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Originally Posted by Indentured Servant
Yeah....I mean we are peeing on corpses and burning the Koran and trampling over their lands and peoples, killing innocent people in drone attacks, invading or bombing in Muslim countries.........yet we say we fear showing his body because it might inflame the muslim world 
Generally you know people are lying when you can map the patterns from when they were telling the truth. For example, like was stated, they showed Saddam, the showed Ghadaffi.....they wanted to use these people as EXAMPLES of what will happen to you eventually if you defy US interest. That has been the pattern. It makes no sense that they would not continue that pattern with supposed public enemy number one.
Anyone who believes the Osama BS......are the actual conspiracy theorist. In other words, its a conspiracy theory that the government would not and does not BS its people. |
Neither Saddam or Gadaffi's bodies were ever displayed by our government or any of our officials. Both deaths were captured on cell phone cameras and put up on the internet. Both men were executed by their own people, and Americans did not participate in either execution.
Saddam was handed over to the Iraqis, who tried him publicly and then hanged him. Gadaffi was captured by only Libyans who killed him on the spot.
These deaths are in no was similar to Bin Ladin's. The U.S. government intentionally went after Bin Ladin as a declared enemy of the state, and killed him when he would not surrender. This was an official action, done with no other participation than our own.
Does the government have photos of Bin Ladin's body? Certainly. There are probably photos taken from the capture as it happened, photos of his body aboard the U.S. carrier where it was taken afterwards, autopsy photos, and the burial at sea.
Does it make sense to release them? No, if you don't want to give Al-Quida images of a martyr to help them with their cause. One of the most effective recruitment tools for Al-Quida has always been the last photo taken of some young guy with a bomb strapped to him, ready to die for the cause.
Martyrdom runs deep in Islam, both in it's religion and it's customs and legends. It is exactly the same as it was with the Japanese- in World War II, the kamikaze followed the long, and to them, most honorable, samurai tradition of killing one's self in the service of the country.
We don't believe in suicide as being more honorable than surrender. The Jihadists do, just like the Japanese did.
It is the most ultimately stupid thing imaginable for a citizen of the U.S. to demand to see a photo of Bin Ladin's body. Such an image will only inflame the Jihadists and needlessly endanger both our troops and our civilians who are in the Middle East.
As long as there are no images, there is no chance for them to spread instantly. And there is no sure certainty among the Jihadists that Bin Ladin is truly dead.
Right now, there are a bunch of them mulling this over and coming to the conclusion that he's alive in some prison, somewhere. Some of them are saying he's dead, some insist he is alive. This is much more dispiriting to them than the sure knowledge he is a martyr who died for the cause.
Is he dead? Well, Bin Ladin always proved he was alive when the big rumor circulated that he had died in some cave. Every time Al-Quaida won a skirmish or pulled off an assassination, Bin Ladin released another tape, crowing about the victory.
It has been a year now. Has the world seen a new tape from him?
If there is sure knowledge in the Middle East that Bin Ladin is still alive, why was the Pakistani government allowed to destroy and plow under his compound in Abadabad without any protest or complaint?
Come back next year and make the same demands. Come back next year with the same thoughts. Bin Ladin will still be dead. Neither the president nor the military is stupid enough to ever release where his body lies, and they will never release a picture of him until Al-Quida is long gone and eradicated.
Even then, a photo will never be released for general publication. We never released any photos of the most important dead Japanese who were executed for exactly the same reasons, and there were photos taken of every execution.
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