Obama won't release bin Laden photos: Reaction, including Pallin

[spookyturtle 9,465]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/04/obama-wont-release-bin-laden-photos-reaction/?hpt=T1

CNN) - President Obama's decision Wednesday not to release photos of Osama bin Laden after he was killed by U.S. forces is eliciting both support and opposition:

Sarah Palin, on Twitter:

@SarahPalinUSA Show photo as warning to others seeking America's destruction. No #####-footing around, no politicking, no drama;it's part of the mission

Rep. Duncan Hunter, member of the House Armed Services Committee, in an interview with CNN:

"I want to see them personally...I did three tours. I'm not talking as a Member of the Armed Services Committee – as a Marine who did three tours because of 9/11. As Americans we deserve to see them."

House Speaker John Boehner

"He supports the president's decision," Boehner spokesman Michael Steel tells CNN.

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer:

"I share the president's view. In my opinion there's no, there's no end served by releasing a picture of someone who has been killed and I think there is absolute proof that Osama bin Laden was in fact the person that was taken into custody, was killed in the process in the firefight, but I don't think there's any necessity to release the picture."

Rep. Peter King, Republican Chairman of the the Homeland Security Committee

“I understand the president’s decision and will not oppose it. While I have said that a photo release may be a good way to combat the predictable conspiracy theories about bin Laden’s death, this is a decision for the president to make, and I respect his decision.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican member of the Armed Services Committee

“I respectfully disagree with President Obama’s decision not to release the photos. It’s a mistake. The whole purpose of sending our soldiers into the compound, rather than an aerial bombardment, was to obtain indisputable proof of Bin Laden’s death. I know Bin Laden is dead. But the best way to protect and defend our interests overseas is to prove that fact to the rest of the world. I’m afraid the decision made today by President Obama will unnecessarily prolong this debate.”

[B_J 2,752]

I like what Peter King said.

Sarah Palin should stop talking.

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@SarahPalinUSA Show photo as warning to others seeking America's destruction. No #####-footing around, no politicking, no drama;it's part of the mission

They took out two of our buildings and made repairable damage to a third.

We took out two of their countries in response.

If that isn't warning enough, UBL photos won't be either.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

They took out two of our buildings and made repairable damage to a third.

We took out two of their countries in response.

Well, they did a good bit more than take down two buildings. We've seen close to 10,000 deaths linked to the event. Many more injured service personnel. We had a budget surplus in 2000 and are now looking at a huge pile of debt that's still growing at a staggering rate. And they helped make that happen. Vast new bureaucracies, a defense budget that doubled in a decade, two wars that have sucked up well over a trillion dollars, the Patriot Act, molestation at airports, etc. etc. If you really take an honest account of where we were prior to the attacks and where we went since and because of them, OBL will still be laughing in his grave.

And we only took out one of their countries - a worthless and shitty one at that. AQ had no place in Iraq no matter how much that false claim was made in the run-up to the invasion of that country.

Edited May 5, 2011 by Mr. Big Dog