No Osama Photo Release, Sez Obama
Fox News just reported it.
Leon Panetta has been advocating for releasing the photos. Hillary Clinton has said no.
It appears Obama sided with Clinton over Panetta. But they don’t appear to have any of this stuff straight, so this decision could be reversed. Or – and this wouldn’t be a surprise at all – the photos might well leak out.
Is it just me, or has this administration screwed up absolutely everything since the Bin Laden takedown? Maybe it’s me. But the story of how the hit went down was completely botched by John Brennan and Jay Carney yesterday, Panetta admitted that waterboarding led to the Bin Laden takedown, which more or less discredited Brennan and made him look – yet again – like a doofus while lending credence to Don Rumsfeld, they set up a victory lap at Ground Zero tomorrow that Bush (and probably Giuliani) won’t go to and as such it’s going to look like a partisan campaign rally and they left the wife they shot in the leg in Pakistan where she will be a propaganda tool for the jihadists and tell whatever fish stories they want her to.
Now, no dead Osama photos. Which means conspiracy stories will go disco biscuits. And it also means even though we went into Pakistan and whacked that bastard, we still come off like solicitous dhimmis in front of the Islamist crowd.
The whole thing just looks like a cockup. Mishandled more or less across the board.
Why the story seems to change every hour is a genuine mystery. I thought the Prez, et al, watched the entire raid unfold, in real time, via cameras mounted on the commandos’ helmets. Surely, the doofuses can watch the video, again, and get their stories straight.
To add insult to that injury, no photos. Fearful of angering the Muslim street? Fearful of angering the Pakistanis? Seriously? Americans, who watched fellow citizens jump to their deaths from two flaming towers, are too fragile to view photos of the body of a dead terrorist? Weren’t we tough enough to see photos of the very dead Hussein brothers? This is so fishy it reeks.
I’m beginning to think this “get” may come back to bite the Bamster.
[...] posted yesterday that it was quite obvious – particularly after the stupid decision not to release the photos [...]