Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[ice grillin you]

blackhawk down is one of my favorite movies ever...and its even greater if you read the book then immediately after watch the movie

[SD]

They could release the footage, but blur out the faces of the Seals and blur the people getting shot and anything they consider classified.

[ice grillin you]

yeah...but ill easily take an awesomely done movie as long as its accurate

[Diomedes]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/us/politics/05binladen.html?_r=1&hp

Obama couldn't be more presidential right now.

"We don't trot this stuff out as trophies," the president told CBS."
...

"There is no doubt that we killed Osama bin Laden," Mr. Obama said in an interview with the CBS News program "60 Minutes," according to an excerpt of an interview that was read to reporters by Jay Carney, the White House press secretary. "We don't need to spike the football."

After intense discussions with his national security team, Mr. Obama decided that the photos were too graphic and could further enflame Bin Laden's followers, Mr. Carney said, but would not change the minds of skeptics. Mr. Obama indicated in the interview that gloating by releasing the photos "is not who we are," Mr. Carney said.

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Some argued that no matter what the photos showed, they would not silence those who doubt that Bin Laden was killed in the American raid on a fortified house in Abbottabad, Pakistan, early on Monday, which the administration says is established beyond question. "The fact is, you will not see Osama bin Laden walking this earth again," Mr. Obama said in the interview, according to the transcript.

Mr. Carney added at the briefing that the administration felt no need to release the photos to establish that Bin Laden was dead, and that the president had decided it was not "necessary or prudent" to release them.

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The White House said that Mr. Obama would take part on Thursday in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Sept. 11 memorial in lower Manhattan. He is also scheduled to meet with relatives of the victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks, but he will not make a speech. The White House invited former president George W. Bush to accompany Mr. Obama in New York, but Mr. Bush declined, his spokesman said.

Wise not to give a speech, and also wise to invite Bush.

[ice grillin you]

"The fact is, you will not see Osama bin Laden walking this earth again," Mr. Obama said

to me that pretty much closes the book on this topic...get over it people


also love the football analogy....barry is pimp struttin right now and doing it with a diamond studded cane

[PhillyPhreak54]

I would like to see the pics and the video. Those types of images don't bother me.

But Barry O is spot on here and igy/dio are right - he's money on this.

[Sgt PSN]

So how long until Trump demands Obama show the photos? 

[MDS]

[SD]

So how long until Trump demands Obama show the photos?  

He doesn't care about seeing the photos so much as he does seeing the Death Certificate.

DEATHERS!

[ice grillin you]

haha

[Munson]

[Rome]

That is legitimately hilarious, Munson.

[SD]

haha

[phillymic2000]

"The fact is, you will not see Osama bin Laden walking this earth again," Mr. Obama said in the interview,

Thats awesome!

[Hawk]

"Under the FOIA, government agencies—but not the White House itself—can be compelled to turn over any document, photo, video, or other record as long as there's no statutory reason for withholding it. Obama faces two obstacles to keeping the bin Laden photos secret: 1) Since it was (presumably) taken by a Navy SEAL working on a joint mission of the CIA and Department of Defense's Joint Special Operations Command, it was originated by a federal agency subject to the FOIA and 2) There doesn't appear to be a good reason under the FOIA not to disclose it."