osama bin laden ** DEAD **

[HYang]

Originally Posted by frownonfun

Just to humor your example for a moment, because I can't say I completely disagree, what would really be the harm of lying to the public in this case? It's one thing to lie so that they can screw us all over but quite another thing to say you killed the person we all wanted dead.

*shrugs* Seems to me, if they are lying, in this case I don't really see the harm. People get closure. Obama gets a boost for his campaign. The Republicans get to run on how they started this war on terror that ultimately lead to Osama's demise... everybody wins.

Well thank you for humoring me.

No harm done of course, lying to the public. (0.0% sarcasm intended)
That's just Realpolitik as it should be and nuts to anyone who is juvenile enough to pout about it.

But it's more interesting to speculate on the intentions of the-powers-that-be; ie. Does the declaration of Bin Laden's death= their intent to finally draw a close to The War On Terror? Or is this meant to goad the Jihadists into perpetrating another 9/11, giving the US justification to wage an all-out war in the Mid-East?

Only time will tell of course.