that he was lying through his teeth. 😉
There is a spectacular pile of spin, positioning and straight-out bollocks going on here.
We aren’t fools. Show us the results. The great thing I’m reading today is that a Freedom of Information request in the US will get the pictures anyway, So Obama’s posturing will be for nothing.
The big problem is that Obama is basically a lying twat. No other way forward. His lips move and you assume he’s lying.
The whole thing could be nailed on straightforward cross-my-heart honesty and because he’s a lying twat we’ll assume that in this case he’s also a lying twat.
That doesn’t help.
Show us the pics and give us a clue.
If it’s genuine then there’s nothing to worry about, eh Barak?