osama bin laden ** DEAD **

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Originally Posted by HYang

Let me be the first on this forum to call shenanigans!!

This entire news production resembles an act straight out of "Wag the Dog":

Dustin Hoffman (brainstorming, talking aloud): Why can't the US gov't produce the body of Bin Laden? Dammit think!

RObert DeNiro: The body has been lost at sea.

Hoffman: What?

Deniro: There's no body because it's been lost at sea.

Hoffman: You expect the public to believe that US Special Ops LOST the body of Osama bin Laden, World's Most Wanted Man ten years running? Get out of town! They won't bite!

DeNiro: Oh They'll bite. If we tell them it was done on purpose- In strict accordance with muslim burial tradition- oh they'll bite. THey'll bite alright.

Hoffman (smacks his forehead): Of Course! Muslim burial tradition! So as to extend an olive branch to the radical muslim world! THat's brilliant! But Is there really such a tradtion?

DeNiro (shrugs): We'll find something close enough.


ONCE AGAIN:
SHENANIGANS!!!

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.