The Glade 4.0

Tourist dollars!!!! Yes!

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Seriously, did you read my post? What part of don't drop bombs if you want to confirm someone's been killed has to do with DNA evidence?

Also, I've answered the "why rush to dispose of the body" several times in this thread (did you read the thread?)

Elmo,

I'm a little disappointed. I expected something like "as long as I can shoot anyone that comes to protest..."

Considering I've responded to most of them, I'm going to take this as you just being an *******, and otherwise ignore it....

Bullets cost money, 5 dollar entrance fee makes money.

Capitalist...hello?

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I don't mean to nitpick, but since we're all linguistics experts here, they said it was a "not unrecognizable" photo. Double negative = pretty easy to tell it's him.

More accurately, double negative = not hard to tell it's him.

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I've been trying to refrain from getting into this, but I suspect that the dumping of the body was done for, yes, a variety of reasons. But I suspect that one important one is that he wasn't killed in the firefight itself:



Emphasis added. From Obama's speech last night.

Now, maybe that's just more semantics. But they worked on this speech for a long time and actually delayed it. Hard to believe that's not what they meant to say. Not "in" or "during" a firefight, but, after.

Strikes me that they didn't want an autopsy done even within 24 hours, so they wouldn't find powder burns on the back of his head. I dunno, maybe not - it's not like they were going to go out of their way not to shoot him. Interesting that no one's really asking about this aspect of it, though. Seems like they didn't want to go to a trial or have to keep him in custody (capturing him alive), and this was the easy way out. Get rid of the body, and you don't have to answer those questions about why he didn't come back to stand trial.

Honestly, though, I, too, was surprised that there was no body to display. You'd think that would have been integral to announcement. In fact, I thought that perhaps this had been done a few days ago, and they were waiting to get the body back to the States or something to make the announcement.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

I'd be okay with the US dumping his body to hide evidence that they executed him and didn't just kill him with some crossfire. I like the idea, actually.

Apparently this photo was snapped while it was going down:

That's a great photo, actually. It's kind of funny that the CoC didn't get a chair at the table, but it really makes sense.

Who's the pile of medals with a head?

I wonder if Hilary just saw someone get domed.

Edit - Flipping that picture (I found a high-res - http://cl.ly/3t3S2I1X3F3k2M1A1w2Q) shows that Hilary is holding a notebook with the title of "Top Secret Codeword Notory (?)"



His name is Webb

The guy in uniform is an Air Force Brigadier General, but I can't make out the name tag. I think that is Petraeus standing behind him in the brown shirt with 4 stars on the color.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Whats the highest res that pic is available in because it shows a badge with high enough clearance to be there.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Obviously, it was a plant, cunningly placed by the Obama administration (prior to his election), so that he could use this dummy account as an incidental piece of evidence to bolster the veracity of his conspiratorial claim!

Purely as an aside, its probably a good thing that our leaders have a more.... first eye... view of the battles soldiers are called upon to fight. Perhaps leaders will be less capricious about sending men and women into battle if they have to see lives snuffed out as they happen.

Obama looks rough in this photo.

Nah. He was just already a CIA resource.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Even bigger version here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/5680724572/sizes/o/in/photostream/

It says:
TOP SECRET CODEWORD NOFORN
FOR USE IN WHITEHOUSE SITUATION ROOM ONLY

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

"Air Force Brigadier General" is Brigadier General Marshall Webb, "Patraeus" is Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Okay, guess I don't look at the news enough.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

They're like the people in the Bourne Trilogy who stand behind the large tv screens and order people to get killed.

"And if we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then I think that we have to act, and we will take them out." - Barack Obama, Oct. 7, 2008

Look, a campaign promise he kept!

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

Imagine if the Pakistani's flew helicopters into the U.S. to raid a house and assassinate someone...

Hard to imagine how they would get them here. However, shortly afterward Pakistan wouldn't have an army or navy or air force to speak of.

Not saying it is right, just saying that the USA as the Big Dog, gets away with this stuff when we get tired of saying please.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

No, it's prefect. Obama can not lose politically. If the admin is theoretically lying, they've created a win win situation. If he was already dead, they snatched up the credit for Obama's term in office. A person in AQ that might know Osama died some other time isn't going to risk outing themselves to say otherwise. If he's not dead, Osama would be risking capture by coming forward and if he did come forward, the admin can just say it was a ruse to get him to denounce his own death. If they're lying and destroyed the evidence, or are just saying they are, it's **** brilliant.

If they got him and then buried his body at sea for some reason they are **** retarded.

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