Wednesday, May 4, 2011

White House: 'Categorical' Decision Not to Release Bin Laden Photo

So, just because obama says bin laden is dead, we are just supposed to take his word? He is a compulsive liar, so that's really not going to work. With no pictures or video and no body how is the world supposed to know for sure?

I wouldn't doubt the word of a SEAL team member, but we won't be allowed to hear anything out of them, so we are left with taking the word of obama and his gang of thugs.

"We don't trot this stuff out as trophies..." Then what is the trip to Ground Zero going to be? It's not going to be a victory lap? Don't you think that is going to spark some outrage amongst the muslims? The difference is a picture or video of bin laden's dead carcass isn't plastering obama's stupid face all over the TV screen. It's campaign season for him, and anything that takes away from his ability to get on TV is a bad thing, in his mind.

I'm sick to death of seeing his mug. And it wouldn't matter to me if he directed the killing of every terrorist on the planet, I'm still not voting for his socialist ass...

From FoxNews

President Obama has made a "categorical" decision not to release any photos of Usama bin Laden's body, according to the White House, citing concern that doing so could inflame sentiment against Americans.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday that the president consulted his national security team and ultimately decided it would be too risky to release any images of the body. Obama also determined the administration already had proved bin Laden is dead, he said.

"It is not in our national security interest to allow those images ... to become icons to rally opinion against the United States," Carney said. "There is no question at all that Usama bin Laden is dead. He will not walk this earth again."

Carney added that the decision not to release was "a majority opinion."

The president first revealed his decision during an interview with CBS News' "60 Minutes." Reading an excerpt from the interview, Carney said the president cautioned that such images could be used to incite violence or as a propaganda tool.

"We don't trot out this stuff as trophies. ... We don't need to spike the football," Obama said, according to Carney.

The announcement follows a charged debate, inside the administration and on Capitol Hill, on whether the risk might outweigh the benefit if any images or video are released showing bin Laden after he was fatally shot by U.S. forces.

Details emerging about the image suggest that it is, as the White House claimed, "gruesome." Fox News has learned that the image shows a large, open gunshot wound on bin Laden's forehead, revealing brain matter. A senior U.S. official who has had access to the images said one of bin Laden's eyes is open while the other is "completely gone."

Though CIA Director Leon Panetta predicted Tuesday that the Obama administration would "ultimately" release a photo, the pros and cons were still being weighed and the president apparently decided it would be too risky.

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